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1992 United States presidential election
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Turnout
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Presidential election results map.
Red
denotes states won by Bush/Quayle,
Blue
denotes those won by Clinton/Gore.
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The
1992 United States presidential election
happened on November 3, 1992.
Bill Clinton
, the
Democratic
candidate and Governor of Arkansas, won the election. He defeated the incumbent president,
George H. W. Bush
, who was a
Republican
, and
Ross Perot
, an
independent
candidate.
Clinton got 370 electoral votes, Bush got 168, and Perot got 0. A person running for president needs to get 270 to win.
George H.W. Bush may have lost the election for several reasons. He broke his promise of "
Read my lips: no new taxes
" by increasing taxes during his term. Some of his most well-known accomplishments during his presidency came from his foreign policy, and because of the
Cold War
and
Gulf War
being over, foreign policy became a smaller issue, as the economy became a bigger issue, since the economy was bad.
Prior to
2020
, this was the last election where a candidate won the presidency without winning
Florida
.
Republican candidates
Democratic candidates