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President Bush's 37.4% was the lowest percentage total for a sitting president seeking re-election since William Howard Taft, also in 1912 (23.2%). [91] 1992 was, as the 1912 election was, a three-way race (that time between Taft, Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt).
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.
November 3: Bill Clinton elected U.S. president. November 3 Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeats incumbent President George H. W. Bush and businessman H. Ross Perot in the US presidential election. [12] The rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine releases their self-titled debut album. November 20 – Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is ...
The 1992 United States elections elected state governors, the president of the United States, and members of the 103rd United States Congress.The election took place after the Soviet Union crumbled and the Cold War ended, as well as the redistricting that resulted from the 1990 census.
This list of 1992 United States presidential electors contains members of the Electoral College, known as "electors", who cast ballots to elect the president of the United States and vice president of the United States in the 1992 presidential election. There are 538 electors from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. [1]
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe; born August 19, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.
Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. The District of Columbia , heavily Democratic , was won in a landslide by Governor Bill Clinton (D- Arkansas ) with 84.64% of the popular vote over incumbent President George H. W. Bush ( R - Texas ) with 9.10%.
1992 Austrian presidential election; 1992 Azerbaijani presidential election; Croatia: 1992 Croatian parliamentary election; 1992 Croatian presidential election; 1992 Czechoslovak parliamentary election was held in Czechoslovakia in June 1992, alongside elections for the Czech and Slovak Assemblies. 1992 Czech legislative election