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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Name one national election in the history of the US where voting third-party resulted in the goals of those voters being achieved.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_presidential_election

The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin[2] won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states had already abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.

Republicans were a third party to the Democrat-Whig two party system. Republicans weren't on the ballot across the south.