(Updated 10/97)
Candidate (Party Label) Popular Vote Total Percent of Popular Vote Bill Clinton (Democrat) 47,402,357 49.24 Bob Dole (Republican) 39,198,755 40.71 Ross Perot (Reform) 8,085,402 8.40 Ralph Nader (Green) 685,128 .71 Harry Browne (Libertarian) 485,798 .50 Howard Phillips (U.S. Taxpayers) 184,820 .19 John Hagelin (Natural Law) 113,670 .12 Monica Moorehead (Workers World) 29,083 .03 Marsha Feinland (Peace and Freedom) 25,332 .03 Write-In (Miscellaneous) 24,546* .02 Charles Collins (Independent) 8,952 .01 James Harris (Socialist Workers) 8,476 .01 None of These Candidates (Nevada) 5,608 .00 Dennis Peron (Grassroots) 5,378 .00 Mary Cal Hollis (Socialist) 4,766 .00 Jerome White (Socialist Equality) 2,438 .00 Diane Beall Templin (American) 1,847 .00 Earl F. Dodge (Prohibition) 1,298 .00 A. Peter Crane (Independent) 1,101 .00 Justice Ralph Forbes (America First) 932 .00 John Birrenbach (Independent Grassroots) 787 .00 Isabell Masters (Looking Back) 752 .00 Steve Michael (Independent) 408 .00 Total: 96,277,634*
Voting Age Population (Census Bureau Population Survey for November
1996): 196,498,000
Percent of voting age population casting a vote for President:
49.00%
Notes:
Party designations vary from one state to another. Vote totals
for the candidates listed above include any write-in votes they
received. * Totals do not include the 123,000 write-in
and blank votes that were compiled as one total in New York.