Peace and Freedom Party

The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is a socialist political party in the United States which operates mostly in California.^[2] It was formed in 1966 from anti-Vietnam War and pro-civil rights movements.

Peace and Freedom Party
Leader	Central Committee
Founded	June 23, 1967; 57 years ago (1967-06-23)
Membership (January 2024)	133,914 registered voters[1]
Ideology	Socialism Eco-socialism Socialist feminism Pro-peace
Political position	Left-wing[2]
Members in elected offices	0
Website
peaceandfreedom.us
Politics of United States Political parties Elections

2016 PFP convention delegates vote on their preferred candidates^[3]

PFP operates both as an organization unto itself and an umbrella organization in which socialist organizations compete to win PFP's ballot access.^[4]

Notable past and present members include Bob Avakian, Emmy Lou Packard, Byron Randall, and (briefly) Murray Rothbard.

Organization

Members

In January 2000, PFP had 75,277 registered voters.^[5] In February 2005, PFP had 67,238 registered voters.^[6] In January 2010, PFP had 55,036 registered voters.^[7] In January 2016, PFP had 75,579 registered voters.^[8]

In February 2019, PFP had 76,784 registered voters.^[9] In February 2021, PFP had 105,535 registered voters.^[10] In January 2024, PFP had 133,914 registered voters.^[1]

Preference primaries

Like many minor parties, PFP holds a non-binding "preference primary" for President. The PFP presidential candidate is ultimately selected by the PFP State Convention, at which only State Executive Committee (SEC)^[a] members can vote.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]} The SEC is directly elected through write-ins in the California primary system^[17] every two years.^[18] The SEC had about 130 members in 2024^[16] and 90 in 2008.^[17]

Since January 2001, California has had a "modified" closed primary system in which political parties can determine whether or not to allow voters who are not affiliated with any party, or No Party Preference, are allowed to participate in the party's primary. Since the 2004 primaries, PFP has never allowed "independent" voters to vote in their party's primaries.^[19]

Ideology

PFP is a socialist party "committed to feminism, [...] democracy, ecology, and racial equality",^[20] PFP strongly supports environmentalism, aboriginal rights, LGBT rights, abortion rights, public healthcare, public education, and subsidized housing.

History

Founding

After the 1967 Century City anti-Vietnam War march on June 23, 1967, anti-war and civil rights supporters began collecting petitions for the Peace and Freedom Party. PFP's founders opposed the Democratic Party's support for the war in Vietnam and saw the Democrats as failing to effectively support the civil rights movement.^{[21]: 761 [22]: 121 [23]}

On January 2, 1968, PFP organizers submitted 105,100 signatures to receive party status in California.^[21]: 761 PFP has had ballot access in California since 1968, except between 1998 and 2002.^[22]: 128 In 2003, PFP became the first party in the history of California to regain its ballot status.^[24]

In 1968, PFP suffered a minor split: Dick Gregory and others split to create the Freedom and Peace Party (FPP), for which Gregory ran in the 1968 United States presidential election.^[25] The FPP collapsed after the 1968 election.

In 1971, progressives nationwide organized the People's Party. In 1972 and 1976, PFP endorsed the PP's candidates. After the PP dissolved in 1977, PFP continued in California.^[4]

In the 2006 California elections, two statewide Peace and Freedom Party candidates received more than the required vote, thus ensuring the party's ballot status for another four years (Elizabeth Cervantes Barron received 212,383 votes, 2.5% of the total, for Controller;^{[26][non-primary source needed]} and Tom Condit received 187,618 votes, 2.2% of the total, for Insurance Commissioner).^{[27][non-primary source needed]}

California's 2018 gubernatorial primary had statewide office candidates registered in the party. In the race for Insurance Commissioner, Peace and Freedom candidate Nathalie Hrizi received 316,149 votes, 5.0% of the total.^{[28][non-primary source needed]}

Election results

The PFP has fielded over 200 electoral candidates in the United States for local, state, and federal offices. PFP candidates usually run as official PFP candidates on their own ballot line.

