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2000 United States presidential election in Georgia

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2000 United States presidential election in Georgia

← 1996 November 7, 2000 2004 →
Turnout50.9%[1] Increase 1.3 pp
 
Nominee George W. Bush Al Gore
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Tennessee
Running mate Dick Cheney Joe Lieberman
Electoral vote 13 0
Popular vote 1,419,720 1,116,230
Percentage 54.67% 42.98%


President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

The 2000 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Georgia was won by Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) by an 11.7% margin of victory. He won a majority of the popular vote, counties, and congressional districts. Bush dominated in most of the rural parts of the state, but Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) did well in highly populated Fulton; and majority-Black DeKalb and Clayton counties of the Metro Atlanta area. Within that area are the 4th and 5th congressional districts, which are the only two districts Gore won. Author and investment analyst Harry Browne (L-TN) would finish third in the popular vote in Georgia.

In 1992 and 1996, Georgia was the first and third closest state, respectively. In 2000, however, Georgia was not a close state at all, as the Democratic candidate, who happened to then be the vice president, did not do as well as Bill Clinton in the general election. In other down-ballot races, Zell Miller (D), who was appointed by then-Governor Roy Barnes (D) following Senator Paul Coverdell's (R) death in July 2000, won the special election for the unexpired remainder of the term. Another notable down ballot race was the 2000 U.S. House election in Georgia's 2nd congressional district in which Incumbent U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop (D) survived a strong challenge from Dylan Glenn (R). Miller in the Senate race actually outperformed Gore in the presidential race by over 30 points. The state was also 1 of 14 that Bill Clinton carried at least once during the elections of 1992 and 1996 (having carried it in 1992) that Gore lost, whom at the time of the election was the sitting vice president under Clinton.

In this election, Georgia voted 12.21% to the right of the nation at-large.[2]

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Chatham County voted Republican and the last in which McIntosh County, Meriwether County, Mitchell County, Telfair County, and Wilkinson County voted Democratic.

Results

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United States presidential election in Georgia, 2000[3]
Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican George W. Bush Dick Cheney 1,419,720 54.67% 13
Democratic Al Gore Joe Lieberman 1,116,230 42.98% 0
Libertarian Harry Browne Art Olivier 36,332 1.40% 0
Green Ralph Nader (write-in) Winona LaDuke 13,432 0.52% 0
Reform Patrick Buchanan Ezola B. Foster 10,926 0.42% 0
Constitution Howard Phillips (write-in) Curtis Frazier 140 0.0% 0
Socialist Workers James Harris (write-in) Margaret Trowe 11 0.0% 0
Write-in Gloria Strickland n/a 8 0.0% 0
Independent Joe Schriner (write-in) n/a 5 0.0% 0
Totals 2,596,804 100.00% 13
Voter turnout (Voting age) 43%

