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.
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The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.
Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln won reelection in the 1864 presidential election defeating George McClellan. In the 1864 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 212 electoral votes and George McClellan received 21 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Lincoln 2,218,388 and McClellan 1,812,807.
One third (1/3) of US senators run for re-election every two years (as opposed to the typical six year term).
The Republican party started out as a third party. The Whig Party was important because they brought the Compromise of 1850. The Progressive Party brought reforms and many of their ideas were adopted by the Democrats.
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