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Election 1992 Results

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1992 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat George H. W. Bush (Republican) in Pennsylvania in 1992, 45.1% to 36.1%, a margin of 9.0 points and 447,323 votes.

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

Republicans led in 40 of the 67 counties and Democrats in 27. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 638,058 votes and went to the Democrat by 47.3 points. The closest was Forest, where 89 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 2,239,164 45.1%
George H. W. Bush Republican 1,791,841 36.1%
Ross Perot Independent 902,667 18.2%
All other candidates 26,138 0.5%
Total4,959,810

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 434,904 68.2% 133,328 20.9% 69,826 638,058 D+47.3
Allegheny 324,004 52.8% 183,035 29.8% 107,148 614,187 D+23.0
Montgomery 136,572 42.9% 125,704 39.5% 56,300 318,576 D+3.4
Delaware 111,210 41.8% 108,587 40.8% 46,277 266,074 D+1.0
Bucks 97,902 39.4% 94,584 38.1% 56,021 248,507 D+1.3
Chester 59,643 35.2% 74,002 43.7% 35,563 169,208 R+8.5
Lancaster 44,255 27.6% 88,447 55.2% 27,478 160,180 R+27.6
Westmoreland 69,817 45.2% 47,315 30.6% 37,319 154,451 D+14.6
York 46,113 34.3% 60,130 44.8% 28,002 134,245 R+10.4
Berks 46,031 35.0% 52,939 40.3% 32,437 131,407 R+5.3
Luzerne 56,623 44.5% 49,285 38.8% 21,238 127,146 D+5.8
Erie 56,381 47.9% 39,283 33.3% 22,140 117,804 D+14.5
Lehigh 46,711 40.7% 42,631 37.1% 25,494 114,836 D+3.6
Dauphin 36,990 37.4% 45,479 46.0% 16,441 98,910 R+8.6
Northampton 42,203 43.3% 34,429 35.3% 20,893 97,525 D+8.0
Lackawanna 45,054 47.4% 33,443 35.2% 16,471 94,968 D+12.2
Cumberland 26,635 31.5% 43,447 51.4% 14,491 84,573 R+19.9
Washington 46,143 54.7% 21,977 26.1% 16,244 84,364 D+28.6
Beaver 44,877 54.5% 21,361 25.9% 16,102 82,340 D+28.6
Cambria 34,334 51.7% 20,770 31.3% 11,245 66,349 D+20.4
Schuylkill 23,679 37.6% 25,780 40.9% 13,570 63,029 R+3.3
Butler 22,303 36.5% 23,656 38.7% 15,171 61,130 R+2.2
Fayette 30,577 56.8% 12,820 23.8% 10,464 53,861 D+33.0
Centre 21,177 41.3% 20,478 40.0% 9,570 51,225 D+1.4
Mercer 23,264 46.7% 16,081 32.3% 10,491 49,836 D+14.4
Blair 14,857 33.2% 21,447 47.9% 8,454 44,758 R+14.7
Franklin 13,440 30.7% 23,387 53.4% 7,007 43,834 R+22.7
Lycoming 13,315 30.8% 20,536 47.6% 9,321 43,172 R+16.7
Lebanon 12,350 28.7% 21,512 50.0% 9,159 43,021 R+21.3
Lawrence 20,830 50.6% 12,359 30.0% 8,014 41,203 D+20.6
Monroe 13,468 35.9% 14,557 38.8% 9,475 37,500 R+2.9
Northumberland 12,814 35.8% 15,057 42.1% 7,921 35,792 R+6.3
Crawford 12,813 37.0% 14,112 40.8% 7,703 34,628 R+3.8
Indiana 15,194 45.6% 10,966 32.9% 7,154 33,314 D+12.7
Somerset 12,493 38.1% 13,858 42.3% 6,408 32,759 R+4.2
Clearfield 12,247 39.7% 11,553 37.5% 7,047 30,847 D+2.2
Adams 9,576 32.5% 13,552 45.9% 6,373 29,501 R+13.5
Armstrong 12,995 45.9% 9,122 32.2% 6,216 28,333 D+13.7
Columbia 8,261 34.8% 9,742 41.0% 5,736 23,739 R+6.2
Bradford 6,903 30.5% 10,221 45.2% 5,504 22,628 R+14.7
Carbon 9,072 41.9% 7,243 33.4% 5,344 21,659 D+8.4
Venango 8,230 38.2% 8,545 39.6% 4,779 21,554 R+1.5
Bedford 5,840 31.0% 9,216 49.0% 3,761 18,817 R+17.9
Warren 6,972 37.8% 6,585 35.7% 4,869 18,426 D+2.1
Jefferson 5,998 33.9% 7,271 41.1% 4,442 17,711 R+7.2
Wayne 4,817 28.6% 8,184 48.7% 3,821 16,822 R+20.0
Susquehanna 5,368 32.1% 7,356 44.0% 3,985 16,709 R+11.9
Tioga 4,868 29.4% 7,823 47.3% 3,852 16,543 R+17.9
McKean 5,331 32.5% 6,965 42.5% 4,104 16,400 R+10.0
Clarion 5,584 35.5% 6,477 41.2% 3,657 15,718 R+5.7
Huntingdon 5,153 32.8% 7,249 46.2% 3,298 15,700 R+13.4
Perry 4,086 26.7% 7,871 51.4% 3,370 15,327 R+24.7
Greene 8,438 55.8% 3,482 23.0% 3,215 15,135 D+32.7
Mifflin 4,946 33.7% 6,300 42.9% 3,442 14,688 R+9.2
Elk 5,016 36.3% 4,908 35.5% 3,908 13,832 D+0.8
Pike 4,382 32.2% 6,084 44.7% 3,137 13,603 R+12.5
Snyder 2,952 23.4% 6,934 55.0% 2,710 12,596 R+31.6
Clinton 5,397 42.9% 4,471 35.6% 2,701 12,569 D+7.4
Union 3,623 29.5% 6,362 51.9% 2,280 12,265 R+22.3
Wyoming 3,158 29.1% 5,143 47.4% 2,549 10,850 R+18.3
Juniata 2,601 30.9% 3,980 47.3% 1,839 8,420 R+16.4
Potter 1,892 26.9% 3,452 49.0% 1,700 7,044 R+22.1
Montour 2,150 32.4% 3,096 46.6% 1,400 6,646 R+14.2
Fulton 1,588 31.6% 2,558 50.9% 877 5,023 R+19.3
Sullivan 1,030 33.1% 1,340 43.0% 743 3,113 R+10.0
Cameron 824 30.8% 1,173 43.8% 681 2,678 R+13.0
Forest 890 41.5% 801 37.4% 453 2,144 D+4.2

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

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4