No PFP candidate has yet won a contested election.^[22]: 121

Presidential elections

Year	Presidential candidate	Vice presidential candidate	Popular votes	%	Electoral votes	Result	Ballot access	Notes	Ref
2024	Claudia de la Cruz	Karina Garcia	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	The Party for Socialism and Liberation also nominated de la Cruz.	[16]
2020	Gloria La Riva	Sunil Freeman	85,188	0.05%	0	Lost	191 / 538	The Party for Socialism and Liberation also nominated La Riva, with Leonard Peltier as her running mate.[b][c]	[29][30][31]
2016	Gloria La Riva	Dennis Banks	74,405	0.05%	0	Lost	112 / 538	The Party for Socialism and Liberation also nominated La Riva, with Eugene Puryear as her running mate.[d][e]	[29][32][3][33]
2012	Roseanne Barr	Cindy Sheehan	67,477	0.05%	0	Lost	141 / 538	[f]	[29][34][35]
2008	Ralph Nader	Matt Gonzalez	739,034	0.56%	0	Lost	456 / 538	[g]	[29][36]
2004	Leonard Peltier	Janice Jordan	27,607	0.02%	0	Lost	55 / 538	[h]	[29][37][38]
1996	Marsha Feinland	Kate McClatchy	25,332	0.03%	0	Lost	54 / 538	[i]	[29][39]
1992	Ronald Daniels	Asiba Tupahache	27,961	0.03%	0	Lost	136 / 538	[j]	[29][40]
1984	Sonia Johnson	Emma Wong Mar	72,161	0.08%	0	Lost	227 / 538	[k]	[29][41]
1980	Maureen Smith	Elizabeth Cervantes Barron	18,116	0.02%	0	Lost		[l]	[29][42]
1976	Margaret Wright	Benjamin Spock	49,016	0.06%	0	Lost		Ran on the People's Party ballot line[m]	[29][43]
1972	Benjamin Spock	Julius Hobson	78,759	0.10%	0	Lost		Ran on the People's Party ballot line[n]	[29][44]
1968	Eldridge Cleaver	Peggy Terry	36,571	0.05%	0	Lost		[o][p]	[29][45]

Convention votes:

Year	Total	PSL	Greens	WWP	FSP	SPUSA	NAP	IWP	Independents	Abstentions	Ref
2024	about 130	99 Claudia de la Cruz							about 30 across Cornel West & Jasmine Sherman		[15][16][46]
2020	68	62 Gloria La Riva	3 Howie Hawkins							3	[31]
2016	80	56 Gloria La Riva	9 Jill Stein	12 Monica Moorehead					1 Lynn Kahn[q]		[3][47]
2012 (2nd ballot)	64	37 Roseanne Barr[r]			16 Stephen Durham	6 Stewart Alexander				5	[14]
2012 (1st ballot)	63	29 Roseanne Barr[r]			18 Stephen Durham	12 Stewart Alexander				4	[14]
2008	89	27 Gloria La Riva	6 Cynthia McKinney			10 Brian Moore			46 Ralph Nader		[48][49]
1996	17			8 Monica Moorehead					9 Marsha Feinland		[50]
1992	211						91 Fulani		120 Ronald Daniels (of Rainbow Coalition)		[51]
1988	200						Lenora Fulani	Herb Lewin			[4][22]: 126–128 [52][12][53]
1984									Sonia Johnson (of Citizens Party)		[4][54]: 941

Johnson is Citizen's Party

In 2016, both PFP's California state chair and Green candidate Jill Stein requested that the California Secretary of State allow Stein to be placed on the PFP party ballot, but this was rejected.^[55] Instead, PFP nominated Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate Gloria La Riva.^[33]

In 2012, Rocky Anderson won a plurality of delegates in PFP's non-binding preference primary, after failing to win enough votes to place his Justice Party on the ballot. However, Anderson failed to win representatives on the PFP's Central Committee, and withdrew 1 week before the convention.^[14] Instead, PFP backed Party for Socialism and Liberation's preferred candidate Roseanne Barr.^[13]

In 2008, PFP endorsed Independent Ralph Nader in his presidential campaign.^[56][57] Nader obtained enough signatures to appear on the ballot in Iowa and Utah as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate. This was the first expansion of the party beyond California since the 1970s.^[58] However, PFP did not obtain enough votes to guarantee ballot access in Iowa or Utah in subsequent elections.

