United States presidential election in California, 2000
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The 2000 United States presidential election in California took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the wider United States presidential election of 2000. California was won by the Democratic ticket of Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut by an 11.8% margin of victory over the Republican ticket of Texas Governor George Bush and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney of Wyoming.
The state hosted the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles and was slightly contested by both candidates due to a large Hispanic population and a large independent and moderate base surrounding San Diego and Sacramento's suburbs. This was the first time since 1880 in which a winning Republican presidential candidate lost California. As of the 2016 presidential election, Bush is the last Republican candidate to carry Alpine and Mono counties in a presidential election. This was also the first time since 1976 that California did not back the candidate who won the overall presidential election as well.
Primaries
Results
Vice President Al Gore easily defeated Texas Governor George W. Bush in California. Bush campaigned several times in California, but it didn't seem to help as Gore defeated Bush by 11.8%. Bush did make substantial headway in Southern California winning in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties, including counties located in the Sierra Nevada region and along the borders of Nevada and Oregon. However, Gore overwhelmingly won Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the state and the country. Gore also performed well in the San Francisco Bay Area, though there was a strong third party performance by Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, who broke into double digits in Humboldt, Mendocino, and Santa Cruz counties. Notwithstanding Nader's performance, this helped Gore win statewide by a little over 1.3 million votes. California is also almost certainly what helped Gore pull ahead in the national popular vote. California was called for Gore, right when the polls closed at 11 P.M. EST.
United States presidential election in California, 2000[1][2] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Albert Arnold Gore Jr. | 5,861,203 | 53.45% | 54 | |
Republican | George Walker Bush | 4,567,429 | 41.65% | 0 | |
Green | Ralph Nader | 418,707 | 3.82% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Harry Browne | 45,520 | 0.42% | 0 | |
Reform | Pat Buchanan | 44,987 | 0.41% | 0 | |
American Independent | Howard Phillips | 17,042 | 0.16% | 0 | |
Natural Law | John Hagelin | 10,934 | 0.10% | 0 | |
David McReynolds (write-in) | 28 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Other write-in | 6 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Invalid or blank votes | 177,010 | 1.59% | — | ||
Totals | 10,965,856 | 100.00% | 54 | ||
Voter turnout | 70.94% | — |
Results breakdown
By county
County[3] | Gore | Votes | Bush | Votes | Nader | Votes | Others | Votes |
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San Francisco | 75.54% | 241,578 | 16.10% | 51,496 | 7.76% | 24,828 | 0.59% | 1,884 |
Alameda | 69.36% | 342,889 | 24.13% | 119,279 | 5.56% | 27,499 | 0.94% | 4,669 |
San Mateo | 64.29% | 166,757 | 30.96% | 80,296 | 4.02% | 10,433 | 0.73% | 1,903 |
