Jill Stein’s Presidential Platform

Has a Third Party Candidate Won a Presidential Election Before?

Dr. Jill Stein, a physician and Green Party candidate for 2012 presidential election, is back chasing the Green Party nomination for 2016.Stein is known as the most successful female presidential nominee in American history. In the 2012 presidential election, she received 456,169 votes (0.36%), the most any female candidate has received – which includes over 1% of the popular vote in three states: 1.3% in Maine, 1.1% in Oregon, and 1.0% in Alaska.In her presidential announcement ad, Stein focuses a several campaign platforms, including minimum wage, climate change, path to citizenship and the end to “the racist war on drugs.”She proclaims, “We can build a world that puts people and the planet and peace over profit. That’s in our hands.”Additionally, Stein is focusing on garnering support from voters who are “disillusioned with the Democrat-Republican duopoly.”Success from a third party candidate is not unheard of. When Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate for the Progressive Party in 1912, he received 27% of the vote – making it the first time a third party candidate outpolled someone from an establishment party.Ross Perot ran as a third party candidate on the Reform Party ticket in 1992. He won almost 20 million votes or 19 percent of the total ballots, but didn’t receive any Electoral College votes.