The 1996 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 5, 1996, as part of the

1996 United States presidential election The 1996 United States presidential election was the 53rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1996. Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeated former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican nominee ...

. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for

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was won by

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( D) over Senator

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( R- KS), with Clinton winning 46.5% to 44.3% by a margin of 2.2%.Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas
1996 Presidential General Election Results – Arizona
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/ref> Clinton had come fairly close to winning Arizona four years earlier. In his re-election bid, he was able to gain a larger share of the vote in Democratic-trending

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as well as most of northern Arizona. He also increased his support in

Maricopa County Maricopa County is in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,420,568, making it the state's most populous county, and the fourth-most populous in the United States. It contains about 6 ...

, although it was again carried by the Republican candidate. His statewide margin of victory was slightly over 31,000 votes out of about 1.4 million cast. Billionaire businessman

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(Reform-TX) finished in third, with 8.0% of the popular vote. Exit polls suggest he did not change the outcome. As of 2020, this is the last election in which the following counties have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Gila,

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, Pinal and

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''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016 This is the only presidential election in Arizona's history in which Maricopa County, containing more than half of Arizona's population, voted for a candidate that lost the state, and one of only two elections in which

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, home to the city of Prescott, did so. This was the first time a Democrat had won Arizona in a presidential election since 1948, and the last time until

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. Had Dole won the state, Arizona would have had the longest streak of consecutive Republican wins in the nation until 2020.

Results

Results by county

References

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