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Election 1992 Results

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1992 presidential election in New Jersey

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat George H. W. Bush (Republican) in New Jersey in 1992, 43.0% to 40.6%, a margin of 2.4 points and 79,341 votes.

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

Republicans led in 11 of the 21 counties and Democrats in 10. The largest, Bergen, cast 403,137 votes and went to the Republican by 1.8 points. The closest was Salem, where 301 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 1,436,206 43.0%
George H. W. Bush Republican 1,356,865 40.6%
Ross Perot Independent 521,829 15.6%
All other candidates 28,694 0.9%
Total3,343,594

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bergen 171,104 42.4% 178,223 44.2% 53,810 403,137 R+1.8
Middlesex 128,824 45.2% 108,701 38.1% 47,746 285,271 D+7.1
Essex 158,130 57.1% 89,146 32.2% 29,582 276,858 D+24.9
Monmouth 101,750 38.2% 117,715 44.2% 46,651 266,116 R+6.0
Ocean 75,431 34.9% 95,984 44.4% 44,828 216,243 R+9.5
Camden 104,915 49.7% 67,205 31.9% 38,766 210,886 D+17.9
Union 96,671 46.0% 87,742 41.8% 25,699 210,112 D+4.2
Morris 67,593 32.3% 108,431 51.8% 33,208 209,232 R+19.5
Hudson 99,799 53.9% 66,505 35.9% 18,753 185,057 D+18.0
Burlington 72,845 42.0% 63,709 36.8% 36,803 173,357 D+5.3
Passaic 70,030 42.5% 71,147 43.1% 23,711 164,888 R+0.7
Mercer 71,383 49.1% 50,473 34.7% 23,404 145,260 D+14.4
Somerset 42,867 35.5% 56,044 46.4% 21,902 120,813 R+10.9
Gloucester 42,425 40.6% 37,335 35.7% 24,859 104,619 D+4.9
Atlantic 39,633 43.9% 34,279 38.0% 16,386 90,298 D+5.9
Sussex 14,775 25.9% 29,510 51.7% 12,779 57,064 R+25.8
Hunterdon 15,423 28.6% 25,130 46.6% 13,421 53,974 R+18.0
Cumberland 22,220 42.6% 19,253 36.9% 10,643 52,116 D+5.7
Cape May 17,324 35.5% 21,502 44.0% 10,030 48,856 R+8.6
Warren 13,002 31.3% 18,468 44.5% 10,032 41,502 R+13.2
Salem 10,062 36.0% 10,363 37.1% 7,510 27,935 R+1.1

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

New Jersey in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+5.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+15.9
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+14.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.8
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+15.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+6.7
2000 Al Gore (D) D+15.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+17.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+13.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+20.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+13.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+2.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+24.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+2.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+31.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+0.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+30.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.0
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.9
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.2
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+11.7
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+17.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+18.6
1900 William McKinley (R) R+14.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+23.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+4.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.7
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.8
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+5.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+9.0
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.8