Electoral history of Bill Clinton

Electoral history of Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States (19932001); 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas (19791981 and 19831992).

President Bill Clinton

Congressional races (1974)

1974 Arkansas's 3rd congressional district election, Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton 59,697 43.60%
Democratic Gene Rainwater 36,145 26.40%
Democratic David Stewart 34,959 25.53%
Democratic James A. Scanlon 6,121 4.47%
Total votes 136,922 100.00%
1974 Arkansas's 3rd congressional district election, Democratic primary runoff
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton 37,788 68.96%
Democratic Gene Rainwater 17,011 31.04%
Total votes 54,799 100.00%
1974 Arkansas's 3rd congressional district election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt (incumbent) 89,324 51.83%
Democratic Bill Clinton 83,030 48.17%
Total votes 172,354 100.00%

Statewide races in Arkansas (1976–1990)

Arkansas Attorney General, 1976 (Democratic primary):[1]

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

Arkansas Attorney General, 1976

  • Bill Clinton (D) - elected unopposed
1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton 341,118 59.55%
Democratic Joe Woodward 123,674 21.59%
Democratic Frank Lady 76,026 13.27%
Democratic Randall Mathis 26,096 4.56%
Democratic Monroe Schwarzlose 5,898 1.03%
Total votes 572,812 100.00%
County results of the 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election
1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton 335,101 63.36%
Republican Lynn Lowe 193,746 36.64%
Total votes 528,847 100.00%
1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 306,735 68.87%
Democratic Monroe Schwarzlose 138,660 31.13%
Total votes 445,395 100.00%
County results of the 1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election
1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Frank D. White 435,684 51.93%
Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 403,241 48.07%
Total votes 838,925 100.00%
1982 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton 236,961 41.78%
Democratic Joe Purcell 166,066 29.28%
Democratic Jim Guy Tucker 129,362 22.81%
Democratic Kim Hendren 21,829 3.85%
Democratic Monroe Schwarzlose 12,907 2.28%
Total votes 567,125 100.00%
1982 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Democratic primary runoff
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton 239,209 53.69%
Democratic Joe Purcell 206,358 46.31%
Total votes 445,567 100.00%
County results of the 1982 Arkansas gubernatorial election
1982 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton 431,855 54.71%
Republican Frank D. White (incumbent) 357,496 45.29%
Total votes 789,351 100.00%
1984 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 317,577 64.46%
Democratic Lonnie Turner 119,266 24.21%
Democratic Kermit Moss 31,727 6.44%
Democratic Monroe Schwarzlose 24,116 4.90%
Total votes 492,686 100.00%
County results of the 1984 Arkansas gubernatorial election
1984 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 554,561 62.55%
Republican Woody Freeman 331,987 37.45%
Total votes 886,548 100.00%
1986 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 315,397 60.58%
Democratic Orval E. Faubus 174,402 33.50%
Democratic W. Dean Goldsby 30,829 5.92%
Total votes 520,628 100.00%
County results of the 1986 Arkansas gubernatorial election
1986 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 439,882 63.89%
Republican Frank D. White 248,427 36.08%
Total votes 688,309 100.00%
1990 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 269,329 54.84%
Democratic Tom McRae 190,887 38.87%
Democratic Joe Holmes 9,659 1.97%
Democratic Jerry Tolliver 8,629 1.76%
Democratic Cyrus Young 4,301 0.88%
Total votes 482,805 100.00%
County results of the 1990 Arkansas gubernatorial election
1990 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Bill Clinton (incumbent) 400,386 57.49%
Republican Sheffield Nelson 295,925 42.49%
Total votes 696,311 100.00%

Presidential elections (1992–1996)

First instance vote by state and territory of the 1992 Democratic Party presidential primaries

