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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 ...
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
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.
From January 29 to June 4, 1996, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1996 United States presidential election.Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, the former Senate majority leader and previous vice presidential nominee, was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1996 Republican National Convention held from August ...
1996 United States presidential election in Washington, D. C. Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic: Bill Clinton : Al Gore (incumbent) 158,220: 85.19%: 3: Republican: Bob Dole: Jack Kemp: 17,339 9.34% 0 Green: Ralph Nader: Winona LaDuke: 4,780 2.57% 0 Reform: Ross Perot: Patrick Choate: 3,611 1.94% 0 No party ...
The United States Reform Party had great difficulty in finding a candidate willing to run in the general election. Lowell Weicker, Tim Penny, David Boren and Richard Lamm were among those who toyed with the notion of seeking its presidential nomination, though all but Lamm decided against it; Lamm had himself come close to withdrawing his name from consideration.
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 ...
1996 United States presidential election in Arizona [6] Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic: Bill Clinton : Al Gore (incumbent) 653,288: 46.52%: 8: Republican: Robert Dole: Jack Kemp: 622,073 44.29% 0 Reform: Ross Perot: Patrick Choate: 112,072 7.98% 0 Libertarian: Harry Browne: Jo Jorgensen: 14,358 1.02% 0 ...