Statistics
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| George Herbert Walker Bush | Republican | Texas | 48,886,097 | 53.37% | 426 | James Danforth Quayle | Indiana | 426 |
| Michael Stanley Dukakis | Democratic | Massachusetts | 41,809,074 | 45.65% | 111 | Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. | Texas | 111 |
| Ronald Ernest Paul | Libertarian | Texas | 431,750 | 0.47% | 0 | Andre Verne Marrou | Alaska | 0 |
| Lenora Fulani | New Alliance | Pennsylvania | 217,221 | 0.24% | 0 | —(b) | — | 0 |
| Other | 249,642 | 0.27% | — | Other | — | |||
| Lloyd M. Bentsen | Democratic | Texas | —(a) | —(a) | 1 | Michael S. Dukakis | Massachusetts | 1 |
| Total | 91,594,686 | 100% | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 7, 2005)., Leip, David. 1988 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (August 7, 2005).
Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 7, 2005). (a) West Virginia faithless elector Margaret Leach voted for Bentsen as President and Dukakis as Vice President in order to make a statement against the U.S. Electoral College.
(b) Fulani's running mate varied from state to state. Among the six vice presidential candidates were Joyce Dattner, Harold Moore, and Wynonia Burke.
| Popular vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bush | 53.37% | |||
| Dukakis | 45.65% | |||
| Paul | 0.47% | |||
| Others | 0.51% | |||
| Electoral vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bush | 79.18% | |||
| Dukakis | 20.63% | |||
| Others | 0.19% | |||
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