The 1992 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Louisiana was won by Governor Bill Clinton, a major swing from the statewide results in 1988 when Republican nominee George H. W. Bush carried the state with 54% of the vote and with a double-digit margin of victory. Clinton performed strongly in both urban and rural areas of Louisiana and carried a majority of the state's parishes. Independent Ross Perot gathered 11.81% of the vote, a strong showing for a third-party candidate, but still his sixth-weakest state. Perot did best in the southwestern Acadian bayou parishes, reaching almost 23 percent in Cameron Parish.
Background
Louisiana lost one congressional district as a result of the 1990 Census.
The percentage of registered voters in Louisiana who were Republicans rose from 16.4% in 1988 to 19.1% in 1992, while the Democratic figure fell from 75.2% to 71.3%.
Primary
Democratic
Bill Clinton won 59 delegates, while Paul Tsongas won one delegate.
Bill Clinton
Republican
Billy Nungesser, the chair of the Republican Party of Louisiana, endorsed Pat Buchanan. He was the only state chair to not endorse George H. W. Bush, and Nungesser survived an attempt to remove him as chair for endorsing Buchanan. Richard Baker, Jack Kemp, W. Fox McKeithen, Henson Moore, and Dave Treen campaigned for Bush.
Bush won Louisiana and all of its delegates, but it was his worst performance on Super Tuesday. David Duke, who ran in the Democratic presidential primary in 1988, received fewer votes than in his previous presidential campaign.
Pat Buchanan
General
Clinton hosted an event in the Louisiana Superdome, where the 1988 Republican National Convention was held, on July 29. He was the first presidential candidate to campaign in Lake Charles, Louisiana since John F. Kennedy in 1960. Treasurer Mary Landrieu was the co-chair of Clinton's campaign in the state.
Ross Perot's campaign in the state started with a meeting of 50 volunteers in Alexandria, Louisiana. He had 150 full-time and 1,000 party-time volunteers. His campaign collected over 70,000 signatures, far greater than the 5,000 required to appear on the ballot. He appeared on the ballot as the nominee of the Prudence, Action, Results Party.
78.5% of registered voters and 60.1% of the voting age population participated in the election. 81.5% of white voters and 71% of black voters participated.
Results
Results by congressional district
Clinton won four of seven congressional districts.
Results by parish
Parishes that flipped from Republican to Democratic
- Avoyelles
- Caddo
- Caldwell
- Catahoula
- Claiborne
- Concordia
- Franklin
- Iberia
- Jackson
- Lafourche
- Morehouse
- Natchitoches
- Red River
- Sabine
- St. Mary
- Tangipahoa
- Tensas
- Vernon
- Washington
- Webster
- Winn