By county

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County George W. Bush
Republican
Al Gore
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total
# % # % # % # %
Appling 3,940 64.60% 2,093 34.32% 66 1.08% 1,847 30.28% 6,099
Atkinson 1,228 59.30% 821 39.64% 22 1.06% 407 19.66% 2,071
Bacon 2,010 67.11% 956 31.92% 29 0.97% 1,054 35.19% 2,995
Baker 615 40.49% 893 58.79% 11 0.72% -278 -18.30% 1,519
Baldwin 6,041 49.82% 5,893 48.60% 192 1.58% 148 1.22% 12,126
Banks 3,202 70.64% 1,220 26.91% 111 2.45% 1,982 43.73% 4,533
Barrow 7,925 65.49% 3,657 30.22% 520 4.30% 4,268 35.27% 12,102
Bartow 14,720 64.62% 7,508 32.96% 553 2.43% 7,212 31.66% 22,781
Ben Hill 2,381 51.08% 2,234 47.93% 46 0.99% 147 3.15% 4,661
Berrien 2,718 61.63% 1,640 37.19% 52 1.18% 1,078 24.44% 4,410
Bibb 24,071 48.36% 24,996 50.22% 709 1.42% -925 -1.86% 49,776
Bleckley 2,436 64.98% 1,273 33.96% 40 1.07% 1,163 31.02% 3,749
Brantley 3,118 68.29% 1,372 30.05% 76 1.66% 1,746 38.24% 4,566
Brooks 2,406 52.87% 2,096 46.06% 49 1.08% 310 6.81% 4,551
Bryan 4,835 68.49% 2,172 30.77% 52 0.74% 2,663 37.72% 7,059
Bulloch 8,990 60.82% 5,561 37.62% 231 1.56% 3,429 23.20% 14,782
Burke 3,381 47.39% 3,720 52.14% 34 0.48% -339 -4.75% 7,135
Butts 3,198 56.75% 2,281 40.48% 156 2.77% 917 16.27% 5,635
Calhoun 768 40.70% 1,107 58.66% 12 0.64% -339 -17.96% 1,887
Camden 6,371 62.96% 3,636 35.93% 112 1.11% 2,735 27.03% 10,119
Candler 1,643 60.36% 1,053 38.68% 26 0.96% 590 21.68% 2,722
Carroll 16,326 63.42% 8,752 34.00% 663 2.58% 7,574 29.42% 25,741
Catoosa 12,033 67.90% 5,470 30.87% 218 1.23% 6,563 37.03% 17,721
Charlton 1,770 62.86% 1,015 36.04% 31 1.10% 755 26.82% 2,816
Chatham 37,847 49.49% 37,590 49.15% 1,038 1.36% 257 0.34% 76,475
Chattahoochee 590 48.88% 600 49.71% 17 1.41% -10 -0.83% 1,207
Chattooga 3,640 56.20% 2,729 42.13% 108 1.67% 911 14.07% 6,477
Cherokee 38,033 72.65% 12,295 23.49% 2,020 3.86% 25,738 49.16% 52,348
Clarke 11,850 41.00% 15,167 52.47% 1,887 6.53% -3,317 -11.47% 28,904
Clay 448 35.08% 821 64.29% 8 0.63% -373 -29.21% 1,277
Clayton 19,966 32.52% 40,042 65.21% 1,394 2.27% -20,076 -32.69% 61,402
Clinch 1,091 56.56% 816 42.30% 22 1.14% 275 14.26% 1,929
Cobb 140,494 59.78% 86,676 36.88% 7,857 3.34% 53,818 22.90% 235,027
Coffee 5,756 61.04% 3,593 38.10% 81 0.86% 2,163 22.94% 9,430
Colquitt 6,589 66.08% 3,297 33.06% 86 0.86% 3,292 33.02% 9,972
Columbia 26,660 74.04% 8,969 24.91% 379 1.05% 17,691 49.13% 36,008
Cook 2,279 57.78% 1,639 41.56% 26 0.66% 640 16.22% 3,944
Coweta 21,327 68.30% 9,056 29.00% 843 2.70% 12,271 39.30% 31,226
Crawford 1,987 55.71% 1,513 42.42% 67 1.88% 474 13.29% 3,567
Crisp 3,285 58.57% 2,268 40.44% 56 1.00% 1,017 18.13% 5,609
Dade 3,333 66.01% 1,628 32.24% 88 1.74% 1,705 33.77% 5,049
Dawson 4,210 71.38% 1,458 24.72% 230 3.90% 2,752 46.66% 5,898
Decatur 4,187 54.75% 3,398 44.43% 63 0.82% 789 10.32% 7,648
DeKalb 58,807 26.73% 154,509 70.24% 6,664 3.03% -95,702 -43.51% 219,980
Dodge 3,472 59.08% 2,326 39.58% 79 1.34% 1,146 19.50% 5,877
Dooly 1,588 45.11% 1,901 54.01% 31 0.88% -313 -8.90% 3,520
Dougherty 12,248 42.14% 16,650 57.29% 166 0.57% -4,402 -15.15% 29,064
Douglas 18,893 61.02% 11,162 36.05% 909 2.94% 7,731 24.97% 30,964
Early 1,938 54.06% 1,622 45.24% 25 0.70% 316 8.82% 3,585
Echols 614 68.37% 272 30.29% 12 1.34% 342 38.08% 898
Effingham 7,326 68.79% 3,232 30.35% 92 0.86% 4,094 38.44% 10,650
