1992 United States presidential election in Colorado

none June 2025 September 2023 1992 United States presidential election 1992 United States presidential election in Colorado Colorado presidential no 1988 United States presidential election in Colorado 1988 1996 United States presidential election in Colorado 1996 November 3, 1992 x160px Bill Clinton.jpg Bill Clinton Democratic Party (United States) Arkansas Al Gore 8 629,681 40.13% George H. W. Bush presidential portrait (cropped 2).jpg George H. W. Bush Republican Party (United States) Texas Dan Quayle 0 562,850 35.87% File:RossPerotColor.jpg Ross Perot Independent (United States) Texas James Stockdale 0 366,010 23.32% 1992 United States presidential election in Colorado results map by county.svg 280px County results Clinton #d3e7ff 30–40% #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% Bush #ffccd0 30–40% #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% Perot #c5ffc5 30–40% #a1ffa1 40–50% President George H. W. Bush Republican Party (United States) Bill Clinton Democratic Party (United States) The 1992 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Colorado was won by the Democratic nominees, Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and his running mate Senator Al Gore of Tennessee. Clinton and Gore defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President George H. W. Bush of Texas and Vice President Dan Quayle of Indiana. Independent businessman Ross Perot of Texas, and his running mate Navy Vice Admiral James Stockdale, finished in a relatively strong third in the state. Clinton received 40.13% of the vote to Bush's 35.87%, a Democratic victory margin of 4.26 points. Ross Perot performed exceptionally well for a candidate outside the two major parties in the state, receiving 23.32% of the vote in Colorado, exceeding his nationwide 18.91% vote share. Perot bested Clinton or Bush for second place in 19 out of Colorado's 64 Counties and also won pluralities of the vote in Moffat County and San Juan County, the state providing Perot two county victories out of only fifteen county equivalents which Perot won nationwide. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush. Clinton's victory marked the first time since the nationwide Democratic landslide of 1964, and the last time until 2008, that Colorado had voted Democratic, as well as the first time since 1932 in which a non-incumbent Democrat would carry the state, along with an incumbent Republican president losing it. Clinton won Clear Creek, Eagle, Gunnison, Routt, and Summit Counties for the Democrats for the first time since 1964; they have all gone on to vote Democratic in every subsequent election as of 2024, save in 2000, when many of them gave plurality wins to George W. Bush (in what was also the last election, as of 2024, that Colorado has voted Republican by more than 5%). Clinton also won the city of Denver by more than 30%, a larger margin than any nominee had won it by since 1964, and won Boulder County, a then-traditionally Republican county that Dukakis had won by 8.5%, by 24.3%. These improvements would eventually lay the groundwork for Colorado's increasingly competitive status from 2004 on, and increasingly established status as a safe blue state from 2020 on. For the time being, however, Colorado remained a lean-red state,CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Which States Will Presidential Candidates Gore and Bush Really Go After? - April 23, 2000 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/23/sm.10.html 2020-11-13 transcripts.cnn.com May 15, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120515222208/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/23/sm.10.html dead with George H. W. Bush retaining the large Denver suburban counties of Jefferson and Arapahoe, albeit narrowly. In 1996, Dole would improve on George H. W. Bush's margins in these two counties, and would also take back Larimer County, helping him narrowly carry the state despite losing nationally by 8.5%. