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2000 United States presidential election in Alabama

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The 2000 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

2000 United States presidential election in Alabama
← 1996 November 7, 2000 2004 →
 
Nominee George W. Bush Al Gore
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Tennessee
Running mate Dick Cheney Joe Lieberman
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 944,409 695,602
Percentage 56.47% 41.59%
County Results
President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

Alabama was won by Republican governor George W. Bush with a 14.88% margin of victory. He won the majority of counties and congressional districts in the state.

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time that a Democrat has won over 40 percent of the vote in Alabama, or carried the counties of Choctaw, Colbert, Lawrence, and Jackson. This is also the last time that the Republican nominee has won less than 60 percent of the vote in the state. Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Montgomery County since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.

Results

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2000 United States presidential election in Alabama[1]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican George W. Bush 944,409 56.47% 9
Democratic Al Gore 695,602 41.59% 0
Independent Ralph Nader 18,349 1.10% 0
Independent Patrick Buchanan 6,364 0.38% 0
Independent Harry Browne 5,902 0.35% 0
Independent Howard Phillips 777 0.05% 0
Independent Write Ins 701 0.04% 0
Independent John Hagelin 447 0.03% 0
Totals 1,672,551 100.00% 9
Voter turnout (Voting Age population) 50%

By county

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County George W. Bush
Republican 		Al Gore
Democratic 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total
# % # % # % # %
Autauga 11,993 69.69% 4,942 28.72% 273 1.59% 7,051 40.97% 17,208
Baldwin 40,872 72.37% 13,997 24.78% 1,611 2.85% 26,875 47.59% 56,480
Barbour 5,096 49.02% 5,188 49.91% 111 1.07% -92 -0.89% 10,395
Bibb 4,273 60.17% 2,710 38.16% 118 1.66% 1,563 22.01% 7,101
Blount 12,667 70.48% 4,977 35.67% 329 1.83% 7,690 42.79% 17,973
Bullock 1,433 29.22% 3,395 69.23% 76 1.55% -1,962 -40.01% 4,904
Butler 4,127 52.89% 3,606 46.21% 70 0.90% 521 6.68% 7,803
Calhoun 22,306 57.33% 15,781 40.56% 822 2.11% 6,525 16.77% 38,909
Chambers 6,037 51.01% 5,616 47.46% 181 1.53% 421 3.55% 11,834
Cherokee 4,154 53.10% 3,497 44.70% 172 2.20% 657 8.40% 7,823
Chilton 10,066 66.70% 4,806 31.84% 220 1.46% 5,260 34.86% 15,092
Choctaw 3,600 48.82% 3,707 50.27% 67 0.91% -107 -1.45% 7,374
Clarke 5,988 55.69% 4,679 43.52% 85 0.79% 1,309 12.17% 10,752
Clay 3,719 63.22% 2,045 34.76% 119 2.02% 1,674 28.46% 5,883
Cleburne 3,333 65.46% 1,664 32.68% 95 1.87% 1,669 32.78% 5,092
Coffee 9,938 64.39% 5,220 33.82% 276 1.79% 4,718 30.57% 15,434
Colbert 10,518 48.85% 10,543 48.96% 471 2.19% -25 -0.11% 21,532
Conecuh 2,699 48.62% 2,783 50.14% 69 1.24% -84 -1.52% 5,551
Coosa 2,382 52.16% 2,104 46.07% 81 1.77% 278 6.09% 4,567
Covington 8,961 65.83% 4,440 32.62% 212 1.56% 4,521 33.21% 13,613
Crenshaw 2,793 58.25% 1,934 40.33% 68 1.42% 859 17.92% 4,795
Cullman 19,157 64.88% 9,758 33.05% 610 2.07% 9,399 31.83% 29,525
Dale 10,593 67.02% 4,906 31.04% 307 1.94% 5,687 35.98% 15,806
Dallas 7,360 39.86% 10,967 59.40% 137 0.74% -3,607 -19.54% 18,464
DeKalb 12,827 63.23% 7,056 34.78% 402 1.98% 5,771 28.45% 20,285
Elmore 16,777 70.48% 6,652 27.94% 375 1.58% 10,125 42.54% 23,804
Escambia 6,975 59.82% 4,523 38.79% 162 1.39% 2,452 21.03% 11,660
Etowah 21,087 53.59% 17,433 44.30% 828 2.10% 3,654 9.29% 39,348
Fayette 4,582 58.68% 3,064 39.24% 162 2.07% 1,518 19.44% 7,808
Franklin 6,119 55.11% 4,793 43.17% 191 1.72% 1,326 11.94% 11,103
Geneva 6,588 68.92% 2,769 28.97% 202 2.11% 3,819 39.95% 9,559
