1996 Presidential Election

193,652,000
Voting Age Population
49.8%
Turnout by VAP

Results of the presidential election of 1996, won by William J. Clinton with 379 electoral votes.

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Bill Clinton’s Cabinet

President: Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

Vice President: Al Gore (1993-2001)

Secretary of State: Madeleine Albright (1997-2001)

Secretary of the Treasury: Robert Rubin (1995-1999), Lawrence Summers (1999-2001)

Secretary of Defense: William Cohen (1997-2001)

Attorney General: Janet Reno (1993-2001)

Secretary of the Interior: Bruce Babbitt (1993-2001)

Secretary of Agriculture: Dan Glickman (1995-2001)

Secretary of Commerce: William M. Daley (1997-2000), Norman Mineta (2000-2001)

Secretary of Labor: Alexis Herman (1997-2001)

Secretary of Health and Human Services: Donna Shalala (1993-2001)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Andrew Cuomo (1997-2001)

Secretary of Transportation: Rodney Slater (1997-2001)

Secretary of Energy: Federico Peu00f1a (1997-1998), Bill Richardson (1998-2001)

Secretary of Education: Richard Riley (1993-2001)

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Togo West (1998-2000), Hershel Gober (acting) (2000-2001)

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Carol Browner (1993-2001)

Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Franklin Raines (1996-1998), Jack Lew (1998-2001)

Director of Central Intelligence: George Tenet (1996-2001)

United States Trade Representative: Charlene Barshefsky (1996-2001)

Ambassador to the United Nations: Bill Richardson (1997-1998), Richard Holbrooke (1999-2001)

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers: Janet Yellen (1997-1999), Martin N. Baily (1999-2001)

Administrator of the Small Business Administration: Aida Álvarez (1997-2001)

Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency: James Witt (1993-2001)

Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy: Barry McCaffrey (1996-2001)

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1996 Candidate Electoral Votes

270 to win
47,402,357 popular votes (49.2%)
Running Mate: Al Gore
39,198,755 popular votes (40.7%)
Running Mate: Jack Kemp

Reform Party candidate Ross Perot received 8,085,402 votes, but no Electoral Votes.

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

9

Alaska

3

Arizona

8

Arkansas

6

California

54

Colorado

8

Connecticut

8

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

3

Florida

25

Georgia

13

Hawaii

4

Idaho

4

Illinois

22

Indiana

12

Iowa

7

Kansas

6

Kentucky

8

Louisiana

9

Maine

4

Maryland

10

Massachusetts

12

Michigan

18

Minnesota

10

Mississippi

7

Missouri

11

Montana

3

Nebraska

5

Nevada

4

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

15

New Mexico

5

New York

33

North Carolina

14

North Dakota

3

Ohio

21

Oklahoma

8

Oregon

7

Pennsylvania

23

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

8

South Dakota

3

Tennessee

11

Texas

32

Utah

5

Vermont

3

Virginia

13

Washington

11

West Virginia

5

Wisconsin

11

Wyoming

3