Electoral history of Bill Clinton
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Electoral history of Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

, 42nd President of the United States
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....


Congressional races

Arkansas 3rd congressional district, 1974 (Democratic primary)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     - 59,697 (43.60%)
  • Gene Rainwater - 36,145 (26.40%)
  • David Stewart - 34,959 (25.53%)
  • James A. Scanlon - 6,121 (4.47%)


Arkansas 3rd congressional district, 1974 (Democratic primary runoff)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     - 37,788 (68.96%)
  • Gene Rainwater - 17,011 (31.04%)


Arkansas 3rd congressional district, 1974
  • John Paul Hammerschmidt
    John Paul Hammerschmidt
    John Paul Hammerschmidt is an American politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas. A Republican, Hammerschmidt served for thirteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from the northwestern Arkansas district before he retired in 1993...

     (R) (inc.) - 89,324 (51.83%)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (D) - 83,030 (48.17%)

Statewide races in Arkansas

Arkansas Attorney General
Arkansas Attorney General
The Arkansas Attorney General is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement/legal officer and lawyer for Arkansas. The position is elected every four years, e.g...

, 1976 (Democratic primary)
:
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     - 56%
  • George Jernigan - 25%
  • Clarence Cash - 19%


Arkansas Attorney General
Arkansas Attorney General
The Arkansas Attorney General is an executive position and constitutional officer within the Arkansas government. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement/legal officer and lawyer for Arkansas. The position is elected every four years, e.g...

, 1976
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (D) - elected unopposed


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1978
Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1978
The Arkansas gubernatorial election of 1978, held on November 7, was the first time that future President of the United States Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas.-Democratic nomination:At this time, one gubernatorial term was two years...

 (Democratic primary)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     - 341,118 (59.55%)
  • Joe Woodward - 123,674 (21.59%)
  • Frank Lady - 76,026 (13.27%)
  • Bob Mathis - 26,096 (4.56%)
  • Monroe Schwarzlose
    Monroe Schwarzlose
    Monroe Alfred Julius Schwarzlose was a turkey farmer in Cleveland County, Arkansas, who polled 31 percent of the vote in the 1980 Democratic primary against the incumbent Governor and future U.S. President William Jefferson Blythe "Bill" Clinton, who was seeking his second two-year term...

     - 5,898 (1.03%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1978
Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1978
The Arkansas gubernatorial election of 1978, held on November 7, was the first time that future President of the United States Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas.-Democratic nomination:At this time, one gubernatorial term was two years...

  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (D) - 335,101 (63.36%)
  • Lynn Lowe
    Lynn Lowe
    Aylmer Lynn Lowe, known as A. Lynn Lowe , was a farmer and politician from Garland in Miller County in southwestern Arkansas, who was a major figure in the Arkansas Republican Party...

     (R) - 193,746 (36.64%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1980
Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1980
The Arkansas gubernatorial election of 1980 was only that state’s third election since Reconstruction when a Republican candidate won governorship, and the first in which an incumbent was defeated....

 (Democratic primary)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (inc.) - 306,735 (68.87%)
  • Monroe Schwarzlose
    Monroe Schwarzlose
    Monroe Alfred Julius Schwarzlose was a turkey farmer in Cleveland County, Arkansas, who polled 31 percent of the vote in the 1980 Democratic primary against the incumbent Governor and future U.S. President William Jefferson Blythe "Bill" Clinton, who was seeking his second two-year term...

     - 138,660 (31.13%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1980
Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1980
The Arkansas gubernatorial election of 1980 was only that state’s third election since Reconstruction when a Republican candidate won governorship, and the first in which an incumbent was defeated....

  • Frank D. White
    Frank D. White
    Frank Durward White was the 41st Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He served a single two-year term from 1981 to 1983. He is one of only two people to have defeated President Bill Clinton in an election. Frank Durward White (June 4, 1933 – May 21, 2003) was...

