Peace and Freedom Party

{{short description|Socialist political party in the United States}}

{{Primary sources|date=August 2024}}{{Infobox political party

| name = Peace and Freedom Party

| logo = PFPLogo.png

| colorcode = {{party color|Peace and Freedom Party}}

| leader = Central Committee

| foundation = {{no wrap|{{start date and age|1967|6|23}}}}

| ideology = Socialism
Eco-socialism
Socialist feminism
Pro-peace

| position = Left-wing{{cite news|last1=Haldane|first1=David|title=Peace, Freedom Party Still in Fray After 20 Years on Ballot|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-11-mn-23292-story.html|access-date=August 19, 2016|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 11, 1988}}

| membership_year = January 2024

| membership = 133,914 registered voters

| seats1_title = Members in elected offices

| seats1 = 0

| website = {{URL|peaceandfreedom.us}}

| country = the United States

}}

File:2016_Peace_and_Freedom_Party_National_Convention_voting.jpg

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

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

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.{{cite web |title=Report of Registration |publisher=California Secretary of State |date=January 7, 2000 |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-pages/60day-presprim-00/nonqual.pdf}} In February 2005, PFP had 67,238 registered voters.{{cite web |title=Report of Registration |publisher=California Secretary of State |date=February 10, 2005 |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-05/county.pdf}} In January 2010, PFP had 55,036 registered voters.{{cite web |title=Report of Registration |publisher=California Secretary of State |date=January 5, 2010 |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-pages/154day-prim-10/county.pdf}} In January 2016, PFP had 75,579 registered voters.{{cite web |title=Report of Registration |publisher=California Secretary of State |date=January 5, 2016 |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov//ror/ror-pages/154day-presprim-16/county.pdf}}

In February 2019, PFP had 76,784 registered voters.{{cite web| url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2019/county.pdf |title=Report of Registration |date=February 10, 2019 |publisher=California Secretary of State |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404171417/https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2019/county.pdf |archive-date=April 4, 2019}} In February 2021, PFP had 105,535 registered voters.{{cite web |title=Report of Registration |date=February 10, 2021 |publisher=California Secretary of State

|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2021/county.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320055620/https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2021/county.pdf |archive-date=2021-03-20}} In January 2024, PFP had 133,914 registered voters.{{cite web |title=Report of Registration by County |publisher=California Secretary of State |date=January 5, 2024 |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/60day-presprim-2024/county.pdf}}

= 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){{efn|Previously, the SEC was named the State Central Committee (SCC).}} members can vote.{{cite news |last1=Winger |first1=Richard |title=Peace & Freedom Presidential Primary Ballot Will Contain Three Names|url=https://ballot-access.org/2023/12/03/peace-freedom-presidential-primary-ballot-will-contain-three-names/ |access-date=December 3, 2023 |date=December 3, 2023}}{{cite news |first1=Mark |last1=Stein |date=August 14, 1988 |title=Peace and Freedom Convention Becomes Free-for-All |newspaper=LA Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-14-mn-781-story.html}}{{cite news |first1=Megan |last1=Cornish |date=December 2013 |title=Leaked recording reveals how Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) cut socialist candidates from the California ballot |newspaper=Freedom Socialist |publisher=Freedom Socialist Party |url=https://socialism.com/fs-article/leaked-recording-reveals-how-party-for-socialism-and-liberation-psl-cut-socialist-candidates-from-the-california-ballot/}}{{cite web |title=Peace and Freedom Party Nominates Roseanne Barr for President |first1=Darcy |last1=Richardson |date=August 5, 2012 |url=https://www.uncoveredpolitics.com/2012/08/05/peace-and-freedom-party-nominates-roseanne-barr-for-president/}}{{cite web |title=Three candidates in Presidential Primary for Peace and Freedom Party |date=January 4, 2024 |publisher=Peace and Freedom Party |url=https://www.peaceandfreedom.us/index.php/news/elections-campaigns/three-candidates-in-presidential-primary-for-peace-and-freedom-party}}{{cite web |title=Convention to pick ticket |date=May 15, 2008 |publisher=Peace and Freedom Party |url=https://www.peaceandfreedomparty.org/home/about-us/historical-information/the-partisan/partisan-number-25/117-convention-to-pick-ticket}} The SEC is directly elected through write-ins in the California primary system every two years.{{cite web |title=Our bylaws |publisher=Peace and Freedom Party |url=https://www.peaceandfreedomparty.org/home/about-us/by-laws}} The SEC had about 130 members in 2024 and 90 in 2008.

