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Feb. 18, 1992 New Hampshire Presidential Primary

While the proposition that in America "anyone can grow up to be president" is questionable, the New Hampshire primary does offer the opportunity for almost anyone who meets the constitutional requirements to run for president. In addition to the major candidates, dozens of other lesser known/non-major/minor candidates participated in the Feb. 18 New Hampshire primary. An astounding 62 candidates made the ballot—25 Republicans, 36 Democrats and 1 Libertarian. The filing requirements for candidates to appear on the ballot are straightforward, and the state's small size makes it manageable to campaign in. The vast majority of candidates were men. In addition to the candidates on the ballot, well organized write-in campaigns for Mario Cuomo and Ralph Nader drew significant attention and won more support than any of the minor candidates. The Cuomo write-in effort tallied 7,376 votes (6,577 Dem. and 799 Rep.) and the Nader effort 6,312 votes (3,054 Dem. and 3,258 Rep.). Among the "rest of the field candidates" on the ballot, there were a few recognizable names including comedian Pat Paulsen (R) (603 votes), actor Tom Laughlin (D) (3,251 votes), and former Sen. Gene McCarthy (D) (212 votes). Irvine Mayor Larry Agran (D) made perhaps the strongest pitch for being recognized as a major candidate, but finished ninth in the Democratic primary with 335 votes, just behind Lenora Fulani (D), who had a bit of national recognition as a result of her 1988 run, at 402 votes. Depending on resources, non-major candidates did events, mailings and newspaper ads and so forth. Some of them opened offices to coordinate their activities, and there was also a shared office where visitors could find out about and meet some of the minor candidates. Many of the lesser-knowns received only a few dozen votes and their campaigns ended in the Granite State; a few were running national campaigns and continued on.

MAJOR CANDIDATES

Note: Gov. Doug Wilder (D) withdrew before the primary.

WRITE-INS
National Draft Cuomo Committee

Committee to Draft Ralph Nader for President


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REPUBLICANS

DEMOCRATS

LIBERTARIAN

also of note
...didn't appear on the ballot, but was a presence on the campaign trail: Vermin Supreme!

Outside Groups

Result reprinted from New Hampshire Manual for the General Court 1993:

REPUBLICAN PARTY — 177,970 total ballots cast

George Bush, Houston, Texas, r	92,271
Patrick J. Buchanan, McLean, Virginia, r	65,106
James P. Lennane, Naples, Florida, r	1,684
Pat Paulsen, Los Angeles, California, r	603
Richard P. Bosa, Berlin, New Hampshire, r	349
John David Merwin, Easton, New Hampshire, r	225
Harold E. Stassen, Sunfish Lake, Minnesota, r	205
Paul R. Conley, Maryland, New York, r	120
Billy Joe Clegg, Biloxi, Mississippi, r	110
Georgiana H. Doerschuck, Palm Beach, Florida, r	58
Paul C. Daugherty, Aiken, South Carolina, r	53
Michael S. Levinson, Buffalo, New York, r	45
Jack Fellure, Hurricane, West Virginia, r	36
Vincent A. Latchford, Brick, New Jersey, r	32
Hubert David Patty, Maryville, Tennessee, r	31
George A. Zimmerman, Dallas, Texas, r	31
Stephen A. Koczak, Washington, DC, r	29
Thomas S. Fabish, Harbor City, California, r	29
F. Dean Johnson, Long Beach, California, r	24
Norm Bertasavage, Branch Township, Pennsylvania, r	23
Jack Trinsey, Royersford, Pennsylvania, r	22
Tennie Rogers, Sierra Madre, California, r	20
Conrad A. Ryden, Goldsboro, North Carolina, r	20
Oscar Adolph Erickson, Jr., Los Angeles, California, r	16
Richard F. Reber, Jr., Dacula, Georgia, r	14
Paul E. Tsongas, Lowell, Massachusetts, d	3,676
Ralph Nader (write-in)	3,258
Bill Clinton, Little Rock, Arkansas, d	1,698
Mario Cuomo (write-in)	799
Edmund G. Jerry Brown, Jr., San Francisco, California, d	773
Bob Kerrey, Omaha, Nebraska, d	721
Tom Harkin, Cumming, Iowa, d	543
Charles Woods, Incline Village, Nevada, d	284
Tom Laughlin, Los Angeles, California, d	267
Andre Marrou, Las Vegas, Nevada, lib	99
Paul Fisher, Chicago, Illinois, d	33
L. Douglas Wilder, Richmond, Virginia, d	30
Lenora B. Fulani, New York, New York, d	21
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Round Hill, Virginia, d	17
Patrick J. Mahoney, Jr., Boca Raton, Florida, d	10
John Donald Rigazio, Rochester, New Hampshire, d	10
Larry Agran, Irvine, California, d	7
Curly Thornton, Billings, Montana, d	6
Eugene J. McCarthy, Woodville, Virginia, d	5
Caroline P. Killeen, Tucson, Arizona, d	2
Frank J. Bona, Miami Beach, Florida, d	1
Willima Horrigan, Jr., Woodbury, Connecticut, d	1
Ron Kovic, Redondo Beach, California, d	1
Chris Norton, New York, New York, d	1

