United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 1992
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The 1992 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for
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. Oklahoma was won by incumbent President George H. W. Bush ( R-
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) with 42.65 percent of the popular vote over
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) with 34.02 percent. Businessman Ross Perot ( I-Texas) finished in third, with 23.01 percent of the popular vote. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating both incumbent President Bush and Perot. , this is the last election in which Beckham County, Delaware County,
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, and Stephens County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David
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This was the first time that the Democrats won the White House without Jackson County and the first time since Oklahoma statehood that a losing Republican managed to carry any of the 10 counties bordering the Red River. This is the most recent time that a Democrat has carried a majority of Oklahoma's counties in a presidential election.


Results


Results by county


Slates of Electors

Democrat: Earl E. Abernathy,
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, Obera Bergdall, Carolyn Crump, Lynn D. Hall, Glorine Henley, Grace Hudlin, Pete White Republican: Jana Barker, Linda Blaylock, Ed Calhoon, Betty Casey, Allan Goodbary, Warren Roberts, Paul Thornbrugh, Dorothy Zumwalt, Libertarian: Michael Alan Clem, Phillip R. Denney, Anne Hill Fruits, Randy Lee Gann, Vanessa C. McNeill, Brian J. Sullivan, David J. Walker, Paul O. Woodward Independent: Pat Bigelow, Kathryn Fanning, Joe D. Sewell, A. D. Hollingsworth, A. R. Posey, John Sanders, Robert T. Jones, Jeanie Wolfgram


See also

*
United States presidential elections in Oklahoma Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Oklahoma, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1907, Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central ...
* Presidency of Bill Clinton


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References

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