Democratic President Bill Clinton won re-election, while the Republicans maintained their majorities in both houses of the United States Congress.

Clinton defeated Republican nominee Bob Dole and independent candidate Ross Perot in the presidential election, taking 379 of the 538 electoral votes.

Due in part to Perot's fairly strong third party performance (despite being considerably worse than in 1992), Clinton narrowly failed to win a majority of the popular vote.

Democratic incumbent President Bill Clinton won re-election, defeating Republican former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas.

Billionaire and 1992 independent presidential candidate Ross Perot of Texas, the nominee of the newly founded Reform Party, though performing strongly for a third party candidate and receiving 8.4% of the vote, was unable to replicate his 1992 performance.