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: