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The 1996 presidential campaign of Ross Perot, an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and the founder of the Reform Party, was announced on July 10, 1996. Perot said he would seek the Reform Party nomination for president of the United States in the 1996 election during an appearance on Larry King Live .
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1996. 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 ...
Ross Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas in 1930, the son of Lula May (née Ray) and Gabriel Ross Perot, [3] a commodity broker specializing in cotton contracts. [4] [5] He had an older brother, Gabriel Perot Jr., who died as a toddler. [6] His patrilineal line traces back to a French-Canadian immigrant to the colony of Louisiana in the 1740s ...
On September 11, 1996, Perot announced his choice of economics professor Pat Choate as his running mate. [1] Perot and Choate had previously co-authored the book Save Your Job, Save Our Country, which argued against the ratification of NAFTA. [1] The Perot–Choate ticket took 8.4% of the popular vote in the 1996 election.
Elections were held on November 5, 1996. Democratic President Bill Clinton won re-election, while the Republicans maintained their majorities in both houses of the United States Congress. Clinton defeated Republican nominee Bob Dole and independent candidate Ross Perot in the presidential election, taking 379 of the 538 electoral votes.
Owen, Diana, and Jack Dennis. "Antiâpartyism in the USA and support for Ross Perot." European Journal of Political Research 29.3 (1996): 383–400. Stone, Walter J., Ronald B. Rapoport, and Monique B. Schneider. "Party Members in a Three-Party Election: Major-Party and Reform Activism in the 1996 American Presidential Election."
The 1996 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 5, 1996, ... Ross Perot [3] Reform Various candidates [3] Other parties Margin
The Reform Party candidate, billionaire businessman Ross Perot, finished in third, with 8.52% of the popular vote. [1] Although Clinton barely exceeded Michael Dukakis ’ 1988 margin in Iowa, he was the first Democrat to carry Allamakee County and Butler County – the only Iowa counties outside the arch-conservative western fringe to back ...