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1992 United States presidential election in Maryland

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1992 United States presidential election in Maryland

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Nominee Bill Clinton George H. W. Bush Ross Perot
Party Democratic Republican Independent
Home state Arkansas Texas Texas
Running mate Al Gore Dan Quayle James Stockdale
Electoral vote 10 0 0
Popular vote 988,571 707,094 281,414
Percentage 49.80% 35.62% 14.18%

County Results

President before election

George H. W. Bush
Republican

Elected President

Bill Clinton
Democratic

The 1992 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Maryland was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 49.80% of the popular vote over incumbent President George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) with 35.62%. Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third, with 14.18% of the popular vote.[1] Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush.[2] In this election, Maryland voted 8.62% to the left of the nation at-large.[3]

Although Clinton won only four of Maryland's 23 counties (and the independent city of Baltimore), the high raw vote totals from these heavily populated jurisdictions exceeded Bush's victories in largely rural and exurban counties. Maryland was one of only three states, along with New York and Clinton's native Arkansas (and Washington DC), where Clinton exceeded Bush and Perot's combined vote total, albeit by an extremely slim margin of 63 votes. This is also the most recent election when the Democratic candidate failed to win a majority of the state's popular vote.

This marks the last election as of 2020 in which both Charles County and Dorchester County voted for the same candidate. In 1996, Dorchester County would be flipped to the Democratic column by a plurality for the first time since 1960 and vote for every ensuing Republican, whilst Charles County would become one of only two counties in the entire nation to flip from supporting Bob Dole to support Al Gore, and never vote Republican again, due to its increasing African-American population.[4]

Results

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1992 United States presidential election in Maryland[1]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Bill Clinton 988,571 49.80% 10
Republican George H. W. Bush (Incumbent) 707,094 35.62% 0
Independent Ross Perot 281,414 14.18% 0
Libertarian Andre Marrou 4,715 0.24% 0
New Alliance Lenora Fulani 2,786 0.14% 0
N/A Write-ins 466 0.02% 0
Totals 1,985,046 100.0% 10

Results by county

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County Bill Clinton
Democratic
George H.W. Bush
Republican
Ross Perot
Independent
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Allegany 11,501 37.59% 13,862 45.31% 5,081 16.61% 151 0.49% -2,361 -7.72% 30,595
Anne Arundel 68,629 36.97% 81,467 43.89% 35,191 18.96% 347 0.19% -12,838 -6.92% 185,634
Baltimore 143,498 44.40% 126,728 39.21% 51,757 16.01% 1,237 0.38% 16,770 5.19% 323,220
Baltimore City 185,753 75.79% 40,725 16.62% 17,381 7.09% 1,228 0.50% 145,028 59.17% 245,087
Calvert 8,619 37.07% 10,026 43.12% 4,499 19.35% 105 0.45% -1,407 -6.05% 23,249
Caroline 2,822 33.36% 3,856 45.58% 1,729 20.44% 53 0.63% -1,034 -12.22% 8,460
Carroll 15,447 28.12% 28,405 51.71% 10,965 19.96% 112 0.20% -12,958 -23.59% 54,929
Cecil 10,232 37.45% 10,784 39.47% 6,115 22.38% 188 0.69% -552 -2.02% 27,319
Charles 14,498 37.70% 17,293 44.97% 6,501 16.91% 162 0.42% -2,795 -7.27% 38,454
Dorchester 3,933 35.89% 4,934 45.03% 2,010 18.34% 80 0.73% -1,001 -9.14% 10,957
Frederick 21,848 33.77% 31,290 48.37% 11,373 17.58% 180 0.28% -9,442 -14.60% 64,691
Garrett 2,856 26.99% 5,714 54.01% 1,987 18.78% 23 0.22% -2,858 -27.02% 10,580
Harford 27,164 33.67% 36,350 45.05% 17,002 21.07% 171 0.21% -9,186 -11.38% 80,687
Howard 44,763 44.85% 38,594 38.67% 16,182 16.21% 259 0.26% 6,169 6.18% 99,798
Kent 3,093 40.55% 3,094 40.56% 1,411 18.50% 30 0.39% -1 -0.01% 7,628
Montgomery 199,757 55.09% 119,705 33.01% 41,971 11.57% 1,180 0.33% 80,052 22.08% 362,613
Prince George's 168,691 65.67% 62,955 24.51% 23,355 9.09% 1,858 0.72% 105,736 41.16% 256,859
Queen Anne's 4,668 32.16% 6,829 47.05% 2,958 20.38% 59 0.41% -2,161 -14.89% 14,514
Somerset 3,210 40.45% 3,450 43.47% 1,230 15.50% 46 0.58% -240 -3.02% 7,936
St. Mary's 8,931 35.60% 11,485 45.78% 4,550 18.14% 119 0.47% -2,554 -10.18% 25,085
Talbot 4,642 33.86% 6,774 49.42% 2,233 16.29% 59 0.43% -2,132 -15.56% 13,708
Washington 16,495 35.70% 21,977 47.56% 7,537 16.31% 199 0.43% -5,482 -11.86% 46,208
Wicomico 11,481 37.93% 13,560 44.79% 5,140 16.98% 91 0.30% -2,079 -6.86% 30,272
Worcester 6,040 36.48% 7,237 43.70% 3,256 19.66% 26 0.16% -1,197 -7.22% 16,559
Totals 988,571 49.80% 707,094 35.62% 281,414 14.18% 7,967 0.40% 281,477 14.18% 1,985,046

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "1992 Presidential Election". Maryland State Board of Elections. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  2. ^ "1992 Presidential General Election Results". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  3. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  4. ^ "Maryland". Google Docs. Retrieved September 25, 2022.