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Which third party candidate received the greatest share of the vote in the past five election cycles?
a. Ralph Nader (2000)
b. Bob Barr (2008)
c. Gary Johnson (2016)
d. Jill Stein (2016)

In the past five election cycles, there have been three third-party candidates who won 1% or more of the popular vote. The greatest share of the vote won by a third-party candidate during this time period was Gary Johnson's (L) 3.27% of the vote in the 2016 election.

Johnson's best performance that year was in his home state of New Mexico, where he received 9.34% of the vote. He received 5% or more of the vote in eight other states. Johnson's 2016 performance was the strongest by any Libertarian presidential candidate in U.S. history, followed by Edward Clark's 1.06% of the vote in the 1980 election.

The other two third-party presidential candidates who won more than 1% of the national vote since 2000 were both Green Party nominees. In the 2000 election, Ralph Nader won 2.74% of the vote, while in the 2016 election, Jill Stein won 1.06%. The 2016 election was the first since 1980 to feature multiple third-party candidates with 1% or more of the vote. In the 1980 election, Libertarian Edward Clark joined John Anderson (I), who won 6.61% support, on the presidential ballot.