United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 1996

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Nominee	Bob Dole	Bill Clinton	Ross Perot
Party	Republican	Democratic	Reform
Home state	Kansas	Arkansas	Texas
Running mate	Jack Kemp	Al Gore	Pat Choate
Electoral vote	8	0	0
Popular vote	582,315	488,105	130,788
Percentage	48.26%	40.45%	10.84%

County Results

Clinton—50-60%

Clinton—40-50%

Dole—40-50%

Dole—50-60%

Dole—60-70%

Dole—70-80%

President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

Bill Clinton
Democratic

The 1996 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 5, 1996. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Oklahoma voters chose 8 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.

Oklahoma was won by Kansas Senator Bob Dole, who was running against incumbent United States President Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Clinton ran a second time with former Tennessee Senator Al Gore as Vice President, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp.

Oklahoma weighed in for this election as 4% more third-party than the national average.

The presidential election of 1996 was a very multi-partisan election for Oklahoma, with more than 11% of the electorate voting for third-party candidates. This is one of the last presidential elections in Oklahoma in which the Southeastern portion of the state turned out in large numbers for the Democratic Party. This may be somewhat attributed to the influence of the bordering, and politically volatile, state of Texas, which can also be seen changing political orientation throughout the 1980s and 1990s from a Democratic area to a largely Republican one, and the bordering state of Arkansas, Clinton's home state.

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