Bill Clinton Democratic Bill Clinton Democratic The 1996 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 7, 1996, as part of the 1996 United States presidential election.

The Reform Party candidate, businessman Ross Perot, finished in third, with 12.00% of the popular vote.

Although Clinton had carried the state comfortably in 1992, prior to that point Vermont had been one of the most reliably Republican states in the nation, voting Republican in every election from 1856 to 1988 except for the 1964 nationwide Democratic landslide.

Clinton's win in 1996 marked the first time in history that Vermont had voted Democratic in two consecutive presidential elections, signifying a long-term realignment of the state away from the GOP.

Since then Vermont has become regarded as one of the safest of blue states; it has remained Democratic in every election that has followed, often by landslide margins.