1988 United States presidential election in Nevada

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1988 United States presidential election in Nevada

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Turnout	80.0% (of registered voters) [1]
Nominee George H. W. Bush Michael Dukakis Party Republican Democratic Home state Texas Massachusetts Running mate Dan Quayle Lloyd Bentsen Electoral vote 4 0 Popular vote 206,040 132,738 Percentage 58.86% 37.92%
County Results Bush   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% No vote       [a] The 1988 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Nevada was won by incumbent United States Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, who was running against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as vice president, and Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Bush carried Nevada with 58.86% of the vote, while Dukakis received 37.92%, a victory margin of 20.94%. Bush carried Nevada by a landslide margin of 21%, making the state 13.2% more Republican than the nation overall. He carried every county in the state, and both of Nevada's largest counties – Clark and Washoe – weighed in as more Republican than the nation. Only in one county, then-traditionally Democratic White Pine County, did Bush underperform his national vote share, and then only slightly. This was also the only county in which Dukakis cracked 40%, although in no county did he overperform his national vote share (with 'no candidate' garnering 4.9% of the vote in White Pine County). The Mountain West had begun trending Republican in 1952; [2] in that election, Eisenhower overperformed in Nevada as he did in the rest of the region, after it had unanimously voted for Truman in 1948. However, Nevada, along with New Mexico in the Mountain West, voted for Kennedy in 1960, and was competitive in 1976. 1980 marked a watershed in Nevada's Republican turn, as it voted 25.9% more Republican than the nation, the most to the right Nevada had voted since statehood. Nevada remained a strong 15.7% more Republican than the nation amid Reagan's national 1984 landslide, and remained more Republican than the nation by double digits in 1988. This was at the same time as some other Mountain West states, such as Colorado and Montana, wavered in the strength of their traditional Republicanism, amid the 1980s farm crisis. Nevada, which had been a bellwether state for most of the 20th century (having voted for the winner of every election between its third vote for Bryan in 1908 and its vote for Ford in 1976), returned to being closer to the national median in 1992, as Bill Clinton, the national winner, narrowly carried it. It remained narrowly to the right of the country in both of Clinton's wins, but George W. Bush only narrowly carried it in his own two victories in 2000 and 2004. The election was rather multi-partisan, with more than 3% of the state voting for third parties or for Nevada's "None of These Candidates" option. [3] Nevada weighed in for this election as about 13% more Republican than the national average. This would be the third time in a row that Republicans swept every county in the state – however, it would become the last time (as of 2020) any presidential candidate did so, as this was the last election in which Clark County, the most populated county in Nevada and home to Las Vegas, was won by a Republican presidential candidate. [4] Results 1988 United States presidential election in Nevada [1] Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Republican George H. W. Bush 206,040 58.86% 4 Democratic Michael Dukakis 132,738 37.92% 0 None of These Candidates 6,934 1.98% 0 Libertarian Ron Paul 3,520 1.01% 0 New Alliance Lenora Fulani 835 0.24% 0 Totals 350,067 100.0% 4 Results by county County George H.W. Bush Republican Michael Dukakis Democratic None of These Candidates Ron Paul Libertarian Leonora Fulani New Alliance Margin Total votes cast [1] #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % Carson City 9,701 63.44% 5,088 33.27% 276 1.80% 195 1.28% 31 0.20% 4,613 30.17% 15,291 Churchill 4,578 72.86% 1,481 23.57% 155 2.47% 49 0.78% 20 0.32% 3,097 49.29% 6,283 Clark 108,110 56.37% 78,359 40.86% 3,400 1.77% 1,535 0.80% 375 0.20% 29,751 15.51% 191,779 Douglas 7,074 67.02% 3,107 29.44% 214 2.03% 135 1.28% 25 0.24% 3,967 37.58% 10,555 Elko 5,722 68.35% 2,310 27.59% 220 2.63% 96 1.15% 24 0.29% 3,412 40.76% 8,372 Esmeralda 380 68.84% 143 25.91% 16 2.90% 11 1.99% 2 0.36% 237 42.93% 552 Eureka 413 70.96% 151 25.95% 11 1.89% 7 1.20% 0 0.00% 262 45.01% 582 Humboldt 2,378 66.50% 1,024 28.64% 87 2.43% 65 1.82% 22 0.62% 1,354 37.86% 3,576 Lander 1,214 70.83% 439 25.61% 35 2.04% 21 1.23% 5 0.29% 775 45.22% 1,714 Lincoln 1,035 66.18% 466 29.80% 45 2.88% 9 0.58% 9 0.58% 569 36.38% 1,564 Lyon 4,390 62.83% 2,301 32.93% 171 2.45% 103 1.47% 22 0.31% 2,089 29.90% 6,987 Mineral 1,480 56.88% 978 37.59% 101 3.88% 20 0.77% 23 0.88% 502 19.29% 2,602 Nye 3,619 64.59% 1,748 31.20% 143 2.55% 78 1.39% 15 0.27% 1,871 33.39% 5,603 Pershing 867 62.11% 458 32.81% 48 3.44% 17 1.22% 6 0.43% 409 29.30% 1,396 Storey 651 56.36% 432 37.40% 46 3.98% 22 1.90% 4 0.35% 219 18.96% 1,155 Washoe 52,654 59.34% 32,902 37.08% 1,803 2.03% 1,137 1.28% 232 0.26% 19,752 22.26% 88,728 White Pine 1,774 53.31% 1,351 40.59% 163 4.90% 20 0.60% 20 0.60% 423 12.72% 3,328 Bullfrog [b] 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 Totals 206,040 58.86% 132,738 37.92% 6,934 1.98% 3,520 1.01% 835 0.24% 73,302 20.94% 350,067 See also Presidency of George H. W. Bush United States presidential elections in Nevada Notes Bullfrog County, an enclave of Nye County extant from 1987 to 1989, had no population and thus recorded no votes. No returns were canvassed for Bullfrog County, which was uninhabited at the time. Whatever voters existed in this county were listed in totals for neighbouring counties. References "1988 General Election Returns". Nevada Secretary of State. Retrieved July 9, 2024. Paulson, Arthur C. (2000). Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-275-96865-6. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved July 21, 2013. 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