The 1992 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Nevada was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 37.36% of the popular vote over incumbent President George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) with 34.73%. Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third, with 26.19% of the popular vote. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush and Perot.
Clinton's win in the state, although narrow, marked the first time since 1964 that a Democrat would carry Nevada and the beginning of its transition from a fairly Republican state into a swing state, like it had been in most elections prior to 1968. The state would go on to back the national winner in every election onward until 2016. Although Clinton carried only two of the state's seventeen counties, his win in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, and the most populous county in the state, would prove the key to this and future Democratic victories in Nevada.
Clinton's percentage of the vote was the lowest to win a state since Woodrow Wilson carried only 32.08 percent of the vote in Idaho in 1912. , this is the last time a Democratic presidential candidate carried White Pine County in a presidential election,Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 and the last one where a candidate outside the two major parties carried any Nevada county. In this case, Ross Perot carried Storey County.
Results 1992 United States presidential election in NevadaPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Bill Clinton 189,148 37.36% 4 Republican George H. W. Bush (incumbent) 175,828 34.73% 0 Independent Ross Perot 132,580 26.19% 0 America First James "Bo" Gritz 2,892 0.57% 0 N/A "None of these candidates" 2,537 0.50% 0 Libertarian Andre Marrou 1,835 0.36% 0 American Independent Howard Phillips 677 0.13% 0 New Alliance Lenora Fulani 483 0.10% 0 Natural Law Dr. John Hagelin 338 0.07% 0 Totals 506,318 100.0% 4
Results by county County Bill ClintonNevada Secretary of State, compiled 1992; General Election Returns (Carson City, 1992)Democratic George H.W. BushRepublican Ross PerotIndependent Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % Carson City 6,035 32.10% 7,302 38.83% 5,195 27.63% 271 1.44% -1,267 -6.73% 18,803 Churchill 1,770 23.10% 3,789 49.45% 1,964 25.63% 140 1.83% -1,825 -23.82% 7,663 Clark 124,586 41.15% 97,403 32.17% 75,364 24.89% 5,429 1.79% 27,183 8.98% 302,782 Douglas 3,928 25.94% 6,182 40.82% 4,814 31.79% 221 1.46% -1,368 -9.03% 15,145 Elko 2,782 23.33% 5,208 43.67% 3,628 30.42% 308 2.58% -1,580 -13.25% 11,926 Esmeralda 118 20.21% 221 37.84% 220 37.67% 25 4.28% -1 -0.17% 584 Eureka 129 18.70% 330 47.83% 214 31.01% 17 2.46% -116 -16.82% 690 Humboldt 810 22.99% 1,505 42.72% 1,149 32.61% 59 1.67% -356 -10.11% 3,523 Lander 423 21.23% 885 44.43% 652 32.73% 32 1.61% -233 -11.70% 1,992 Lincoln 511 27.52% 890 47.93% 394 21.22% 62 3.34% -379 -20.41% 1,857 Lyon 2,777 30.17% 3,509 38.12% 2,716 29.51% 202 2.19% -732 -7.95% 9,204 Mineral 909 34.42% 918 34.76% 746 28.25% 68 2.57% -9 -0.34% 2,641 Nye 2,561 31.92% 2,743 34.19% 2,501 31.18% 217 2.71% -182 -2.27% 8,022 Pershing 467 29.82% 643 41.06% 429 27.39% 27 1.72% -176 -11.24% 1,566 Storey 488 32.13% 458 30.15% 550 36.21% 23 1.51% -62 -4.08% 1,519 Washoe 39,500 34.45% 42,636 37.18% 30,974 27.01% 1,561 1.36% -3,136 -2.73% 114,671 White Pine 1,354 36.30% 1,206 32.33% 1,070 28.69% 100 2.68% 148 3.97% 3,730Totals189,14837.36%175,82834.73%132,58026.19%8,7621.73%13,3202.63%506,318
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
Clark White Pine
Counties that flipped from Republican to Independent
Storey
See also United States presidential elections in Nevada
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