List of 1992 swing states
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The U.S. Presidential election of 1992 was a three-way race between Republican incumbent George H.W. Bush, Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and Texas businessman H. Ross Perot, who ran as an independent candidate. No candidate received a solid majority of the vote in any state, except for Bill Clinton in the District of Columbia and his home state of Arkansas. Perot received nearly 20% of the national popular vote but failed to win any state outright. The following is a list of the states with the lowest margins of victory (less than 5%) in 1992, sorted by the margin percentages and color-coded for Bush or Clinton:
- Tennessee- 4.65% 92,221 votes
- Louisiana- 4.61% 82,585 votes
- Wisconsin- 4.35% 110,211 votes
- Colorado- 4.26% 66,831 votes
- Kentucky-3.21% 47,926 votes
- Nevada- 2.63% 13,320 votes
- Montana- 2.51% 10,300 votes
- New Jersey- 2.37% 79,341 votes
- Ohio- 1.83% 90,632 votes
- New Hampshire- 1.22% 6,556 votes
- Georgia- 0.59% 13,714 votes
- North Carolina- 0.79% 20,619 votes
- Florida- 1.89% 100,612 votes
- Arizona- 1.95% 29,036 votes
- Texas- 3.48% 214,256 votes
- South Dakota- 3.52% 11,830 votes
- Virginia- 4.37% 111,867 votes
[edit] Source
- Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections[1]
