U.S. President: Candidates For Party Nomination
Candidates who failed to receive their parties' nomination. Candidates who won the nomination belong in the above tables only.
| Year | Name | Party | Details | Nomination winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | Abigail Scott Duniway | Equal Rights Party | Rejected nomination. | Belva Ann Lockwood |
| 1920 | Laura Clay | Democratic Party | James M. Cox | |
| Cora Wilson Stewart | ||||
| 1924 | Cora Wilson Stewart | Democratic Party | 1 vote on 1st and 15th ballots | John W. Davis |
| 1940 | Anna Milburn | National Greenback Party | Declined nomination | John Zahnd |
| 1964 | Margaret Chase Smith | Republican Party | Received 227,007 votes in Republican Primary and won 27 delegates at the 1964 Republican Convention | Barry Goldwater |
| Fay T. Carpenter Swain | Democratic Party | 7,140 votes in Indiana primary | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| 1972 | Shirley Chisholm | Democratic Party | 152 votes at National convention | George McGovern |
| Patsy Takamoto Mink | ||||
| Bella Savitzky Abzug | ||||
| 1976 | Barbara Jordan | Democratic Party | 1 vote at National convention | Jimmy Carter |
| Ellen McCormack | ||||
| 1980 | Koryne Kaneski Horbal | Democratic Party | 5 votes at National convention | Jimmy Carter |
| Alice Tripp | 2 votes at National convention | |||
| 1984 | Martha Kirkland | Democratic Party | 1 vote at National convention | Walter Mondale |
| 1988 | Patricia Schroeder | Democratic Party | Michael Dukakis | |
| 1992 | Tennie Rogers | Republican Party | 754 votes in Texas primary | George H.W. Bush |
| Patricia Schroeder | 152 votes (12th place) in New Hampshire primary | |||
| Georgiana Doerschuck | 58 votes in New Hampshire primary | |||
| Caroline Killeen | Democratic Party | 96 votes in New Hampshire primary | Bill Clinton | |
| 1996 | Elvena E. Lloyd-Duffie | Democratic Party | 13,025 votes in Arkansas primary; 10,876 votes (6th place) in Texas primary; 40,758 in Oklahoma primary (3rd place); 11,620 votes (3rd place) in Louisiana primary; 15,650 votes (2nd place) in Illinois primary | Bill Clinton |
| Dr. Heather Anne Harder | 28,772 votes (3rd place) in Texas primary; 376 votes in New Hampshire primary and two write-in votes as a Republican; 6 votes in Illinois primary | |||
| Caroline Killeen | 118 votes in New Hampshire primary | |||
| Susan Gail Ducey | Republican Party | 539 votes in (9th place) at Arizona primary; 152 votes (12th place) at New Hampshire primary; 1,092 votes (8th place) at Texas primary | Bob Dole | |
| Isabell Masters | 1052 votes (7th place) at Oklahoma primary | |||
| Mary "France" LeTulle | 650 votes (9th place) at Texas primary; 290 votes in Nevada primary | |||
| Georgiana Doerschuck | 140 votes in New Hampshire primary | |||
| Tennie Rogers | 35 votes at Mississippi primary; 12 votes inNew Hampshire primary | |||
| 2000 | Dr. Heather Anne Harder | Democratic Party | 1,358 votes in AZ primary; 192 votes (8th place) in New Hampshire primary, 1 Republican write-in vote | Al Gore |
| Elizabeth Dole | Republican Party | 231 write-in votes in NH primary | George W. Bush | |
| Dorian Yeager | 98 votes (10th place) in New Hampshire primary | |||
| Angel Joy Chavis Rocker | 6 votes in Alabama straw poll | |||
| 2004 | Lorna Salzman | Green Party | 40 votes at National convention (5th place) | David Cobb |
| JoAnne Bier Beeman | 14 votes at National convention | |||
| Carol A. Miller | 10 votes at National convention | |||
| Sheila Bilyeu | 2 votes at National convention | |||
| Florence Walker | Democratic Party | 246 votes (6th place) in Washington, D.C. primary | John Kerry | |
| Katherine Bateman | 68 votes (14th place) in New Hampshire primary | |||
| Jeanne Chebib | 43 votes (12th place) in the Washington, D.C. primary | |||
| Caroline Killeen | 31 votes (19th place) in New Hampshire primary | |||
| Mildred T. Glover | 11 votes (22nd place) in New Hampshire primary; 4,039 votes (8th place) in Maryland primary | |||
| Carol Moseley Braun | Withdrew in January 2004 | |||
| Millie Howard | Republican Party | 239 votes (13th place) in New Hampshire primary | George W. Bush | |
| 2008 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Democratic Party | Reached second place in the Democratic Party primaries, winning 1,726½ Delegate votes and more primaries than any other woman in history, with 21 states won and more than 18 million votes, the race between Clinton and Obama was among the closest in history with her winning 48.03% of the popular vote to his 47.43% between caucus and primary states. | Barack Obama |
| Caroline Killeen | 11 votes in New Hampshire primary | |||
| Mary Ruwart | Libertarian Party | 152 votes at National Convention (2nd place; reached 1st place on 5th ballot before being defeated on 6th ballot) | Bob Barr | |
| Christine Smith | 6 votes at National Convention (8th place) | |||
| Kat Swift | Green Party | 38 votes at National Convention (3rd place) | Cynthia McKinney | |
| Elaine Brown | Withdrew in December 2007; 9 pledged delegates (6th place) | |||
| Nan Garrett | Withdrew in February 2007 | |||
| Susan Gail Ducey | Republican Party | 2 votes (3-way tie for 8th place) in Tulsa, Oklahoma straw poll | John McCain | |
| 2012 | Roseanne Barr | Green Party | 72 votes at National Convention (2nd place) | Jill Stein |
| Year | Name | Party | Details | Nomination winner |
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