Elbert 3,262 55.73% 2,527 43.17% 64 1.09% 735 12.56% 5,853
Emanuel 3,343 53.38% 2,835 45.27% 85 1.36% 508 8.11% 6,263
Evans 1,841 59.77% 1,217 39.51% 22 0.71% 624 20.26% 3,080
Fannin 5,463 65.11% 2,736 32.61% 191 2.28% 2,727 32.50% 8,390
Fayette 29,338 69.11% 11,912 28.06% 1,199 2.82% 17,426 41.05% 42,449
Floyd 16,194 60.37% 10,282 38.33% 349 1.30% 5,912 22.04% 26,825
Forsyth 27,769 77.66% 6,694 18.72% 1,292 3.61% 21,075 58.94% 35,755
Franklin 3,659 63.50% 2,040 35.40% 63 1.09% 1,619 28.10% 5,762
Fulton 104,870 39.84% 152,039 57.76% 6,303 2.39% -47,169 -17.92% 263,212
Gilmer 4,941 67.04% 2,230 30.26% 199 2.70% 2,711 36.78% 7,370
Glascock 763 74.80% 249 24.41% 8 0.78% 514 50.39% 1,020
Glynn 14,346 64.09% 7,778 34.75% 260 1.16% 6,568 29.34% 22,384
Gordon 7,944 65.09% 4,032 33.04% 229 1.88% 3,912 32.05% 12,205
Grady 3,894 58.09% 2,721 40.59% 88 1.31% 1,173 17.50% 6,703
Greene 2,980 57.34% 2,137 41.12% 80 1.54% 843 16.22% 5,197
Gwinnett 121,756 63.71% 61,434 32.15% 7,921 4.14% 60,322 31.56% 191,111
Habersham 6,964 71.86% 2,530 26.11% 197 2.03% 4,434 45.75% 9,691
Hall 26,841 70.36% 10,259 26.89% 1,050 2.75% 16,582 43.47% 38,150
Hancock 662 21.45% 2,414 78.22% 10 0.32% -1,752 -56.77% 3,086
Haralson 5,153 63.10% 2,869 35.13% 145 1.78% 2,284 27.97% 8,167
Harris 5,554 64.87% 2,912 34.01% 96 1.12% 2,642 30.86% 8,562
Hart 4,242 56.29% 3,192 42.36% 102 1.35% 1,050 13.93% 7,536
Heard 1,947 60.88% 1,178 36.84% 73 2.28% 769 24.04% 3,198
Henry 25,815 66.42% 11,971 30.80% 1,081 2.78% 13,844 35.62% 38,867
Houston 23,174 62.65% 13,301 35.96% 513 1.39% 9,873 26.69% 36,988
Irwin 1,720 60.31% 1,105 38.74% 27 0.95% 615 21.57% 2,852
Jackson 7,878 67.71% 3,420 29.39% 337 2.90% 4,458 38.32% 11,635
Jasper 2,298 58.28% 1,558 39.51% 87 2.21% 740 18.77% 3,943
Jeff Davis 2,797 66.26% 1,379 32.67% 45 1.07% 1,418 33.59% 4,221
Jefferson 2,559 45.98% 2,973 53.41% 34 0.61% -414 -7.43% 5,566
Jenkins 1,317 50.79% 1,250 48.21% 26 1.00% 67 2.58% 2,593
Johnson 1,797 62.33% 1,065 36.94% 21 0.73% 732 25.39% 2,883
Jones 4,850 60.11% 3,102 38.45% 116 1.44% 1,748 21.66% 8,068
Lamar 2,912 55.68% 2,194 41.95% 124 2.37% 718 13.73% 5,230
Lanier 1,048 55.04% 832 43.70% 24 1.26% 216 11.34% 1,904
Laurens 8,133 57.94% 5,724 40.78% 179 1.28% 2,409 17.16% 14,036
Lee 5,872 74.48% 1,936 24.56% 76 0.96% 3,936 49.92% 7,884
Liberty 4,455 44.68% 5,347 53.62% 170 1.70% -892 -8.94% 9,972
Lincoln 1,807 58.23% 1,275 41.09% 21 0.68% 532 17.14% 3,103
Long 1,320 57.04% 975 42.13% 19 0.82% 345 14.91% 2,314
Lowndes 14,462 56.87% 10,616 41.74% 354 1.39% 3,846 15.13% 25,432
Lumpkin 4,427 65.59% 2,121 31.42% 202 2.99% 2,306 34.17% 6,750
Macon 1,566 35.96% 2,757 63.31% 32 0.73% -1,191 -27.35% 4,355
Madison 5,529 69.17% 2,285 28.59% 179 2.24% 3,244 40.58% 7,993
Marion 1,187 54.35% 982 44.96% 15 0.69% 205 9.39% 2,184
McDuffie 3,926 59.94% 2,580 39.39% 44 0.67% 1,346 20.55% 6,550
McIntosh 1,766 46.03% 2,047 53.35% 24 0.63% -281 -7.32% 3,837
Meriwether 3,162 47.13% 3,441 51.29% 106 1.58% -279 -4.16% 6,709
Miller 1,349 62.74% 783 36.42% 18 0.84% 566 26.32% 2,150
Mitchell 2,790 48.11% 2,971 51.23% 38 0.66% -181 -3.12% 5,799
Monroe 4,561 60.48% 2,839 37.65% 141 1.87% 1,722 22.83% 7,541
Montgomery 1,465 58.39% 1,013 40.37% 31 1.24% 452 18.02% 2,509
Morgan 3,524 59.71% 2,238 37.92% 140 2.37% 1,286 21.79% 5,902
Murray 5,539 66.16% 2,684 32.06% 149 1.78% 2,855 34.10% 8,372
