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H. Ross Perot ran for U.S. President in 1996 as a nominee of the Reform Party. He received 8.40% of popular votes nationwide. While that number is respectable for a third party candidate, it's less than half of what he had achieved four years earlier.
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Democratic Party candidate incumbent President William Clinton won reelection in the 1996 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate Bob Dole. In the 1996 presidential election William Clinton received 379 electoral votes and Bob Dole received 159 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Clinton 45,590,703 and Dole 37,816,307. Reform Party candidate H. Ross Perot received 7,866,284 popular votes for President, but no electoral votes.
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Perot won 19.743 million popular votes in 1992 which was the highest total ever for a third party candidate. However, as a percentage, he won only 18.9% ,whereas in 1912, third party candidate Theodore Roosevelt won 27.4% of the popular vote with some 4 million votes for him.
the third party candidate for the 1960 election was Governor George Corley Wallace of Alabama
Popular third party candidates can greatly influence elections. Ross Perot essentially won the 1992 election for Bill Clinton by taking votes from Bush.
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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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Democratic Party candidate incumbent President William Clinton won reelection in the 1996 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate Bob Dole. In the 1996 presidential election William Clinton received 379 electoral votes and Bob Dole received 159 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Clinton 45,590,703 and Dole 37,816,307. Reform Party candidate H. Ross Perot received 7,866,284 popular votes for President, but no electoral votes.
Democratic Party candidate incumbent President William Clinton won reelection in the 1996 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate Bob Dole. In the 1996 presidential election William Clinton received 379 electoral votes and Bob Dole received 159 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Clinton 45,590,703 and Dole 37,816,307. Reform Party candidate H. Ross Perot received 7,866,284 popular votes for President, but no electoral votes.