1992 United States presidential election in Colorado

The 1992 United States presidential election in Colorado 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.

1992 United States presidential election in Colorado

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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 8 0 0
Popular vote 629,681 562,850 366,010
Percentage 40.13% 35.87% 23.32%

County Results

President before election

George H. W. Bush
Republican

Elected President

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Colorado was won by the Democratic nominees, Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and his running mate Senator Al Gore of Tennessee. Clinton and Gore defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President George H. W. Bush of Texas and Vice President Dan Quayle of Indiana. Independent businessman Ross Perot of Texas, and his running mate Navy Vice Admiral James Stockdale, finished in a relatively strong third in the state.

Clinton received 40.13% of the vote to Bush's 35.87%, a Democratic victory margin of 4.26 points.[1] Ross Perot performed exceptionally well for a candidate outside the two major parties in the state, receiving 23.32% of the vote in Colorado, exceeding his nationwide 18.91% vote share. Perot bested Clinton or Bush for second place in 19 out of Colorado's 64 Counties and also won pluralities of the vote in Moffat County and San Juan County, the state providing Perot two county victories out of only fifteen county equivalents which Perot won nationwide.

Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush. Clinton's victory marked the first time since the nationwide Democratic landslide of 1964, and the last time until 2008, that Colorado had voted Democratic, as well as the first time since 1932 in which a non-incumbent Democrat would carry the state, along with an incumbent Republican president losing it. Clinton won Clear Creek, Eagle, Gunnison, Routt, and Summit Counties for the Democrats for the first time since 1964; they have all gone on to vote Democratic in every subsequent election as of 2020, save in 2000, when many of them gave plurality wins to George W. Bush (in what was also the last election, as of 2020, that Colorado has voted Republican by more than 5%). Clinton also won the city of Denver by more than 30%, a larger margin than any nominee had won it by since 1964, and won Boulder County, a then-traditionally Republican county that Dukakis had won by 8.5%, by 24.3%.

These improvements would eventually lay the groundwork for Colorado's increasingly competitive status from 2004 on, and increasingly established status as a safe blue state from 2020 on. For the time being, however, Colorado remained a lean-red state,[2] with George H. W. Bush retaining the large Denver suburban counties of Jefferson and Arapahoe, albeit narrowly. In 1996, Dole would improve on George H. W. Bush's margins in these two counties, and would also take back Larimer County, helping him narrowly carry the state despite losing nationally by 8.5%.

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Moffat County did not support the Republican candidate [3] and the only election since 1944 in which Colorado did not support the same candidate as Virginia.

Results

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1992 United States presidential election in Colorado[1]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Bill Clinton 629,681 40.13% 8
Republican George H. W. Bush (incumbent) 562,850 35.87% 0
Independent Ross Perot 366,010 23.32% 0
Libertarian Andre Marrou 8,669 0.55% 0
New Alliance Party Lenora Fulani 1,608 0.10% 0
America First James "Bo" Gritz (write-in) 274 0.02% 0
Natural Law Dr. John Hagelin (write-in) 47 >0.01% 0
Prohibition Earl Dodge (write-in) 21 >0.01% 0
Democrats for Economic Recovery Lyndon LaRouche (write-in) 20 >0.01% 0
Totals 1,569,180 100.0% 8

