United States third party and independent presidential candidates, 2012 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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This article contains lists of official and prospective third party and independent candidates associated with the 2012 United States presidential election.

“Third party” is a term that is commonly used in the United States to refer to political parties other than the two major parties, which are the Democratic Party and Republican Party. The term is used as innumerate shorthand for all such parties, or sometimes only the largest of them.

An independent candidate is one who runs for office with no formal party affiliation.

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