1988 United States presidential election in Wyoming
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The1988 United States presidential election in Wyomingtook place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states andthe District of Columbia,were part of the1988 United States presidential election.State voters chose three electors to theElectoral College,which selected thepresidentandvice president.
Wyomingwas won by incumbent United StatesVice PresidentGeorge H. W. BushofTexas,who was running againstMassachusettsGovernorMichael Dukakis.Bush ran withIndianaSenatorDan Quayleas vice president, and Dukakis ran withTexasSenatorLloyd Bentsen.
Wyoming weighed in for this election as 14.3 percentage points moreRepublicanthan the national average. The presidential election of 1988 was a fairlypartisanelection for Wyoming, with nearly 98 percent of the electorate voting for either theDemocraticorRepublicanparties, and only four candidates on the ballot.[1]
Bush won the election in Wyoming with a solid 22-point landslide, sweeping all 23 of the state's counties. Dukakis' best county, and Bush's worst, wasSweetwater County,which Bush won by 60 votes, or less than half of 1%. Sweetwater County is one of Wyoming's "Union Pacificcounties "that traditionally formed the Democratic Party's base in the state.[2]Bush broke 70% in six counties, of which four were in the state's east and one,Park County,in theBighorn basin,traditional areas of Republican strength in the state;[3]Sublette Countyrounded out this group. Overall, however, Bush's 22.52% margin in the state made it 14.80% more Republican than the nation overall. TheMountain Westhad trended Republican beginning in the1952election;[4]after voting forTrumanin the nationally close1948election, Wyoming had consistently voted to the right of the country in every subsequent election. In 1988, it did so once again, even as some other Mountain states' traditional Republicanism wavered, as inColoradoandMontana.Bush's vote share of 60.53% made Wyoming his third-best state in the region (afterUtahandIdaho), and his sixth-best overall (after Utah,New Hampshire,Idaho,South Carolina,andFlorida). Along with New Hampshire,Nevada,Delaware,andMaine,it was also one of five states where every county voted for Bush.
Results
[edit]1988 United States presidential election in Wyoming | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | George H. W. Bush | 106,867 | 60.53% | 3 | |
Democratic | Michael Dukakis | 67,113 | 38.01% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Ron Paul | 2,026 | 1.15% | 0 | |
New Alliance Party | Lenora Fulani | 545 | 0.31% | 0 | |
Totals | 176,551 | 100.00% | 3 |
Results by county
[edit]County | George H.W. Bush Republican |
Michael Dukakis Democratic |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Albany | 5,653 | 49.87% | 5,486 | 48.40% | 196 | 1.73% | 167 | 1.47% | 11,335 |
Big Horn | 3,258 | 68.16% | 1,469 | 30.73% | 53 | 1.11% | 1,789 | 37.43% | 4,780 |
Campbell | 6,702 | 73.55% | 2,288 | 25.11% | 122 | 1.34% | 4,414 | 48.44% | 9,112 |
Carbon | 3,336 | 55.70% | 2,555 | 42.66% | 98 | 1.64% | 781 | 13.04% | 5,989 |
Converse | 2,885 | 68.45% | 1,301 | 30.87% | 29 | 0.69% | 1,584 | 37.58% | 4,215 |
Crook | 1,939 | 76.34% | 553 | 21.77% | 48 | 1.89% | 1,386 | 54.57% | 2,540 |
Fremont | 7,681 | 59.59% | 5,020 | 38.95% | 188 | 1.46% | 2,661 | 20.64% | 12,889 |
Goshen | 3,075 | 61.44% | 1,875 | 37.46% | 55 | 1.10% | 1,200 | 23.98% | 5,005 |
Hot Springs | 1,490 | 64.11% | 800 | 34.42% | 34 | 1.46% | 690 | 29.69% | 2,324 |
Johnson | 2,081 | 72.81% | 707 | 24.74% | 70 | 2.45% | 1,374 | 48.07% | 2,858 |
Laramie | 15,561 | 56.04% | 11,851 | 42.68% | 358 | 1.29% | 3,710 | 13.36% | 27,770 |
Lincoln | 3,237 | 66.10% | 1,592 | 32.51% | 68 | 1.39% | 1,645 | 33.59% | 4,897 |
Natrona | 14,005 | 59.63% | 9,148 | 38.95% | 334 | 1.42% | 4,857 | 20.68% | 23,487 |
Niobrara | 825 | 69.27% | 354 | 29.72% | 12 | 1.01% | 471 | 39.55% | 1,191 |
Park | 6,884 | 70.95% | 2,646 | 27.27% | 172 | 1.77% | 4,238 | 43.68% | 9,702 |
Platte | 2,253 | 59.16% | 1,482 | 38.92% | 73 | 1.92% | 771 | 20.24% | 3,808 |
Sheridan | 5,980 | 55.48% | 4,655 | 43.19% | 143 | 1.33% | 1,325 | 12.29% | 10,778 |
Sublette | 1,636 | 72.81% | 576 | 25.63% | 35 | 1.56% | 1,060 | 47.18% | 2,247 |
Sweetwater | 6,780 | 49.47% | 6,720 | 49.03% | 205 | 1.50% | 60 | 0.44% | 13,705 |
Teton | 3,616 | 61.02% | 2,217 | 37.41% | 93 | 1.57% | 1,399 | 23.61% | 5,926 |
Uinta | 3,464 | 62.97% | 1,922 | 34.94% | 115 | 2.09% | 1,542 | 28.03% | 5,501 |
Washakie | 2,538 | 67.36% | 1,197 | 31.77% | 33 | 0.88% | 1,341 | 35.59% | 3,768 |
Weston | 1,988 | 72.98% | 699 | 25.66% | 37 | 1.36% | 1,289 | 47.32% | 2,724 |
Totals | 106,867 | 60.53% | 67,113 | 38.01% | 2,571 | 1.46% | 39,754 | 22.52% | 176,551 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"1988 Presidential General Election Results – Wyoming".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.RetrievedJuly 21,2013.
- ^"Everything About Wyoming - Wyoming Political Myths".www.wyomingalmanac.com.Archived fromthe originalon September 30, 2020.RetrievedDecember 20,2020.
- ^"Everything About Wyoming - Wyoming Political Myths".www.wyomingalmanac.com.Archived fromthe originalon September 30, 2020.RetrievedDecember 20,2020.
- ^Paulson, Arthur C. (2000).Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century.Greenwood Publishing Group.ISBN978-0-275-96865-6.