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/no-party-preference/history-political-parties-have-adopted-party-rules-regarding-no-party-preference-voters |title=History of Political Parties That Have Adopted Party Rules Regarding No Party Preference Voters |publisher=California Secretary of State |access-date=2024-03-31}}

Ideology

PFP is a socialist party "committed to feminism, [...] democracy, ecology, and racial equality",{{cite web|title=About the Peace and Freedom Party|url=http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/about-peace-and-freedom|publisher=Peace and Freedom Party|access-date=2013-05-11|archive-date=2020-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516145028/http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/about-peace-and-freedom|url-status=dead}} PFP strongly supports environmentalism, indigenous rights, LGBT rights, abortion rights, public healthcare, public education, and subsidized housing. PFP is Anti-Zionist.{{Cite web |title=The Peace and Freedom Party stands for total Palestinian liberation-not just a ceasefire or arms embargo. We will never shy away from anti-zionism nor will we compromise with those enabling genocide. |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DBZtFvCzYGu/?igsh=MWRpdHo3Y2E0aTIzdA== |website=Instagram}}

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.{{cite journal|last1=Elden |first1=James |last2=Schweitzer |first2=David |title=New Third Party Radicalism: The Case of the California Peace and Freedom Party |journal=The Western Political Quarterly |publisher=Western Political Science Association |date=1971 |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=761–74 |doi=10.2307/447112 |jstor=447112 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/447112|url-access=subscription }}{{rp|761}}{{cite book |last1=Phillips |first1=Joseph |chapter=The Peace and Freedom Party of California |title=Beyond Donkeys and Elephants: Minor Political Parties in Contemporary American Politics |publisher=University Press of Kansas |date=2020 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv15tt76n |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15tt76n |isbn=978-0-7006-2929-9 |pages=121–137}}{{rp|121}}{{cite news |title=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65011394/10000-in-melee/}}

On January 2, 1968, PFP organizers submitted 105,100 signatures to receive party status in California.{{rp|761}} PFP has had ballot access in California since 1968, except between 1998 and 2002.{{rp|128}} In 2003, PFP became the first party in the history of California to regain its ballot status.{{cite news |last1=Fletcher |first1=Ed |title=Anti-War Party is Back on the Ballot |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65013916/antiwar-party-is-back-on-ballot/ |work=The Sacramento Bee |date=March 15, 2003}}

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.{{Cite book|last=Thompson|first=Hunter S.|author-link=Hunter S. Thompson|title=The Great Shark Hunt|series=Gonzo Papers|volume=1|orig-year=1974|year=1979|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=0-7432-5045-1|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHxgGvF9ugAC&pg=PA20|quote=Hubert Humphrey lost that election by a handful of votes – mine among them – and if I had it to do again I would still vote for Dick Gregory.}} 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.{{cite journal |title=Peace and Freedom Party from 1967 to 1997 |first1=Casey |last1=Peters |journal=Synthesis/Regeneration |number=12 |date=Winter 1997 |url=http://www.greens.org/s-r/12/12-05.html}}

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;{{cite web|url=http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/ctl/00.htm|title=Vote.ss.ca.gov|website=Vote.ss.ca.gov|access-date=October 14, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629092353/http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/ctl/00.htm|archive-date=June 29, 2006}}{{Primary source inline|date=August 2024}} and Tom Condit received 187,618 votes, 2.2% of the total, for Insurance Commissioner).{{cite web|url=http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/ins/00.htm|title=Vote.ss.ca.gov|website=Vote.ss.ca.gov|access-date=October 14, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216021544/http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/ins/00.htm|archive-date=February 16, 2008}}{{Primary source inline|date=August 2024}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2018-primary/sov/17-summary.pdf |title=Statement of Vote Summary Pages |website=elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529112702/https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2018-primary/sov/17-summary.pdf |archive-date=29 May 2019 |url-status=dead}}{{Primary source inline|date=August 2024}}

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.{{rp|121}}

= Presidential elections =

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:80%"

! Year

! Presidential candidate

! Vice presidential candidate

! Popular votes

! %

! Electoral votes

! Result

! Ballot access

! Notes

! Ref

2024

| Claudia De la Cruz

| Karina Garcia

| 167,772

| {{Percentage bar|0.11|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|220|538|red}}

| The Party for Socialism and Liberation also nominated De la Cruz.{{efn|2024: Votes in California: 72,539 (0.5%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Claudia De la Cruz recognized as presumptive PFP POTUS nominee |publisher=Peace and Freedom Party |url=https://peaceandfreedom.us/index.php/news/elections-campaigns/sec-recognizes-claudia-de-la-cruz-as-presumptive-pfp-potus-nominee |date=April 26, 2024}}

