| Candidate | Party or Parties | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|
| William Wirt | Anti-Masonic | 1832 |
| James G. Birney | Liberty | 1840, 1844 |
| Martin Van Buren | Free Soil | 1848 |
| Gerrit Smith | Liberty, Liberty League, Land Reform | 1848, 1852, 1856, 1860 |
| John Hale | Free Soil | 1852 |
| Millard Fillmore | American (Know-Nothing) | 1856 |
| John Breckinridge | Southern Democratic | 1860 |
| John Bell | Constitutional Union | 1860 |
| Victoria Woodhull | Equal Rights | 1872 |
| James B. Weaver | Greenback, Populist (People's) | 1880, 1892 |
| Benjamin Butler | Greenback | 1884 |
| Clinton B. Fisk | Prohibition | 1888 |
| Alson J. Streeter | Union Labor | 1888 |
| John Bidwell | Prohibition | 1892 |
| Eugene V. Debs | Socialist | 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920 |
| John Woolley | Prohibition | 1900 |
| Silas Swallow | Prohibition | 1904 |
| Thomas Watson | Populist | 1904, 1908 |
| Eugene Chafin | Prohibition | 1908, 1912 |
| Arthur Reimer | Socialist Labor | 1912, 1916 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive (Bull Moose) | 1912 |
| Allan L. Benson | Socialist | 1916 |
| J. Frank Hanly | Prohibition | 1916 |
| William Z. Foster | Communist | 1924, 1928, 1932 |
| Robert LaFollette | Progressive, Socialist | 1924 |
| Norman Thomas | Socialist | 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948 |
| Verne Reynolds | Socialist Labor | 1928, 1932 |
| John Aiken | Socialist Labor | 1936, 1940 |
| Earl Browder | Communist | 1936, 1940 |
| William Lemke | Union | 1936 |
| Claude Watson | Prohibition | 1944, 1948 |
| Edward Teichert | Socialist Labor | 1944, 1948 |
| Farrell Dobbs | Socialist Workers | 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 |
| Henry A. Wallace | Progressive | 1948 |
| Strom Thurmond | States Rights | 1948 |
| Eric Hass | Socialist Labor | 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964 |
| Henry Krajewski | Poor Man's, American Third | 1952, 1956 |
| Darlington Hoopes | Socialist | 1952, 1956 |
| Douglas MacArthur | Constitution, America First | 1952 |
| E. Harold Munn | Prohibition | 1964, 1968, 1972 |
| Eugene McCarthy | Independent, Consumers | 1968, 1976, 1988 |
| George Wallace | American Independent | 1968 |
| Dick Gregory | Freedom and Peace | 1968 |
| Eldridge Cleaver | Peace and Freedom | 1968 |
| Gus Hall | Communist | 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984 |
| John Schmitz | American Independent | 1972 |
| Benjamin Spock | People's | 1972 |
| John Hospers | Libertarian | 1972 |
| Lyndon LaRouche | US Labor, National Economic Recovery, Independent | 1976, 1984, 1988, 1992 |
| Ben Bubar | Prohibition | 1976, 1980 |
| Lester Maddox | American Independent | 1976 |
| John Anderson | Independent | 1980 |
| Ed Clark | Libertarian | 1980 |
| David McReynolds | Socialist | 1980, 2000 |
| Earl Dodge | Prohibition | 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 |
| Delmar Dennis | American | 1984, 1988 |
| Ed Winn | Workers League | 1984, 1988 |
| Larry Holmes | Workers World | 1984, 1988 |
| Ron Paul | Libertarian (1988), Various and Write-In (2008) | 1988, 2008 |
| Lenora Fulani | New Alliance | 1988, 1992 |
| James Warren | Socialist Workers | 1988, 1992 |
| Jack Herer | Grassroots | 1988, 1992 |
| John Hagelin | Natural Law | 1992, 1996, 2000 |
| Howard Phillips | U.S. Taxpayers, Constitution | 1992, 1996, 2000 |
| Andre Marrou | Libertarian | 1992 |
| Ross Perot | Independent, Reform | 1992, 1996 |
| Isabell Masters | Looking Back | 1992, 1996 |
| Ralph Nader | Green, Reform, Independent | 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 |
| Harry Browne | Libertarian | 1996, 2000 |
| James Harris | Socialist Workers | 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 |
| Monica Moorehead | Workers World | 1996, 2000, 2016 |
| Pat Buchanan | Reform | 2000 |
| Michael Badnarik | Libertarian | 2004 |
| Bob Barr | Libertarian | 2008 |
| Chuck Baldwin | Constitution | 2008 |
| Cynthia McKinney | Green | 2008 |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 2012, 2016 |
| Jill Stein | Green | 2012, 2016, 2024 |
| Roseanne Barr | Peace and Freedom | 2012 |
| Virgil Goode | Constitution | 2012 |
| Jo Jorgensen | Libertarian | 2020 |
| Howie Hawkins | Green | 2020 |
| Chase Oliver | Libertarian | 2024 |
| Cornel West | Justice for All/Independent | 2024 |
This list does not purport to be a complete list of all third party general election candidates throughout history. It does attempt to list those that received at least approximately 1% of the vote, those candidates who are/were prominent for other reasons, or those candidates who have run multiple times.
Also, although he did not run as a third party candidates, Harold Stassen ran in the Republican primaries numerous times.