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[[File:Rally in support of John F. Kennedy for president. David Dubinsky is at the podium. (5279398400).jpg|thumb|Liberal Party rally in support of John F. Kennedy for president, 1960. Party leader David Dubinsky is at the podium.]]
While the Liberal Party generally endorsed Democratic candidates, this was not always the case. They occasionally supported Republicans such as [[John Lindsay]] and [[Rudy Giuliani]] for mayor of New York City, and [[Jacob Javits]] and [[Charles Goodell]] for [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]], and independents such as [[John Bayard Anderson|John B. Anderson]] (a former Republican) for President. The Liberal Party endorsed Anderson for president in 1980 instead of incumbent Democratic president, [[Jimmy Carter]]. Carter had been the Liberal candidate in 1976 even though many people considered the evangelical southerner Carter to be less liberal than his moderate northern Republican challenger, [[Gerald Ford]].
In 1969, Lindsay, the incumbent Republican [[Mayor of New York City]], lost his own party's [[primary election|primary]] but was reelected on the Liberal Party line alone, bringing along 'on his coat-tails' enough Liberal candidates for City Council to replace the Republicans as the Minority Party in city government. In 1977, after [[Mario Cuomo]] lost the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York to [[Ed Koch]], the Liberal Party endorsed Cuomo, who proceeded to again lose narrowly in the [[1977 New York City mayoral election|general election]].
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