Results by county

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County Bill Clinton[4]
Democratic
George H.W. Bush[4]
Republican
Ross Perot[4]
Independent
Andre Marrou[4]
Libertarian
Various candidates[4]
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Adams 45,357 44.00% 30,856 29.93% 26,379 25.59% 385 0.37% 100 0.10% 14,501 14.07% 103,077
Alamosa 1,928 41.76% 1,572 34.05% 1,089 23.59% 16 0.35% 12 0.26% 356 7.71% 4,617
Arapahoe 66,607 36.21% 72,221 39.26% 44,363 24.12% 608 0.33% 136 0.07% -5,614 -3.05% 183,935
Archuleta 819 29.08% 1,242 44.11% 741 26.31% 11 0.39% 3 0.11% -423 -15.03% 2,816
Baca 726 27.69% 1,240 47.29% 647 24.68% 5 0.19% 4 0.15% -514 -19.60% 2,622
Bent 985 43.64% 759 33.63% 506 22.42% 4 0.18% 3 0.13% 226 10.01% 2,257
Boulder 64,567 50.93% 33,553 26.47% 27,762 21.90% 735 0.58% 154 0.12% 31,014 24.46% 126,771
Chaffee 2,284 36.36% 2,419 38.51% 1,549 24.66% 22 0.35% 8 0.13% -135 -2.15% 6,282
Cheyenne 301 24.83% 615 50.74% 292 24.09% 4 0.33% 0 0.00% -314 -25.91% 1,212
Clear Creek 1,744 39.10% 1,356 30.40% 1,308 29.33% 44 0.99% 8 0.18% 388 8.70% 4,460
Conejos 1,705 49.21% 1,160 33.48% 578 16.68% 18 0.52% 4 0.12% 545 15.73% 3,465
Costilla 1,180 67.31% 366 20.88% 199 11.35% 3 0.17% 5 0.29% 814 46.43% 1,753
Crowley 570 39.09% 602 41.29% 276 18.93% 6 0.41% 4 0.27% -32 -2.20% 1,458
Custer 343 24.95% 651 47.35% 368 26.76% 7 0.51% 6 0.44% 283[a] 20.58% 1,375
Delta 3,424 32.63% 4,359 41.54% 2,627 25.03% 41 0.39% 43 0.41% -935 -8.91% 10,494
Denver 121,961 56.13% 55,418 25.50% 37,298 17.17% 2,293 1.06% 319 0.15% 66,543 30.63% 217,289
Dolores 242 28.61% 315 37.23% 285 33.69% 3 0.35% 1 0.12% 30[a] 3.54% 846
Douglas 9,991 24.94% 18,592 46.41% 11,329 28.28% 126 0.31% 22 0.05% 7,263[a] 18.13% 40,060
Eagle 3,870 35.57% 3,100 28.49% 3,821 35.12% 61 0.56% 28 0.26% 49[b] 0.45% 10,880
El Paso 45,827 27.41% 86,044 51.47% 34,346 20.55% 797 0.48% 155 0.09% -40,217 -24.06% 167,169
Elbert 1,237 24.52% 2,205 43.71% 1,567 31.06% 26 0.52% 10 0.20% 638[a] 12.65% 5,045
Fremont 5,356 35.40% 5,961 39.40% 3,709 24.51% 76 0.50% 29 0.19% -605 -4.00% 15,131
Garfield 5,082 36.36% 4,404 31.51% 4,408 31.54% 58 0.41% 24 0.17% 674[b] 4.82% 13,976
Gilpin 726 41.27% 462 26.26% 545 30.98% 20 1.14% 6 0.34% 181[b] 10.29% 1,759
Grand 1,678 34.12% 1,763 35.85% 1,454 29.56% 18 0.37% 5 0.10% -85 -1.73% 4,918
Gunnison 2,389 41.48% 1,662 28.86% 1,671 29.02% 28 0.49% 9 0.16% 718[b] 12.46% 5,759
Hinsdale 151 31.72% 188 39.50% 136 28.57% 1 0.21% 0 0.00% -37 -7.78% 476
Huerfano 1,224 52.92% 685 29.62% 385 16.65% 14 0.61% 5 0.22% 539 23.30% 2,313
Jackson 216 22.36% 422 43.69% 326 33.75% 2 0.21% 0 0.00% 96[a] 9.94% 966
Jefferson 80,834 36.22% 82,705 37.05% 58,404 26.17% 979 0.44% 281 0.13% -1,871 -0.83% 223,203
Kiowa 290 28.16% 472 45.83% 267 25.92% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% -182 -17.67% 1,030
Kit Carson 925 25.29% 1,801 49.23% 919 25.12% 11 0.30% 2 0.05% -876 -23.94% 3,658
La Plata 5,913 37.87% 5,522 35.37% 4,083 26.15% 62 0.40% 33 0.21% 391 2.50% 15,613
Lake 1,426 48.79% 605 20.70% 863 29.52% 22 0.75% 7 0.24% 563[b] 19.27% 2,923
Larimer 38,232 38.36% 35,995 36.12% 24,879 24.96% 418 0.42% 136 0.14% 2,237 2.24% 99,660
Las Animas 3,847 58.56% 1,739 26.47% 953 14.51% 25 0.38% 5 0.08% 2,108 32.09% 6,569
Lincoln 640 27.75% 1,079 46.79% 581 25.20% 6 0.26% 0 0.00% -439 -19.04% 2,306