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Moffat County did not support the Republican candidate Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 and the only election since 1944 in which Colorado did not support the same candidate as Virginia. Results 1992 United States presidential election in Colorado1992 Presidential General Election Results - Colorado http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=8&year=1992 U.S. Election Atlas 8 June 2012PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Bill Clinton 629,681 40.13% 8 Republican George H. W. Bush (incumbent) 562,850 35.87% 0 Independent Ross Perot 366,010 23.32% 0 Libertarian Andre Marrou 8,669 0.55% 0 New Alliance Party Lenora Fulani 1,608 0.10% 0 America First James "Bo" Gritz (write-in) 274 0.02% 0 Natural Law Dr. John Hagelin (write-in) 47 >0.01% 0 Prohibition Earl Dodge (write-in) 21 >0.01% 0 Democrats for Economic Recovery Lyndon LaRouche (write-in) 20 >0.01% 0 Totals 1,569,180 100.0% 8 By county CountyBill ClintonOur Campaigns; CO US President Race, November 03, 1992DemocraticGeorge H.W. BushRepublicanRoss PerotIndependentAndre MarrouLibertarianVarious candidatesOther partiesMargin Total votes cast#%#%#%#%#%#% Adams 45,357 44.00% 30,856 29.93% 26,379 25.59% 385 0.37% 100 0.10% 14,501 14.07% 103,077 Alamosa 1,928 41.76% 1,572 34.05% 1,089 23.59% 16 0.35% 12 0.26% 356 7.71% 4,617 Arapahoe 66,607 36.21% 72,221 39.26% 44,363 24.12% 608 0.33% 136 0.07% -5,614 -3.05% 183,935 Archuleta 819 29.08% 1,242 44.11% 741 26.31% 11 0.39% 3 0.11% -423 -15.03% 2,816 Baca 726 27.69% 1,240 47.29% 647 24.68% 5 0.19% 4 0.15% -514 -19.60% 2,622 Bent 985 43.64% 759 33.63% 506 22.42% 4 0.18% 3 0.13% 226 10.01% 2,257 Boulder 64,567 50.93% 33,553 26.47% 27,762 21.90% 735 0.58% 154 0.12% 31,014 24.46% 126,771 Chaffee 2,284 36.36% 2,419 38.51% 1,549 24.66% 22 0.35% 8 0.13% -135 -2.15% 6,282 Cheyenne 301 24.83% 615 50.74% 292 24.09% 4 0.33% 0 0.00% -314 -25.91% 1,212 Clear Creek 1,744 39.10% 1,356 30.40% 1,308 29.33% 44 0.99% 8 0.18% 388 8.70% 4,460 Conejos 1,705 49.21% 1,160 33.48% 578 16.68% 18 0.52% 4 0.12% 545 15.73% 3,465 Costilla 1,180 67.31% 366 20.88% 199 11.35% 3 0.17% 5 0.29% 814 46.43% 1,753 Crowley 570 39.09% 602 41.29% 276 18.93% 6 0.41% 4 0.27% -32 -2.20% 1,458 Custer 343 24.95% 651 47.35% 368 26.76% 7 0.51% 6 0.44% 283"PerotdClinton" 20.58% 1,375 Delta 3,424 32.63% 4,359 41.54% 2,627 25.03% 41 0.39% 43 0.41% -935 -8.91% 10,494 Denver 121,961 56.13% 55,418 25.50% 37,298 17.17% 2,293 1.06% 319 0.15% 66,543 30.63% 217,289 Dolores 242 28.61% 315 37.23% 285 33.69% 3 0.35% 1 0.12% 30"PerotdClinton" 3.54% 846 Douglas 9,991 24.94% 18,592 46.41% 11,329 28.28% 126 0.31% 22 0.05% 7,263"PerotdClinton" 18.13% 40,060 Eagle 3,870 35.57% 3,100 28.49% 3,821 35.12% 61 0.56% 28 0.26% 49"PerotdBush" 0.45% 10,880 El Paso 45,827 27.41% 86,044 51.47% 34,346 20.55% 797 0.48% 155 0.09% -40,217 -24.06% 167,169 Elbert 1,237 24.52% 2,205 43.71% 1,567 31.06% 26 0.52% 10 0.20% 638"PerotdClinton" 12.65% 5,045 Fremont 5,356 35.40% 5,961 39.40% 3,709 24.51% 76 0.50% 29 0.19% -605 -4.00% 15,131 Garfield 5,082 36.36% 4,404 31.51% 4,408 31.54% 58 0.41% 24 0.17% 674"PerotdBush" 4.82% 13,976 Gilpin 726 41.27% 462 26.26% 545 30.98% 20 1.14% 6 0.34% 181"PerotdBush" 10.29% 1,759 Grand 1,678 34.12% 1,763 35.85% 1,454 29.56% 18 0.37% 5 0.10% -85 -1.73% 4,918 Gunnison 2,389 41.48% 1,662 28.86% 1,671 29.02% 28 0.49% 9 0.16% 718"PerotdBush" 12.46% 5,759 Hinsdale 151 31.72% 188 39.50% 136 28.57% 1 0.21% 0 0.00% -37 -7.78% 476 Huerfano 1,224 52.92% 685 29.62% 