In 2000, PFP did not qualify for the ballot in California.^[52]

In 1988, three factions within PFP — the Internationalist Workers Party, New Alliance Party, and Socialist Party USA plus Communist Party USA — sought the party's ballot line. They could not agree, and split the convention, which resulted in the Secretary of State voiding the PFP ballot line for the year.^{[22]: 126–128 [52][12]}

Congressional elections

Year	Candidate	Chamber	State	District	Votes	%	Result	Notes	Ref
2024	John Parker	House	California	37th	7,316	8.4%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general	[59]
2022	José Cortés	House	California	51st	3,343	2.2%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general	[60]
2022	John Parker	Senate	California	At-Large	105,477[s]	1.7%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general	[60]
2020	José Cortés	House	California	50th	1,821	0.9%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general	[30]
2018	John Parker	Senate	California	At-Large	22,825	0.3%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general	[61]
2016	Joe Williams	House	California	20th	6,400	3.9%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general	[32]
2014	Adam Shbeita	House	California	44th	9,192	13.35%	Lost	general election	[62]
2010	Mike Roskey	House	California	3rd	4,789	1.83%	Lost		[63]
2010	Gerald Allen Frink	House	California	5th	4,594	2.66%	Lost		[63]
2010	Eugene Ruyle	House	California	6th	5,915	2.26%	Lost		[63]
2010	Gloria La Riva	House	California	8th	5,161	2.46%	Lost		[63]
2010	Larry Allen	House	California	9th	1,670	0.78%	Lost		[63]
2010	Richard Castaldo	House	California	30th	3,115	1.31%	Lost		[63]
2010	Miriam Clark	House	California	50th	5,470	2.18%	Lost		[63]
2010	Marsha Feinland	Senate	California	At-Large	135,093	1.35%	Lost		[63]
2008	Dina Padilla	House	California	3rd	13,378	4.26%	Lost		[64]
2008	L Roberts	House	California	5th	10,731	4.85%	Lost		[64]
2008	Bill Callison	House	California	7th	6,695	2.85%	Lost		[64]
2008	Eugene Ruyle	House	California	10th	11,062	3.75%	Lost		[64]
2008	Nathalie Hrizi	House	California	12th	5,793	2.17%	Lost		[64]
2006	Timothy Stock	House	California	1st	3,503	1.61%	Lost		[65]
2006	Michael Roskey	House	California	3rd	2,370	1.04%	Lost		[65]
2006	John Reiger	House	California	5th	2,018	1.35%	Lost		[65]
2006	Lynda Llamas	House	California	29th	2,599	1.81%	Lost		[65]
2006	Adele Cannon	House	California	30th	4,546	2.15%	Lost		[65]
2006	James Smith	House	California	36th	4,592	2.76%	Lost		[65]
2006	Kevin Akin	House	California	44th	4,486	3%	Lost		[65]
2006	Miriam Clark	House	California	50th	3,353	1.51%	Lost		[65]
2006	Marsha Feinland	Senate	California	At-Large	117,764	1.38%	Lost		[65]
2004	John Reiger	House	California	5th	3,670	1.9%	Lost		[38]
2004	Leilani Dowell	House	California	8th	9,527	3.53%	Lost		[38]
2004	Joe Williams	House	California	17th	2,823	1.26%	Lost		[38]
2004	Alice Stek	House	California	36th	6,105	2.5%	Lost		[38]
2004	Kevin Akin	House	California	44th	7,559	3.36%	Lost		[38]
2004	Marsha Feinland	Senate	California	At-Large	243,846	2.02%	Lost		[38]
1998	Ernest Jones Jr	House	California	1st	4,996	2.54%	Lost		[66]
1998	Gerald Sanders	House	California	9th	4,767	2.81%	Lost		[66]
