The Reform Party offered a significant challenge to established candidates.
Perot got 18.9 % of the popular vote in 1992, but did carry any states . Exit polls indicated that he did not affect the final outcome of the election. They showed that many of his supporters did not support either of the other candidates and voted for him as a protest. Those who would have voted for either Clinton or Bush tended to split evenly for each.
The Reform Party offered a significant challenge to established candidates.
It demonstrated that third-party candidates could find some success in national elections.
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Ross Perot ran as an independent in the 1992 election against Bush and Clinton.
In 1992,Ross Perot ran for president but he lost the election to Bill Clinton.
Texas billionaire Ross Perot formed the Independent party. Perot ran in the 1992 Presidential election and received 18 percent of the vote.
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Perot was only in the primary and never reached the election for president.
William Clinton won the 1992 presidential election defeating incumbent President George Bush and independent candidate H. Ross Perot. In the 1992 presidential election William Clinton received 370 electoral votes and George Bush received 168 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Clinton 44,908,254 and Bush 39,102,343. Independent candidate H. Ross Perot received 19,741,065 popular votes for President, but no electoral votes.
Ross Perot was the Reform Party candidate in 1996.
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Among third-party candidates, Ross Perot is thought to have split the conservative vote in a recent election. Ross Perot ran in the 1992 and 1996 US presidential elections as an independent.
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