List of fictional United States presidential candidates
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This is a list of fictional candidates who ran for the office of President of the United States. For successful candidates who became president, please see 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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[edit] A
Benjamin K. Arthur
- Candidate in: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Played by: Robert Riordan
- Running mate: Johnny Iselin (James Gregory)
- Party: Republican Party
[edit] 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: National Radical Meadow Party (third party).
- Candidate in: The Simpsons, "Bart to the Future" episode
- Bono ran against Lisa Simpson; Lenny Leonard voted for her.
- Ran for the Republican Party nomination in the U.S. presidential election, 2006 on The West Wing.
- Lost to Arnold Vinick.
- Party: Republican
- Based on Pat Robertson.
[edit] C
Gary Candor
- Candidate in: The Interim (novel)
- Senate Minority Leader and senior senator from Pennsylvania
- Running Mate: Secretary of Defense George Granger
- Campaigned on behalf of a free Taiwan, the party platform
- Won by two electoral votes; beating out Senator Ricardo Hernandez of Texas
- Political Party: Democrat
Anthony Collins
- Candidate in: The Interim (novel)
- Junior senator from Colorado
- Maintained third place throughout the primaries
- Resigned candidacy two days before the Democratic National Convention in New York City
- Supported Gary Candor afterwards
- Became secretary of state under Candor
- Political Party: Democrat
- Candidate in: Chaosium products
- Party: Elder Party
- Slogan: "Why vote for a lesser evil? Cthulhu for president"
- Website: Cthulhu for President
- 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).
[edit] D
- Candidate in: Daffy Duck for President (2000)
- Party: Wants to be his own party
- Was defeated by Bugs Bunny once he started making campaigns
Senator Daterape
- Candidate in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, set 34 years in the future.
- Ran against President Douchebag.
- Candidate in: Doonesbury comic strip in the U.S. presidential election, 2000
- Party:
[edit] 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
[edit] G
George Granger
- Candidate in: The Interim (novel)
- Secretary of Defense from California
- Maintained second place in the primaries
- Resigned candidacy after a deadlock during the Democratic National Convention in New York City
- Nominated as vice presidential candidate by Gary Candor
- Political Party: Democrat
[edit] H
Ricardo Hernandez
- Candidate in: The Interim (novel)
- Senate Majority Leader and senior senator from Texas
- Running Mate: Senator David Andrews of New York
- First Hispanic presidential candidate
- Endorsed by outgoing President Payne
- Campaigned on behalf of the One-China policy, the party platform
- Lost by two electoral votes to Senator Gary Candor of Pennsylvania
- Political Party: Republican
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
- Defeated in a landslide by opponent Winston Noble.
- Party: unknown
James Hilton
- Candidate in: Presidential Diaries
- Was successful for reelection with 52% of the popular vote in 2036
- Party: Republican
[edit] 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
[edit] K
Kodos
- Candidate in: The Simpsons – "Treehouse of Horror VII" episode
- The hostile alien Kodos and his companion Kang competed in the 1996 election after having captured and impersonated original presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. Kang won the election.
- Party: unknown
[edit] L
- Candidate in: Linda Lovelace for President (1976) (film)
- Played by: Herself
- Party: The Upright Party
[edit] M
Norman Mart
- Candidate in: Tapeheads
- Played by: Clu Gulager
- A U.S. senator, his career is ruined in a sex scandal.
Yelnick McWawa
- Predicted to be "our next president" by Cliff Clavin on the television show Cheers.
- The prediction was arrived at by mathematical deduction.
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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- Satiric candidate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin.
- Actual pig.
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.
[edit] R
Randee of the Redwoods
- Candidate in: Various MTV TV commercials (1987-90).
- Played by: Jim Turner.
- Party: Unknown (third party).
Robert Redford
- Candidate in Watchmen (graphic novel)
- Party: most likely Republican Party
- Announced candidacy at the end of the fictional story, leading a newspaper editor to proclaim, "This is still America God damnit! Who wants a cowboy actor in the White House?", a thinly-veiled jab at then president Ronald Reagan
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 Party
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)
[edit] S
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 endorsed President Bartlet.
- Party: Democratic Party
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] W
Glen Allen Walken
- Candidate in: The West Wing (2005) in the 2006 election.
- Played by: John Goodman
- Party: Republican, although professed a fondness for President Harry Truman, a Democrat who, like him, came from the western part of the State of Missouri.
- Walken was Speaker of the House of Representatives when Vice President John Hoynes resigned, making him next in the line of succession. Before President Bartlet could appoint a new Vice President, a family crisis forced him to temporarily step aside under the 25th Amendment, making Walken Acting President for three days. In order to accept this position, Walken had to resign his seat in Congress. As he left the Presidency, he told Bartlet that he hadn't decided whether to run for his old seat.
- Walken was a proponent of tax cuts and a strong military, and Bartlet's comments indicated he was a strong supporter of gun rights as well.
- Joined Bartlet and former President D. Wire Newman at the funeral of former President Owen Lassiter, who was apparently a friend and something of a role model.
- Goodman appeared as Walken in a total of three episodes, and while his character was mentioned as a candidate in the Republican primaries, he was never shown.
- During his three-day Presidency, Bartlet's staff believed that this tenure, however brief, would make Walken the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the next election. However, later episodes revealed that he lost the early primaries to Arnold Vinick.
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
[edit] Z
- Superman's nemesis from Superman II and DC Comics has a website for his candidacy in 2008.
- Played by: Terence Stamp
[edit] See also
- Animals as electoral candidates
- 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 politicians
- President of Earth
