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Who ran as a Democrat against George Bush Sr. in first election?
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Republican Party candidate George H.W. Bush won the 1988 presidential election defeating Democratic Party candidate Michael Dukakis. In the 1988 presidential election George Bush received 426 electoral votes and Michael Dukakis received 111 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Bush 48,886,097 and Dukakis 41,809,074.
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