Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

United States presidential election in South Carolina, 1992

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
479,514
  
138,872

Start date
  
November 3, 1992

Popular vote
  
577,507

Running mate
  
Dan Quayle

39.9%
  
11.6%

Electoral vote
  
8

Home state
  
Texas

Percentage
  
48.0%

United States presidential election in South Carolina, 1992 httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

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

South Carolina was won by incumbent President George H.W. Bush (R-Texas) with 48.02% of the popular vote over Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 39.88%. Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third with 11.55% of the popular vote. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating both incumbent President Bush and Perot.

This election marked the completion of South Carolina's transformation from one of the strongest Democratic states in the country to one of the strongest Republican ones. For every election from 1880 to 1960, South Carolina had voted for the Democratic nominee, almost always by wide margins and by percentages of sometimes over nine-tenths. However, ever since Barry Goldwater carried the state in 1964, the state had lost its "Safe Democratic" status and moved towards the Republicans, being carried by them in 5 out of the preceding 6 elections and being won only by native Southerner Jimmy Carter. Even as liberal and secular New England states such as Vermont trended towards the Democrats with the conservative movement in the 1980s, South Carolina, a conservative and religious Southern state, would trend towards the Republicans along with other states of the Deep South. From this election onwards, it and the others would be considered safe red states.

At the time of the election, Clinton was only the second Democrat to win without carrying South Carolina, along with Lyndon B. Johnson.

References

United States presidential election in South Carolina, 1992 Wikipedia