1988 United States presidential election in Wyoming

1988 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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Nominee George H. W. Bush Michael Dukakis
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Massachusetts
Running mate Dan Quayle Lloyd Bentsen
Electoral vote 3 0
Popular vote 106,867 67,113
Percentage 60.53% 38.01%

County Results
Bush
  40–50%
  50–60%
  60–70%
  70–80%


President before election

Ronald Reagan
Republican

Elected President

George H. W. Bush
Republican

The 1988 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Wyoming was won by incumbent United States Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, who was running against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as vice president, and Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen.

Wyoming weighed in for this election as 14.3 percentage points more Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1988 was a fairly partisan election for Wyoming, with nearly 98 percent of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or Republican parties, 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, was Sweetwater County, which Bush won by 60 votes, or less than half of 1%. Sweetwater County is one of Wyoming's "Union Pacific counties" 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 the Bighorn basin, traditional areas of Republican strength in the state;[3] Sublette County rounded out this group. Overall, however, Bush's 22.52% margin in the state made it 14.80% more Republican than the nation overall. The Mountain West had trended Republican beginning in the 1952 election;[4] after voting for Truman in the nationally close 1948 election, 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 in Colorado and Montana. Bush's vote share of 60.53% made Wyoming his third-best state in the region (after Utah and Idaho), and his sixth-best overall (after Utah, New Hampshire, Idaho, South Carolina, and Florida). Along with New Hampshire, Nevada, Delaware, and Maine, it was also one of five states where every county voted for Bush.

Results

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1988 United States presidential election in Wyoming
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

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County George H.W. Bush
Republican
Michael Dukakis
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
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

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References

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  1. ^ "1988 Presidential General Election Results – Wyoming". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  2. ^ "Everything About Wyoming - Wyoming Political Myths". www.wyomingalmanac.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  3. ^ "Everything About Wyoming - Wyoming Political Myths". www.wyomingalmanac.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Paulson, Arthur C. (2000). Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-96865-6.