Who won Montana in the 1996 presidential election?

Dole (Republican) carried Montana in 1996, winning its 3 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Montana have in 1996?

Montana cast 3 electoral votes in the 1996 presidential election.

Did Montana vote for the national winner in 1996?

No. Montana backed Dole, while Bill Clinton won the presidency nationally.

Modern PolarizationMT · 3 EV

1996

Montana: Dole carries 3 EV.

Montana cast its 3 electoral votes for Dole (Republican). National winner: Bill Clinton (Democratic) — Montana voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Montana, 1996

In 1996, Montana awarded its 3 electoral votes to Dole of the Republican party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Bill Clinton (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Montana among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 8th consecutive election in which Montana backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1968. Montana did not move alone — neighboring Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, and North Dakota broke the same way in 1996. Across the 34 presidential elections Montana has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (22 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.

The 1996 national map

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