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Source (popular vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996". National Archives and Records Administration Leip, David. "1988 Presidential Election Results". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Source (electoral vote): "Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".
Electoral vote: George H. W. Bush (R) 426: Michael Dukakis (D) 111: 1988 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Bush, blue denotes states won by Dukakis. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Democratic hold: Seats contested: 33 of 100 seats: Net seat change: Democratic ...
The 1988 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 8, 1988, as part of the 1988 United States presidential election.Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The Electoral College's electors then formally elect the president and vice president. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1804) provides the procedure by which the president and vice president are elected; electors vote separately for each office.
The 1988 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 8, 1988. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1988 United States presidential election . Voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College , which selected the president and vice president .
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
A rare event in any United States presidential election, West Virginia was home to a faithless elector in the election of 1988. During the assembly of the electoral college, one elector from West Virginia, Margarette Leach, cast her vote for the Democratic vice presidential nominee Lloyd Bentsen as president, and Dukakis as the vice president ...