United States presidential election in Missouri, 1992
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The 1992 United States presidential election in Missouri was held on November 3, 1992, as part of the broader
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 ...
in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose 11 electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President. From
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to
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, Missouri voted for the eventual winner of every presidential election except
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. The state was won in 1992 by
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Bill Clinton ( D) with 44.07 percent of the popular vote, over incumbent President George Herbert Walker Bush ( R) with 33.92 percent of the popular vote — the smallest vote share for a Republican since
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when the party was not seriously contesting slave states outside of the Missouri Rhineland.Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas
Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Missouri
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performed extremely well for a third-party candidate with 21.69 percent of the popular vote — the best third-party performance in Missouri since Constitutional Unionist John Bell in that same 1860 election. Bush’s failure can be seen in Clinton being the solitary Democrat to win staunchly Unionist German “Forty-Eighter” Warren County since
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in 1860,Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', p. 115 and the first Democrat to carry similarly Unionist Ozark Hickory County since that same election, the only Democrat to carry Morgan County since Franklin D. Roosevelt in
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, and the first to carry Benton County also since 1932.Menendez; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States'', pp. 239-246 , this remains the last time that
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, Howell County, Harrison County, Adair County, Andrew County, Johnson County, Butler County, Atchison County, Phelps County, Platte County, Maries County, Stoddard County, Pulaski County,
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, Texas County, and Carter County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David
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It was also the last time that a Democrat carried the state by double digits, the last double-digit win for any candidate until
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, the last time that Missouri has voted to the left of neighboring Iowa, and the last time that the state voted more Democratic than the nation as a whole, weighing in at about 4 points more Democratic.


Results


Results by county


See also

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United States presidential elections in Missouri The tables below list the United States presidential elections in Missouri, ordered by year. Since 1904, Missouri has voted for the eventual winner of the presidential election with only four exceptions: 1956, 2008, 2012, and 2020. Missouri was hi ...
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Notes


References

{{State results of the 1992 U.S. presidential election Missouri
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