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Third-party candidate

A candidate who does not belong to one of the two main US political parties, the Republicans or the Democrats.

No third-party candidate has ever won the presidency, but they have may have strongly influenced the result. For example, in 1992, Ross Perot took votes away from incumbent George HW Bush and helped Bill Clinton gain victory.

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