1992 United States presidential election in Texas


The 1992 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose thirty-two representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Texas was won by incumbent President George H. W. Bush with 40.56% of the popular vote over Governor Bill Clinton with 37.08%. Businessman Ross Perot finished in third, with 22.01% of the popular vote. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush. He was the first Democrat to win a presidential election without Texas since its statehood. Despite Bush's ties to the state, this is the closest since 1976 that Texas has come to voting for a Democratic presidential candidate. This would also be the first time since 1968 when Texas would back the losing candidate in a presidential election. The same of which would also occur when Texas voted for losing Republican candidates Bob Dole in 1996, John McCain in 2008, and Mitt Romney in 2012.
Texas was one of few states in the U.S where Ross Perot won any counties, namely Irion, Somervell, Grayson, and Loving. Perot was the first third-party candidate to win any Texas counties since George Wallace in 1968., this is the last time these four aforementioned counties have not voted Republican, and the last time a third-party candidate won any of Texas’ counties. Loving County gave Perot his best performance in the country, earning 46.88% of the vote. As contrast, and more typically in modern American politics, Starr County was Clinton’s strongest outside the District of Columbia, and one of the only two to give him over 80% of the vote, the other being Macon County, Alabama, whilst the Panhandle counties of Hansford and Ochiltree were the third and fourth strongest for Bush nationwide behind the famous bastions of Jackson County, Kentucky and Sioux County, Iowa.
Clinton remains the last Democratic candidate to carry these counties: Crockett, Concho, McCulloch, Coleman, Mills, Throckmorton, Briscoe, Hays, Hill, Freestone, Henderson, Jack, Clay, Montague, Franklin, Lamar, Upshur, Angelina, Hardin, Liberty, Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, and Houston.
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