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United States third party and independent presidential candidates, 1992

United States presidential election, 1992
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All 538 electoral votes of the Electoral College
270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout 55.2%Increase 5.0 pp
  Bill Clinton.jpg 43 George H.W. Bush 3x4.jpg RossPerotColor.jpg
Nominee Bill Clinton George H. W. Bush Ross Perot
Party Democratic Republican Independent
Home state Arkansas Texas Texas
Running mate Al Gore Dan Quayle
Electoral vote 370 168 0
States carried 32 + D.C. 18 0
Popular vote 44,909,806 39,104,550 19,743,821
Percentage 43.01% 37.45% 18.91%

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Presidential election results map. Blue denotes those won by Clinton/Gore, red denotes states won by Bush/Quayle. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state.

President before election

George H. W. Bush
Republican

Elected President

Bill Clinton
Democratic


George H. W. Bush
Republican

Bill Clinton
Democratic

The United States presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. There were three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot.

Bush had alienated much of his conservative base by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes. The economy was in recession and Bush's perceived greatest strength, foreign policy, was regarded as much less important following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the relatively peaceful climate in the Middle East after the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War.

Clinton won a plurality in the popular vote, and a wide Electoral College margin. The election was a significant realigning election after three consecutive Republican landslides.Northeastern, Upper Midwest, and West Coast states which had previously been competitive began voting reliably Democratic. As of 2017, this is the most recent election in which an incumbent president served one term and lost re-election, the previous one having been the 1980 election in which Ronald Reagan unseated then-incumbent Jimmy Carter. Bush won 18 states with a plurality, but did not win a majority in any state. This is a sharp change from the 1988 presidential election in which Bush won a majority in 40 states.


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