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Women Who Ran for President

Women Who Have Run for United States President

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Willa Kenoyer

Socialist Party: 1988

Kenoyer gained less than 4,000 votes from 11 states in 1988 as a Socialist Party candidate for the presidency.

Gloria E. LaRiva

Workers World Party / Party for Socialism and Liberation: 1992

Formerly a candidate for VP with the Stalinist WWP, LaRiva was put on the New Mexico ballot in 1992 and gained fewer than 200 votes.

Susan Block

1992

Helen Halyard

Worker's League: 1992

Another split from the Socialist Worker's Party, the Worker's League ran Halyard in 1992 and she gained just over 3000 votes in the two states, New Jersey and Michigan, where she was on the ballot. The Worker's League became the Socialist Equality Party in 1996.

Millie Howard

Republican: 1992, 1996; Independent: 2000; Republican: 2004, 2008

Millie Howard of Ohio ran "for President USA 1992 and Beyond." In the 2004 New Hampshire primary, Howard received 239 votes.

Monica Moorehead

Workers World Party: 1996, 2000

More successful than other years, the WWP won almost just over 29,000 votes in 12 states i 1996. In 2000, with Moorehead heading the ticket a second time, they received fewer than 5,000 votes.

Marsha Feinland

Peace and Freedom Party: 1996

Running with Kate McClatchy, the ticket received just over 25,000 votes nationally.

Mary Cal Hollis

Socialist Party: 1996

Hollis received about 4,700 votes in 12 states.

Heather Anne Harder

Democratic Party: 1996

Elvena E. Lloyd-Duffie

Democratic Party: 1996

Lloyd-Duffie ran for the nomination against incumbent Bill Clinton, getting more than 90,000 votes in the primaries of the five states where she was on the ballot.

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