List of fictional U.S. Presidential candidates
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This is a list of fictional candidates who ran for President of the United States. Successful candidates are listed in the List of fictional U.S. Presidents
Presidential candidates are listed in alphabetical order by the first letter in their last name.
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A
Benjamin K. Arthur
- Candidate in: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Played by: Robert Riordan
- Running mate: Johnny Iselin
- Party: Republican Party
B
- Candidate in: Bloom County comic strip in the U.S. presidential election, 1984 and 1988
- Played by: Himself
- Running mate: Opus the penguin
- Party: The Meadow Party (third party).
- Candidate in: The Simpsons, "Bart to the Future" episode
- Bono opposed Lisa Simpson and Lenny Leonard voted for her.
- Ran for the Republican Party nomination in the 2006 Election on West Wing.
- Lost to Arnold Vinick.
- Party: Republican
- Based off of Pat Robertson.
C
- The demon creation of H.P. Lovecraft has a bit of a political following.
- Runs under the slogan 'This time, why choose the lesser of two evils?'
- Candidate in: X-Men comic book franchise in the U.S. presidential election, 1996
- Founder of the anti-mutant hate group The Friends of Humanity
- Assassinated before the elections by Mystique, a mutant terrorist who was also Creed's mother
- Party: (third party).
E
Etrigan (aka The Demon)
- Candidate in: DC comics comic book in the U.S. presidential election, 1992
- Played by: Himself
- Actual demon from Hell, he pulls out of the election when tricked into banishing himself.
- Party: Republican Party
H
Clarence Hilliard
- Candidate in: The World's Greatest Sinner (1962).
- Played by: Timothy Carey.
- Party: The Eternal Man party (third party).
Hubert Hoag
- Candidate in: Fahrenheit 451
- Deafeated in a landslide by opponent Winston Noble.
- Party: unknown
J
Smith Comma John
- Candidate in: MADtv
- Appears in ads denying that he is an alien trying to take over and enslave Earth.
- Party: unknown
M
Dennis Morgenthal
- Candidate in: Jack & Bobby
- Played by: John Heard
- Defeated Robert McCallister in the Republican primary of 2040 but is subsequently defeated by McCallister in the general election by a narrow margin when McCallister runs as an independent.
- Party: Republican Party
Augustus Mutt
- Candidate in: Mutt and Jeff (comic strip) in the U.S. presidential election, 1928
- Played by: Himself
- First cartoon character to run for president.
- Party: Unknown
N
- The MAD Magazine spokesman throws his hat into the ring every election.
- Ran under the slogan 'You could do worse, and you always have.'
- Party: Unknown
P
Charles Palantine
- Candidate in Taxi Driver
- Played by Leonard Harris
- Charles Palantine was a Senator from New York who attempted to run for president in the U.S. presidential election, 1972.
- Party: Democratic Party
Pogo Possum
- Candidate in: Pogo 1952-1980 (comic strip) and the animated movie Pogo for President: I Go Pogo (1980).
- Played by: Himself
- Party: unknown.
R
Randee of the Redwoods
- Candidate in: Various MTV TV commercials (1987-90).
- Played by: Jim Turner.
- Party: Unknown (third party).
Robert Ritchie
- Candidate in The West Wing (television series)
- Played by James Brolin
- Ritchie attended the University of Florida and is married to Janet Ritchie. Ritchie was the Governor of Florida when he ran against incumbent president Josiah Bartlet in the 2002 presidential election. Ritchie supported oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska and opposed affirmative action.
- President Bartlet called Governor Ritchie a ".22 caliber mind in a .357 world." In the general election, President Bartlet defeated Governor Ritchie and running mate Jeff Heston by 11 million popular votes in a landslide.
- Party: Republican
Barbara "Barbie" Millicent Roberts
- Candidate in: Mattel press release in the U.S. presidential election, 2004
- Played by: Herself.
- Party: Party of Girls (third party)
S
- Candidate in The West Wing (television series)
- Played by: Jimmy Smits
- A three-term congressman from Texas, Santos is married to Helen Santos and has several children. He was preparing to retire from politics when he was approached by Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman about a presidential campaign. Starting out the campaign in last place out of a field of seven, he catapulted into third place after receiving 19% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary.
- Surging late after winning the California primary, Santos was deadlocked with the frontrunner, Vice President Bob Russell at the 2006 Democratic National Convention. Santos won the nomination on the fourth ballot and named former Labor Secretary and former White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry as his running mate.
- Party: Democratic Party
Howard Stackhouse
- Candidate in The West Wing (television series)
- Played by: George Coe
- Stackhouse is a widowed 78 year-old five-term Senator from Minnesota who admired Hubert Humphrey. Stackhouse attempted to run for president in the 2002 presidential election as an independent candidate. He ended his candidacy and later endored President Bartlet.
- Party: Democratic Party
T
Jack Tanner
- Candidate in: Tanner '88 (miniseries) in the U.S. presidential election, 1988
- Played by: Michael Murphy
- Tanner was a congressman from Michigan and is married and has one daughter. He did not win the nomination.
- Party: Democratic Party
V
- Candidate in The West Wing (television series)
- Played by: Alan Alda
- A senator from California, Vinick is a moderate Republican who is pro-choice, opposes ethanol and is a blunt speaker. He was offered the post of ambassador to the United Nations but declined. He is a widower, a book-collector and a possible agnostic. In 2006, he defeated Reverend Don Butler and former Speaker of the House Glen Allen Walken and won the nomination. His running mate is Governor Ray Sullivan of West Virginia.
- Party: Republican Party
W
Hal Philip Walker
- Candidate in: Nashville (1975) in the U.S. presidential election, 1976.
- Played by: Thomas Hal Phillips
- Party: The Replacement Party (third party).
- Candidate in: The Plot Against America (book, 2004)
- Winchell is a historical character in real life and a fictional candidate in 1942 for the 1944 Democratic nomination.
- Party: Democratic Party
See also
- Fiction regarding United States presidential succession
- Fictional characters
- Archive of fictional things
- List of fictional political parties
- List of fictional U.S. Presidents
- List of fictional British Prime Ministers
- List of fictional British monarchs
- List of fictional world leaders
- List of fictional politicians
- List of fictional rulers
- President of Earth