1992 United States presidential election

1992 United States presidential election
538 members of the Electoral College; 270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	55.2% 5.0 pp
	Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Bush/Quayle, Blue denotes those won by Clinton/Gore.
President before election; George H. W. Bush; Republican	Elected President ; Bill Clinton; Democratic

The 1992 United States presidential election happened on November 3, 1992. Bill Clinton, the Democratic candidate and Governor of Arkansas, won the election. He defeated the incumbent president, George H. W. Bush, who was a Republican, and Ross Perot, an independent candidate.

Clinton got 370 electoral votes, Bush got 168, and Perot got 0. A person running for president needs to get 270 to win.

George H.W. Bush may have lost the election for several reasons. He broke his promise of "Read my lips: no new taxes" by increasing taxes during his term. Some of his most well-known accomplishments during his presidency came from his foreign policy, and because of the Cold War and Gulf War being over, foreign policy became a smaller issue, as the economy became a bigger issue, since the economy was bad.

Prior to 2020, this was the last election where a candidate won the presidency without winning Florida.

Candidates

Republican Party

George H. W. Bush	Dan Quayle
1992 Republican Party ticket
for President	for Vice President

41st President of the United States (1989–1993)	44th Vice President of the United States (1989–1993)

Republican candidates

George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States from Texas (1989-1993) (Nominee)
Pat Buchanan, conservative columnist and former White House Communications Director (1985-1987) from Virginia
David Duke, state representative from Louisiana (1985-1987) and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (1974-1980)
Harold Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota (1939-1945) and perennial candidate (1944, 1948, 1952, 1964, 1968, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992)

Candidates gallery

Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas
Governor Jerry Brown of California
Former Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts
Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska
Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa
Governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota

Democratic Party

Bill Clinton	Al Gore
1992 Democratic Party Ticket
for President	for Vice President

40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas (1979–1981, 1983–1992)	U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993)

Democratic candidates

Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas (1979-1981, 1983-1992) (Nominee)
Jerry Brown, former Governor of California (1975-1983)
Paul Tsongas, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1979-1985)
Bob Kerrey, U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989-2001)
Tom Harkin, U.S. Senator from Iowa (1975-1983)
Douglas Wilder, Governor of Virginia (1990-1994)
Eugene McCarthy, former U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1959-1971)
Larry Agran, former Mayor of Irvine, California (1982-1984, 1986-1990)

Ross Perot candidacy

Ross Perot	James Stockdale
1992 Independent ticket
for President	for Vice President

President and CEO of Perot Systems (1988–2009)	President of the Naval War College (1977–1979)

1992 United States Presidential Election Media

Democratic Party (United States)
AlGore,VicePresidentoftheUnitedStates,officialportrait
Jerry Brown
A man standing next to a granite bobbin sculpture.* * Keywords: Lowell; Sculpture; Tsongas; Bobbin
Official portrait of U.S. Senator Tom Harkin
Portrait of U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE)
Jerry Brown 1992 Campaign Logo

Other websites

References

↑ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved October 21, 2012.

[1] "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved October 21, 2012.

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