24 candidates were recognized by the Libertarian Party and 16 were ultimately eligible for the presidential nomination at the 2016 Libertarian National Convention . For a candidate to have been recognized by the Libertarian Party , they must have : Of the recognized candidates , eight did not run in any primary or caucus : Joey Berry , Brian Briggs , Thomas Clements , Malisia Garcia , Kevin McCormick , Robert Milnes , Mike Shannon and Heidi Zeman . The other ten recognized candidates as well as three unrecognized candidates – John David Hale ( who was disrecognized because he was under 35 and so ineligible to serve as President ) , Nathan Norman and Merry Susan Nehls – stood in at least one primary or caucus , and appear in the table below . Five recognized candidates withdrew : Cecil Ince , Steve Kerbel , Joy Waymire , Bart Lower and Donald Eugene Lowe
2016 Libertarian National Convention
2016 Libertarian National Convention
2016 Libertarian Party presidential primaries