1996
Reading the 1996 result in Alabama
Alabama backed Dole (Republican) in the 1996 presidential election, casting 9 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Bill Clinton (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Alabama among the states he did not carry.
The result flipped Alabama away from the Democratic it had supported in 1992. The region divided — Mississippi and Georgia joined Alabama for the Republican ticket, while Tennessee and Florida did not. Across the 51 presidential elections Alabama has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 times). The vote fell within the Modern Polarization — Close elections in a divided country.
In the national count, Bill Clinton took 379 of the 538 electoral votes, against Bob Dole's 159. Bill Clinton led the national popular vote with 49.23% of the ballots cast.
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