A county result
Carroll County, presidential election of 1996
Carroll County
40.64%Bill Clinton (D), the most votes11,790Votes counted for president66.93%Ballots cast per registered voter
What this is
Carroll County counted 11,790 votes for president across 10 candidates in 1996. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.
The count, as certified
Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Clinton | Democratic | 4,792 | 40.64% |
| Robert Dole | Republican | 4,449 | 37.74% |
| Ross Perot | Reform | 2,445 | 20.74% |
| Monica Moorehead | Workers World | 38 | 0.32% |
| Harry Browne | Libertarian | 23 | 0.20% |
| John Hagelin | Natural Law | 22 | 0.19% |
| Howard Phillips | U.S. Taxpayers | 20 | 0.17% |
| Ralph Nader | Green | 1 | 0.01% |
| Dan Burkhardt | no party listed | 0 | 0% |
| Mark Snyder | no party listed | 0 | 0% |
| Ballots cast, all offices | — | 11,906 | 66.93% of registered voters |
This year in context
Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.
- Ohio that year
- Ohio went to Bill Clinton (Democratic) with 47.38%, a 6.4-point margin over Robert Dole. The country elected Bill Clinton.
- Against the state
- Carroll County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+2.9 against Ohio's D+6.4: 3.5 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 54th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1992
- From 1992 to 1996 the county's lean moved 1.2 points toward the Republicans, from D+4.1 to D+2.9. Lean counts only the two major parties; H. Ross Perot (Independent) took 27.6% in 1992; Ross Perot (Reform) took 20.7% in 1996.
- Matched
- Carroll County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.
Every field this record holds
The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.
- Ballots cast
- 11,906
- Turnout
- 66.93%
- Registered voters
- 17,789
Where this appears
The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.
Sources
Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.
- oh_1996_general_president_county.xlsx -- Ohio Secretary of State Past Election Results portal · Ohio Secretary of State · 1996-11-05 · accessed 2026-09-17
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