Muscogee 23,479 45.01% 28,193 54.05% 491 0.94% -4,714 -9.04% 52,163
Newton 11,127 60.56% 6,703 36.48% 545 2.97% 4,424 24.08% 18,375
Oconee 7,611 68.15% 3,184 28.51% 373 3.34% 4,427 39.64% 11,168
Oglethorpe 2,706 61.71% 1,519 34.64% 160 3.65% 1,187 27.07% 4,385
Paulding 16,881 69.58% 6,743 27.79% 636 2.62% 10,138 41.79% 24,260
Peach 3,525 49.39% 3,540 49.60% 72 1.01% -15 -0.21% 7,137
Pickens 5,488 66.92% 2,489 30.35% 224 2.73% 2,999 36.57% 8,201
Pierce 3,348 71.52% 1,300 27.77% 33 0.70% 2,048 43.75% 4,681
Pike 3,358 68.74% 1,413 28.93% 114 2.33% 1,945 39.81% 4,885
Polk 5,841 57.74% 4,112 40.65% 163 1.61% 1,729 17.09% 10,116
Pulaski 1,922 57.44% 1,390 41.54% 34 1.02% 532 15.90% 3,346
Putnam 3,596 57.09% 2,612 41.47% 91 1.44% 984 15.62% 6,299
Quitman 348 38.50% 542 59.96% 14 1.55% -194 -21.46% 904
Rabun 3,451 64.61% 1,776 33.25% 114 2.13% 1,675 31.36% 5,341
Randolph 1,174 45.70% 1,381 53.76% 14 0.54% -207 -8.06% 2,569
Richmond 25,485 44.29% 31,413 54.60% 640 1.11% -5,928 -10.31% 57,538
Rockdale 15,440 62.64% 8,295 33.65% 914 3.71% 7,145 28.99% 24,649
Schley 706 60.03% 460 39.12% 10 0.85% 246 20.91% 1,176
Screven 2,461 52.15% 2,233 47.32% 25 0.53% 228 4.83% 4,719
Seminole 1,537 53.42% 1,313 45.64% 27 0.94% 224 7.78% 2,877
Spalding 9,271 60.24% 5,831 37.89% 289 1.88% 3,440 22.35% 15,391
Stephens 5,370 64.11% 2,869 34.25% 137 1.64% 2,501 29.86% 8,376
Stewart 675 34.54% 1,267 64.84% 12 0.61% -592 -30.30% 1,954
Sumter 4,847 49.98% 4,748 48.96% 102 1.05% 99 1.02% 9,697
Talbot 844 33.35% 1,662 65.67% 25 0.99% -818 -32.32% 2,531
Taliaferro 271 32.57% 556 66.83% 5 0.60% -285 -34.26% 832
Tattnall 3,597 64.12% 1,963 34.99% 50 0.89% 1,634 29.13% 5,610
Taylor 1,412 50.79% 1,340 48.20% 28 1.01% 72 2.59% 2,780
Telfair 1,693 48.47% 1,777 50.87% 23 0.66% -84 -2.40% 3,493
Terrell 1,504 48.31% 1,584 50.88% 25 0.80% -80 -2.57% 3,113
Thomas 7,093 58.82% 4,862 40.32% 103 0.85% 2,231 18.50% 12,058
Tift 6,678 64.66% 3,547 34.34% 103 1.00% 3,131 30.32% 10,328
Toombs 4,487 62.23% 2,643 36.66% 80 1.11% 1,844 25.57% 7,210
Towns 2,902 64.53% 1,495 33.24% 100 2.22% 1,407 31.29% 4,497
Treutlen 1,062 54.10% 879 44.78% 22 1.12% 183 9.32% 1,963
Troup 11,198 62.90% 6,379 35.83% 227 1.27% 4,819 27.07% 17,804
Turner 1,258 51.22% 1,169 47.60% 29 1.18% 89 3.62% 2,456
Twiggs 1,570 43.43% 1,977 54.69% 68 1.88% -407 -11.26% 3,615
Union 4,567 65.66% 2,230 32.06% 159 2.29% 2,337 33.60% 6,956
Upson 5,019 60.60% 3,158 38.13% 105 1.27% 1,861 22.47% 8,282
Walker 12,326 65.23% 6,341 33.56% 228 1.21% 5,985 31.67% 18,895
Walton 12,966 67.95% 5,484 28.74% 633 3.32% 7,482 39.21% 19,083
Ware 6,099 63.35% 3,480 36.14% 49 0.51% 2,619 27.21% 9,628
Warren 933 43.50% 1,196 55.76% 16 0.75% -263 -12.26% 2,145
Washington 3,162 47.26% 3,476 51.95% 53 0.79% -314 -4.69% 6,691
Wayne 5,219 65.20% 2,736 34.18% 49 0.61% 2,483 31.02% 8,004
Webster 359 39.49% 541 59.52% 9 0.99% -182 -20.03% 909
Wheeler 813 51.62% 752 47.75% 10 0.63% 61 3.87% 1,575
White 4,857 68.96% 2,014 28.60% 172 2.44% 2,843 40.36% 7,043
Whitfield 15,852 68.03% 7,034 30.19% 416 1.79% 8,818 37.84% 23,302
Wilcox 1,381 58.39% 962 40.68% 22 0.93% 419 17.71% 2,365
Wilkes 2,044 50.77% 1,940 48.19% 42 1.04% 104 2.58% 4,026
Wilkinson 1,800 48.13% 1,884 50.37% 56 1.50% -84 -2.24% 3,740
Worth 3,792 62.56% 2,214 36.53% 55 0.91% 1,578 26.03% 6,061
Totals 1,419,720 54.67% 1,116,230 42.98% 60,854 2.34% 303,490 11.69% 2,596,804

