The 1988 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 8, 1988. All fifty states and
the District of Columbia
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, were part of the
1988 United States presidential election
The 1988 United States presidential election was the 51st quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988. The Republican nominee, incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush, defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Michael ...
. State voters chose seven electors to the
Electoral College, which selected the
president and
vice president.
Arizona was won by incumbent United States
Vice President 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 ...
of
Texas, who was running against
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Bush ran with
Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as Vice President, and Dukakis ran with
Texas Senator
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Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was an American politician who was a four-term United States Senator (1971–1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ti ...
.
Arizona weighed in for this election as 14 points more
Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1988 was a very
partisan
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election for Arizona, with nearly 99% of the electorate voting for either the
Democratic
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or
Republican parties.
Nearly every
county turned out for Bush, with the exception of Native American
Apache County
Apache County is in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. Shaped in a long rectangle running north to south, as of the 2020 census, its population was 66,021. The county seat is St. Johns.
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and heavily unionized
Greenlee County
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voting primarily for Dukakis.
, this is the last occasion when the counties of
Coconino,
Pima
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and
Santa Cruz have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.
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‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’
''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016
Bush won the election in the traditionally conservative and Republican state of Arizona with a solid 21-point margin.
Results
Results by county
See also
*
Presidency of George H. W. Bush
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References
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1988 Arizona elections