List of political parties in the United States
This list of political parties in the United States contains past and present political parties in the United States. Each of five parties shares a degree of national attention by attaining the mathematical possibility of its nominee becoming President of the United States — i.e., having ballot status for its presidential candidate in states whose collective total is at least half of the Electoral-College votes — in the U.S. presidential election, 2008. These parties have offered candidates in recent elections, but did not in 2004, and they did not have ballot status in enough states in 2008 to win the presidency. Some do not have presidential candidates, but for other offices only. Some of these parties have nominated candidates in the past, but have not done so recently for various reasons. Others have not yet nominated any candidates. Few, if any, of these parties have nominated presidential candidates. The years are when they were founded.
