One of the oddities of history is that Oklahoma has only had one presidential nominee of a party of the left on its ballot since 1936, the last year the Socialist Party was on the ballot in that state. In 1948, when former vice-president Henry Wallace was the Progressive Party presidential nominee, he got on the ballot in all states except Illinois, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. In 1988, Lenora Fulani, nominee of the New Alliance Party, qualified in Oklahoma.
Even Ralph Nader never got on the Oklahoma ballot in any of his four presidential runs (1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008). No Marxist party ever was able to get on the Oklahoma ballot for president, not even the Communist Party, which did place a presidential nominee on the ballot in almost all other states at one time or another. In the Communist Party’s history, the only other states in which it never got on for president (in the 48 states that existed before 1958) were Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
But in 2017, the Oklahoma law was changed, so that instead of a very large number of signatures, a minor party or independent presidential candidate could also get on the ballot with a very large filing fee, $35,000. For 2024, the alternative to that fee is a petition to recognize a new or previously unqualified party of 35,592 signatures. The filing fee alternative permits a party label other than just “independent.”
Assuming Cornel West becomes the presidential nominee of the Green Party in 2024, and perhaps also of the People’s Party, or both parties, it will be interested to see if he gets on in Oklahoma.
Dr Lenora Fulani, candidate for the New Alliance Party, was on the ballot in OK in 1988. NAP was a “left” party
The Marxists have been on the Oklahoma ballot for years. They run on the Democrat line.
Thank you, David, you are right.
From 1992 to 2016 no state in the country had fewer presidential candidates on the general election ballot than Oklahoma. And write-ins are not allowed.
The answer to the question in the headline is “no.”
The Libertarian Party (libertarianism is the left-most point on the left-right political spectrum) has had its candidate on the Oklahoma ballot several times.
Libertarianism is not the left most point, communism is. You are a commie, we get it.
PR –
TOTAL VOTES / TOTAL MEMBERS = REAL REPRESENTATION FOR EVEN SMALL FACTIONS
BOTH MAJORITY RULE AND REAL MINORITY REPRESENTATION
Libertarian is right wing. Communist is left wing. Don’t get them mixed up.
AZ and Knapp’s boy doing his thing.
https://babylonbee.com/news/for-fathers-day-hunter-negotiates-12-for-the-big-guy
Wow. Sad!
Oklahoma used to be a stronghold of the radical left in the period 1910-20 but the strong Socialist Party and the IWW and the radical tenant farmers’ organisations in Oklahoma didn’t survive the fierce repression after the Green Corn Rebellion and during the Red Scare, a good book on the topic is Jim Bissett: Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920. (1999)
Go away commie.