1992 United States presidential election in Georgia


The 1992 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1992, and was part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Georgia was won by Governor Bill Clinton. The presidential contest in the Peach State was the closest of any state that year with Clinton winning 43.47% to 42.88% over Incumbent President George H. W. Bush by a razor thin margin of 0.59%. This made it the first time that Georgia had voted Democratic since 1980, when it voted for Jimmy Carter, who was the former Governor. The state has remained Republican since this election. From the mid-1960s until about the early 1990s, Georgia was a swing state in presidential elections, but also a state in which Democrats generally dominated congressional and state and local elections. Billionaire Businessman Ross Perot finished in third, with a significant 13.34% of the popular vote in the Peach state. This is the last time that Democrats would carry Georgia's electoral votes in a presidential election, as well as Pickens County, Franklin County, Lumpkin County, Morgan County, Lincoln County, Brantley County, Bacon County, Worth County, Bleckley County, Turner County, Monroe County, Jeff Davis County, Jones County, Candler County, Haralson County, and Laurens County. Ware County was tied, making this the last time it did not vote Republican, and the last time any county in the United States was tied between the Democratic and Republican Parties.
However, despite Clinton's victory in the Peach state, Republicans made significant gains during the coinciding congressional elections with former state Senator and Peace Corps Director Paul Coverdell's victory over Incumbent U.S. Senator Wyche Fowler in the Senate election runoff and gaining three of Georgia's U.S. House seats. Following this election Georgia would gradually become a "red state" following the Republican Revolution of 1994.
The Peach State and the state of Vermont almost never voted for the same party. Georgia never voted Republican until 1964, and is now a Republican-leaning state today. Correspondingly, Vermont never voted Democratic until 1964, and is now a Democratic-leaning state today. The 1992 election is the only Presidential election in which Georgia and Vermont both voted for the Democratic candidate. In fact, in 1992, Georgia and Vermont were tied for being the first states to be won by Bill Clinton.
Georgia weighed in for this election as 5 points more Republican than the national average.

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