Electoral history of Bill Clinton

Electoral history of Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States (1993–2001); 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas (1979–1981 and 1983–1992).

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

Bill Clinton (37)

Paul Tsongas (9)

Jerry Brown (6)

Tom Harkin (3)

Bob Kerrey (1)

1992 Democratic Party presidential primaries

Bill Clinton - 10,482,411 (52.01%)
Jerry Brown - 4,071,232 (20.20%)
Paul Tsongas - 3,656,010 (18.14%)
Unpledged - 750,873 (3.73%)
Bob Kerrey - 318,457 (1.58%)
Tom Harkin - 280,304 (1.39%)
Lyndon LaRouche - 154,599 (0.77%)
Eugene McCarthy - 108,678 (0.54%)
Charles Woods - 88,948 (0.44%)
Larry Agran - 58,611 (0.29%)
Ross Perot - 54,755 (0.27%)
Ralph Nader - 35,935 (0.18%)
Louis Stokes - 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 - 2,067 (0.01%)
Ray Rollinson - 1,206 (0.01%)
Leonora Fulani - 402 (0.00%)
Douglas Wilder - 240 (0.00%)

1992 Democratic National Convention

Bill Clinton - 3,372 (80.27%)
Jerry Brown - 596 (14.19%)
Paul Tsongas - 209 (4.98%)
Robert P. Casey - 10 (0.24%)
Patricia Schroeder - 8 (0.19%)
Larry Agran - 3 (0.07%)
Ron Daniels - 1 (0.02%)
Al Gore - 1 (0.02%)
Joe Simonetta 1 (0.02%)

1992 United States presidential election

Electoral college map of the 1992 United States presidential election

Electoral results
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote		Electoral vote	Running mate
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Count	Percentage	Electoral vote	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

Bill Clinton (inc.) - 9,706,802 (88.98%)
Lyndon LaRouche - 596,422 (5.47%)
Unpledged - 411,270 (3.77%)

1996 Democratic National Convention

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

1996 United States presidential election

Electoral college map of the 1996 United States presidential election

Electoral results
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote		Electoral vote	Running mate
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Count	Percentage	Electoral vote	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

Notes

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]
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]
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]
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.
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]
Candidates receiving less than 0.05% of the total popular vote.
Candidates receiving less than 0.05% of the total popular vote.

References

AllPolitics - Candidates - Democrats Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
"'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.
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
"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.
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.
"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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[3] 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]

[4] 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]

[6] 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]

[7] 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.

[11] 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]

[12] Candidates receiving less than 0.05% of the total popular vote.

[13] Candidates receiving less than 0.05% of the total popular vote.

[1] AllPolitics - Candidates - Democrats Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine

[split_ticket-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.

[5] 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

[8] "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.

[9] 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.

[10] "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.

Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States (1993–2001) 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas (1979–1981, 1983–1992)
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