     (R) - 435,684 (51.93%)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (D) (inc.) - 403,241 (48.07%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1982
Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1982
The Arkansas gubernatorial election of 1982 was the second since Reconstruction in which an incumbent was defeated.One-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton regained the position after having narrowly been defeated by Republican Frank D. White at the previous election...

 (Democratic primary)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     - 236,961 (41.78%)
  • Joe Purcell
    Joe Purcell
    Joseph Gregory Purcell -References:...

     - 166,066 (29.28%)
  • Jim Guy Tucker
    Jim Guy Tucker
    James "Jim" Guy Tucker, Jr. is an Arkansas political figure. He served as the 43rd Governor of Arkansas, the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, Arkansas Attorney General, and U.S. Representative...

     - 129,362 (22.81%)
  • Kim Hendren
    Kim Hendren
    Kim D. Hendren is the Republican minority leader and the chairman of the Energy Committee of the Arkansas State Senate. A native and resident of Gravette in Benton County in northwestern Arkansas, Hendren represents District 9. He is a former Democrat in the most Republican part of the state....

     - 21,829 (3.85%)
  • Monroe Schwarzlose
    Monroe Schwarzlose
    Monroe Alfred Julius Schwarzlose was a turkey farmer in Cleveland County, Arkansas, who polled 31 percent of the vote in the 1980 Democratic primary against the incumbent Governor and future U.S. President William Jefferson Blythe "Bill" Clinton, who was seeking his second two-year term...

     - 12,907 (2.28%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1982
Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1982
The Arkansas gubernatorial election of 1982 was the second since Reconstruction in which an incumbent was defeated.One-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton regained the position after having narrowly been defeated by Republican Frank D. White at the previous election...

 (Democratic primary runoff)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     - 239,209 (53.69%)
  • Joe Purcell
    Joe Purcell
    Joseph Gregory Purcell -References:...

     - 206,358 (46.31%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1982
Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1982
The Arkansas gubernatorial election of 1982 was the second since Reconstruction in which an incumbent was defeated.One-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton regained the position after having narrowly been defeated by Republican Frank D. White at the previous election...

  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (D) - 431,855 (54.71%)
  • Frank D. White
    Frank D. White
    Frank Durward White was the 41st Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He served a single two-year term from 1981 to 1983. He is one of only two people to have defeated President Bill Clinton in an election. Frank Durward White (June 4, 1933 – May 21, 2003) was...

     (R) (inc.) - 357,496 (45.29%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1984 (Democratic primary)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (inc.) - 317,577 (64.46%)
  • Lonnie Turner - 119,266 (24.21%)
  • Kermit Moss - 31,727 (6.44%)
  • Monroe Schwarzlose
    Monroe Schwarzlose
    Monroe Alfred Julius Schwarzlose was a turkey farmer in Cleveland County, Arkansas, who polled 31 percent of the vote in the 1980 Democratic primary against the incumbent Governor and future U.S. President William Jefferson Blythe "Bill" Clinton, who was seeking his second two-year term...

     - 24,116 (4.90%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1984
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (D) (inc.) - 554,561 (62.55%)
  • Woody Freeman
    Woody Freeman
    Elwood A. Freeman, known as Woody Freeman , is a businessman in Jonesboro, Arkansas, who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1984. He lost 63-37 percent to the incumbent Governor Bill Clinton, the Democrat who eight years later was elected President of the United States...

     (R) - 331,987 (37.45%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1986 (Democratic primary)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (inc.) - 315,397 (60.58%)
  • Orval E. Faubus - 174,402 (33.50%)
  • W. Dean Goldsby - 30,829 (5.92%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1986
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (D) (inc.) - 439,882 (63.89%)
  • Frank D. White
    Frank D. White
    Frank Durward White was the 41st Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He served a single two-year term from 1981 to 1983. He is one of only two people to have defeated President Bill Clinton in an election. Frank Durward White (June 4, 1933 – May 21, 2003) was...

