United States presidential election in Alabama, 1992
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The 1992 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the
1992 United States presidential election The 1992 United States presidential election was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, independent ...
. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for
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Alabama (We dare defend our rights) , anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Al ...
was won by
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George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker BushSince around 2000, he has been usually called George H. W. Bush, Bush Senior, Bush 41 or Bush the Elder to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president from 2001 to 2009; pr ...
( R- TX). The presidential contest in Alabama was not a surprise, with Bush winning 47.65% to 40.88% over
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( D), a margin of 6.77%. Despite the fact that Clinton was a Southern Democrat, Alabama remained a reliably Republican state. The last Democrat to carry Alabama was
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, who was also a Southern Democrat. Billionaire businessman
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( I- TX) finished in third, with a disappointing 10.85%.
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Macon County saw Perot receive his smallest vote share in the nation, and that same county also gave Bush his smallest vote share of any county.Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas
1992 Presidential Election Statistics
/ref> By contrast, white suburban Shelby County saw Bush receive 67.97% of the vote, a Republican share exceeded in this three-way election only by the famous past and present bastions of Jackson County, Kentucky,
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, and the Texas Panhandle counties of Hansford and
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. , this is the last time a Democratic candidate won Lauderdale County, and the last time a Republican won Montgomery County.Sullivan, Robert David
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Bush's 47.65% of the popular vote was his third-highest vote share in the nation, after
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See also

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United States presidential elections in Alabama Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Alabama, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1819, Alabama has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, during the American Civil ...


References

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Alabama (We dare defend our rights) , anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Al ...
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
1992 Alabama elections