1996 Republican Party presidential primaries

1996 Republican Party presidential primaries

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Candidate Bob Dole Pat Buchanan Steve Forbes Home state Kansas Virginia New Jersey Delegate count 1,437 101 51 Contests won 46 4 2 Popular vote 9,024,742 3,184,943 1,751,187 Percentage 58.8% 20.8% 11.4%

Gold denotes a state won by Pat Buchanan. Green denotes a state won by Steve Forbes. Purple denotes a state won by Bob Dole. Gray denotes a territory that did not hold a primary.

Previous Republican nominee George H. W. Bush Republican nominee Bob Dole

From January 29 to June 4, 1996, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1996 United States presidential election. Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, the former Senate majority leader, was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1996 Republican National Convention held from August 12 to 15, 1996, in San Diego, California. Dole resigned from the Senate in June 1996 once he became the presumptive nominee to concentrate on his presidential campaign. He chose Jack Kemp as his running mate.

Dole and Kemp went on to lose to President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore by a severe margin, thereby making this the only Republican presidential primary within the span from 1968 to 2004 in which the Republican nominee had never been nor ever became president.