page_title: 1992 United States presidential election in Texas
hierarchical_section_title: 1992 United States presidential election in Texas
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Signature de l'Accord de libre-échange nord-américain en octobre 1992. De gauche à droite, debouts&#160;: Carlos Salinas de Gortari (président mexicain), George H. W. Bush (président américain) et Brian Mulroney (premier ministre canadien). De gauche à droite, assis&#160;: Jaime Serra Puche (Secrétaire du Commerce international et du développement industriel du Mexique), Carla Hills (Représentant au Commerce des États-Unis) et Michael Wilson (ministre du Commerce international du Canada). English: NAFTA Initialing Ceremony, October 1992 From left to right (standing) Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, US President George H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. (Seated) Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development Jaime Serra Puche, United States Trade Representative Carla Hills, Canadian Minister of International Trade Michael Wilson.
context_page_description: The 1992 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose thirty-two representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
  Texas was won by incumbent President George H. W. Bush with 40.56% of the popular vote over Governor Bill Clinton with 37.08%. Businessman Ross Perot finished in third, with 22.01% of the popular vote. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush. He was the first Democrat to win a presidential election without Texas since its statehood. Despite Bush's ties to the state, this is the closest since 1976 that Texas has come to voting for a Democratic presidential candidate. This would also be the first time since 1968 when Texas would back the losing candidate in a presidential election. The same of which would also occur when Texas voted for losing Republican candidates Bob Dole in 1996, John McCain in 2008, and Mitt Romney in 2012.
  Texas was one of few states in the U.S where Ross Perot won any counties, namely Irion, Somervell, Grayson, and Loving.
context_section_description: The 1992 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose thirty-two representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
  Texas was won by incumbent President George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) with 40.56% of the popular vote over Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 37.08%. Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third, with 22.01% of the popular vote. Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating incumbent President Bush. He was the first Democrat to win a presidential election without Texas since its statehood. Despite Bush's ties to the state, this is the closest since 1976 that Texas has come to voting for a Democratic presidential candidate. This would also be the first time since 1968 when Texas would back the losing candidate in a presidential election. The same of which would also occur when Texas voted for losing Republican candidates Bob Dole in 1996, John McCain in 2008, and Mitt Romney in 2012.
  Texas was one of few states in the U.S where Ross Perot won any counties, namely Irion, Somervell, Grayson, and Loving. Perot was the first third-party candidate to win any Texas counties since George Wallace in 1968. As of the 2016 presidential election, this is the last time these four aforementioned counties have not voted Republican, and the last time a third-party candidate won any of Texas’ counties. Loving County gave Perot his best performance in the country, earning 46.88% of the vote. As contrast, and more typically in modern American politics, Starr County was Clinton’s strongest outside the District of Columbia, and one of the only two to give him over 80% of the vote, the other being Macon County, Alabama, whilst the Panhandle counties of Hansford and Ochiltree were the third and fourth strongest for Bush nationwide behind the famous bastions of Jackson County, Kentucky and Sioux County, Iowa. 
  Clinton remains the last Democratic candidate to carry these counties: Crockett, Concho, McCulloch, Coleman, Mills, Throckmorton, Briscoe, Hays, Hill, Freestone, Henderson, Jack, Clay, Montague, Franklin, Lamar, Upshur, Angelina, Hardin, Liberty, Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, and Houston.
caption: Bush at the controversial signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), commenced in San Antonio, Texas on December 17, 1992. Signing was critical international policy decision made by Bush two weeks following his 1992 electoral defeat.
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