     (R) - 248,427 (36.08%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1990 (Democratic primary)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (inc.) - 269,329 (54.84%)
  • Tom McRae
    Tom McRae
    Tom McRae is an English singer-songwriter.-Career:The son of two Church of England vicars, McRae sang in the church choir and as a teen experimented with his mother's guitar...

     - 190,887 (38.87%)
  • Joe Holmes
    Joe Holmes
    Joe Holmes is a Heavy metal guitarist. Born in New Jersey, he took lessons from guitarist Randy Rhoads in 1979. Holmes formed the L.A based band called Terriff in 1983. Holmes left Terriff to join Lizzy Borden in 1987...

     - 9,659 (1.97%)
  • Jerry Tolliver - 8,629 (1.76%)
  • Cyrus Young - 4,301 (0.88%)


Arkansas gubernatorial election, 1990
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (D) (inc.) - 400,386 (57.49%)
  • Sheffield Nelson
    Sheffield Nelson
    Sheffield E. Nelson is a lawyer, businessman, and politician from Little Rock, Arkansas. Originally a Democrat, Nelson in 1990 ran for governor of Arkansas as a Republican against then governor and future U.S. President Bill Clinton and in 1994 against the Democratic Governor Jim Guy Tucker.Nelson...

     (R) - 295,925 (42.49%)

Presidential elections

Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1992
Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1992
The 1992 Democratic presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 1992 U.S. presidential election...

  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     - 10,482,411 (52.01%)
  • Jerry Brown
    Jerry Brown
    Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

     - 4,071,232 (20.20%)
  • Paul Tsongas
    Paul Tsongas
    Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 presidential election. He previously served as a U.S...

     - 3,656,010 (18.14%)
  • Unpledged - 750,873 (3.73%)
  • Bob Kerrey
    Bob Kerrey
    Joseph Robert "Bob" Kerrey was the 35th Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and a U.S. Senator from Nebraska . Having served in the Vietnam War, earning the Medal of Honor for his actions, he moved into politics. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992...

     - 318,457 (1.58%)
  • Tom Harkin
    Tom Harkin
    Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkin is the junior United States Senator from Iowa and a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives ....

     - 280,304 (1.39%)
  • Lyndon LaRouche
    Lyndon LaRouche
    Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. is an American political activist and founder of a network of political committees, parties, and publications known collectively as the LaRouche movement...

     - 154,599 (0.77%)
  • Eugene McCarthy
    Eugene McCarthy
    Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971.In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy was the first...

     - 108,678 (0.54%)
  • Charles Woods
    Charles Woods
    Charles Woods was an Alabama businessman and broadcaster, and aspiring politician. Woods was raised in an orphanage. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force before joining the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II...

     - 88,948 (0.44%)
  • Larry Agran
    Larry Agran
    Lawrence Alan "Larry" Agran is a former mayor of Irvine, California, Orange County's noted planned city. Agran currently serves as Mayor Pro Tem on the City Council.- Early life :...

     - 58,611 (0.29%)
  • Ross Perot
    Ross Perot
    Henry Ross Perot is a U.S. businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988...

     - 54,755 (0.27%)
  • Ralph Nader
    Ralph Nader
    Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....

     - 35,935 (0.18%)
  • Louis Stokes
    Louis Stokes
    Louis Stokes is a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives....

     - 29,983 (0.15%)
  • Angus Wheeler McDonald - 9,900 (0.05%)
  • J. Louis McAlpine - 7,911 (0.04%)
  • George W. Benns - 7,887 (0.04%)
  • Rufus T. Higginbotham - 7,705 (0.04%)
  • Tom Howard Hawks - 7,434 (0.04%)
  • Stephen Bruke - 5,261 (0.03%)
  • Tom Laughin - 5,202 (0.03%)
  • Tom Shiekman - 4,965 (0.03%)
  • Jeffrey F. Marsh - 2,445 (0.01%)
  • George Ballard
    George Ballard
    George Ballard was an English antiquary and biographer, the author of Memoirs of British Ladies .Ballard was born at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. Self-educated, Ballard taught himself Saxon while working in a habit-maker's shop, and attracted the attention of the Saxon scholar Elizabeth Elstob...