Greene 850 19.34% 3,504 79.71% 42 0.96% -2,654 -60.37% 4,396
Hale 2,984 38.60% 4,652 60.17% 95 1.23% -1,668 -21.57% 7,731
Henry 4,054 58.48% 2,782 40.13% 96 1.38% 1,272 18.35% 6,932
Houston 22,150 69.10% 9,412 29.36% 495 1.54% 12,738 39.74% 32,057
Jackson 8,475 47.33% 9,066 50.63% 365 2.04% -591 -3.30% 17,906
Jefferson 138,491 50.59% 129,889 47.45% 5,383 1.97% 8,602 3.14% 273,763
Lamar 4,470 61.66% 2,653 36.60% 126 1.74% 1,817 25.06% 7,249
Lauderdale 17,478 54.39% 13,875 43.17% 784 2.44% 3,603 11.22% 32,137
Lawrence 5,671 46.54% 6,296 51.67% 218 1.79% -625 -5.13% 12,185
Lee 22,433 58.63% 14,574 38.09% 1,257 3.29% 7,859 20.54% 38,264
Limestone 14,204 60.10% 8,992 38.05% 438 1.85% 5,212 22.05% 23,634
Lowndes 1,638 26.24% 4,557 72.99% 48 0.77% -2,919 -46.75% 6,243
Macon 1,091 12.35% 7,665 86.80% 75 0.85% -6,574 -74.45% 8,831
Madison 62,151 54.85% 48,199 42.53% 2,968 2.62% 13,952 12.32% 113,318
Marengo 4,690 48.81% 4,841 50.39% 77 0.80% -151 -1.58% 9,608
Marion 6,910 58.78% 4,600 39.13% 246 2.09% 2,310 19.65% 11,756
Marshall 17,084 61.04% 10,381 37.09% 524 1.87% 6,703 23.95% 27,989
Mobile 78,162 55.93% 58,640 41.96% 2,943 2.11% 19,522 13.97% 139,745
Monroe 5,153 57.57% 3,741 41.79% 57 0.64% 1,412 15.78% 8,951
Montgomery 38,827 48.34% 40,371 50.26% 1,130 1.41% -1,544 -1.92% 80,328
Morgan 25,774 60.39% 16,060 37.63% 847 1.98% 9,714 22.76% 42,681
Perry 1,732 29.93% 4,020 69.47% 35 0.60% -2,288 -39.54% 5,787
Pickens 4,306 50.42% 4,143 48.51% 91 1.07% 163 1.91% 8,540
Pike 6,058 57.45% 4,357 41.32% 129 1.22% 1,701 16.13% 10,544
Randolph 4,666 58.92% 3,094 39.07% 159 2.01% 1,572 19.85% 7,919
Russell 6,198 41.95% 8,396 56.83% 181 1.23% -2,198 -14.88% 14,775
Shelby 47,651 76.70% 13,183 21.22% 1,294 2.08% 34,468 55.48% 62,128
St. Clair 17,117 71.05% 6,485 26.92% 488 2.03% 10,632 44.13% 24,090
Sumter 1,629 26.76% 4,415 72.52% 44 0.72% -2,786 -45.76% 6,088
Talladega 13,807 54.25% 11,264 44.26% 380 1.49% 2,543 9.99% 25,451
Tallapoosa 9,805 60.33% 6,183 38.04% 265 1.63% 3,622 22.29% 16,253
Tuscaloosa 34,003 56.56% 24,614 40.95% 1,497 2.49% 9,389 15.61% 60,114
Walker 13,486 52.60% 11,621 45.32% 534 2.08% 1,865 7.28% 25,641
Washington 4,117 54.20% 3,386 44.58% 93 1.22% 731 9.62% 7,596
Wilcox 1,661 32.40% 3,444 67.19% 21 0.41% -1,783 -34.79% 5,126
Winston 6,413 68.82% 2,692 28.89% 213 2.29% 3,721 39.93% 9,318
Totals 944,409 56.47% 695,602 41.59% 32,540 1.95% 248,807 14.88% 1,672,551

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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By congressional district

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Bush won 6 of 7 congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.[3]

District Bush Gore Representative
1st 60% 38% Sonny Callahan
2nd 63% 36% Terry Everett
3rd 57% 41% Bob Riley
4th 59% 39% Robert Aderholt
5th 55% 43% Bud Cramer
6th 70% 28% Spencer Bachus
7th 25% 74% Earl Hilliard

Electors

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Main article: List of 2000 United States presidential electors

Technically the voters of Alabama cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Alabama is allocated 9 electors because it has 7 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 9 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 9 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000,[4] to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:[5]

  1. Glen Dunlap
  2. Bob Fincher
  3. Homer Jackson
  4. Jerry Lathan
  5. Elaine Little
  6. Melba Peters
  7. Martha Stokes
  8. Jean Sullivan
  9. Edgar Welden

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".
  2. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".
  3. ^ 2000 Presidential General Election Results - Alabama US Election Atlas
  4. ^ "2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events".
  5. ^ "2000 Presidential Electors | Alabama Secretary of State".
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