1998	Ralph Shroyer	House	California	24th	1,860	1.03%	Lost		[66]
1998	Janice Jordan	House	California	49th	2,447	1.32%	Lost		[66]
1998	Ophie C. Beltran	Senate	California	At-Large	48,685	0.59%	Lost		[66]
1996	Ernest Jones Jr	House	California	6th	6,459	2.54%	Lost		[39]
1996	Tom Condit	House	California	9th	5,561	2.77%	Lost		[39]
1996	Timothy Thompson	House	California	14th	3,653	1.59%	Lost		[39]
1996	Ralph Shroyer	House	California	24th	6,267	2.92%	Lost		[39]
1996	Justin Charles Gerber	House	California	25th	2,513	1.28%	Lost		[39]
1996	John Peter Daly	House	California	29th	8,819	4.11%	Lost		[39]
1996	Shirley Mandel	House	California	30th	2,499	3.1%	Lost		[39]
1996	Kevin Akin	House	California	43rd	3,309	1.86%	Lost		[39]
1996	Miriam Clark	House	California	51st	5,407	2.36%	Lost		[39]
1996	Janice Jordan	House	California	52nd	3,649	2.05%	Lost		[39]
1994	Ernest Jones Jr	House	California	6th	4,055	1.71%	Lost		[67]
1994	William ""Bill"" Callison	House	California	7th	4,798	2.88%	Lost		[67]
1994	Emma Wong Mar	House	California	9th	9,194	5.14%	Lost		[67]
1994	Craig Cooper	House	California	10th	4,802	2.05%	Lost		[67]
1994	John Honigsfeld	House	California	32nd	6,099	4.83%	Lost		[67]
1994	Kermit Booker	House	California	33rd	7,694	18.54%	Lost		[67]
1994	Richard Green	House	California	38th	2,995	2.05%	Lost		[67]
1994	Donna White	House	California	48th	8,543	4.37%	Lost		[67]
1994	Renate Kline	House	California	49th	4,948	2.66%	Lost		[67]
1994	Guillermo Ramirez	House	California	50th	3,002	2.87%	Lost		[67]
1994	Miriam Clark	House	California	51st	4,099	1.98%	Lost		[67]
1994	Art Edelman	House	California	52nd	3,221	1.89%	Lost		[67]
1994	Elizabeth Cervantes Barron	Senate	California	At-Large	255,301	3%	Lost		[67]
1992	Phil Baldwin	House	California	1st	10,764	4.28%	Lost		[40]
1992	David Franklin	House	California	7th	9,840	4.51%	Lost		[40]
1992	Cesar Cadabes	House	California	8th	7,572	3.25%	Lost		[40]
1992	Dave Linn	House	California	9th	10,472	4.58%	Lost		[40]
1992	Mary Weldon	House	California	12th	10,142	4.44%	Lost		[40]
1992	Roslyn Allen	House	California	13th	16,768	8.16%	Lost		[40]
1992	David Wald	House	California	14th	3,912	1.51%	Lost		[40]
1992	Amani Kuumba	House	California	16th	9,370	6.01%	Lost		[40]
1992	Maureen Smith	House	California	17th	4,804	2.28%	Lost		[40]
1992	Dorothy Wells	House	California	19th	13,334	6.15%	Lost		[40]
1992	John Paul Linblad	House	California	24th	13,690	5.36%	Lost		[40]
1992	Nancy Lawrence	House	California	25th	5,090	2.33%	Lost		[40]
1992	Margery Hinds	House	California	26th	7,180	5.94%	Lost		[40]
1992	Margaret Edwards	House	California	27th	7,329	3.45%	Lost		[40]
1992	Susan Davies	House	California	29th	13,888	5.31%	Lost		[40]
1992	Elizabeth Nakano	House	California	30th	6,173	7.39%	Lost		[40]
1992	William Williams	House	California	32nd	9,782	5.66%	Lost		[40]
1992	Tim Delia	House	California	33rd	2,135	4.2%	Lost		[40]
1992	Alice Mae Miles	House	California	35th	2,797	2.24%	Lost		[40]
1992	Owen Staley	House	California	36th	13,297	3.78%	Lost		[40]
1992	B Kwaku Duren	House	California	37th	16,178	14.27%	Lost		[40]
1992	Paul Burton	House	California	38th	8,391	4.43%	Lost		[40]
1992	Margie Akin	House	California	40th	11,839	5.77%	Lost		[40]
