Maryland was won by incumbent PresidentBill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 54.25% of the popular vote over SenatorBob Dole (R-Kansas) with 38.27%. BusinessmanRoss Perot (Reform-Texas) finished in third, with 6.50% of the popular vote.[2] Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating both challengers and becoming re-elected to a second term asU.S. President.[3]
To date this is the last election in whichDorchester County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate; conversely, this is also the last timeCharles County voted for a Republican presidential candidate, as it experienced an influx ofAfrican-American migration and greater ties to the Washington metropolitan area.[4] It is also the last time that ancestrally GermanUnionistGarrett County was not the most Republican county in the state (as it was second toCarroll County), and the last occasion in which Maryland was not the most Democratic state in theSouth (as it was second to Clinton's nativeArkansas).
In this election, Maryland voted 7.46% to the left of the nation at-large.[5]
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