1992 Democratic Party presidential primaries

1992 Democratic National Convention

1992 United States presidential election

Electoral results
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral
vote
Running mate
Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote
William Jefferson Clinton Democratic Arkansas 44,909,889 43.01% 370 Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. Tennessee 370
George Herbert Walker Bush (Incumbent) Republican Texas 39,104,550 37.45% 168 James Danforth Quayle Indiana 168
Henry Ross Perot Independent Texas 19,743,821 18.91% 0 James Bond Stockdale California 0
Andre Verne Marrou Libertarian Alaska 290,087 0.28% 0 Nancy Lord Nevada 0
Bo Gritz Populist Nevada 106,152 0.10% 0 Cyril Minett New Mexico 0
Lenora Fulani New Alliance Party New York 73,622 0.07% 0 Maria Elizabeth Muñoz California 0
Howard Phillips U.S. Taxpayers Party Virginia 43,369 0.04% 0 Albion Knight, Jr. Florida 0
Other 152,516 0.13% Other
Total 104,423,923 100% 538 538
Needed to win 270 270

1996 Democratic Party presidential primaries

1996 Democratic National Convention

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

1996 United States presidential election

Electoral results
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral
vote
Running mate
Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote
William Jefferson Clinton (Incumbent) Democratic[lower-alpha 1] Arkansas 47,401,185 49.24% 379 Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. Tennessee 379
Robert Joseph Dole Republican[lower-alpha 2] Kansas 39,197,469 40.71% 159 Jack French Kemp New York[3] 159
Henry Ross Perot Reform[lower-alpha 3] Texas 8,085,294 8.40% 0 Patrick Choate[lower-alpha 4] Washington, D.C. 0
Ralph Nader Green Connecticut 685,297 0.71% 0 Winona LaDuke[lower-alpha 5] California 0
Harry Browne Libertarian Tennessee 485,759 0.50% 0 Jo Jorgensen South Carolina 0
Howard Phillips Taxpayers Virginia 184,656 0.19% 0 Herbert Titus Oregon 0
John Hagelin Natural Law Iowa 113,670 0.12% 0 Mike Tompkins Massachusetts 0
Other[lower-alpha 6] 113,667 0.12% Other[lower-alpha 7]
Total 96,277,634 100% 538 538
Needed to win 270 270

See also

Notes

  1. In New York, the Clinton vote was a fusion of the Democratic and Liberal slates. There, Clinton obtained 3,649,630 votes on the Democratic ticket and 106,547 votes on the Liberal ticket.[2]
  2. In New York, the Dole vote was a fusion of the Republican, Conservative, and Freedom slates. There, Dole obtained 1,738,707 votes on the Republican ticket, 183,392 votes on the Conservative ticket, and 11,393 votes on the Freedom ticket.[2]
  3. In South Carolina, the Perot vote was a fusion of the Reform and Patriot slates. There, Perot obtained 27,464 votes on the Reform ticket and 36,913 votes on the Patriot ticket.[2]
  4. On the California, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas election ballots, James Campbell of California, Perot's former boss at IBM, was listed as a stand-in Vice-Presidential candidate until Perot decided on Pat Choate as his choice for Vice President.
  5. The Green Party vice presidential candidate varied from state to state. Winona LaDuke was his vice presidential candidate in eighteen of the twenty-two states where he appeared on the ballot. Anne Goeke was Nader's running mate in Iowa[4] and Vermont. Madelyn Hoffman was his running mate in New Jersey.[5] Muriel Tillinghast was his running mate in New York.[6]
  6. Candidates receiving less than 0.05% of the total popular vote.
  7. Candidates receiving less than 0.05% of the total popular vote.

References

  1. AllPolitics - Candidates - Democrats Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "'96 Presidential and Congressional Election Statistics". Official website of the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Archived from the original on January 26, 2006. Retrieved February 17, 2006.
  3. Matthews, Dylan (August 9, 2012). "The effect of veep picks, in two charts". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 27, 2014. Jack Kemp, whose home state of New York saw an even stronger anti-Republican swing in 1996
  4. "November 12, 1996" (PDF). Minutes of the Meetings of the Board of Supervisors. Cerro Gordo County. 1996. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 26, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2006.
  5. Fernandez, Sonia (February 22, 2000). "Nader '55 to run for president". The Daily Princetonian. Daily Princetonian Publishing Company, Inc. Archived from the original on March 24, 2007. Retrieved March 30, 2006.
  6. "Electors of President and Vice President". Cattaraugus County: Board of Elections: 1996 Election Results. Cattaraugus County, New York State. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved March 30, 2006.
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