Billionaire businessman Ross Perot (Reform Party of the United States of America-TX) finished in third, with 8.62 percent of the popular vote,[1] a sharp decline from 1992, when Perot captured 27% of the state's votes and helped hold George H.W.

[3] Clinton became the first Democrat to win the White House without carrying Ellis County since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944.

Dole won 78.98% of the vote in Russell County, his boyhood home and base when he represented the state's 1st Congressional District from 1961-69.

With 54.29 percent of the popular vote, Kansas proved to be Dole's second strongest state in the 1996 election after Utah.

[4] As of the 2024 election, this marks the only occasion since 1984 in which a Republican nominee for President won his state of birth.