Marin | 64.26% | 79,135 | 28.32% | 34,872 | 6.73% | 8,289 | 0.70% | 859 |
Los Angeles | 63.47% | 1,710,505 | 32.35% | 871,930 | 3.11% | 83,731 | 1.08% | 28,988 |
Santa Cruz | 61.48% | 66,618 | 27.34% | 29,627 | 10.01% | 10,844 | 1.16% | 1,261 |
Santa Clara | 60.66% | 332,490 | 34.44% | 188,750 | 3.48% | 19,072 | 1.43% | 7,817 |
Sonoma | 59.54% | 117,295 | 32.25% | 63,529 | 7.27% | 14,324 | 0.94% | 1,858 |
Contra Costa | 58.81% | 224,338 | 37.06% | 141,373 | 3.43% | 13,067 | 0.71% | 2,700 |
Monterey | 57.53% | 67,618 | 37.23% | 43,761 | 4.30% | 5,059 | 0.93% | 1,096 |
Solano | 57.02% | 75,116 | 39.17% | 51,604 | 2.94% | 3,869 | 0.87% | 1,146 |
Yolo | 54.93% | 33,747 | 37.53% | 23,057 | 6.69% | 4,107 | 0.85% | 525 |
Napa | 54.32% | 28,097 | 39.89% | 20,633 | 4.78% | 2,471 | 1.01% | 523 |
San Benito | 54.25% | 9,131 | 41.68% | 7,015 | 3.18% | 535 | 0.89% | 150 |
Imperial | 53.53% | 15,489 | 43.28% | 12,524 | 2.10% | 608 | 1.09% | 316 |
Lake | 51.23% | 10,717 | 41.58% | 8,699 | 6.05% | 1,265 | 1.14% | 238 |
Sacramento | 49.31% | 212,792 | 45.33% | 195,619 | 4.09% | 17,659 | 1.27% | 5,480 |
Mendocino | 48.34% | 16,634 | 35.66% | 12,272 | 14.68% | 5,051 | 1.32% | 453 |
San Joaquin | 47.70% | 79,776 | 48.90% | 81,773 | 2.51% | 4,195 | 0.89% | 1,485 |
Santa Barbara | 47.37% | 73,411 | 46.13% | 71,493 | 5.59% | 8,664 | 0.91% | 1,406 |
San Bernardino | 47.21% | 214,749 | 48.75% | 221,757 | 2.59% | 11,775 | 1.45% | 6,612 |
Ventura | 47.14% | 133,258 | 48.17% | 136,173 | 3.62% | 10,235 | 1.07% | 3,026 |
San Diego | 45.66% | 437,666 | 49.63% | 475,736 | 3.54% | 33,979 | 1.17% | 11,253 |
Alpine | 45.22% | 265 | 47.95% | 281 | 4.27% | 25 | 2.56% | 15 |
Merced | 45.08% | 22,726 | 51.77% | 26,102 | 2.31% | 1,166 | 0.84% | 424 |
Riverside | 44.90% | 202,576 | 51.42% | 231,955 | 2.59% | 11,678 | 1.09% | 4,918 |
Humboldt | 44.40% | 24,851 | 41.48% | 23,219 | 12.68% | 7,100 | 1.43% | 802 |
Stanislaus | 44.01% | 56,448 | 52.38% | 67,188 | 2.65% | 3,398 | 0.96% | 1,233 |
Fresno | 43.05% | 95,059 | 53.14% | 117,342 | 2.96% | 6,541 | 0.86% | 1,893 |
Mono | 40.91% | 1,788 | 52.53% | 2,296 | 5.26% | 230 | 1.30% | 57 |
San Luis Obispo | 40.89% | 44,526 | 52.22% | 56,859 | 5.99% | 6,523 | 0.90% | 978 |
Orange | 40.36% | 391,819 | 55.75% | 541,299 | 2.76% | 26,833 | 1.13% | 10,954 |
Tuolumne | 39.44% | 9,359 | 55.51% | 13,172 | 4.00% | 949 | 1.04% | 247 |
Kings | 38.97% | 11,041 | 57.80% | 16,377 | 2.00% | 567 | 1.24% | 350 |
Amador | 38.19% | 5,906 | 56.69% | 8,766 | 3.78% | 584 | 1.35% | 208 |
Calaveras | 37.58% | 7,093 | 56.15% | 10,599 | 4.57% | 863 | 1.70% | 321 |
Del Norte | 37.58% | 3,117 | 54.57% | 4,526 | 5.85% | 485 | 2.00% | 166 |
Butte | 37.43% | 31,338 | 54.45% | 45,584 | 6.84% | 5,727 | 1.28% | 1,072 |
Nevada | 37.22% | 17,670 | 54.76% | 25,998 | 6.92% | 3,287 | 1.10% | 524 |
Tulare | 36.75% | 33,006 | 60.20% | 54,070 | 2.04% | 1,834 | 1.01% | 908 |
El Dorado | 36.35% | 26,220 | 58.29% | 42,045 | 4.18% | 3,013 | 1.19% | 858 |
Kern | 36.20% | 66,003 | 60.70% | 110,663 | 1.91% | 3,474 | 1.19% | 2,168 |
Placer | 36.04% | 42,449 | 59.29% | 69,835 | 3.78% | 4,449 | 0.90% | 1,061 |
Madera | 34.89% | 11,650 | 60.74% | 20,283 | 3.23% | 1,080 | 1.14% | 382 |
Mariposa | 34.88% | 2,816 | 58.55% | 4,727 | 4.69% | 379 | 1.88% | 152 |
Yuba | 34.39% | 5,546 | 61.00% | 9,838 | 3.14% | 507 | 1.46% | 236 |
Inyo | 33.93% | 2,652 | 60.31% | 4,713 | 4.40% | 344 | 1.36% | 106 |
Trinity | 33.33% | 1,932 | 57.62% | 3,340 | 6.83% | 396 | 2.23% | 129 |
