United States presidential election in Tennessee, 1996

United States presidential election in Tennessee, 1996

November 5, 1996

Nominee Bill Clinton Bob Dole Ross Perot Party Democratic Republican Reform Home state Arkansas Kansas Texas Running mate Al Gore Jack Kemp Pat Choate Electoral vote 11 0 0 Popular vote 909,146 863,530 105,918 Percentage 48.00% 45.59% 5.59%

President before election Bill Clinton Democratic Elected President Bill Clinton Democratic

The 1996 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 5, 1996. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.

Tennessee was won by incumbent United States President Bill Clinton of Arkansas, who was running against Kansas Senator Bob Dole. Clinton ran a second time with former Tennessee Senator Al Gore as Vice President, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp.^[1]

Tennessee weighed in for this election as 5% more Republican than the national average.

Partisan background

The presidential election of 1996 was a very multi-partisan election for Tennessee, with nearly 7% of the electorate voting for third-party candidates. Most counties in Tennessee turned out for Clinton, including the highly populated Shelby County and Davidson County, by narrow margins. Both Shelby and Davidson counties have been consistently Democratic since the election of 1992.

In his second bid for the Presidency, Ross Perot led the newly reformed Reform Party to gain over 5% of the votes in Tennessee, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States Presidency in recent times.

Results

United States presidential election in Tennessee, 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Bill Clinton	909,146	48.00%	11
	Republican	Bob Dole	863,530	45.59%	0
	Reform	Ross Perot	105,918	5.59%	0
	Green	Ralph Nader	6,427	0.34%	0
	Libertarian	Harry Browne	5,020	0.27%	0
	Taxpayers’	Howard Phillips	1,818	0.10%	0
	Independent	Charles E. Collins	688	0.04%	0
	Natural Law	Dr. John Hagelin	636	0.03%	0
	Independent	Stephen Michael	408	0.02%	0
	Prohibition	Earl Dodge	324	0.02%	0
	Write-ins		190	0.01%	0
Totals			1,894,105	100.00%	11
Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered)

See also

• Yugoslav Wars
• Presidency of Bill Clinton

References

1. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved 2013-07-21.