     - 2,067 (0.01%)
  • Ray Rollinson - 1,206 (0.01%)
  • Leonora Fulani - 402 (0.00%)
  • Douglas Wilder
    Douglas Wilder
    Lawrence Douglas "Doug" Wilder is an American politician, the first African American to be elected as governor of Virginia, and the second to serve as governor of a U.S. state. Wilder served as the 66th Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. When earlier elected as Lieutenant Governor, he was...

     - 240 (0.00%)

1992 Democratic National Convention
1992 Democratic National Convention
The 1992 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party nominated Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas for President and Senator Al Gore of Tennessee for Vice President; Clinton announced Gore as his running-mate on July 9, 1992. The convention was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New...

  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     - 3,372 (80.27%)
  • Jerry Brown
    Jerry Brown
    Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

     - 596 (14.19%)
  • Paul Tsongas
    Paul Tsongas
    Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 presidential election. He previously served as a U.S...

     - 209 (4.98%)
  • Robert P. Casey
    Robert P. Casey
    Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey, Sr. was an American politician from Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 42nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995...

     - 10 (0.24%)
  • Patricia Schroeder
    Patricia Schroeder
    Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder , American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado, serving from 1973 to 1997. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado.- Early years :...

     - 8 (0.19%)
  • Larry Agran
    Larry Agran
    Lawrence Alan "Larry" Agran is a former mayor of Irvine, California, Orange County's noted planned city. Agran currently serves as Mayor Pro Tem on the City Council.- Early life :...

     - 3 (0.07%)
  • Ron Daniels - 1 (0.02%)
  • Al Gore
    Al Gore
    Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

     - 1 (0.02%)
  • Joe Simonetta 1 (0.02%)


United States presidential election, 1992
United States presidential election, 1992
The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George Bush; Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot....

  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

    /Al Gore
    Al Gore
    Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

     (D) - 44,909,806 (43.0%) and 370 electoral votes (32 states and D.C. carried)
  • George H. W. Bush
    George H. W. Bush
    George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

    /Dan Quayle
    Dan Quayle
    James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana....

     (R) (inc.) - 39,104,550 (37.4%) and 168 electoral votes (18 states carried)
  • Ross Perot
    Ross Perot
    Henry Ross Perot is a U.S. businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988...

    /James Stockdale
    James Stockdale
    Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale was one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the United States Navy.Stockdale led aerial attacks from the carrier during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident...

     (I) - 19,743,821 (18.9%)
  • Andre Marrou
    Andre Marrou
    Andre Verne Marrou is an American political figure, affiliated with the Libertarian Party.Born in Nixon, Texas, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962...

    /Nancy Lord
    Nancy Lord
    Nancy Lord was the vice-presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party in the U.S. presidential election, 1992, as the running-mate of Andre Marrou. Marrou and Lord placed fourth in the popular vote with 290,087 votes ....

     (Libertarian) - 290,087 (0.3%)
  • Bo Gritz
    Bo Gritz
    James Gordon "Bo" Gritz is a former United States Army Special Forces officer who served in the Vietnam War. His post-war activities notably attempted POW rescues in conjunction with the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue have proven controversial. Gritz lives near Sandy Valley, Nevada with his wife...

    /Cy Minett (Populist) - 106,152 (0.1%)
  • Lenora Fulani
    Lenora Fulani
    Lenora Branch Fulani is an American psychologist, psychotherapist, and political activist. She may be best known for her presidential campaigns and development of youth programs serving minority communities in the New York City area...

    /Maria Munoz (New Alliance) - 73,622 (0.07%)
  • Howard Phillips/Albion Knight, Jr.
    Albion Knight, Jr.
    Albion W. Knight, Jr. was the Presiding Bishop of the United Episcopal Church of North Americafrom 1989 until his resignation in 1992. As the Presiding Bishop of the UECNA, Knight more than tripled the number of parishes belonging to the church, oversaw the establishment of the church's seminary,...

