This article contains lists of official and potential third-party and independent candidates associated with the 2016 United States presidential election.

Green Party nominee Jill Stein received 1,457,216 total votes, a little more than 1% of ballots cast, the second most for any third-party candidate.

Constitution Party nominee Darrell Castle received 203,090 votes, the fourth most for any third-party candidate.

Despite not officially running for President, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders received 111,850 write-in votes, the fifth most for any third-party candidate.

Johnson's greatest statewide percentage was in his home state of New Mexico, where he reached the mid-twenties in September before falling back into the teens.

Electoral votes: 207 (Scott Copeland had access to 4 electoral votes in Idaho, where Castle is on the ballot as an independent[67]) Write-in included: 406 Ballot access: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

[68][69][70][71] Write-in access: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia.

La Riva won the primary in California and thus was awarded the ballot line at the state convention.

[99] As an independent: Alaska,[100] Idaho,[101] Kentucky,[102] Montana,[103] Nevada,[104] New Hampshire,[105] North Dakota,[106] Rhode Island[107] Tennessee,[108] Utah,[101] Vermont,[109] Wisconsin,[110] Wyoming.

The American Delta Party is an organization specifically created to support De La Fuente's independent candidacy.

[117] Both Clinton and Donald Trump would have had to win less than the required 270 electoral college votes for Sanders to have denied either candidate the presidency, and for the election to be passed to the House of Representatives - thus the initial write-in campaign around Vermont, offering only 3 electoral college votes, was unsuccessful.

[118] The campaign expanded to include all 12 eligible states (one of which listed Sanders as an official write-in candidate), and relied on states such as California, with a high electoral college vote count and large support for Sanders, to be successful in denying both Trump and Clinton.

Notably, he came in third in Vermont,[48] coming ahead of both Gary Johnson and Jill Stein and taking 5.7% of the vote (18,183 tallied), something that has never happened before in a fall Presidential election.

Below are the results of the California Primary ballot, which was rendered superfluous when the state committee decided to select Donald Trump.

[208] The following individuals were the focus of presidential speculation as an independent candidate in multiple media reports during the 2016 election cycle.