Plumas | 33.25% | 3,458 | 60.98% | 6,343 | 4.38% | 456 | 1.38% | 144 |
Siskiyou | 31.90% | 6,323 | 61.55% | 12,198 | 4.40% | 872 | 2.15% | 426 |
Sutter | 31.68% | 8,416 | 65.31% | 17,350 | 2.24% | 594 | 0.77% | 204 |
Tehama | 31.20% | 6,507 | 63.63% | 13,270 | 3.34% | 697 | 1.82% | 380 |
Colusa | 31.22% | 1,745 | 64.92% | 3,629 | 2.70% | 151 | 1.16% | 65 |
Shasta | 30.25% | 20,127 | 65.04% | 43,278 | 3.20% | 2,131 | 1.51% | 1,008 |
Sierra | 29.24% | 540 | 63.45% | 1,172 | 4.66% | 86 | 2.65% | 49 |
Glenn | 28.68% | 2,498 | 66.53% | 5,795 | 3.08% | 268 | 1.72% | 150 |
Lassen | 28.17% | 2,982 | 66.88% | 7,080 | 3.20% | 339 | 1.75% | 185 |
Modoc | 23.07% | 945 | 72.47% | 2,969 | 2.98% | 122 | 1.49% | 61 |
Al Gore | George W. Bush | Total | |
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Counties won | 20 | 38 | 58 |
Best score | San Francisco County (75.54%) | Modoc County (72.47%) | . |
Counties won under statewide margin (11.80%) | 5 | 10 | 15 |
Santa Barbara County (1.24%) Humboldt County (2.92%) Sacramento County (3.98%) Lake County (9.65%) Imperial County (10.25%) |
Ventura County (1.03%) San Joaquin County (1.20%) San Bernardino County (1.54%) Alpine County (2.73%) San Diego County (3.97%) Riverside County (6.52%) Merced County (6.69%) Stanislaus County (8.37%) San Luis Obispo County (11.33%) Mono County (11.62%) |
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Counties won under nationwide margin (0.51%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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By congressional district
Gore won 32 of 52 congressional districts.[4]
Electors
Technically the voters of California cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. California is allocated 54 electors because it has 52 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 54 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 54 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 Al Gore and Joe Lieberman:[6]
- Sunil Aghi
- Amy Arambula
- Rachel Binah
- R. Stephen Bollinger
- Roberts Braden
- Laura Karolina Capps
- Anni Chung
- Joseph A. Cislowski
- Sheldon Cohn
- Thor Emblem
- Elsa Favila
- John Freidenrich
- Cecelia Fuentes
- Glen Fuller
- James Garrison
- Sally Goehring
- Florence Gold
- Jill S. Hardy
- Therese Horsting
- Georgie Huff
- Robert Eugene Hurd
- Harriet A. Ingram
- Robert Jordan
- John Koza
- John Laird
- N. Mark Lam
- Manuel M. Lopez
- Henry Lozano
- David Mann
- Beverly Martin
- R. Keith McDonald
- Carol D. Norberg
- Ron Oberndorfer
- Gerard Orozco
- Trudy Owens
- Gregory S. Pettis
- Flo Rene Pickett
- Theodore H. Plant
- Art Pulaski
- Eloise Reyes
- Alex Arthur Reza
- C. Craig Roberts
- Jason Rodríguez
- Luis D. Rojas
- Howard L. Schock
- Lane Sherman
- David A. Torres
- Larry Trullinger
- Angelo K. Tsakopoulos
- Richard Valle
- Karen Waters
- Don Wilcox
- William K. Wong
- Rosalind Wyman
References
- ↑ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - California". Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ↑ "Report of Registration as of October 10, 2000" (PDF). California Secretary of State. January 7, 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 7, 2008. Retrieved August 10, 2008.
- ↑ http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/
- ↑ http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/4161/
- ↑ http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/pe2000timeline.php
- ↑ http://presidentelect.org/e2000.html