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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1996. [2] Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton and his running mate, incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore were re-elected to a second and final term, defeating the Republican ticket of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp and the Reform ticket of ...
From January 29 to June 4, 1996, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1996 United States presidential election.Incumbent President Bill Clinton was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1996 Democratic National Convention held from August 26 to August 29, 1996, in Chicago, Illinois.
During the 1996 gubernatorial elections, the governorships of the eleven states and two territories were up for election. Going into the elections, Republicans held the governorships of thirty-two states, Democrats held those of seventeen states, all territories , and the Mayorship of the District of Columbia , and one Governor was a member of ...
This is the first election since 1964 that Democrats swept all five boroughs of New York City, which also occurred in 2000 and 2012. In this process of sweeping traditionally Republican suburbs around New York City, Clinton increased his lead in Westchester County – where he later moved in 2000 – from an 8.5% win in 1992 to a 21-point sweep ...
The 1996 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, announced his candidacy for re-election as president on April 14, 1995. On August 29, 1996 , he again became the nominee of the Democratic Party for the 1996 presidential election .
This article contains lists of official and potential third party and independent candidates associated with the 1996 United States presidential election. "Third party" is a term commonly used in the United States in reference to political parties other than the two major parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
The election was, however, the first time the Democratic presidential nominee had carried Prince Edward County – famous for its Civil Rights-era school desegregation cases – since Harry S. Truman in 1948, [a] and the first time since 1968 that Essex County had voted Democratic. [3] In this election, Virginia voted 10.47 points to the right ...
The presidential election of 1996 was a very multi-partisan election for Tennessee, with nearly seven percent of the electorate voting for third-party candidates. Most counties in Tennessee turned out for Clinton, including the highly populated Shelby County and Davidson County, by narrow margins.