The 1992 United States presidential election in Montana was held on November 3, 1992, as part of the

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. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Montana was won by Governor Bill Clinton ( D- Arkansas) with a 37.63% plurality of the popular vote over incumbent President

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's ( R- Texas) 35.12%, and businessman

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's ( I-Texas) 26.12%. As of

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, this is the last time Montana voted for the Democratic candidate and is currently the only time a Democratic presidential nominee has carried the state since

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, setting it apart from its neighboring states ( Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota), all of which have maintained their Republican streak since 1964. Similarly, this marks the second of two times that Montana has voted for a different candidate than neighboring Idaho, the first being

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, both states' first election since statehood. This was also one of eight states where Perot earned over 25 percent of the vote. Since 1964, Montana has only been competitive in a handful of elections: besides this one, the only elections in which a Democrat came within 5% of carrying the state were in the subsequent election, and in Barack Obama's first election in

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Results

By county

Official results by county from the Montana Secretary of State. Tree map of Montana 1992 Presidential election by county

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

* Lincoln

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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* Valley

Analysis

Montana was won by Governor Bill Clinton ( D- Arkansas) with 37.63% of the popular vote over incumbent President

( R- Texas) with 35.12%. Businessman

( I-Texas) finished in third, with 26.12% of the popular vote. It was the first time the state voted for a Democrat since it was won by President Lyndon B. Johnson in

. It is also the last time that the state voted Democratic (), as well as the last time that Sanders County and Valley County voted Democratic. Clinton became the first ever Democrat to win the White House without carrying Lincoln or

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Counties, as well as the first since Franklin D. Roosevelt in

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to win without carrying

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References

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