Third party (U.S. politics)
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Third party, or minor party, is a term used in the United States' two-party system for political parties other than the Republican and Democratic parties.
Currently, the Libertarian and Green parties are the largest in the U.S. after the Republican and Democratic parties. Shown here are signs of their 2016 campaigns, respectively.
The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket, businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state and First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton and the junior senator from Virginia, Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the biggest political upsets in American history. It was also the sixth presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in 1860, 1904, 1920, 1940, and 1944.
Image: Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 3x 4
The incumbent in 2016, Barack Obama. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2017.
Image: Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore (cropped)