2000 United States presidential election in California

The 2000 United States presidential election in California took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the wider 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 54 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Main article: 2000 United States presidential election
2000 United States presidential election in California
November 7, 2000
 
Nominee Al Gore George W. Bush
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Tennessee Texas
Running mate Joe Lieberman Dick Cheney
Electoral vote 54 0
Popular vote 5,861,203 4,567,429
Percentage 53.45% 41.65%
County Results
President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

 Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

Elections in California

California was won by the Democratic ticket of Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut by 11.8% points over the Republican ticket of Texas Governor George W. 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
  • 2000 California Democratic primary
  • 2000 California Republican primary

Analysis

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. Other than Ross Perot in 1992, Independent Presidential candidates aren't typically on the ballot in California, but California's Marxist-Leninist Peace and Freedom Party had lost ballot access, one of its members, Joshua Brown, who lived in Redding, California, filed to run as an Independent. He positioned himself as the only socialist, the only worker, and unlike Nader, he stood for values beyond consumerism. His platform called for abolishing capitalism, abolishing classism, abolishing private property, withering away the repressive state, nationalizing and socializing everything, abolishing all taxation in favor of a North Korean-like society in which social services come from social production, and abolishing the United States and returning all the land to First Nations. His vote was negligible, but he did well in his home county, Shasta County, which propped him up to fourth place. He would use his support to get the Peace and Freedom Party back on the ballot in 2002. Pat Buchanan, Paleoconservative commentator, former advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and two-time Republican Presidential candidate in 1992 and 1996, was on the ballot as the Reform Party's candidate. This was the Party that Ross Perot had started in 1994, but a sizable number of party members, including then-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, disliked Buchanan. They felt his views were fringe-right, and inconsistent with the Party's moderate, libertarian, fiscally conservative and socially liberal views, and that Buchanan was a Republican double-agent, designed to destroy the party from within, and that he was just trying to use the Reform Party's money to pay off debts he owed from his 1992 and 1996 campaigns. Nader was largely the beneficiary of this. California was called for Gore, right when the polls closed at 11 P.M. EST.

Results
2000 United States presidential election in California[1][2]
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
Independent (politician) Joshua Brown 73,524 0.68% 0
Reform Pat Buchanan 44,987 0.41% 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
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
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%)		 .
Counties won under nationwide margin (0.51%) 0 0 0
. . .

By congressional district

Gore won 33 of 52 congressional districts.

District Bush Gore Representative
1st 41% 50% Mike Thompson
2nd 59% 34% Wally Herger
3rd 51% 44% Doug Ose
4th 58% 37% John Doolittle
5th 37% 57% Bob Matsui
6th 30% 62% Lynn Woolsey
7th 27% 69% George Miller
8th 15% 77% Nancy Pelosi
9th 12% 79% Barbara Lee
10th 45% 51% Ellen Tauscher
11th 50% 47% Richard Pombo
12th 27% 67% Tom Lantos
13th 30% 66% Pete Stark
14th 32% 62% Anna Eshoo
15th 38% 57% Tom Campbell
Mike Honda
16th 32% 64% Zoe Lofgren
17th 33% 60% Sam Farr
18th 53% 44% Gary Condit
19th 58% 38% George Radanovich
20th 48% 50% Cal Dooley
21st 64% 33% Bill Thomas
22nd 49% 45% Lois Capps
23rd 47% 48% Elton Gallegly
24th 38% 58% Brad Sherman
25th 51% 45% Buck McKeon
26th 25% 70% Howard Berman
27th 41% 53% Jim Rogan
Adam Schiff
28th 47% 49% David Dreier
29th 22% 72% Henry Waxman
30th 19% 75% Xavier Becerra
31st 27% 69% Matthew G. Martínez
Hilda Solis
32nd 13% 83% Diane Watson
33rd 15% 83% Lucille Roybal-Allard
34th 30% 67% Grace Napolitano
35th 12% 86% Maxine Waters
36th 44% 51% Steven T. Kuykendall
Jane Harman
37th 15% 83% Juanita Millender-McDonald
38th 37% 58% Steve Horn
39th 53% 43% Ed Royce
40th 56% 39% Jerry Lewis
41st 50% 47% Gary Miller
42nd 39% 57% Joe Baca
43rd 52% 44% Ken Calvert
44th 49% 47% Mary Bono
45th 56% 40% Dana Rohrabacher
46th 42% 54% Loretta Sánchez
47th 58% 39% Christopher Cox
48th 60% 36% Ron Packard
Darrell Issa
49th 42% 53% Brian Bilbray
Susan Davis
50th 37% 59% Bob Filner
51st 55% 41% Duke Cunningham
52nd 54% 41% Duncan Hunter

Electors
Main article: List of 2000 United States presidential 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[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 Al Gore and Joe Lieberman:[5]

  1. Sunil Aghi
  2. Amy Arambula
  3. Rachel Binah
  4. R. Stephen Bollinger
  5. Roberts Braden
  6. Laura Karolina Capps
  7. Anni Chung
  8. Joseph A. Cislowski
  9. Sheldon Cohn
  10. Thor Emblem
  11. Elsa Favila
  12. John Freidenrich
  13. Cecelia Fuentes
  14. Glen Fuller
  15. James Garrison
  16. Sally Goehring
  17. Florence Gold
  18. Jill S. Hardy
  19. Therese Horsting
  20. Georgie Huff
  21. Robert Eugene Hurd
  22. Harriet A. Ingram
  23. Robert Jordan
  24. John Koza
  25. John Laird
  26. N. Mark Lam
  27. Manuel M. Lopez
  28. Henry Lozano
  29. David Mann
  30. Beverly Martin
  31. R. Keith McDonald
  32. Carol D. Norberg
  33. Ron Oberndorfer
  34. Gerard Orozco
  35. Trudy Owens
  36. Gregory S. Pettis
  37. Flo Rene Pickett
  38. Theodore H. Plant
  39. Art Pulaski
  40. Eloise Reyes
  41. Alex Arthur Reza
  42. C. