Bill Clinton Democratic Bill Clinton Democratic The 1996 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 5, 1996, as part of the 1996 United States presidential election.

[1] Billionaire businessman Ross Perot (Reform-TX) finished in third, with 6.62% of the popular vote.

As of the 2024 presidential election[update], this was also the last time Bath, Allegheny, Giles, Smyth, Tazewell, Lee, Wise, Dinwiddie, Accomack Counties, and the independent cities of Galax and Buena Vista voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.

[2] The election was, however, the first time the Democratic presidential nominee had carried Prince Edward County – famous for its Civil Rights-era school desegregation cases – since Harry S. Truman in 1948,[a] and the first time since 1968 that Essex County had voted Democratic.

[4] This election remains the only time in history that a Democratic president has won re-election without carrying Virginia.