1992 United States presidential election in Maine

1992 United States presidential election in Maine

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Nominee Bill Clinton Ross Perot George H. W. Bush Party Democratic Independent Republican Home state Arkansas Texas Texas Running mate Al Gore James Stockdale Dan Quayle Electoral vote 4 0 0 Popular vote 263,420 206,820 206,504 Percentage 38.77% 30.44% 30.39%

County Results Clinton   30-40%   40-50% Perot   30-40%

President before election George H. W. Bush Republican Elected President Bill Clinton Democratic

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The 1992 United States presidential election in Maine 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.

Maine was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 38.77% of the popular vote over businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) with 30.44%. Incumbent President George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) finished in third, close behind Perot, with 30.39% of the popular vote.^[1] Despite the Bush family having ties to Maine, with Bush owning a house in Kennebunkport, Maine, Perot beat Bush for second place in the state by a slim margin of 316 votes, making Maine one of two states where Perot finished better than third place, the other being Utah,^[2] though Maine was the only state of the two where Perot won any counties. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating both incumbent President Bush and Perot.^[3] Perot's 30.44% would prove Maine as his strongest state in the 1992 election.^[4] Ross Perot came within 4.55% of winning an electoral vote in Maine’s second congressional district, the closest he came to winning an electoral vote. In Maine's first congressional district, Bush finished in second place, with the 8.11% margin being the closest Bush would come in 1992 to winning an electoral vote in New England after New Hampshire and Connecticut.

Clinton was the first Democrat to carry the state of Maine since 1968 when Hubert Humphrey, running with Maine Senator Edmund Muskie as vice-presidential candidate, did so. He was also the first Democrat to win any county in Maine since Jimmy Carter in 1980, the first to win Kennebec County and York County since Carter in 1976, the first to carry the counties of Franklin, Oxford, Penobscot, Sagadahoc and Washington since 1968, and the first to carry Hancock, Knox and Lincoln Counties since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.^[5] Maine would not vote Republican again, though Donald Trump would carry a single electoral vote from Maine's 2nd district in 2016 and 2020.

As of 2021, this is the last time that a sitting president finished third in a state or that a non-major party candidate would come in second or better.

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See also[]

• United States presidential elections in Maine
• Presidency of Bill Clinton

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