1992 United States presidential election (President Perot)

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1992 United States presidential election
November 3, 1992
Turnout		55.2%▲5.0 pp
Nominee		Ross Perot	Bill Clinton	George H.W. Bush
Party		Independent	Democratic	Republican
Home state		Texas	Arkansas	Texas
Running mate		James Stockdale	Al Gore	Dan Quayle
Electoral vote		287	180	69
States carried		28+NE2	15+D.C.	7
Popular vote		47,728,799	40,597,765	34,792,426
Percentage		38%	33%	28%
Presidential election results map. Grey denotes states won by Perot/Stockdale, Blue denotes those won by Clinton/Gore, red those won by Bush/Quayle. Light blue denotes the one faithless elector in Pennsylvania who cast their ballot for Joe Biden for President and Paul Tsongas for Vice-President, along with dark red denoting the two electoral votes cast for a Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster ticket.
President before election George H.W. Bush Republican Party Elected President Ross Perot Independent

The 1992 United States presidential election was the 52nd quadrennial United States presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3 1992. Independent candidate and Texas businessman Ross Perot defeated incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush and Democratic candidate and Governor of Arkansas – Bill Clinton. The election marked the end of Republican-Democratic dominance of American politics and the first time a candidate unaffiliated with any political party achieved the office of the presidency since George Washington in 1789.

In 1992 finishing his first term George H.W. Bush was seen by many inside his party as a political reneguer, he failed to uphold his promise to not increase federal taxation, and wassubsiquently primaried by former White House Communications Director, Pat Buchanan, ultimately securing the Republican nomination with 72% of the vote. Bill Clinton, the Governor of Arkansas, received the Democratic nomination after defeating a wide field of candidates, including former California Governor Jerry Brown and former U.S. Senator from Massachussets, Paul Tsongas. After the Democratic National Convention Clinton nominated Al Gore, United States Senator from Tennessee, as his running mate. American billionaire, Ross Perot announced his bid for the presidency in March of 1992 nominating decorated U.S. Navy officer James Stockton as his Vice-Presidential candidate.

Perot won the election, achieving a comfortable electoral vote lead and winning a plurality of the popular vote. George H.W. Bush became the third incumbent President in the 20th century to be beaten in a reelection bid. He was the first person to become the United States President to not be a Democrat or a Republican since Millard Fillmore in 1850. Perot had pretty diverse support, overperfoming his polls in most states. Two faithless electors defected from George H.W. Bush and decided to vote for Pat Buchanan for President and Ezola Foster for Vice-President. One elector from the state of Pennsylvania voted for Delaware senator Joe Biden for President and Paul Tsongas for Vice-President.