Editing Perennial candidate (section)

==Definition==
A number of modern articles related to electoral politics or elections have identified those who have run for elected office and lost two to three times, and then decide to mount a campaign again as perennial candidates.<ref name="NPRPerennialCandidate">{{cite news|last1=Weeks|first1=Linton|date=September 23, 2011|title=Also-Rans: What Drives The Perennial Candidates?|work=[[NPR]]|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140701113/also-rans-what-drives-the-perennial-candidates|access-date=August 28, 2021|quote=For the purposes of this story, we are defining the perennial presidential candidate as someone who runs for — and loses — the race to the White House at least twice. And then runs again.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=May 28, 2021|title=Iran's presidential election: Who the candidates are|work=[[BBC News]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57274703|access-date=August 28, 2021|quote=[Mohsen Rezai] has stood three times as president, and never held public office, having also failed in a bid to be elected to parliament in 2000. He is commonly referred to as a "perennial candidate".}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Samuels|first1=Alex|last2=Radcliffe|first2=Mary|date=June 9, 2021|title=Most Candidates Take The Hint After Two Losses. Why Won't Beto O'Rourke and Charlie Crist?|work=[[FiveThirtyEight]]|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-most-candidates-dont-run-again-after-losing-twice/|access-date=August 28, 2021|quote=...both O'Rourke and Crist are risking their political credibility if they run again and lose, as they've already failed to win two consecutive runs for office. Even worse, they could be marked as perennial candidates.}}</ref> However, some articles have listed a number of notable exceptions.<ref name="CBCPerennialCandidate"/><ref name="PoliticoMagazine2">{{cite news|last1=Zeitz|first1=Josh|date=February 8, 2015|title=The Death of the Three-Time Candidate|work=[[Politico Magazine]]|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/three-time-presidential-candidate-romney-stassen-115000/|access-date=August 27, 2021|quote=Henry Clay, whom Abraham Lincoln called his "beau ideal of a statesman," ran for president four times. No one remembers him as a joke. William Jennings Bryan was a three-time Democratic presidential nominee. Also not a joke. Adlai Stevenson, twice nominated. Hubert Humphrey, Stassen's fellow Minnesotan, ran three times. Ronald Reagan lost the GOP nomination in 1968 and 1976 before his victory in 1980. Definitely not a joke.}}</ref>

Some who have had their campaign applications rejected by their country's electoral authority multiple times have also been labelled as perennial candidates.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kenyon|first1=Peter|date=May 31, 2021|title=Iran's Presidential Candidate Slate Leans Heavily Toward Hard-Liners|work=[[NPR]]|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/05/31/1001936509/irans-presidential-candidate-slate-leans-heavily-toward-hard-liners|access-date=August 29, 2021|quote=...a former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was rejected again. He's becoming known as a perennial candidate.}}</ref>