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Minor party presidential ballot access, 2024

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The method that candidates running as independents or affiliated with minor political parties (defined here as all political parties other than the Democratic or Republican Party) used to gain a spot on a state's presidential election ballot varied by state.

For example, in some states minor political parties could secure a spot on the ballot for their candidates by gathering a certain number of petition signatures by a set deadline. In others, whether a state guaranteed a spot on the ballot to a particular political party's candidate depended on that party's performance in previous elections.

In other states, candidates affiliated with a minor political party may have pursued a spot on the presidential election ballot by meeting the requirements to run as an independent candidate.

This article provides deadlines and requirements that minor party or independent presidential candidates had to meet to appear on the 2024 presidential election ballot.[1]

On this page you will find:

Party qualification deadlines by state

See also: Ballot access for major and minor party candidates

The chart below displays the last deadline for minor political parties or similar political groups to submit petitions to become ballot-qualified for the 2024 presidential election. States that did not allow parties to petition onto the ballot are marked N/A.

Note that some states had separate petition filing deadlines for candidates affiliated with a minor party to qualify for the presidential ballot, including many of the states marked as N/A below. Those deadlines are not reflected in this table, this table just provides the deadlines by which the minor parties themselves could become ballot-qualified by petition for the presidential election. The minor party candidate deadlines typically match the deadline for independent candidates to qualify for the ballot. Independent presidential candidate petition deadlines are provided further down in this section.

Independent candidate filing deadlines by state

See also: Filing deadlines for independent presidential candidates, 2024

In some cases, minor party candidates will seek ballot access as unaffiliated candidates rather than as party candidates. See the chart below for independent presidential candidate filing deadlines in 2024 by state.

Ballot-qualified minor parties by state

The tabs below display ballot qualification by state according to state election authority websites. See something we missed? Email us.

The following minor party and independent presidential candidates were ballot-qualified in at least five states:




See also: Presidential election in Arkansas, 2024


See also: Presidential election in Florida, 2024


See also: Presidential election in Hawaii, 2024


See also: Presidential election in Louisiana, 2024


See also: Presidential election in Michigan, 2024


See also: Presidential election in New Jersey, 2024


See also: Presidential election in Oregon, 2024


See also: Presidential election in Rhode Island, 2024


See also: Presidential election in Vermont, 2024


See also: Presidential election in Washington, 2024


Ballot access requirements for presidential candidates

Click on a state below to read more about presidential ballot access in that state.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Here, we define a minor political party as any political party other than the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In some states, what are here referred to as minor political parties can gain major party status within that state.
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