Prohibition Party presidential election results
The U.S. Prohibition Party presidential election results are listed chronologically below.
The Prohibition Party has run a candidate for President of the United States every presidential election year since 1872. Although national prohibition was introduced in 1920 with broad public support, the Prohibition Party never received over about a quarter of a million votes. This may be because the powerful Anti-Saloon League and Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), among others, chose to remain non-partisan. Their strategy was to support whichever major party (Democratic or Republican) candidate took a position most favorable to the interests of the temperance movement.
Year Presidential Candidate Votes Received
- 1872 James Black 5,607
- 1876 Green Clay Smith 9,737
- 1880 Neal Dow 10,305
- 1884 John P. St. John 150,369
- 1888 Clinton B. Fisk 249,506
- 1892 John Bidwell 264,133
- 1896 Joshua Levering 132,007
- 1900 John C. Wooley 298, 914
- 1904 Silas C. Swallow 258,536
- 1908 Eugene W. Chafin 253,840
- 1912 Eugene W. Chafin 206,275
- 1916 J. Frank Hanly 220,506
- 1920 Aaron S. Watkins 189,408
- 1924 Herman P. Faris 57,520
- 1928 William F. Varney 20,106
- 1932 D. Leigh Colvin 37,847
- 1940 Roger Babson 57,812
- 1944 Claude A. Watson 74,758
- 1948 Claude A. Watson 103,900
- 1952 Stuart Hamblen 72,949
- 1956 Enoch A. Holtwick 41,937
- 1960 Rutherford C. Decker 46,203
- 1964 E. Harold Munn 32,267
- 1968 E. Harold Munn 15,123
- 1972 E. Harold Munn 13,444
- 1976 Ben Bubar 15,961
- 1980 Ben Bubar 7,237
- 1984 Earl F. Dodge 4,204
- 1988 Earl F. Dodge 8,004
- 1992 Earl F. Dodge 935
- 1996 Earl F. Dodge 1,294
- 2000 Earl F. Dodge 208
- 2004 Gene Amondson 1,896
- 2008 Gene Amondson 643
These statistics are reported votes. At various times and places some precincts have reportedly not recorded votes cast for minor parties