DEMOCRATIC PARTY — 170,333 total ballots cast

Paul E. Tsongas, Lowell, Massachusetts, d	55,663
Bill Clinton, Little Rock, Arkansas, d	41,540
Bob Kerrey, Omaha, Nebraska, d	18,584
Tom Harkin, Cumming, Iowa, d	17,063
Edmund G. Jerry Brown, Jr., San Francisco, California, d	13,659
Tom Laughlin, Los Angeles, California, d	3,251
Charles Woods, Incline Village, Nevada, d	2,862
Lenora B. Fulani, New York, New York, d	402
Larry Agran, Irvine, California, d	335
Patrick J. Mahoney, Jr., Boca Raton, Florida, d	304
Eugene J. McCarthy, Woodville, Virginia, d	212
John Donald Rigazio, Rochester, New Hampshire, d	187
Curly Thornton, Billings, Montana, d	126
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Round Hill, Virginia, d	116
L. Douglas Wilder, Richmond, Virginia, d	107
Caroline P. Killeen, Tucson, Arizona, d	94
John Patrick Cahill, Brooklyn, New York, d	83
Paul Fisher, Chicago, Illinois, d	82
Frank J. Bona, Miami Beach, Florida,	65
Karl J. Hegger, Highland, Illinois, d	61
William Horrigan, Jr., Woodbury, Connecticut, d	53
Dean Adams Curtis, Venice, California, d	43
Stephen Burke, Macomb, New York, d	39
Gilbert H. Holmes, Washington, D.C., d	39
Ron Kovic, Redondo Beach, California, d	36
Rufus T. Higginbotham, Dallas, Texas, d	31
Chris Norton, New York, New York, d	31
Fanny Rose Zeidwerg Monyek, Rahway, New Jersey, d	29
James Bryant Gay, Jr., Austin, Texas, d	28
Barry J. Deutsch, New York, New York, d	26
Cyril E. Sagan, Plain Grove Township, Pennsylvania, d	26
Edward T. O'Donnell, Jr., Wilmington, Delaware, d	24
Tom Shiekman, Miami, Florida, d	23
Stephen H. Schwartz, East Hampton, New York, d	17
George W. Benns, Silver Spring, Maryland, d	12
Nathan J. Averick, Chicago, Illinois, d	7
Mario Cuomo (write-in)	6,577
Ralph Nader (write-in)	3,054
George Bush, Houston, Texas, r	1,434
Patrick J. Buchanan, McLean, Virginia, r	1,248
Andre Marrou, Las Vegas, Nevada, lib	70
Norm Bertasavage, Branch Township, Pennsylvania, r	6
James P. Lennane, Naples, Florida, r	6
Richard P. Bosa, Berlin, New Hampshire, r	3
John David Merwin, Easton, New Hampshire, r	3
Pat Paulsen, Los Angeles, California, r	2
Michael S. Levinson, Buffalo, New York, r	1

LIBERTARIAN PARTY — 3,544 total ballots cast

Andrew Marrou, Las Vegas, lib

3,219