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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By congressional district

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Bush won 9 of 11 congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.[4]

District Bush Gore Representative
1st 57% 42% Jack Kingston
2nd 54% 45% Sanford Bishop
3rd 56% 42% Mac Collins
4th 29% 69% Cynthia McKinney
5th 23% 75% John Lewis
6th 65% 32% Johnny Isakson
7th 60% 38% Bob Barr
8th 57% 42% Saxby Chambliss
9th 69% 28% Nathan Deal
10th 55% 44% Charlie Norwood
11th 63% 34% John Linder

Electors

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Technically the voters of Georgia cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Georgia is allocated 13 electors because it has 11 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 13 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 13 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[5] 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:[6]

  1. Anna Cablik
  2. Teresa Jeter Chappell
  3. Charles Commander Clay
  4. Fred Cooper
  5. James Edenfield
  6. Winnie LeClercq
  7. B.J. Lopez
  8. Carolyn Dodgen Meadows
  9. Alec Poitevint
  10. Eric Tanenblatt
  11. Cynthia Teasley
  12. Virgil Williams
  13. Bob Young

References

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  1. ^ ("Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2000". United States Census Bureau. February 2002. Retrieved December 19, 2020.)
  2. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  3. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Georgia". Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  4. ^ 2000 Presidential General Election Results - Georgia US Election Atlas
  5. ^ "2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events".
  6. ^ "President Elect - 2000". Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2009.