Contest: Research Election History and Third Parties  What do
the Communist Party, Constitution Party, Green Party, and
Libertarian Party all have in common? They’re all third parties
in the U.S., who represent differing origins, viewpoints, and
intentions than the Democratic Party and Republican Party.
Since the formation of the organized political parties in the
1830s, the American political landscape has been dominated by
the two-party system. Some other third parties in the U.S. are
the Natural Law Party, Peace and Freedom Party, Progressive
Labor Party, Prohibition Party, Reform Party, Ripon Society,
Socialist Labor Party, and Socialist Party.  Show us your
election research savvy: Did any of the above or other third
parties hold a balance of power or win a significant portion of
the ballots in Presidential elections in the past twenty years?
Use CQ Electronic Library to find out and submit your answer to
Yuan Zeng, librarian for Political Science, at The first
responder with a correct answer wins a $5