1992	Mike Noonan	House	California	41st	10,136	5.94%	Lost		[40]
1992	Macine Wuirk	House	California	47th	12,297	4.84%	Lost		[40]
1992	Donna White	House	California	48th	13,396	5.81%	Lost		[40]
1992	Wilton Zaslow	House	California	49th	4,738	1.9%	Lost		[40]
1992	Roger Batchelder	House	California	50th	4,250	3.11%	Lost		[40]
1992	Miriam Clark	House	California	51st	10,307	4.07%	Lost		[40]
1992	Dennis Gretsinger	House	California	52nd	5,734	2.68%	Lost		[40]
1992	Gerald Horne	Senate	California	At-Large	305,697	2.84%	Lost		[40]
1992	Genevieve Torres	Senate	California	At-Large	372,817	3.45%	Lost		[40]
1990	Darlene Comingore	House	California	1st	34,011	14.77%	Lost		[68]
1990	Jan Tucker	House	California	22nd	3,963	2.19%	Lost		[68]
1990	John Honigsfeld	House	California	23rd	6,834	4.09%	Lost		[68]
1990	Maggie Phair	House	California	24th	5,706	5.49%	Lost		[68]
1990	Edward Ferrer	House	California	27th	7,101	4.55%	Lost		[68]
1990	William Williams	House	California	28th	2,723	2.85%	Lost		[68]
1990	Maxine Quirk	House	California	39th	6,709	3.85%	Lost		[68]
1990	Karen R Works	House	California	41st	15,428	7.18%	Lost		[68]
1990	Doug Hansen	House	California	43rd	40,212	18.1%	Lost		[68]
1990	Donna White	House	California	44th	5,237	4.82%	Lost		[68]
1988	Eric Fried	House	California	1st	22,150	8.72%	Lost		[69]
1988	Theodore ""Ted"" Zuur	House	California	5th	3,975	2.27%	Lost		[69]
1988	Tom Condit	House	California	8th	5,444	2.22%	Lost		[69]
1988	Victor Martinez	House	California	11th	2,906	1.42%	Lost		[69]
1988	Shirley Rachel Isaacson	House	California	22nd	6,298	2.66%	Lost		[69]
1988	John Honigsfeld	House	California	23rd	3,316	1.42%	Lost		[69]
1988	James Green	House	California	24th	3,571	2.3%	Lost		[69]
1988	Paul Reyes	House	California	25th	8,746	8.76%	Lost		[69]
1988	Salomea Honigsfeld	House	California	28th	2,811	1.95%	Lost		[69]
1988	B Kwaku Duren	House	California	31st	4,091	2.9%	Lost		[69]
1988	Vikki Murdock	House	California	32nd	4,032	2.35%	Lost		[69]
1988	Mike Noonan	House	California	33rd	3,492	1.59%	Lost		[69]
1988	Frank German	House	California	38th	3,547	2.41%	Lost		[69]
1988	Gretchen Farsai	House	California	40th	3,699	1.37%	Lost		[69]
1988	C Weber	House	California	41st	4,853	1.7%	Lost		[69]
1988	Richard Rose	House	California	42nd	6,563	2.75%	Lost		[69]
1988	M. Elizabeth Munoz	Senate	California	At-Large	166,600	1.71%	Lost		[69]
1986	Elden Mcfarland	House	California	1st	12,149	5.93%	Lost		[70]
1986	Theodore ""Ted"" Zuur	House	California	5th	2,078	1.27%	Lost		[70]
1986	Lawrence Manuel	House	California	8th	4,295	2.12%	Lost		[70]
1986	Bradley Mayer	House	California	10th	1,701	1.42%	Lost		[70]
1986	Ron Wright	House	California	16th	2,017	1.23%	Lost		[70]
1986	Joel Lorimer	House	California	22nd	2,930	1.53%	Lost		[70]
1986	Tom Hopke	House	California	23rd	2,521	1.36%	Lost		[70]
1986	James Green	House	California	24th	5,388	4.56%	Lost		[70]
1986	Thomas O'connor Jr	House	California	27th	2,078	1.2%	Lost		[70]
1986	B Kwaku Duren	House	California	31st	2,333	2.13%	Lost		[70]
1986	John Donohue	House	California	32nd	2,799	2.11%	Lost		[70]
1986	Mike Noonan	House	California	33rd	2,500	1.51%	Lost		[70]
1986	Frank Boeheim	House	California	39th	2,752	1.56%	Lost		[70]
