In 2012 , anti-war presidential candidates ( Libertarian Republican Ron Paul and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson ) raised millions of dollars and garnered millions of votes despite opposition to their obtaining ballot access by Democrats and Republicans . The 2012 Libertarian National Convention , which saw Gary Johnson and James P. Gray nominated as the 2012 presidential ticket for the Libertarian Party , resulted in the most successful result for a third-party presidential candidacy since 2000 and the best in the Libertarian Party 's history by vote number . Johnson received 1 % of the popular vote , amounting to more than 1.2 million votes . Johnson has expressed a desire to win at least 5 percent of the vote so that the Libertarian Party candidates could get equal ballot access and federal funding , thus subsequently ending the two-party system
2012 Libertarian National Convention
2012 Libertarian National Convention
Libertarianism