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Election 1996 Results

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1996 presidential election in Delaware

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat Bob Dole (Republican) in Delaware in 1996, 51.8% to 36.6%, a margin of 15.2 points and 41,293 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1992, when Bill Clinton also won.

Democrats led in 3 of the 3 counties. The largest, New Castle, cast 179,546 votes and went to the Democrat by 21.1 points. The closest was Sussex, where 1,004 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bill Clinton won Democratic 140,355 51.8%
Bob Dole Republican 99,062 36.6%
Ross Perot Reform 28,719 10.6%
All other candidates 2,709 1.0%
Total270,845

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
New Castle 98,837 55.0% 60,943 33.9% 19,766 179,546 D+21.1
Sussex 23,191 44.6% 22,187 42.7% 6,634 52,012 D+1.9
Kent 18,327 46.7% 15,932 40.6% 4,993 39,252 D+6.1

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

Delaware in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+14.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+19.0
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+11.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+18.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+7.6
2000 Al Gore (D) D+13.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+12.4
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+19.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.3
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+5.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.4
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+22.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+1.6
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+10.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+3.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.3
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.1
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+20.9
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+13.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+2.4
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+13.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+6.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+9.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+8.8
1896 William McKinley (R) R+10.1
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+11.6
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+13.4
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+3.5
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+10.9
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.2
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+18.0