385 16.65% 14 0.61% 5 0.22% 539 23.30% 2,313 Jackson 216 22.36% 422 43.69% 326 33.75% 2 0.21% 0 0.00% 96"PerotdClinton" 9.94% 966 Jefferson 80,834 36.22% 82,705 37.05% 58,404 26.17% 979 0.44% 281 0.13% -1,871 -0.83% 223,203 Kiowa 290 28.16% 472 45.83% 267 25.92% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% -182 -17.67% 1,030 Kit Carson 925 25.29% 1,801 49.23% 919 25.12% 11 0.30% 2 0.05% -876 -23.94% 3,658 La Plata 5,913 37.87% 5,522 35.37% 4,083 26.15% 62 0.40% 33 0.21% 391 2.50% 15,613 Lake 1,426 48.79% 605 20.70% 863 29.52% 22 0.75% 7 0.24% 563"PerotdBush" 19.27% 2,923 Larimer 38,232 38.36% 35,995 36.12% 24,879 24.96% 418 0.42% 136 0.14% 2,237 2.24% 99,660 Las Animas 3,847 58.56% 1,739 26.47% 953 14.51% 25 0.38% 5 0.08% 2,108 32.09% 6,569 Lincoln 640 27.75% 1,079 46.79% 581 25.20% 6 0.26% 0 0.00% -439 -19.04% 2,306 Logan 2,718 32.57% 3,420 40.98% 2,184 26.17% 20 0.24% 3 0.04% -702 -8.41% 8,345 Mesa 15,162 34.41% 18,169 41.23% 10,474 23.77% 181 0.41% 81 0.18% -3,007 -6.82% 44,067 Mineral 171 38.08% 159 35.41% 117 26.06% 1 0.22% 1 0.22% 12 2.67% 449 Moffat 1,386 27.20% 1,809 35.51% 1,875 36.80% 21 0.41% 4 0.08% -66"PerotdClinton" -1.29% 5,095 Montezuma 2,270 29.72% 3,124 40.90% 2,205 28.87% 26 0.34% 13 0.17% -854 -11.18% 7,638 Montrose 3,713 31.67% 4,847 41.35% 3,093 26.38% 41 0.35% 29 0.25% -1,134 -9.68% 11,723 Morgan 2,985 33.43% 3,724 41.70% 2,175 24.36% 39 0.44% 7 0.08% -739 -8.27% 8,930 Otero 3,485 41.92% 3,120 37.53% 1,590 19.13% 102 1.23% 16 0.19% 365 4.39% 8,313 Ouray 461 29.12% 653 41.25% 466 29.44% 3 0.19% 0 0.00% 187"PerotdClinton" 11.81% 1,583 Park 1,307 30.57% 1,530 35.78% 1,396 32.65% 42 0.98% 1 0.02% 134"PerotdClinton" In this county where Clinton ran third behind Perot, percentage margin given is Bush percentage minus Perot percentage and vote margin Bush vote total minus Perot vote total. 3.13% 4,276 Phillips 692 30.05% 1,075 46.68% 525 22.80% 10 0.43% 1 0.04% -383 -16.63% 2,303 Pitkin 3,820 51.14% 1,686 22.57% 1,907 25.53% 43 0.58% 13 0.17% 1,913"PerotdBush" In this county where Bush ran third behind Perot, percentage margin given is Clinton percentage minus Perot percentage and vote margin Clinton vote total minus Perot vote total. 25.61% 7,469 Prowers 1,770 32.92% 2,371 44.10% 1,184 22.02% 49 0.91% 3 0.06% -601 -11.18% 5,377 Pueblo 30,261 53.62% 16,120 28.56% 9,841 17.44% 145 0.26% 71 0.13% 14,141 25.06% 56,438 Rio Blanco 778 27.30% 1,231 43.19% 794 27.86% 8 0.28% 39 1.37% 437"PerotdClinton" 15.33% 2,850 Rio Grande 1,541 34.00% 1,927 42.51% 1,043 23.01% 11 0.24% 11 0.24% -386 -8.51% 4,533 Routt 3,188 39.06% 2,358 28.89% 2,564 31.42% 44 0.54% 7 0.09% 624"PerotdBush" 7.64% 8,161 Saguache 1,011 46.50% 675 31.05% 471 21.67% 7 0.32% 10 0.46% 336 15.45% 2,174 San Juan 147 32.45% 118 26.05% 183 40.40% 3 0.66% 2 0.44% -36"PerotdClinton" -7.95% 453 San Miguel 1,380 51.82% 628 23.58% 634 23.81% 15 0.56% 6 0.23% 746"PerotdBush" 28.01% 2,663 Sedgwick 397 34.64% 447 39.01% 295 25.74% 4 0.35% 3 0.26% -50 -4.37% 1,146 Summit 3,344 39.95% 2,256 26.95% 2,715 32.44% 46 0.55% 9 0.11% 629"PerotdBush" 7.51% 8,370 Teller 1,873 27.09% 3,050 44.11% 1,927 27.87% 57 0.82% 7 0.10% 1,123"PerotdClinton" 16.24% 6,914 Washington 660 25.26% 1,266 48.45% 671 25.68% 14 0.54% 2 0.08% 595"PerotdClinton" 22.77% 2,613 Weld 19,295 35.71% 20,958 38.79% 13,571 25.12% 140 0.26% 65 0.12% -1,663 -3.08% 54,029 Yuma 1,269 28.17% 2,019 44.82% 1,197 26.57% 15 0.33% 5 0.11% -750 -16.65% 4,505Total629,68140.13%562,85035.87%366,01023.32%8,6690.55%1,9700.13%66,8314.26%1,569,180 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 20em Alamosa Clear Creek Eagle Garfield Gunnison La Plata Larimer Mineral Otero Routt Summit Counties that flipped from Republican to Independent Moffat San Juan Notes References Colorado 1992 Presidential election in Colorado