The 1992 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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South Dakota was won by incumbent President George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) with 40.66% of the popular vote over Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 37.14%. Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third, with 21.80% of the popular vote.[1] Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush and Perot.[2] As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Spink County, Hanson County, Davison County, and Aurora County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[3]
Despite winning the state, Bush's 40.66% of the vote remains the worst performance for a Republican in South Dakota since Herbert Hoover's 34.4% in 1932, and the second-worst ever (after the 1932 election) for a Republican on the ballot in the state.[a]
Results
edit| 1992 United States presidential election in South Dakota[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | George H. W. Bush (incumbent) | 136,718 | 40.66% | 3 | |
| Democratic | Bill Clinton | 124,888 | 37.14% | 0 | |
| Independent | Ross Perot | 73,295 | 21.80% | 0 | |
| Libertarian | Andre Marrou | 814 | 0.24% | 0 | |
| Independent | Dr. John Hagelin | 429 | 0.13% | 0 | |
| Independent | Lenora Fulani | 110 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Totals | 336,254 | 100.0% | 3 | ||
Results by county
edit| County[4] | George H.W. Bush Republican |
Bill Clinton Democratic |
Ross Perot Independent |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Aurora | 594 | 34.70% | 680 | 39.72% | 435 | 25.41% | 3 | 0.18% | -86 | -5.02% | 1,712 |
| Beadle | 3,363 | 36.81% | 3,925 | 42.96% | 1,819 | 19.91% | 29 | 0.32% | -562 | -6.15% | 9,136 |
| Bennett | 556 | 46.45% | 413 | 34.50% | 221 | 18.46% | 7 | 0.58% | 143 | 11.95% | 1,197 |
| Bon Homme | 1,212 | 36.00% | 1,294 | 38.43% | 836 | 24.83% | 25 | 0.74% | -82 | -2.43% | 3,367 |
| Brookings | 4,698 | 39.14% | 4,645 | 38.70% | 2,614 | 21.78% | 45 | 0.37% | 53 | 0.44% | 12,002 |
| Brown | 6,665 | 36.93% | 7,521 | 41.67% | 3,812 | 21.12% | 49 | 0.27% | -856 | -4.74% | 18,047 |
| Brule | 908 | 33.93% | 1,060 | 39.61% | 687 | 25.67% | 21 | 0.78% | -152 | -5.68% | 2,676 |
| Buffalo | 137 | 27.62% | 282 | 56.85% | 72 | 14.52% | 5 | 1.01% | -145 | -29.23% | 496 |
| Butte | 1,674 | 45.24% | 973 | 26.30% | 1,039 | 28.08% | 14 | 0.38% | 635[b] | 17.16% | 3,700 |
| Campbell | 574 | 54.51% | 222 | 21.08% | 252 | 23.93% | 5 | 0.47% | 322[b] | 30.58% | 1,053 |
| Charles Mix | 1,570 | 38.30% | 1,639 | 39.99% | 886 | 21.62% | 4 | 0.10% | -69 | -1.69% | 4,099 |
| Clark | 803 | 33.81% | 799 | 33.64% | 761 | 32.04% | 12 | 0.51% | 4 | 0.17% | 2,375 |
| Clay | 1,869 | 30.96% | 2,826 | 46.82% | 1,303 | 21.59% | 38 | 0.63% | -957 | -15.86% | 6,036 |
| Codington | 3,943 | 36.03% | 3,701 | 33.82% | 3,262 | 29.81% | 37 | 0.34% | 242 | 2.21% | 10,943 |
