Template: 1972 United States presidential election

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* [[1972 Republican National Convention|Convention]]
* [[1972 Republican Party presidential primaries|Primaries]]
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* '''Incumbent nominee: [[Richard Nixon]]'''
** [[Richard Nixon 1972 presidential campaign|campaign]]
* '''Incumbent VP nominee: [[Spiro Agnew]]'''

* '''Other candidates:''' [[John M. Ashbrook]]
*[[Pete McCloskey]]

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* [[1972 Democratic National Convention|Convention]]
* [[1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries|Primaries]]
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* '''Nominee: [[George McGovern]]'''
** [[George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign|campaign]]
* '''VP nominee: [[Sargent Shriver]]'''
** replacing [[Thomas Eagleton]]

* '''Other candidates:''' [[Shirley Chisholm]]
*[[Walter Fauntroy]]
*[[Fred R. Harris]]
*[[Vance Hartke]]
*[[Wayne Hays]]
*[[Hubert Humphrey]]
*[[Henry M. Jackson]]
*[[John Lindsay]]
*[[Eugene McCarthy]]
*[[Wilbur Mills]]
*[[Patsy Mink]]
*[[Edmund Muskie]]
*[[Terry Sanford]]
*[[George Wallace]]
*[[Sam Yorty]]

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   | title = [[Third party (U.S. politics)|Third-party]] and [[Independent politician|independent]] [[United States third party and independent presidential candidates, 1972|candidates]]
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   | group1 = [[American Independent Party]]
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* '''Nominee: [[John G. Schmitz ]]'''
* '''VP nominee: [[Thomas J. Anderson (author)|Thomas J. Anderson]]'''

   | group2 = [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]]
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* '''Nominee: [[Gus Hall]]'''
* '''VP nominee: [[Jarvis Tyner]]'''

   | group3 = [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]]
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* '''Nominee: [[John Hospers]]'''
* '''VP nominee: [[Tonie Nathan]]'''

   | group4 = [[People's Party (United States, 1971)|People's Party]]
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* '''Nominee: [[Benjamin Spock]]'''
*  '''VP nominee: [[Julius Hobson ]]'''

   | group5 = [[Prohibition Party]]
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* '''Nominee: [[E. Harold Munn]]'''

   | group6 = [[Socialist Labor Party of America|Socialist Labor Party]]
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* '''Nominee: [[Louis Fisher]]'''

   | group7 = [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party]]
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* '''Nominee: [[Linda Jenness]]'''
** Alternate nominee: [[Evelyn Reed]]
* '''VP nominee: [[Andrew Pulley]]'''


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* '''Candidates: [[Gabriel Green (ufologist)|Gabriel Green]]'''

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* '''Other 1972 elections''': [[1972 United States House of Representatives elections|House]]
*[[1972 United States Senate elections|Senate]] 
*[[1972 United States gubernatorial elections|Gubernatorial]]

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