List of female United States presidential and vice-presidential candidates

The first woman to receive votes at a national political convention for president or vice president was Lucretia Coffin Mott who received 6% of the votes in the first ballot for the vice president nomination at the 1848 Liberty Party convention. Charlene Mitchell was the first African American woman to run for president, and the first to receive valid votes in a general election, in 1968. Shirley Chisholm became the first black candidate for a major party’s presidential nomination in 1972. Hillary Clinton won more votes in 2008 than any primary candidate in American history.

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Summary List of female United States presidential and vice-presidential candidatesThe first woman to receive votes at a national political convention for president or vice president was Lucretia Coffin Mott who received 6% of the votes in the first ballot for the vice president nomination at the 1848 Liberty Party convention. Charlene Mitchell was the first African American woman to run for president, and the first to receive valid votes in a general election, in 1968. In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first black candidate for a major party’s presidential nomination. In the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York became theFirst woman to be listed as a presidential candidate in every primary and caucus nationwide. Hillary Clinton won more votes in 2008 than any primary candidate in American history.

The Green Party has run a female candidate three times, Cynthia McKinney in 2008 and Jill Stein in 2012 and 2016. Prior to the 2020 United States presidential election cycle, only five women throughout history had made it to a major political party’s primary debate stage. There had never been more than one woman on the debate stage and more than two at one time. A record-breaking six women ran for president in the Democratic Party: Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, J.K. Williamson, Tulsi Gabbard and Carly Fiorina. The initial night of the Democratic primary debate took place on June 26–27, 2019.