1986	Steve Sears	House	California	40th	5,025	2.51%	Lost		[70]
1986	Kate Mcclatchy	House	California	42nd	4,761	2.47%	Lost		[70]
1986	Shirley Isaacson	House	California	44th	1,676	1.53%	Lost		[70]
1986	Paul Kangas	Senate	California	At-Large	33,869	0.46%	Lost		[70]
1984	Henry Clark	House	California	5th	3,574	1.85%	Lost		[41]
1984	Charles John Zekan	House	California	19th	4,161	1.83%	Lost		[41]
1984	James Green	House	California	24th	2,780	1.81%	Lost		[41]
1984	Thomas O'connor Jr	House	California	27th	3,815	1.79%	Lost		[41]
1984	Patrick Mccoy	House	California	32nd	2,051	1.21%	Lost		[41]
1984	Mike Noonan	House	California	33rd	2,371	1.14%	Lost		[41]
1984	Kevin Akin	House	California	35th	29,990	14.53%	Lost		[41]
1984	Michael Schuyles Bright	House	California	38th	3,021	1.86%	Lost		[41]
1984	Maxine Bell Quirk	House	California	40th	3,969	1.56%	Lost		[41]
1984	John Donohue	House	California	42nd	5,811	2.39%	Lost		[41]
1982	Howard Fegarsky	House	California	2nd	3,126	1.56%	Lost		[71]
1982	John Reiger	House	California	3rd	6,294	2.9%	Lost		[71]
1982	Timothy-Allen Albertson	House	California	6th	2,366	1.29%	Lost		[71]
1982	Wilson Branch	House	California	11th	1,928	1%	Lost		[71]
1982	Charles Zekan	House	California	19th	1,520	0.82%	Lost		[71]
1982	Eugene Ruyle	House	California	32nd	3,473	2.38%	Lost		[71]
1982	James Michael Noonan	House	California	33rd	2,223	1.29%	Lost		[71]
1982	Frank Boeheim	House	California	39th	3,152	1.76%	Lost		[71]
1982	Maxine Bell Quirk	House	California	40th	4,826	2.39%	Lost		[71]
1982	John Donohue	House	California	42nd	5,514	2.66%	Lost		[71]
1982	David Wald	Senate	California	At-Large	96,388	1.23%	Lost		[71]
1980	Linda Wren	House	California	2nd	3,354	1.28%	Lost		[42]
1980	Wilson Branch	House	California	11th	13,723	7.42%	Lost		[42]
1980	Adele Fumino	House	California	12th	3,184	1.6%	Lost		[42]
1980	Robert Goldsborough	House	California	13th	3,791	1.69%	Lost		[42]
1980	Jan Tucker	House	California	21st	2,038	1.33%	Lost		[42]
1980	Maggie Feigin	House	California	24th	5,905	4.02%	Lost		[42]
1980	John Donohue	House	California	34th	7,794	4.06%	Lost		[42]
1980	James Michael ""Mike"" Noonan	House	California	35th	5,492	2.82%	Lost		[42]
1980	David Wald	Senate	California	At-Large	196,260	2.36%	Lost		[42]
1978	Irv Sutley	House	California	2nd	6,097	2.77%	Lost		[72]
1978	Lawrence Phillips	House	California	9th	5,562	4.12%	Lost		[72]
1978	Adele Fumino	House	California	12th	3,022	1.89%	Lost		[72]
1978	Robert Goldsborough Iii	House	California	13th	5,246	2.99%	Lost		[72]
1978	Milton Shiro Takei	House	California	19th	6,887	4.01%	Lost		[72]
1978	Bill Hill	House	California	21st	5,750	4.63%	Lost		[72]
1978	Kevin Casey Peters	House	California	24th	6,453	4.75%	Lost		[72]
1976	Robert Allred	House	California	2nd	6,444	2.98%	Lost		[43]
1976	Emily Siegel	House	California	6th	6,570	5.02%	Lost		[43]
1976	Robert Evans	House	California	8th	6,238	3.17%	Lost		[43]
1976	Albert Sargis	House	California	9th	3,386	2.06%	Lost		[43]
1976	Bill Hill	House	California	21st	7,178	4.69%	Lost		[43]
1976	Marilyn Seals	House	California	25th	4,922	6.1%	Lost		[43]
1976	David Wald	Senate	California	At-Large	104,383	1.4%	Lost		[43]
1968	Huey P. Newton	House	California	7th	12,164	7.5%	Lost		[45]

