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Election 1996 Results

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1996 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat Bob Dole (Republican) in Pennsylvania in 1996, 49.2% to 40.0%, a margin of 9.2 points and 414,650 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 0.7 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+8.5.

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

Republicans led in 39 of the 67 counties and Democrats in 28. The largest, Allegheny, cast 538,615 votes and went to the Democrat by 14.9 points. The closest was Forest, where 62 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 2,215,819 49.2%
Bob Dole Republican 1,801,169 40.0%
Ross Perot Reform 430,984 9.6%
All other candidates 58,146 1.3%
Total4,506,118

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Allegheny 284,480 52.8% 204,067 37.9% 50,068 538,615 D+14.9
Philadelphia 412,988 77.4% 85,345 16.0% 34,944 533,277 D+61.4
Montgomery 143,664 48.9% 121,047 41.2% 29,250 293,961 D+7.7
Delaware 115,946 49.4% 92,628 39.5% 26,174 234,748 D+9.9
Bucks 103,313 45.4% 94,899 41.7% 29,151 227,363 D+3.7
Chester 64,783 40.9% 77,029 48.6% 16,554 158,366 R+7.7
Lancaster 49,120 31.6% 92,875 59.8% 13,291 155,286 R+28.2
Westmoreland 63,686 44.4% 62,058 43.3% 17,585 143,329 D+1.1
York 49,596 38.7% 65,188 50.9% 13,372 128,156 R+12.2
Berks 49,887 41.0% 56,289 46.2% 15,542 121,718 R+5.3
Luzerne 60,174 51.5% 43,577 37.3% 13,066 116,817 D+14.2
Erie 57,508 52.9% 39,884 36.7% 11,399 108,791 D+16.2
Lehigh 48,568 45.8% 45,103 42.5% 12,439 106,110 D+3.3
Dauphin 40,936 44.0% 44,417 47.8% 7,618 92,971 R+3.7
Northampton 43,959 48.3% 35,726 39.3% 11,317 91,002 D+9.0
Lackawanna 46,377 56.1% 26,930 32.6% 9,374 82,681 D+23.5
Cumberland 28,749 36.4% 43,943 55.6% 6,293 78,985 R+19.2
Washington 40,952 52.7% 27,777 35.7% 9,016 77,745 D+16.9
Beaver 39,578 53.3% 26,048 35.1% 8,653 74,279 D+18.2
Butler 21,990 36.3% 32,038 52.9% 6,563 60,591 R+16.6
Cambria 30,391 51.3% 20,341 34.3% 8,543 59,275 D+17.0
Schuylkill 24,860 43.9% 22,920 40.5% 8,849 56,629 D+3.4
Centre 21,145 45.2% 20,935 44.7% 4,746 46,826 D+0.4
Fayette 26,359 56.6% 14,019 30.1% 6,154 46,532 D+26.5
Mercer 23,003 50.2% 17,213 37.6% 5,563 45,779 D+12.6
Franklin 14,980 33.5% 25,392 56.8% 4,358 44,730 R+23.3
Lebanon 14,187 34.8% 21,885 53.7% 4,663 40,735 R+18.9
Blair 15,036 37.0% 21,282 52.3% 4,373 40,691 R+15.3
Lycoming 13,516 34.4% 21,535 54.9% 4,190 39,241 R+20.4
Monroe 16,547 42.4% 17,326 44.4% 5,192 39,065 R+2.0
Lawrence 18,993 52.4% 13,088 36.1% 4,178 36,259 D+16.3
Northumberland 13,418 41.4% 13,551 41.8% 5,431 32,400 R+0.4
Somerset 12,719 40.3% 14,735 46.6% 4,137 31,591 R+6.4
Crawford 12,943 41.2% 14,659 46.6% 3,844 31,446 R+5.5
Indiana 13,868 45.3% 12,874 42.1% 3,841 30,583 D+3.3
Adams 10,774 36.5% 15,338 52.0% 3,396 29,508 R+15.5
Clearfield 11,991 41.4% 12,987 44.9% 3,977 28,955 R+3.4
Armstrong 11,130 43.2% 11,052 42.9% 3,597 25,779 D+0.3
Bradford 7,736 36.8% 10,393 49.5% 2,879 21,008 R+12.6
Columbia 8,379 41.1% 8,234 40.4% 3,759 20,372 D+0.7
Carbon 9,457 47.7% 7,193 36.3% 3,179 19,829 D+11.4
Venango 8,205 42.0% 8,398 43.0% 2,946 19,549 R+1.0
Bedford 5,954 32.8% 10,064 55.5% 2,109 18,127 R+22.7
Warren 7,291 42.7% 7,056 41.3% 2,720 17,067 D+1.4
Jefferson 5,846 35.5% 8,156 49.6% 2,455 16,457 R+14.0
Wayne 5,928 36.3% 8,077 49.4% 2,329 16,334 R+13.2
Susquehanna 5,912 37.8% 7,354 47.0% 2,370 15,636 R+9.2
Clarion 5,954 39.5% 6,916 45.9% 2,201 15,071 R+6.4
McKean 5,509 37.1% 6,838 46.0% 2,522 14,869 R+8.9
Perry 4,611 31.8% 8,156 56.2% 1,748 14,515 R+24.4
Huntingdon 5,285 36.5% 7,324 50.5% 1,886 14,495 R+14.1
Tioga 4,961 34.4% 7,382 51.2% 2,082 14,425 R+16.8
Pike 5,509 38.7% 6,697 47.0% 2,038 14,244 R+8.3
Greene 7,620 55.5% 4,002 29.1% 2,114 13,736 D+26.3
Mifflin 5,327 38.8% 6,888 50.2% 1,503 13,718 R+11.4
Elk 5,749 44.2% 4,889 37.6% 2,375 13,013 D+6.6
Union 3,658 31.2% 6,570 56.0% 1,496 11,724 R+24.8
Snyder 3,405 29.2% 6,742 57.9% 1,495 11,642 R+28.7
Clinton 5,658 49.3% 4,293 37.4% 1,532 11,483 D+11.9
Wyoming 4,049 38.9% 4,888 47.0% 1,471 10,408 R+8.1
Juniata 2,896 36.3% 4,128 51.7% 960 7,984 R+15.4
Potter 2,146 31.5% 3,714 54.5% 957 6,817 R+23.0
Montour 2,183 37.6% 2,785 47.9% 843 5,811 R+10.4
Fulton 1,620 33.3% 2,665 54.7% 583 4,868 R+21.5
Sullivan 1,071 37.5% 1,352 47.3% 435 2,858 R+9.8
Cameron 822 36.8% 1,113 49.9% 296 2,231 R+13.0
Forest 964 43.8% 902 41.0% 335 2,201 D+2.8

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