     (Taxpayers) - 43,369 (0.04%)
  • Others - 152,516 (0.13%)


Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1996
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (inc.) - 9,706,802 (88.98%)
  • Lyndon LaRouche
    Lyndon LaRouche
    Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. is an American political activist and founder of a network of political committees, parties, and publications known collectively as the LaRouche movement...

     - 596,422 (5.47%)
  • Unpledged - 411,270 (3.77%)


1996 Democratic National Convention
1996 Democratic National Convention
The 1996 Democratic National Convention of the was held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois from August 26 to August 29, 1996. Incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton was renominated for President of United States.-Site selection:...

  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

     (inc.) - 4,277 (99.72%)
  • Abstaining - 12 (0.28%)


United States presidential election, 1996
United States presidential election, 1996
The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack...

  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

    /Al Gore
    Al Gore
    Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

     (D) (inc.) - 47,402,357 (49.2%) and 379 electoral votes (31 states and D.C. carried)
  • Bob Dole
    Bob Dole
    Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole is an American attorney and politician. Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996...

    /Jack Kemp
    Jack Kemp
    Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st...

     (R) - 39,198,755 (40.7%) and 159 electoral votes (19 states carried)
  • Ross Perot
    Ross Perot
    Henry Ross Perot is a U.S. businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988...

    /Pat Choate
    Pat Choate
    Patrick Choate is an American economist who is perhaps most known for being the 1996 Reform Party Vice President candidate, the running-mate of H. Ross Perot...

     (Reform) - 8,085,402 (8.4%)
  • Ralph Nader
    Ralph Nader
    Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....

    /Winona LaDuke
    Winona LaDuke
    Winona LaDuke is a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer. In 1996 and 2000, she ran for vice president as the nominee of the United States Green Party, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader. In the 2004 election, however, she endorsed one of Nader's opponents, Democratic...

     (Green) - 685,297 (0.7%)
  • Harry Browne
    Harry Browne
    Harry Browne was an American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000....

    /Jo Jorgensen
    Jo Jorgensen
    Jo Jorgensen was the United States Libertarian Party candidate for vice-president in the 1996 U.S. presidential election, the running mate of presidential candidate Harry Browne. She was also a South Carolina congressional candidate for House District 4 in 1992 receiving 4,286 votes for 2.2%.She is...

     (Libertarian) - 485,798 (0.5%)
  • Howard Phillips/Herbert Titus (Taxpayers) - 184,820 (0.2%)
  • John Hagelin
    John Hagelin
    John Samuel Hagelin is an American particle physicist, three-time candidate of the Natural Law Party for President of the United States , and the director of the Transcendental Meditation movement for the US....

    /Michael Tompkins (Natural Law) - 113,670 (0.1%)
  • Others - 121,534 (0.1%)

See also

  • Electoral history of Ronald Reagan
    Electoral history of Ronald Reagan
    Electoral history of Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States and 33rd Governor of California:Republican primary for Governor of California, 1966:* Ronald Reagan - 1,417,623 * George Christopher - 675,683...

  • Electoral history of Richard Nixon
    Electoral history of Richard Nixon
    Electoral history of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States and 36th Vice President of the United States.-U.S. House:Nixon ran unopposed in the 1948 Republican primary.-U.S...

  • Electoral history of George W. Bush
    Electoral history of George W. Bush
    George W. Bush was the 46th Governor of Texas and was the 43rd President of the United States. He has been involved in many elections, beginning in 1978 with his loss in the 19th Texas Congressional election, and ending with his 2004 reelection as president....

  • Electoral history of Al Gore
    Electoral history of Al Gore
    Al Gore is the former Vice President of the United States , the 2000 Democratic Party presidential nominee, and the co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was involved in politics for a number of decades.-House:...

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