| Corson | 483 | 38.61% | 444 | 35.49% | 321 | 25.66% | 3 | 0.24% | 39 | 3.12% | 1,251 |
| Custer | 1,422 | 42.28% | 1,078 | 32.05% | 845 | 25.13% | 18 | 0.54% | 344 | 10.23% | 3,363 |
| Davison | 3,111 | 38.19% | 3,285 | 40.33% | 1,706 | 20.94% | 44 | 0.54% | -174 | -2.14% | 8,146 |
| Day | 1,161 | 31.17% | 1,578 | 42.36% | 973 | 26.12% | 13 | 0.35% | -417 | -11.19% | 3,725 |
| Deuel | 778 | 32.11% | 880 | 36.32% | 761 | 31.41% | 4 | 0.17% | -102 | -4.21% | 2,423 |
| Dewey | 642 | 36.64% | 766 | 43.72% | 340 | 19.41% | 4 | 0.23% | -124 | -7.08% | 1,752 |
| Douglas | 1,175 | 56.85% | 481 | 23.27% | 403 | 19.50% | 8 | 0.39% | 694 | 33.58% | 2,067 |
| Edmunds | 944 | 41.77% | 894 | 39.56% | 415 | 18.36% | 7 | 0.31% | 50 | 2.21% | 2,260 |
| Fall River | 1,533 | 40.84% | 1,416 | 37.72% | 792 | 21.10% | 13 | 0.35% | 117 | 3.12% | 3,754 |
| Faulk | 658 | 45.89% | 488 | 34.03% | 281 | 19.60% | 7 | 0.49% | 170 | 11.86% | 1,434 |
| Grant | 1,595 | 38.81% | 1,484 | 36.11% | 1,018 | 24.77% | 13 | 0.32% | 111 | 2.70% | 4,110 |
| Gregory | 1,027 | 39.27% | 879 | 33.61% | 688 | 26.31% | 21 | 0.80% | 148 | 5.66% | 2,615 |
| Haakon | 860 | 65.25% | 209 | 15.86% | 245 | 18.59% | 4 | 0.30% | 615[b] | 46.66% | 1,318 |
| Hamlin | 1,133 | 41.35% | 826 | 30.15% | 774 | 28.25% | 7 | 0.26% | 307 | 11.20% | 2,740 |
| Hand | 1,130 | 44.38% | 785 | 30.83% | 624 | 24.51% | 7 | 0.27% | 345 | 13.55% | 2,546 |
| Hanson | 522 | 36.38% | 566 | 39.44% | 341 | 23.76% | 6 | 0.42% | -44 | -3.06% | 1,435 |
| Harding | 515 | 58.46% | 139 | 15.78% | 225 | 25.54% | 2 | 0.23% | 290[b] | 32.92% | 881 |
| Hughes | 4,325 | 53.26% | 2,578 | 31.74% | 1,160 | 14.28% | 58 | 0.71% | 1,747 | 21.52% | 8,121 |
| Hutchinson | 2,002 | 48.17% | 1,211 | 29.14% | 920 | 22.14% | 23 | 0.55% | 791 | 19.03% | 4,156 |
| Hyde | 440 | 46.07% | 301 | 31.52% | 211 | 22.09% | 3 | 0.31% | 139 | 14.55% | 955 |
| Jackson | 627 | 53.68% | 351 | 30.05% | 184 | 15.75% | 6 | 0.51% | 276 | 23.63% | 1,168 |
| Jerauld | 518 | 35.31% | 600 | 40.90% | 346 | 23.59% | 3 | 0.20% | -82 | -5.59% | 1,467 |
| Jones | 454 | 58.28% | 166 | 21.31% | 154 | 19.77% | 5 | 0.64% | 288 | 36.97% | 779 |
| Kingsbury | 1,113 | 35.41% | 1,267 | 40.31% | 744 | 23.67% | 19 | 0.60% | -154 | -4.90% | 3,143 |
| Lake | 1,890 | 33.81% | 2,388 | 42.72% | 1,299 | 23.24% | 13 | 0.23% | -498 | -8.91% | 5,590 |
| Lawrence | 3,770 | 39.03% | 3,157 | 32.68% | 2,673 | 27.67% | 59 | 0.61% | 613 | 6.35% | 9,659 |
| Lincoln | 3,365 | 42.47% | 2,943 | 37.15% | 1,593 | 20.11% | 22 | 0.28% | 422 | 5.32% | 7,923 |
| Lyman | 669 | 45.20% | 486 | 32.84% | 311 | 21.01% | 14 | 0.95% | 183 | 12.36% | 1,480 |
| Marshall | 810 | 35.26% | 1,056 | 45.97% | 427 | 18.59% | 4 | 0.17% | -246 | -10.71% | 2,297 |
| McCook | 1,177 | 39.44% | 1,167 | 39.11% | 617 | 20.68% | 23 | 0.77% | 10 | 0.33% | 2,984 |
| McPherson | 945 | 53.94% | 478 | 27.28% | 322 | 18.38% | 7 | 0.40% | 467 | 26.66% | 1,752 |
| Meade | 4,724 | 46.89% | 2,694 | 26.74% | 2,611 | 25.92% | 46 | 0.46% | 2,030 | 20.15% | 10,075 |
