List Of Fictional U.s. Presidential Candidates

A

• Candidate in: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Played by: Robert Riordan
• Party: Republican Party
• Running mate: Johnny Iselin

B

• Candidate in: Bloom County comic strip in the U.S. presidential election, 1984 and 1988
• Played by: Himself
• Party: The Meadow Party (third party).
• Running mate: Opus the penguin

• Candidate in: The Simpsons, "Bart to the Future" episode
• Opposed Lisa Simpson
• Lenny Leonard voted for her.

C

• Candidate in: X-Men comic book franchise in the U.S. presidential election, 1996
• Founder of the anti-mutant hate group The Friends of Humanity
• Assasinated before the elections by Mystique, a mutant terrorist who was also Creed's mother
• Party: (third party).

E

• Candidate in: DC comics comic book in the U.S. presidential election, 1992
• Played by: Himself
• Actual demon from Hell
• Pulls out of the election when tricked into banishing himself.
• Party: Republican Party

H

• Candidate in: The World's Greatest Sinner (1962).
• Played by: Timothy Carey.
• Party: The Eternal Man party (third party).

• Candidate in: Fahrenheit 451
• Deafeated in a landslide by opponent Winston Noble.
• Party: unknown

J

• Candidate in: MADtv
• Appears in ads denying that he is an alien trying to take over and enslave Earth.
• Party: unknown

M

• Candidate in: Jack & Bobby
• Played by: John Heard
• Party: Republican
• Defeated Robert McCallister in the Republican primary of 2040 but is subsequently defeated by McCallister in the general election by a narrow margin when McCallister runs as an independent.

• Candidate in: Mutt and Jeff (comic strip) in the U.S. presidential election, 1928
• Played by: Himself
• First cartoon character to run for president.

P

• Candidate in Taxi Driver
• Played by Leonard Harris
• Charles Palantine was a Senator from New York who attempted to run for president in the U.S. presidential election, 1972.
• Party: Democrat

• Candidate in: Pogo 1952-1980 (comic strip) and the animated movie Pogo for President: I Go Pogo (1980).
• Played by: Himself
• Party: unknown.

R

• Candidate in: Various MTV TV commercials (1987-90).
• Played by: Jim Turner.
• Party: Unknown (third party).

• Candidate in The West Wing (television series)
• Played by James Brolin
• Ritchie attended the University of Florida and is married to Janet Ritchie. Ritchie was the Governor of Florida when he ran against incumbent president Josiah Bartlet in the 2002 presidential election. Ritchie supported oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska and opposed affirmative action.
• President Bartlet called Governor Ritchie a ".22 caliber mind in a .357 world." In the general election, President Bartlet defeated Governor Ritchie and running mate Jeff Heston by 11 million popular votes in a landslide.
• Party: Republican

• Candidate in: Mattel press release in the U.S. presidential election, 2004
• Played by: Herself.
• Party: Party of Girls (third party)

S

• Candidate in The West Wing (television series)
• Played by: George Coe
• Stackhouse is a widowed 78 year-old five-term Senator from Minnesota who admires Hubert Humphrey. Stackhouse attempted to run for president in the 2002 presidential election as an independent candidate. He ended his candidacy and later endored President Bartlet.
• Party: Democratic Party

• Candidate in: Primary Colors based on Bill Clinton.
• Played by: John Travolta
• Party: Democratic Party

T

• Candidate in: Tanner '88 (miniseries) in the U.S. presidential election, 1988
• Played by: Michael Murphy
• Tanner was a congressman from Michigan and is married and has one daughter.
• Party: Democratic Party

W

• Candidate in: Nashville (1975) in the U.S. presidential election, 1976.
• Played by: Thomas Hal Phillips
• Party: The Replacement Party (third party).

• Candidate in: The Plot Against America (book, 2004)
• Historical character in real life.
• Candidate in 1942 for the 1944 Democratic nomination.

See also

• Fiction regarding United States presidential succession
• Fictional characters
• Archive of fictional things
• List of fictional political parties
• List of fictional U.S. Presidents
• List of fictional U.S. Vice Presidents
• List of fictional British Prime Ministers
• List of fictional British monarchs
• List of fictional world leaders
• List of fictional politicians
• List of fictional rulers
• President of Earth

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