2009-07-02T15:07:23-05:00 2009-07-02T15:07:23-05:00 Although not a single third party candidate has won a presidential election in the past century, the introduction of a third party candidate has changed the dynamic of many races: taking votes away from primary candidates, bringing topics of discussion to the table, etc. This graph gives a time series of third party candidate success, showing the third party candidate with the most votes for each election year since 1900. The top 10 third-party candidates can be found <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/14356023'>here</a>. 2480 Percentage of Popular Vote received by the Third-Party Candidate {"format":{"series.default_0.stroke":{"color":"rgb(40, 28, 127)","width":2},"series.default_0.fill":"rgb(40, 28, 127)","series.default_0.format":{"precedence":1,"format":{"c":true,"ns":true,"p":-1,"t":"n"}},"axis.y.format":{"c":true,"p":0,"t":"p"},"axis.x.format":{"dt":"%Y","t":"d"}},"type":"Areas"} Fub6W1eHj5jx5iOSq0vyIQ== Third Party Candidate Success http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1005910 Percentage of Popular Vote received by the Third-Party Candidate 14356022 2010-01-08T18:22:19-05:00 Although not a single third party candidate has won a presidential election in the past century, the introduction of a third party candidate has changed the dynamic of many races: taking votes away from primary candidates, bringing topics of discussion to the table, etc. This graph gives a time series of third party candidate success, showing the third party candidate with the most votes for each election year since 1900. The top 10 third-party candidates can be found <a href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/14356023'>here</a>.