A third party is any party which compites for votes since it has failed to outpoll its two strongest rivals. These political parties rarely win elections because their proportional representations are not used in federal or state elections, only in some municipal elections. In the U.S. electoral politics, a third party could be the Libertarians and Greens, while the most important leading political parties are the Democrats as well as the Republicans.
Third-party politics since 1860 are best described by the following options...
1) The Bull Moose party was formed by a former Republican President and Jane Adams. The Progressive Party or The Bull Moose Party which was created by Roosevelt and his delegates became a third party in the election of 1912.
3) The Reformed party, led by Ross Perot, tried to make a run in the race between George H. Bush and Bill Clinton. The Reform Party was founded in 1995 by Ross Perot who received 18.9% of the popular vote as an independent candidate in the 1992 presidential election.
4) The House of Representatives has no separate place for a third party candidate to sit. The Republican party and Democratic party have dominated American politics in a two-party system since 1856,