2020

| Gloria La Riva

| Sunil Freeman

| 85,188

| {{Percentage bar|0.05|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|191|538|red}}

| The Party for Socialism and Liberation also nominated La Riva, with Leonard Peltier as her running mate.{{efn|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.}}{{efn|2020: Votes in California: 50,887 (0.29%)}}

| {{cite web |title=PFP Presidential and VP Candidates, 1968-2020 |date=March 9, 2021 |first1=C. T. |last1=Weber |url=https://www.peaceandfreedom.us/about-us/our-history/presidential-candidates}}{{Cite web |title=Federal Elections 2020 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |date=October 2022 |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2020.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=November 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104044534/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2020.pdf}}{{cite news |title=Gloria La Riva Nominated by Peace and Freedom Party in CA |newspaper=Liberation News |date=August 2, 2020 |publisher=Party for Socialism and Liberation |url=https://www.liberationnews.org/gloria-la-riva-nominated-by-peace-and-freedom-party-in-ca/}}

2016

| Gloria La Riva

| Dennis Banks

| 74,405

| {{Percentage bar|0.05|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|112|538|red}}

| The Party for Socialism and Liberation also nominated La Riva, with Eugene Puryear as her running mate.{{efn|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.}}{{efn|2016: Votes in California: 66,101 (0.46%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Federal Elections 2016 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |date=December 2017 |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2016.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202185336/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2016.pdf}}{{cite news |title=California Peace and Freedom Party chooses Gloria La Riva, Dennis Banks as President, VP candidates |newspaper=Liberation News |date=August 16, 2016 |publisher=Party for Socialism and Liberation |url=https://www.liberationnews.org/californias-peace-freedom-party-chooses-gloria-la-riva-dennis-banks-presidentvp-candidates/}}[http://www.peaceandfreedom2016.org/posts/category/la-riva Peace and Freedom 2016] "Gloria La Riva – Peace and Freedom 2016". Retrieved on May 29, 2017.

2012

| Roseanne Barr

| Cindy Sheehan

| 67,477

| {{Percentage bar|0.05|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|141|538|red}}

| {{efn|2012: Votes in California: 53,824 (0.41%)}}

| [http://www.peaceandfreedom2012.org/posts/category/barr2 Peace and Freedom 2012] "Roseanne Barr – Peace and Freedom 2012". Retrieved on May 29, 2017.{{Cite web |title=Federal Elections 2012 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |date=July 2013 |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202185341/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf}}

2008

| Ralph Nader

| Matt Gonzalez

| 739,034

| {{Percentage bar|0.56|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|456|538|red}}

| {{efn|2008: Votes in California: 108,381 (0.8%)}}

| [https://www.peaceandfreedomparty.org/home/national/campaign/past-campaigns/2008-campaign/election-results-2008] "Election Results 2008". Retrieved on November 7, 2024.

2004

| Leonard Peltier

| Janice Jordan

| 27,607

| {{Percentage bar|0.02|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|55|538|red}}

| {{efn|2004: Votes in California: 27,607 (0.22%)}}

| [http://peaceandfreedom2004.org/lpeltier/ Peace and Freedom 2004] "Leonard Peltier for President". Retrieved on April 28, 2013.{{Cite web |title=Federal Elections 2004 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |date=July 2009 |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2004.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202185553/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2004.pdf}}

1996

| Marsha Feinland

| Kate McClatchy

| 25,332

| {{Percentage bar|0.03|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|54|538|red}}

| {{efn|1996: Votes in California: 25,332 (0.25%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Federal Elections 96 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |date=July 2009 |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections96.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202185745/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections96.pdf}}

1992

| Ronald Daniels

| Asiba Tupahache

| 27,961

| {{Percentage bar|0.03|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|136|538|red}}

| {{efn|1992: Votes in California: 18,597 (0.21%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Federal Elections 92 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |date=July 2009 |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections92.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202162939/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections92.pdf}}

1984

| Sonia Johnson

| Emma Wong Mar

| 72,161

| {{Percentage bar|0.08|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{Composition bar|227|538|red}}

| {{efn|1984: Votes in California: 26,297 (0.28%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Federal Elections 84 |publisher=Federal Election Commission |date=July 2009 |url=https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections84.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202162947/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections84.pdf}}

1980

| Maureen Smith

| Elizabeth Cervantes Barron

| 18,116

| {{Percentage bar|0.02|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{efn|1980: Votes in California: 18,116 (0.21%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of 1980 |publisher=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |date=April 1981 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1980election.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=January 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101000000/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1980election.pdf}}

1976

| Margaret Wright

| Benjamin Spock

| 49,016

| {{Percentage bar|0.06|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| Ran on the People's Party ballot line{{efn|1976: Votes in California: 41,731 (0.53%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of 1976 |publisher=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |date=April 1977 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1976election.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=January 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101000000/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1976election.pdf}}

1972

| Benjamin Spock

| Julius Hobson

| 78,759

| {{Percentage bar|0.10|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| Ran on the People's Party ballot line{{efn|1972: Votes in California: 55,167 (0.66%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of 1972 |publisher=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |date=April 1973 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1972election.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=January 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101000000/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1972election.pdf}}

