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Election 1992 Results

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1992 presidential election in Connecticut

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat George H. W. Bush (Republican) in Connecticut in 1992, 42.2% to 35.8%, a margin of 6.4 points and 104,005 votes.

Connecticut changed party: in 1988 it went Republican, for George H. W. Bush.

Democrats led in 6 of the 8 counties and Republicans in 2. The largest, Hartford, cast 414,804 votes and went to the Democrat by 15.2 points. The closest was Litchfield, where 806 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bill Clinton won Democratic 682,318 42.2%
George H. W. Bush Republican 578,313 35.8%
Ross Perot Independent 348,771 21.6%
All other candidates 6,930 0.4%
Total1,616,332

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Hartford 195,495 47.1% 132,591 32.0% 86,718 414,804 D+15.2
Fairfield 160,202 39.1% 175,158 42.8% 74,050 409,410 R+3.7
New Haven 161,374 41.9% 141,264 36.7% 82,494 385,132 D+5.2
New London 49,808 42.3% 34,567 29.4% 33,392 117,767 D+12.9
Litchfield 33,686 36.1% 34,492 37.0% 25,035 93,213 R+0.9
Middlesex 34,707 42.8% 24,646 30.4% 21,674 81,027 D+12.4
Tolland 27,425 41.4% 20,632 31.2% 18,158 66,215 D+10.3
Windham 19,621 40.4% 14,963 30.8% 14,004 48,588 D+9.6

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Connecticut in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+14.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+20.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+13.6
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+22.4
2004 John Kerry (D) D+10.4
2000 Al Gore (D) D+17.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.1
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+6.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+5.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+21.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+9.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+5.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+18.4
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+7.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+27.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.6
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+7.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+15.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.1
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+8.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+29.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.3
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.0
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+30.7
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.3
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.2
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.9
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+2.0
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.8
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+3.1