Third Party (United States)
The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties (Democratic Party and Republican Party). The term can also refer to independent politicians not affiliated with any party at all and to write-in candidates.
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“Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can’t see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote—eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)