United States Presidential Election, 1996 (The FDR Amendment)

The United States presidential election of 1996 was the 53rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1996. The Democratic national ticket was led by relatively unknown grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his running mate the relatively known magazine publisher and son of President John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr. The Republicans renominated incumbent president George H.W. Bush and his running mate incumbent Vice President Dan Quayle. Businessman Ross Perot ran as candidate for the Reform Party with economist Pat Choate as his running mate; he received less media attention and was excluded from the presidential debates and, while still obtaining substantial results for a third-party candidate, by U.S. standards, did not renew his success of the 1992 election. Turnout was registered at 49.0%, the lowest for a presidential election since 1924.