1996 United States presidential election in South Dakota information
Election in South Dakota
Main article: 1996 United States presidential election
1996 United States presidential election in South Dakota
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November 5, 1996
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Nominee
Bob Dole
Bill Clinton
Ross Perot
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Reform Party
Home state
Kansas
Arkansas
Texas
Running mate
Jack Kemp
Al Gore
James Campbell
Electoral vote
3
0
0
Popular vote
150,543
139,333
31,250
Percentage
46.49%
43.03%
9.65%
County Results
Dole
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
Clinton
40–50%
50–60%
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70–80%
80–90%
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Bill Clinton
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Bill Clinton
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The 1996 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 5, 1996. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
South Dakota was won by Kansas Senator Bob Dole, who was running against incumbent United States President Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Clinton ran a second time with former Tennessee Senator Al Gore as Vice President, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack Kemp.[1]
South Dakota weighed in for this election as 12 points more Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1996 was a very multi-partisan election for South Dakota, with more than ten percent of the electorate voting for third-party candidates. Most counties turned out in this election for Dole. The major exceptions were the overwhelmingly Democratic majority-Native American counties of Shannon, Todd, Buffalo and Dewey, and a number of East River counties near Minnesota including Brown County, and Sioux Falls's Minnehaha County, which gave mostly pluralities to Clinton. In his second bid for the presidency, Ross Perot led the newly reformed Reform Party to gain over nine percent of the votes in South Dakota, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States Presidency in recent times.
As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which South Dakota was seriously contested, as well as the last time Beadle County, Bon Homme County, Brule County, Charles Mix County, Deuel County, Grant County, Jerauld County, Kingsbury County, Sanborn County, and Union County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[2]
^"1996 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
^Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
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