1992
Reading the 1992 result in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania backed Clinton (Democratic) in the 1992 presidential election, casting 23 electoral votes for the ticket. Pennsylvania ended up on the winning side — Bill Clinton captured the White House that year.
It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Pennsylvania backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1988. Pennsylvania did not move alone — neighboring Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York broke the same way in 1992. Across the 60 presidential elections Pennsylvania has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (26 times). The vote fell within the Modern Polarization — Close elections in a divided country.
In the national count, Bill Clinton took 370 of the 538 electoral votes, against George H. W. Bush's 168. Bill Clinton led the national popular vote with 43.01% of the ballots cast.
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