List of fictional United States presidential candidates


This is a list of fictional candidates who ran for the office of President of the United States, chiefly real-life joke or protest candidates or those depicted in fiction whose campaigns had an unknown fate or were unsuccessful. For successful candidates who became President, please see List of fictional U.S. Presidents. For candidates who became Vice President, please see List of fictional U.S. Vice Presidents.
Presidential candidates are listed in alphabetical order by the first letter in their last name.
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Alvin
Arcadia Alvarado
Benjamin K. Arthur
Senator Steven Armstrong
Bill the Cat
Elaine Barrish
Theodore Block
Chastity Bono
General Warren Boutwell
Daniel Brand
Clark Braxton
Don Butler
Buddy Calhoun
Gary Candor
Danny Chung
Cobra Commander
Anthony Collins
William Conway
Aleister Crowley
Cthulhu
Graydon Creed
Stephen Colbert
Daffy Duck
Senator Daterape
Deez Nuts
Deutscher
  • Candidate in Ray Bradbury's short story, "A Sound of Thunder"
  • Ran against Keith
  • Political party: unknown
Tom Dobbs
  • Candidate in Man of the Year
  • Ran against Senator Mills and President Kelloggs
  • Won the Electoral College vote due to a fault with electronic voting software, ultimately revealing the truth to the American people in part because he believes that a satirist had a duty to hold those in elected office accountable for their actions
  • Political Party: Independent
President Douchebag
Uncle Duke
Etrigan
MacArthur Foyle
Herbert Garrison
George Granger
Fitzgerald Grant
Mellie Grant
Donald Greenleaf
Ricardo Hernandez
Clarence Hilliard
Howard the Duck
Hubert Hoag
John Hoynes
James Hilton
Smith Comma John
Jimmy James
Tom James
Senator Joy
Kodos
John Keeler
Keith
President Kelloggs
Jeff Knight
Lucy Kropotkin'
Langley
Sally Langston
Linda Lovelace
Grant Matthews
Norman Mart
Robert McCallister
Senator Aaron McComb
Yelnick McWawa

Devin Milford
Senator Mills
Frank Morgan
Dennis Morgenthal
Augustus Mutt
John Neal
Alfred E. Neuman
Newaygo Newt
Winston Noble
Ted Nugent
Charles Palantine
Robert Parigi
Philippe
Ben Phillips
Duke Phillips
Owen Pierce
Pigasus
Pogo Possum
Joe Quimby
Randee of the Redwoods
Robert Redford
Robert Ritchie
Barbara "Barbie" Millicent Roberts
Robert "Bob" Rumson

Charlie Roan
Jack Robertson
  • Candidate in: Doctor Who
  • Played by Chris Noth
  • Political Party: Unspecified
  • Head of JLR, a business empire whose portfolio included waste management and a chain of hotels. His company's business practices included the construction of hotels on top of landfill sites created by its waste management division. As seen in Arachnids in the UK, this resulted in an infestation of giant mutant spiders at a JLR hotel and spa complex in Sheffield.
  • Robertson's unannounced candidacy for the presidential election in 2020 is believed to have been motivated by his own personal decades-long dislike of Donald Trump.
Robert "Bingo Bob" Russell'
Governor Schick
Sedgewick Sexton
President Snakes
Snoopy
Howard Stackhouse
Jack Stanton
Greg Stillson
Jack Tanner
Ted the Communist
Joe Thornhill
Frank Underwood
Francisco Vargas
Arnold Vinick
Glen Allen Walken
Hal Philip Walker
Ralph Wiggum
Senator William Wiley
  • Candidate in: The West Wing
  • U.S. Senator from Washington
  • Initially the second-place challenger to John Hoynes in the 1998 primary.
  • Puts on a poorer than expected showing as Josiah Bartlet becomes more competitive.
Walter Winchell
  • Candidate in: The Plot Against America
  • Winchell is a historical character in real life and a fictional candidate in 1942 for the 1944 Democratic nomination.
  • Political Party: Democratic Party
Christopher Winthrop
  • Candidate in the 1987 ABC Mini-Series Amerika
  • Senator Winthrop was the Republican Candidate in the 1988 presidential election.
Senator Gary H. Wright
Gordon Wright'
General Zod