Cheney Electoral vote 418 101 21 Popular vote 77,967,626 26,581,469 15,508,596 Percentage 62.61% 21.34% 12.45% The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Vice President Laurance Rockefeller; Democratic New Jersey Senator Pierre S. du Pont IV, and Republican Florida Governor John W. Bush. Rockefeller had begun to put forward with