Women Who Ran for President

Evelyn Reed

In states where SWP candidate Linda Jenness was not accepted for the ballot because she was under the Constitutional age for qualifying for the presidency, Evelyn Reed ran in her place.

Ellen McCormack

McCormack ran against legalized abortion and won 238,000 votes in 18 primaries in the Democratic campaign, winning 22 delegates in 5 states. She was eligible for matching funds, based on new electoral campaign rules. Her campaign resulted in changing the laws on federal matching funds to make it more difficult for candidates with little support. She ran again in 1980 on a third party ticket, receiving no federal matching funds, and was on the ballot in three states, two as an independent candidate.

Margaret Wright

African American activist Margaret Wright ran with Dr. Benjamin Spock in the V.P. spot; he'd been the presidential candidate in 1972.

Deidre Griswold

A founder of the Stalinist group that split from the Socialist Worker's Party, she received 13,300 votes in 18 states.

Maureen Smith

She ran with Elizabeth Barron; they received 18,116 votes.

Sonia Johnson

Founder of Mormons for the Equal Rights Amendment, she'd been excommunicated by the Mormon church in 1979. She received 72,200 votes in 26 states, six of those from write-ins because her party was not on the ballot.

Gavrielle Holmes

She was on the ballot in Ohio and Rhode Island as a stand-in for her husband, who was the candidate the party campaigned for.

Isabelle Masters

Patricia Schroeder

Pat Schroeder raised money and explored a run in the 1988 primaries, but she withdrew in September of 1987.

Lenora Fulani

She ran as a third party candidate in 1988 and 1992, and in the New Hampshire Democratic primary in 1992.