Eldrich Cleaver The Peace And Freedom Party candidate when Hubert Humphry went against Nixon.
It was a protest vote. People said it was wasted, but only the Nixon voters did “better” and they all regretted it later.
First meaningful vote: Reagan, 1980
First vote overall: Bob Stevens, for mayor of the town in which I grew up, in 1978. He lost, big time. Of course, he was black, and it was rural Mississippi.
First school vote: Jimmy Wilder for student body president in 6th grade. He won. Everybody loved him; he ended up in jail for murder before we graduated from high school.
Reagan.
Was in second or third grade.
We’d been learning about the workings of the government.
The elementary school had voting booths set up in the lobby.
Every student got their turn in the REAL LIVE voting booth!
I vaguely recall voting for him because he reminded me of my
grandfather.
Lawton Chiles for Governor of Florida. Up until I actually started voting I thought I was a republican, but I wasn’t even sure what that meant really. I was going with the flow and the flow was Reagan/Bush. But MTV News had worked me up into a teenage free speech frenzy about incubment governor Bob Martinez’s attacks on 2 Live Crew, so I voted against him, and I’ve voted dem ever since.
El Presidente in 2000.
Not because I liked him, but because I disliked Gore more.
I still don’t like him much, though I don’t hate him unlike so many other people.
Who I vote for next year will depend a hell of a lot on who the demo candidate is.
ducks in his bunker and prepares for incoming flak
Real voting:
Nader in 2000. My state went to Gore too, so don’t blame me!
School voting:
My elementary school held a mock election between Papa Bush and Dukakis. I voted for Dukakis.
I ran for some student body office in 5th grade, and naturally voted for myself, but I didn’t win.
In high school, I voted for the ASB presidential candidate whose entire campaign speech went like this:
“Hi, I’m Chad, and I’m running for president. I won’t promise you anything because the ASB can’t really do anything, but check this out.”
[Chad sticks his arms in front of him, palms out; crosses his wrists and clasps his hands together; rotates his hands down and toward his body; puts one elbow through the other, forming a loop; then pulls the loop over his head.]
He didn’t win either.
1992, Clinton. Oh how I miss my Captain, my sweet Captain
I can’t remember. It was the Democrat ballot in the 1980 primary election, so probably Jimmy Carter. I even went to the effort to be able to vote at 17, but I can’t remember who I voted for. :o But in the general election, I voted for John Anderson. Just the beginning of a long streak of not voting for the winner. 
HPL, there are a lot of other candidates and parties out there to vote for besides the Republicats and the Democrans. Find one of them that you can live with and vote for him. Even if he doesn’t win, you are not giving the big two anything by default. And if everyone would do that, I think our system would work better.
I voted for New Kids On The Block when I was in kindergarten. They won, too! I voted for Reagan the same year, because we got coloring sheets of the candidates and the other guy wasn’t smiling in his picture so he didn’t look friendly.
Nobody.
I will be voting in the SC primary though.
Clinton, in the 1996 election. I was still 17 when the primaries were held.
Gore, Florida, 2000. Who knew it would turn out so controversial? I wanted to vote for Nader, but I checked the polls in the paper the day before and saw it was really close between Gore and Bush, so I figured I should vote for Gore. And to think, if I hadn’t done that I could’ve been one of those 500 or so assholes who could’ve given Gore the presidency.
My dad, in the local elections back home.
That was 10 years ago, though, and no, he didn’t win.
Jimmy Carter, and I’ve never regretted it.
Jesse Jackson in the 1988 Democratic primary.
Virgil Goode, in the 1994 Republican Senate primary in Virginia, which took place about a month after my eighteenth birthday. (I’m not a Republican, I just didn’t want to miss a single opportunity to vote against Oliver North.)
Governor Charles Robb in 1982. I later worked for him.
“2) Barry Goldwater, over LBJ.”
Yeah, but in your heart you knew he might.
Ha, Fretful. When my father came of age he registered Republican just so he could vote against Richard Nixon
1996 Clinton.
2000, I voted Liberal in the federal elections - I didn’t see any alternatives that I liked.
2002, I voted Liberal in the provincial elections because it was the only party capable of removing the Parti Québecois from office.
Next year, in the federal elections, it’s likely I’ll vote Liberal again since as before, none of the alternatives seem viable/stable enough or I simply disagree too much over policies. I’m paying more attention to politics now, though, so that might change. Doubtful, at least this time around, but it could.