Statewide elections

Year	Candidate	Office	State	District	Votes	%	Result	Notes	Ref
2022	Luis J. Rodriguez	Governor	California	At-Large	124,672	1.8%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general; Green Party candidate endorsed by PFP
2018	Gloria La Riva	Governor	California	At-Large	16,959	0.3%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general
2018	Gayle McLaughlin	Lieutenant Governor	California	At-Large	263,364	4.0%	Lost	ran as No Party Preference (NPP) candidate; founder of Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA); endorsed by CNP, DSA, GPCA, OR, PFP, PP, and RPA	[73][74]
2014	Cindy Sheehan	Governor	California	At-Large	52,707	1.2%	Lost	all-party blanket primary, did not advance to general
2010	Carlos Alvarez	Governor	California	At-Large	92,637	0.9%	Lost
2006	Janice Jordan	Governor	California	At-Large	69,934	0.8%	Lost
2003	C. T. Weber	Governor	California	At-Large	1,626	0.02%	Lost
1998	Gloria La Riva	Governor	California	At-Large	59,218	0.7%	Lost
1994	Gloria La Riva	Governor	California	At-Large	72,774	0.9%	Lost
1990	Maria Elizabeth Muñoz	Governor	California	At-Large	88,707	1.3%	Lost
1986	Maria Elizabeth Muñoz	Governor	California	At-Large	51,995	1.0%	Lost
1982	Elizabeth Martínez	Governor	California	At-Large	70,327	0.9%	Lost
1978	Marilyn Seals	Governor	California	At-Large	70,864	1.0%	Lost
1974	Elizabeth Keathley	Governor	California	At-Large	75,004	1.2%	Lost	supported by California Libertarian Alliance
1970	Ricardo Romo	Governor	California	At-Large	65,954	1.0%	Lost	joined Raza Unida Party after election

National conventions

Name	Date	Location	Documents	Notes
2024 State Convention	August 3, 2024	Sacramento
2022 State Convention
2020 State Convention	August 2020
2018 State Convention	August 11–12, 2018	Sacramento
2016 State Convention	August 13–14, 2016	Sacramento
2014 State Convention	August 10, 2014
2012 State Convention	August 2012
2010 State Convention	August 1, 2010	Sacramento	Resolution on State Worker Contracts	rare instance of convention passing a resolution
2008 State Convention	August 2–3, 2008	Sacramento
1996 State Convention
1992 State Convention
1988 State Convention		Sacramento		convention split without selecting a candidate
1974 State Convention		Sacramento		libertarians split from convention
1971 National Convention
1968 National Convention	August 17–18, 1968	Ann Arbor, Michigan		first national convention
Founding Convention	March 16–18, 1968	Richmond, CA		founding convention

See also

• American Left
• Democratic Socialists of America
• Green Party of the United States
• Socialist Party of America
• Party for Socialism and Liberation
• History of the socialist movement in the United States

Notes

1. Previously, the SEC was named the State Central Committee (SCC).
2. 2020: "Ballot access" above includes all states where La Riva was not a write-in; ie, where they were a listed PSL, PFP, or LUP candidate.
3. 2020: Votes in California: 50,887 (0.29%)
4. 2016: "Ballot access" above includes all states where La Riva was not a write-in; ie, where they were a listed PSL, PFP, or LUP candidate.
5. 2016: Votes in California: 66,101 (0.46%)
6. 2012: Votes in California: 53,824 (0.41%)
7. 2008: Votes in California: 108,381 (0.8%)
8. 2004: Votes in California: 27,607 (0.22%)
9. 1996: Votes in California: 25,332 (0.25%)
10. 1992: Votes in California: 18,597 (0.21%)
11. 1984: Votes in California: 26,297 (0.28%)
12. 1980: Votes in California: 18,116 (0.21%)
13. 1976: Votes in California: 41,731 (0.53%)
14. 1972: Votes in California: 55,167 (0.66%)
15. The Freedom and Peace Party, which had split from the Peace and Freedom Party, nominated Dick Gregory for President and Mark Lane for Vice President. It received 47,149 votes.
16. 1968: Votes in California: 27,707 (0.38%)
17. In 2016, Kahn also ran for the Reform Party presidential primary.
18. In 2012, PSL supported Peta Lindsay, who was too young to qualify for the ballot. Roseanne Barr was nominally independent, but was tactically supported by the Party for Socialism and Liberation.^[13]
19. In addition to running in the regularly scheduled election, Parker also ran as a write-in candidate in the special election for the same exact seat, but for a term to expire on January 3, 2023. Parker received 9,951 votes, or 0.1 percent, as a write-in candidate in the special election race.

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External links

• Official website
• The Real and Slightly Expurgated History of the PFP (through 2008)