16 March 2018 — 2142 mdt

Montana presidential elections and 3rd parties 2000–2016

Third parties have not been a factor in the last five presidential elections in Montana. In 2000, Ralph Nader, running on the Green Party’s ticket, received six percent of the vote. In 2016, Green Party candidate Jill Stein received 1.6 percent of the vote. The Libertarian share was 0.4 percent in 2000, 2.9 percent in 2012, and 5.7 percent in 2016.

Tomorrow, I’ll post charts and data sets comparing Nader’s and Stein’s performance on a county basis, and Stein’s on a MT House district basis.

Here are the statewide totals for 2000–2016: