William Clinton won the 1992 presidential election defeating
incumbent President George H.W. 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
received 19,741,065 (19%) of the 103,751,662 popular votes for
President.
Democratic Party
candidate Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 presidential election
defeating Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party")
candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican Party candidate
incumbent President William Taft. In the 1912 presidential election
Woodrow Wilson received 435 electoral votes, Theodore Roosevelt
received 88 electoral votes, and William Taft received 8 electoral
votes. The popular vote totals were Wilson 6,293,152 (42%),
Roosevelt 4,119,207 (27%), and Taft 3,483,922 (23%). Socialist
Party candidate Eugene Debs received 901,551 (6%) popular votes and
no electoral votes.