A county result
Pickaway County, presidential election of 1996
Pickaway County
49.52%Robert Dole (R), the most votes17,501Votes counted for president65.09%Ballots cast per registered voter
What this is
Pickaway County counted 17,501 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Dole | Republican | 8,666 | 49.52% |
| Bill Clinton | Democratic | 7,042 | 40.24% |
| Ross Perot | Reform | 1,702 | 9.73% |
| Harry Browne | Libertarian | 36 | 0.21% |
| Monica Moorehead | Workers World | 23 | 0.13% |
| Howard Phillips | U.S. Taxpayers | 19 | 0.11% |
| John Hagelin | Natural Law | 13 | 0.07% |
| Dan Burkhardt | no party listed | 0 | 0% |
| Ralph Nader | Green | 0 | 0% |
| Mark Snyder | no party listed | 0 | 0% |
| Ballots cast, all offices | — | 17,765 | 65.09% 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
- Pickaway County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+9.3 against Ohio's D+6.4: 15.6 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 28th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1992
- From 1992 to 1996 the county's lean moved 6.2 points toward the Democrats, from R+15.5 to R+9.3. Lean counts only the two major parties; H. Ross Perot (Independent) took 22.8% in 1992.
- Matched
- Pickaway County parted from Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.
Every field this record holds
The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.
- Ballots cast
- 17,765
- Turnout
- 65.09%
- Registered voters
- 27,292
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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