Editing Perennial candidate (section)

{{short description|Political candidate who frequently runs for an elected office but seldom wins}}
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[[File:Mike the Mover RV.jpg|thumb|[[Uncle Mover|Mike The Mover]] has run for various offices under various political affiliations on 17 occasions to promote his furniture moving business.]]
A '''perennial candidate''' is a [[political candidate]] who frequently runs for elected office and rarely, if ever, wins.<ref name="PoliticoMagazine1">{{cite news |last1=Zeitz |first1=Josh |title=The Death of the Three-Time Candidate |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/three-time-presidential-candidate-romney-stassen-115000/ |access-date=August 27, 2021 |work=[[Politico Magazine]] |date=February 8, 2015|quote=...Harold Stassen is remembered as the "Grand Old Party's Grand Old Loser"—the onetime "Boy Governor" who ran for president 10 times between 1948 and 1992—a "perennial, never-say-die candidate" whose quixotic, lifetime quest for the White House obscured an otherwise brilliant public career.}}</ref> Perennial candidates are most common where there is no limit on the number of times that a person can run for office and little cost to register as a candidate.<ref name="CBCPerennialCandidate">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Chris |title=Canada election 2015: Perennial candidates make running and losing a full-time job |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-election-2015-perennial-candidates-1.3247843 |access-date=August 28, 2021 |work=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=September 29, 2015}}</ref>

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