Buchanan's New Hampshire win alarmed the Republican "establishment" sufficiently as to provoke prominent Republicans to quickly coalesce around Dole,[8] and Dole won every primary starting with North and South Dakota. Political adviser Dick Morris urged Clinton to raise huge sums of campaign funds via soft money for an unprecedented early TV blitz of swing states promoting Clinton's agenda and record. On November 5, 1996, President Clinton went on to win re-election with a substantial margin in the popular vote and electoral college. In the popular vote, he out-polled Dole by over 8.2 million votes. A total of 1,558 votes for Independent candidates, Last edited on 20 September 2020, at 08:37, United States presidential election in Tennessee, 1996, United States presidential election in Tennessee, "1996 Presidential General Election Results – Tennessee", ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1996_United_States_presidential_election_in_Tennessee&oldid=979355986, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 September 2020, at 08:37.
During the 1996 gubernatorial elections, the governorships of the eleven states and two territories were up for election. Phillips and Titus drew 182,820 votes (0.2% of the popular vote). Clinton defeated Republican nominee Bob Dole and independent candidate Ross Perot in the presidential election, taking 379 of the 538 electoral votes. Former Pennsylvania governor Bob Casey contemplated a challenge to Clinton, but health problems forced Casey to abandon a bid. Dole debated President Clinton in two debates, while Perot wasn't allowed to attend as his polling numbers had dropped since 1992. Clinton maintained a consistent polling edge over Dole, and he won re-election with a substantial margin in the popular vote and the Electoral College. (The Browns had left St. Louis after the 1954 season to become the Baltimore Orioles. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. On the Republican side, however, Dole faced a stiff challenge from several contenders, including conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, businessman Steve Forbes, former Tennessee governor and U.S. secretary of education Lamar Alexander, and conservative commentator and former diplomat Alan Keyes. "[10], The Clinton campaign avoided mentioning Dole's age directly, instead choosing to confront it in more subtle ways such as the campaign slogan "Building Bridges to the Future" in contrast to the Republican candidate's frequent remarks that he was a "bridge to the past", before the social upheavals of the 1960s. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1996 United States presidential election.Texas voters chose thirty-two electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. As of 2016, this is the last presidential election in which Democrats won the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
For the results of the previous election, see United States presidential election of 1992. Compared to the 50-year-old Clinton, then 73-year-old Dole appeared especially old and frail, as illustrated by an embarrassing fall off a stage during a campaign event in Chico, California. Winona LaDuke, a Native American activist and economist from Wisconsin, was named as his running-mate.

Economist Pat Choate was nominated for Vice President. U.S. presidential election results; year candidate political party electoral votes 1 popular votes 2 popular percentage 3; 1 In elections from 1789 to 1804, each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which was to be vice president. Most counties in Tennessee turned out for Clinton, including the highly populated Shelby County and Davidson County, by narrow margins.

In the first two Republican contests, Dole narrowly defeated Buchanan in the Iowa caucuses (February 12) and Buchanan defeated Dole in New Hampshire’s primary (February 20). 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries, 1996 United States House of Representatives elections, 1996 United States gubernatorial elections, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1996", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1996_United_States_elections&oldid=965522053, Articles needing additional references from April 2014, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 July 2020, at 20:31. In June Dole, who had spent more than three decades in Congress, resigned from the U.S. Senate, where he served as majority leader, to concentrate on his presidential bid. Tennessee voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. [22] Perot's best showing was in states that tended to strongly favor either Clinton (such as Maine) or Dole (particularly Montana, though the margin of victory there was much closer).

Despite Dole's defeat, the Republican Party was able to maintain a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Former Secretary of Defense and future Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney was touted by many as a possible candidate for the presidency, but he declared his intentions not to run in early 1995. During that day the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States were selected. The Electoral College map did not change much from the previous election, with the Democratic incumbent winning 379 votes to the Republican ticket's 159.