| Mellette | 417 | 49.58% | 277 | 32.94% | 140 | 16.65% | 7 | 0.83% | 140 | 16.64% | 841 |
| Miner | 543 | 34.28% | 698 | 44.07% | 332 | 20.96% | 11 | 0.69% | -155 | -9.79% | 1,584 |
| Minnehaha | 25,081 | 39.32% | 27,016 | 42.35% | 11,496 | 18.02% | 193 | 0.30% | -1,935 | -3.03% | 63,786 |
| Moody | 898 | 28.93% | 1,473 | 47.45% | 715 | 23.03% | 18 | 0.58% | -575 | -18.52% | 3,104 |
| Pennington | 18,052 | 47.92% | 11,106 | 29.48% | 8,358 | 22.19% | 153 | 0.41% | 6,946 | 18.44% | 37,669 |
| Perkins | 872 | 43.80% | 566 | 28.43% | 541 | 27.17% | 12 | 0.60% | 306 | 15.37% | 1,991 |
| Potter | 901 | 50.67% | 493 | 27.73% | 375 | 21.09% | 9 | 0.51% | 408 | 22.94% | 1,778 |
| Roberts | 1,437 | 34.87% | 1,716 | 41.64% | 954 | 23.15% | 14 | 0.34% | -279 | -6.77% | 4,121 |
| Sanborn | 595 | 36.96% | 632 | 39.25% | 376 | 23.35% | 7 | 0.43% | -37 | -2.29% | 1,610 |
| Shannon | 225 | 13.63% | 1,267 | 76.74% | 137 | 8.30% | 22 | 1.33% | -1,042 | -63.11% | 1,651 |
| Spink | 1,527 | 37.14% | 1,732 | 42.12% | 839 | 20.40% | 14 | 0.34% | -205 | -4.98% | 4,112 |
| Stanley | 719 | 51.39% | 427 | 30.52% | 240 | 17.16% | 13 | 0.93% | 292 | 20.87% | 1,399 |
| Sully | 565 | 55.94% | 273 | 27.03% | 167 | 16.53% | 5 | 0.50% | 292 | 28.91% | 1,010 |
| Todd | 456 | 27.98% | 915 | 56.13% | 246 | 15.09% | 13 | 0.80% | -459 | -28.15% | 1,630 |
| Tripp | 1,459 | 43.38% | 1,046 | 31.10% | 848 | 25.22% | 10 | 0.30% | 413 | 12.28% | 3,363 |
| Turner | 1,906 | 44.43% | 1,507 | 35.13% | 867 | 20.21% | 10 | 0.23% | 399 | 9.30% | 4,290 |
| Union | 1,784 | 35.00% | 2,210 | 43.36% | 1,085 | 21.29% | 18 | 0.35% | -426 | -8.36% | 5,097 |
| Walworth | 1,439 | 49.48% | 829 | 28.51% | 628 | 21.60% | 12 | 0.41% | 610 | 20.97% | 2,908 |
| Yankton | 3,430 | 36.60% | 3,404 | 36.32% | 2,511 | 26.79% | 27 | 0.29% | 26 | 0.28% | 9,372 |
| Ziebach | 328 | 44.93% | 280 | 38.36% | 117 | 16.03% | 5 | 0.68% | 48 | 6.57% | 730 |
| Totals | 136,718 | 40.66% | 124,888 | 37.14% | 73,295 | 21.80% | 1,353 | 0.40% | 11,830 | 3.52% | 336,254 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editCounties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
editSee also
editNotes
edit- ^ In 1912, official national Republican nominee William Howard Taft was not on the ballot in South Dakota and received no votes. Theodore Roosevelt, who ran as a member of the Progressive Party, was listed as the Republican nominee, and received 50.88% of the vote in the state
- ^ a b c d In this county where Clinton ran third behind Bush and Perot, margin given is Bush vote minus Perot vote and percentage margin Bush percentage minus Perot percentage.
References
edit- ^ a b "1992 Presidential General Election Results - South Dakota". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ "1992 Presidential General Election Results". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ Our Campaigns; SD US Presidential Election Race, November 03, 1992