List of third-party and independent performances in United States state legislative elections
This is a list of notable performances of third party and independent candidates in elections to the state legislatures.[citation needed] Listed below are state legislature elections in which a third party or independent candidate won at least 5.0% of the vote.Winners are shown in bold and marked "elected" or "re-elected".Candidates who lost are included as well.To be included on this list the third party or independent party must be not running on the party line of one of the two major parties or any of their predecessors.