Bầu cử tổng thống Hoa Kỳ tại New Jersey năm 1996

The 1996 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 5, 1996, and was part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. The major contenders were incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican Senator from Kansas Bob Dole, with Reform Party candidate Ross Perot – listed as an "Independent" in New Jersey – running a distant third.

New Jersey voted decisively to re-elect Clinton, giving him 53.72% of the vote over Republican Bob Dole's 35.86%, a margin of 17.86% and a leftward shift of 15.49% from 1992, representing the largest such shift in either direction. This double-digit win and leftward shift indicated a major shift in New Jersey politics toward the Democratic Party. As recently as the 1980s, Republican presidential candidates had easily carried the state by double-digit margins. In 1992, Clinton won the state with a narrow 43-41 plurality over George H. W. Bush, but the state was still 3% more Republican than the nation at large. However, in 1996, New Jersey voted 9.33% more Democratic than the rest of the nation, which represented the first time the state voted more Democratic than the nation since 1964 and only the third time since 1904, and a distinction the state has held ever since.

As in neighboring New York and many other states, Clinton in 1996 drastically improved his electoral performance among suburban voters, a key voting bloc in New Jersey. Following this election, New Jersey has become a reliable blue state in presidential elections, not being seriously contested by Republicans since. Despite this, Dole is currently the only Republican to fail to garner 40 percent of the New Jersey ballot since Barry Goldwater in 1964.

As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time that Cape May and Ocean Counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.