Libertarian Party (United States)

Libertarian Party
Chairperson	Angela McArdle (TX)
Secretary	Caryn Ann Harlos (CO)
Founded	December 11, 1971; 52 years ago (1971-12-11)
Headquarters	1444 Duke St. Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Membership (February 2020)	652,261[a][1]
Ideology	Majority: Libertarianism[2] Laissez-faire[3] Cultural liberalism[3] Classical liberalism[3] Economic liberalism[3] Fiscal conservatism[3] Non-interventionism[4] Factions: Minarchism[5] Anarcho-capitalism[5] Libertarian socialism[6] Paleolibertarianism[7]
Political position	Big tent[8] Social: Left-wing Fiscal: Right-wing
International affiliation	International Alliance of Libertarian Parties
Colors	Gold-yellow
Slogan	"Minimum government, maximum freedom."
Senate	0 / 100
House of Representatives	0 / 435
State governorships	0 / 50
State upper chambers	0 / 1,972
State lower chambers[9][10]	2 / 5,411
Territorial governorships	0 / 6
Territorial upper chambers	0 / 97
Territorial lower chambers	0 / 91
Other elected offices	221 (2021)[11]
Election symbol
Website
lp.org

The Libertarian Party is a political party in the United States, founded in 1971. The current Chairwoman of the Libertarian National Committee is Angela McArdle of Texas since 2022.

It is the third largest party in the United States in terms of the popular vote in the country's elections and number of candidates run per election, and it is also identified by many as the fastest growing political party in the United States.
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1. ↑ Winger, Richard (October 24, 2020). "Nationwide Voter Registration Data by Party". ballot-access.org. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
2. ↑ Rothbard, Murray Newton (1978). For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto. p. 153. Even more remarkably, the Libertarian party achieved this growth while consistently adhering to a new ideological creed—"libertarianism"—thus bringing to the American political scene for the first time in a century a party interested in principle rather than in merely gaining jobs and money at the public trough
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} "Ideological Third Parties and Splinter Parties". June 3, 2017. Archived from the original on January 16, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
4. ↑ "Libertarian Party opposes further intervention in Iraq". June 18, 2014.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Less Antman, The Dallas Accord is Dead, Lew Rockwell.com, May 12, 2008.
6. ↑ Duane Paul Murphy (September 12, 2018). "Libertarian Socialists Organize Online Within the Libertarian Party". College Media Network. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
7. ↑ Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. "The Case for Paleo-libertarianism Archived 2013-04-01 at the Wayback Machine" in Liberty, January, 1990, 34–38.
8. ↑ Silver, Nate (27 May 2008). "The Libertarians' Big Tent". FiveThirtyEight. ABC News. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
9. ↑ "Elected Officials – Marshall Burt". Libertarian Party. Libertarian National Committee. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
10. ↑ Harris, Tyler (14 December 2020). "Maine State Rep. John Andrews Joins the Libertarian Party". Libertarian Party. Libertarian National Committee. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
11. ↑ "Elected Officials". Retrieved January 23, 2021.