| Year | Name | Party | Details | Party nominee |
| 1884 | Abigail Scott Duniway | Equal Rights | Rejected nomination. | Belva Ann Lockwood |
| 1920 | Laura Clay | Democratic | | James M. Cox |
| Cora Wilson Stewart | |
| 1924 | Cora Wilson Stewart | Democratic | 1 vote on 1st and 15th ballots | John W. Davis |
| 1940 | Anna Milburn | National Greenback | Declined nomination | John Zahnd |
| 1964 | Margaret Chase Smith | Republican | Received 227,007 votes in Republican primary and won 27 delegates at the Republican convention | Barry Goldwater |
| Fay T. Carpenter Swain | Democratic | 7,140 votes in Indiana primary | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 1972 | Shirley Chisholm | Democratic | 152 votes at convention | George McGovern |
| Patsy Mink | |
| Bella Abzug | |
| 1976 | Barbara Jordan | Democratic | 1 vote at convention | Jimmy Carter |
| Ellen McCormack | 22 votes at national convention |
| 1980 | Koryne Kaneski Horbal | Democratic | 5 votes at convention | Jimmy Carter |
| Alice Tripp | 2 votes at convention |
| 1984 | Martha Kirkland | Democratic | 1 vote at convention | Walter Mondale |
| Mary Ruwart | Libertarian | 77 votes at convention (1st ballot); 99 votes at convention (2nd ballot; 3rd place overall) | David Bergland |
| Tonie Nathan | 53 votes at convention (1st ballot; 4th place) |
| 1988 | Pat Schroeder | Democratic | | Michael Dukakis |
| 1992 | Tennie Rogers | Republican | 754 votes in Texas primary | George H. W. Bush |
| Georgiana Doerschuck | 58 votes in New Hampshire primary |
| Caroline Killeen | Democratic | 96 votes in New Hampshire primary | Bill Clinton |
| 1996 | Elvena E. Lloyd-Duffie | Democratic | 13,025 votes in AR primary; 10,876 votes (6th place) in TX primary; 40,758 in OK primary (3rd place); 11,620 votes (3rd place) in LA primary; 15,650 votes (2nd place) in IL primary | Bill Clinton |
| Heather Anne Harder | 28,772 votes (3rd place) in TX primary; 376 votes in NH primary and two Republican write-in votes; 6 votes in IL primary |
| Caroline Killeen | 118 votes in New Hampshire primary |
| Susan Gail Ducey | Republican | 539 votes (9th place) in AZ primary; 152 votes (12th place) in NH primary; 1,092 votes (8th place) in TX primary | Bob Dole |
| Isabell Masters | 1052 votes (7th place) in Oklahoma primary |
| Mary "France" LeTulle | 650 votes (9th place) in Texas primary; 290 votes in Nevada primary |
| Georgiana Doerschuck | 140 votes in New Hampshire primary |
| Tennie Rogers | 35 votes at Mississippi primary; 12 votes in New Hampshire primary |
| 2000 | Heather Anne Harder | Democratic | 1,358 votes in AZ primary; 192 votes (8th place) in NH primary, 1 Republican write-in vote | Al Gore |
| Elizabeth Dole | Republican | 231 write-in votes in NH primary | George W. Bush |
| Dorian Yeager | 98 votes (10th place) in NH primary |
| Angel Joy Chavis Rocker | 6 votes in Alabama straw poll |
| 2004 | Lorna Salzman | Green | 40 votes at convention (5th place) | David Cobb |
| JoAnne Bier Beeman | 14 votes at national convention |
| Carol A. Miller | 10 votes at national convention |
| Sheila Bilyeu | 2 votes at national convention |
| Florence Walker | Democratic | 246 votes (6th place) in Washington, D ., primary | John Kerry |
| Katherine Bateman | 68 votes (14th place) in New Hampshire primary |
| Jeanne Chebib | 43 votes (12th place) in the Washington, D ., primary |
| Caroline Killeen | 31 votes (19th place) in New Hampshire primary |
| Mildred T. Glover | 11 votes (22nd place) in New Hampshire primary; 4,039 votes (8th place) in Maryland primary |
| Carol Moseley Braun | Withdrew in January 2004; 103,189 votes |
| Millie Howard | Republican | 239 votes (13th place) in New Hampshire primary | George W. Bush |
| 2008 | Hillary Clinton | Democratic | Second place in the Democratic primaries, winning 1,726½ delegate votes and more primaries than any other woman in history. | Barack Obama |
| Caroline Killeen | 11 votes in New Hampshire primary |
| Mary Ruwart | Libertarian | 152 votes at convention (2nd place; reached 1st place on 5th ballot before being defeated on 6th ballot) | Bob Barr |
| Christine Smith | 6 votes at national convention (8th place) |
| Kat Swift | Green | 38 votes at national convention (3rd place) | Cynthia McKinney |