1968

| Eldridge Cleaver

| Peggy Terry

| 36,571

| {{Percentage bar|0.05|hex=FF0000}}

| 0

| {{no2}} Lost

| {{efn|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.}}{{efn|1968: Votes in California: 27,707 (0.38%)}}

| {{Cite web |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of 1968 |publisher=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |date=April 1969 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1968election.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=January 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101000000/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1968election.pdf}}

Convention votes:

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:80%"

! 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

| {{cite web |title=It's official: Claudia De la Cruz wins PFP POTUS nomination PFP Elections & Campaigns |date=October 4, 2024 |publisher=Peace and Freedom Party |url=https://www.peaceandfreedom.us/index.php/news/elections-campaigns/claudia-de-la-cruz-pfp-potus-nominee}}

2020

| 68

| 62 Gloria La Riva

| 3 Howie Hawkins

| 3

2016

| 80

| 56 Gloria La Riva

| 9 Jill Stein

| 12 Monica Moorehead

| 1 Lynn Kahn{{efn|In 2016, Kahn also ran for the Reform Party presidential primary.}}

| {{cite web |title=PFP Convention |publisher=Our Campaigns |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=823238}}

| 64

| 37 Roseanne Barr{{efn |name=PSL12 |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.}}

| 16 Stephen Durham

| 6 Stewart Alexander

| 5

| 63

| 29 Roseanne Barr{{efn|name=PSL12}}

| 18 Stephen Durham

| 12 Stewart Alexander

| 4

2008

| 89

| 27 Gloria La Riva

| 6 Cynthia McKinney

| 10 Brian Moore

| 46 Ralph Nader

| {{cite web|url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/08/02/nader-wins-pfp-nomination/|title=Nader Wins Peace & Freedom Party Nomination – Ballot Access News|website=Ballot-access.org|date=2 August 2008 |access-date=14 October 2017}}{{cite web |title=PFP Convention |publisher=Our Campaigns |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=419558}}

1996

| 17

| 8 Monica Moorehead

| 9 Marsha Feinland

| {{cite web |title=PFP Convention |publisher=Our Campaigns |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=58543}}

1992

| 211

| 91 Fulani

| 120 Ronald Daniels (of Rainbow Coalition)

| {{cite web |title=PFP Convention |publisher=Our Campaigns |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=295675}}

1988

| 200

| Lenora Fulani

| Herb Lewin

| {{rp|126–128}}{{cite news |title=Lewin Is Peace and Freedom Nominee |date=August 15, 1988 |newspaper=LA Times |quote=Lewin, 73, is a veteran labor union organizer who also is affiliated with the Internationalist Workers Party, a San Francisco-based Trotskyite group. For vice president the delegates nominated Emma Mar, who identifies herself as an independent socialist. [....] Lewin, with 684 votes, finished fourth in the nonbinding Peace and Freedom presidential primary in June, but he captured the nomination by relying on party rules that permitted him to bring to the convention as delegates a large number of undocumented immigrants, minors, convicted felons and other people who are not eligible to vote.}}

1984

| Sonia Johnson (of Citizens Party)

| {{cite book |last=Alexander |first=Robert J. |author-link=Robert J. Alexander |date=1991 |title=International Trotskyism, 1929–1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-0975-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/internationaltro0000alex |pages=761–951}}{{rp|941}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://peaceandfreedom.org/home/images/documents/position-letters-legislation-2019/SB_505_Peace_and_Freedom_Party_Letter_of_Opposition_2.pdf |title=SB 505 (Umberg) Presidential primary elections Oppose |publisher=Peace and Freedom Party}} Instead, PFP nominated Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate Gloria La Riva.

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. Instead, PFP backed Party for Socialism and Liberation's preferred candidate Roseanne Barr.

In 2008, PFP endorsed Independent Ralph Nader in his presidential campaign.{{cite web |title=Nov. 2008 Statement of Vote: U.S. President by County |publisher=California Secretary of State |url=http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2008-general/17_22_pres_by_county.pdf}}{{cite web |title=P&F Campaign 2008: Nader/Gonzalez ticket |publisher=Peace and Freedom Party |url=http://www.peaceandfreedom2008.org/candidates/rnader/}} 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.{{cite web |first1=Richard |last1=Winger |title=Nader Submits Iowa Petition Using "Peace & Freedom" Ballot Label |publisher=Ballot Access News |date=6 August 2008 |url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/08/06/nader-submits-iowa-petition-using-peace-freedom-ballot-label/}} 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.

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.{{rp|126–128}}{{cite web |title=PFP Presidential and VP Candidates, 1968-2020 |date=July 3, 2008 |publisher=Peace and Freedom Party |url=https://www.peaceandfreedomparty.org/home/about-us/historical-information/presidential-candidates}}

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