Presidential election in the United States in 1996

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53rd presidential election
5th November 1996
			Democratic Party
			Bill Clinton / Al Gore
			electors					379
			be right				47,401,185
									49.2%
			Republican Party
			Bob Dole / Jack Kemp
			electors					159
			be right				39.197.469
									40.7%
			Reform Party
			Ross Perot / Pat Choate
			electors					0
			be right				8,085,294
									8.4%
Election results by state
31 states + DC   Clinton / Gore						19 states   Dole / Kemp
0   Perot / Choate
President of the United States
Pre-election Bill Clinton Democratic Party						Elected Bill Clinton Democratic Party

The 53rd election of the President of the United States of America took place on November 5, 1996 . Reelected was Bill Clinton remained the order 42nd President of the United States.

Candidates

The Democratic Party nominated the incumbent Bill Clinton and Al Gore , the Republican Party joined Bob Dole as a candidate for the office of president and Jack Kemp as a candidate for the office of vice president in the race. As a third party candidate, Ross Perot ran for the Reform Party with running mate Pat Choate and Ralph Nader for the Greens with vice-presidential candidate Winona LaDuke .

Election campaign

From the start, Clinton had an age advantage over 72-year-old Bob Dole. Clinton was able to portray his opponent as an aging Conservative, and so Clinton had a comfortable lead over Dole and the other candidates throughout.

In the television duels Perot was denied participation, against which he later filed a lawsuit.

Result

Bill Clinton received 47,401,185 (49.2%) of the total vote, while Dole got a total of only 39,197,469 (40.71%) votes. With 8,085,294 (8.4%) votes, Ross Perot was, as expected, far behind. In the deciding electoral college , Clinton received 379 votes, while Bob Dole received only 159 votes.

Clinton was the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 to win two consecutive elections. He was also the first Democratic president to be sustained in office since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 .

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
Bill Clinton	democrat	47,401,185	49.2%	379
Bob Dole	republican	39.197.469	40.71%	159
Ross Perot	Reform party	8,085,294	8.4%	-
Ralph Nader	Green	685.297	0.7%	-
Others		908.389	0.99%	-
total		96.277.634	100%	538

Web links

Commons : 1996 US Presidential Election  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

literature

• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 508-517 (= Chapter 55: William J. Clinton's Relection. ).
• Edwin D. Dover: The Presidential Election of 1996: Clinton's Incumbency and Television . Praeger Publishers, Westport (CT) 1998, ISBN 0-275-96259-8