Libertarian Party Candidates For The 2024 Presidential Election

That depends on who you ask. The Libertarian definition is not concrete, and different schools of Libertarian thought are often in contradiction of one another in major ways.

However, if you want to know if you’re a Libertarian, generally speaking, modern Libertarians in the American political context are fiscally conservative and socially liberal, and they favor small government and free trade over large government and regulated domestic and international trade.

Libertarians also tend to take a non-interventionist worldview and oppose the idea that America should police the world or involve itself in international disputes or wars.

The 2020 Libertarian candidate for President was Jo Jorgensen of South Carolina. Jorgensen ran as the LP VP candidate in the 1996 Presidential election, and she ran for NC state office as a Libertarian in 1992, losing both times. She also lost in 2020, obviously.

It is not yet known who the 2024 Libertarian candidate for President will be.

The LP is currently the third largest organized and recognized political party in the United States, typically garnering 2-3 percent of the vote in national Presidential elections.

At the local and state level throughout the USA, there are roughly 170 LP members holding elected office. No Libertarian has ever been elected as such to federal congressional office or any state governorship.

Yes, but not everywhere.

There are 31 US states that allow voters to register as Libertarians, and in those 31 states, roughly 610,000 people are registered Libertarians.

Yes.

To become President, a candidate from any party simply needs to win at least 270 electoral votes (as of 2020). The Libertarian Party has been on all US state ballots in six Presidential elections:

• 1980
• 1992
• 1996
• 2000
• 2016
• 2020

The LP has been on a ballot in at least one state in all 13 Presidential elections since its inception. Due to the nature of the electoral college, the party could have technically won most – but not all – of the elections in which it has appeared.

No.

In fact, there has never even been a third-party President of any kind, discounting the nation’s very first Presidents who ran on tickets representing groups that were not yet established enough to generate any pair of dominant parties.

Not in our lifetime.

That said, every election cycle’s Libertarian candidate has more of an effect on the outcome of said election than all the representatives of all other third parties combined.

Vegas political bettors should always pay close attention to Libertarian candidates for this reason, factoring them into their wagers on state electoral odds in particular.

There are no Libertarian governors, no Libertarians in the US Senate, and only one Libertarian in the US House of Representatives.

In 2020, only one Libertarian, Justin Amash (MI-3), held political office at the federal level.

However, Amash was elected as a Republican and changed parties only to protest Donald Trump. He then lost his constituency and decided not to run for reelection in 2020.

No.

Despite having the same etymological root, the two political philosophies are extremely divergent.

Libertarians are considered to be further to the right than Republicans in the United States, while Liberals are considered to be further to the left than rank-and-file Democrats.

Liberals believe in the "liberal" application of government (i.e. large government presences at the state and federal levels), whereas Libertarians believe in small governments at all levels.

According to the defined parameters of the left and the right in the US two-party system, Libertarians are considered far right, emphasizing small government, free markets, property rights, reduced foreign interventionism, and individual self-defense, among other tentpole issues.

Similarly, the other major third party, the Green Party, is considered far left. (Or, at least, it used to be, until the entire mainstream Democratic Party actually moved further left than the Green Party, rendering the latter more moot than ever.)  

Nonsense, that's what. Libertarian socialism is an oxymoron.

Pragmatically, there ought to be no such thing, but on paper, a Libertarian socialist advocates for small government while simultaneously advocating for government-enforced redistribution of wealth evenly across the population.

Which requires a massive government.

A left Libertarian, aka a liberal Libertarian or an egalitarian Libertarian, is akin to a Libertarian socialist, though somewhat less extreme.

In the US, left Libertarianism favors self-ownership principles along with the idea that private property is inherently unfair, as is outsize individual wealth. Left Libertarians oppose many of the premises of capitalism and the private ownership of manufacturing industries.

A Civil Libertarian is someone whose political endeavors seek to protect civil liberties in the context of a small government.

Essentially, Civil Libertarians wish to uphold individual rights and personal freedoms, separating them from public governmental oversight as much as possible.

A Republican Libertarian – or right-wing Libertarian – is the opposite of a left Libertarian, favoring self-ownership along with upholding the notion that private property and private wealth are sacrosanct.

Effectively, Libertarian conservatism promotes laissez-faire capitalism – that is, free trade with no governmental oversight of any kind.

Conservative Libertarians are free-market capitalists.

We all know that Democrats are “blue” and Republicans are “red,” but what color represents Libertarianism?

The answer is yellow or gold, which is often paired with gray and black.

There is no official Libertarian flag.

However, many Libertarians have adopted the Gadsden Flag – aka the “Don’t Tread On Me” or “DTOM” flag – to represent the party.

The Gadsden Flag is yellow and depicts in its center a black rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike, with the words “DONT TREAD ON ME” printed underneath.