List of African-American United States presidential and vice presidential candidates

The following is a list of African-American United States presidential and vice-presidential nominees and candidates for nomination. Nominees are candidates nominated or otherwise selected by political parties for particular offices. Listed are those African Americans who achieved ballot access for the national election in at least one state. They may have won the nomination of one of the US political parties (either one of the major parties, or one of the third parties), or made the ballot as an Independent, and in either case must have votes in the election to qualify for this list. Exception is made for those few candidates whose parties lost ballot status for additional runs.

Not included in the first two tables are African Americans who lost campaigns in nominating conventions or primary elections for their party's nomination (or who have not yet completed that process), write-in candidates, potential candidates (suggested by media, objects of draft movements, etc.), or fictional candidates.

The third table includes African Americans who ran for their party's presidential nomination but who were not nominated, as well as those who are currently pursuing their party's presidential nomination (when applicable).

Barack Obama became the first African-American candidate to be nominated by a major party, and the first to win, for either president or vice president when he became the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 2008 election and was elected. He was re-elected in the 2012 election.

U.S. Presidential candidates: Party nominees

Denotes winning candidate.

Candidates receiving electoral votes

Candidates receiving popular votes

U.S. Vice-Presidential candidates: Party nominees

Through the 2012 presidential election, no African-American candidates have received electoral votes for vice president.

Candidates receiving popular votes

U.S. President: Other candidates for party nomination

U.S. Vice-President: Other candidates for party nomination

Notes

1. ^ Wisconsin Labor Advocate, La Crosse, Wis. : Geo. E. Taylor, 1886-
2. ^ The World Almanac & Encyclopedia. 1908. p. 268.  "they received only a few scattering votes of which there is no exact record."
3. ^ Does not include 27,887 votes cast for the party's ticket in California and Utah, where Cleaver's name did not appear on the ballot because he was under 35 years old.
4. ^ Leip, David (2005). "1980 Presidential General Election Results". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
5. ^ ^{a b} In 2004 and 2008, Harris served as a stand-in nominee for the Socialist Workers Party in states where the party's main presidential nominee, Róger Calero, was ineligible because he was not a natural-born citizen.
6. ^ Winger, Richard (2009-01-06). "2008 Presidential Vote (not final)". Ballot Access News. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
7. ^ ^{a b c d e} Federal Elections 2012. Washington, D.C.: Federal Election Commission. 2013. p. 5. 
8. ^ Douglass did not acknowledge the nomination or participate in the campaign.
9. ^ Walton, Hanes. Invisible politics: Black political behavior. p.92.
10. ^ Guzman, Jessie Parkhurst. Negro Year Book - An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro 1931-1932 p.87.
11. ^ "National Affairs: Fifth Party". Time. June 18, 1928. 
12. ^ Edward Bergonzi was an alternate candidate for Helen Halyard in some states, including Ohio.
13. ^ "Proceedings of the National Liberty Convention, held at Buffalo, N.Y., June...". 1848. Retrieved 2010-01-16. 
14. ^ http://www.ok.gov/~elections/96rpres.html
15. ^ "White House bid wants serious attention", St. Petersburg Times, March 24, 1999. Accessed 07/08/08.
16. ^ "Republican Party". 
17. ^ Walton, Hanes. Invisible politics: Black political behavior. p.92.
18. ^ Wesley, Dr. Charles H. (March 14, 1953). "The Greatest American". The Afro-American. Retrieved January 17, 2010. 
19. ^ ^{a b} Ragsdale, Bruce; Joel D. Treese (1990). Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. p. 8. 
20. ^ Sears, p. 389

References

• Sears, Thomas James (2001). Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2964-6.

See also

• African American candidates for president of the United States
• List of female United States presidential and vice-presidential candidates
• Jesse Jackson presidential campaign 1984
• Jesse Jackson presidential campaign, 1988