Logan 2,718 32.57% 3,420 40.98% 2,184 26.17% 20 0.24% 3 0.04% -702 -8.41% 8,345
Mesa 15,162 34.41% 18,169 41.23% 10,474 23.77% 181 0.41% 81 0.18% -3,007 -6.82% 44,067
Mineral 171 38.08% 159 35.41% 117 26.06% 1 0.22% 1 0.22% 12 2.67% 449
Moffat 1,386 27.20% 1,809 35.51% 1,875 36.80% 21 0.41% 4 0.08% -66[a] -1.29% 5,095
Montezuma 2,270 29.72% 3,124 40.90% 2,205 28.87% 26 0.34% 13 0.17% -854 -11.18% 7,638
Montrose 3,713 31.67% 4,847 41.35% 3,093 26.38% 41 0.35% 29 0.25% -1,134 -9.68% 11,723
Morgan 2,985 33.43% 3,724 41.70% 2,175 24.36% 39 0.44% 7 0.08% -739 -8.27% 8,930
Otero 3,485 41.92% 3,120 37.53% 1,590 19.13% 102 1.23% 16 0.19% 365 4.39% 8,313
Ouray 461 29.12% 653 41.25% 466 29.44% 3 0.19% 0 0.00% 187[a] 11.81% 1,583
Park 1,307 30.57% 1,530 35.78% 1,396 32.65% 42 0.98% 1 0.02% 134[a] 3.13% 4,276
Phillips 692 30.05% 1,075 46.68% 525 22.80% 10 0.43% 1 0.04% -383 -16.63% 2,303
Pitkin 3,820 51.14% 1,686 22.57% 1,907 25.53% 43 0.58% 13 0.17% 1,913[b] 25.61% 7,469
Prowers 1,770 32.92% 2,371 44.10% 1,184 22.02% 49 0.91% 3 0.06% -601 -11.18% 5,377
Pueblo 30,261 53.62% 16,120 28.56% 9,841 17.44% 145 0.26% 71 0.13% 14,141 25.06% 56,438
Rio Blanco 778 27.30% 1,231 43.19% 794 27.86% 8 0.28% 39 1.37% 437[a] 15.33% 2,850
Rio Grande 1,541 34.00% 1,927 42.51% 1,043 23.01% 11 0.24% 11 0.24% -386 -8.51% 4,533
Routt 3,188 39.06% 2,358 28.89% 2,564 31.42% 44 0.54% 7 0.09% 624[b] 7.64% 8,161
Saguache 1,011 46.50% 675 31.05% 471 21.67% 7 0.32% 10 0.46% 336 15.45% 2,174
San Juan 147 32.45% 118 26.05% 183 40.40% 3 0.66% 2 0.44% -36[a] -7.95% 453
San Miguel 1,380 51.82% 628 23.58% 634 23.81% 15 0.56% 6 0.23% 746[b] 28.01% 2,663
Sedgwick 397 34.64% 447 39.01% 295 25.74% 4 0.35% 3 0.26% -50 -4.37% 1,146
Summit 3,344 39.95% 2,256 26.95% 2,715 32.44% 46 0.55% 9 0.11% 629[b] 7.51% 8,370
Teller 1,873 27.09% 3,050 44.11% 1,927 27.87% 57 0.82% 7 0.10% 1,123[a] 16.24% 6,914
Washington 660 25.26% 1,266 48.45% 671 25.68% 14 0.54% 2 0.08% 595[a] 22.77% 2,613
Weld 19,295 35.71% 20,958 38.79% 13,571 25.12% 140 0.26% 65 0.12% -1,663 -3.08% 54,029
Yuma 1,269 28.17% 2,019 44.82% 1,197 26.57% 15 0.33% 5 0.11% -750 -16.65% 4,505
Total 629,681 40.13% 562,850 35.87% 366,010 23.32% 8,669 0.55% 1,970 0.13% 66,831 4.26% 1,569,180

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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Counties that flipped from Republican to Independent

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l In this county where Clinton ran third behind Perot, percentage margin given is Bush percentage minus Perot percentage and vote margin Bush vote total minus Perot vote total.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i In this county where Bush ran third behind Perot, percentage margin given is Clinton percentage minus Perot percentage and vote margin Clinton vote total minus Perot vote total.

References

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  1. ^ a b "1992 Presidential General Election Results - Colorado". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  2. ^ "CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Which States Will Presidential Candidates Gore and Bush Really Go After? - April 23, 2000". transcripts.cnn.com. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  3. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  4. ^ a b c d e Our Campaigns; CO US President Race, November 03, 1992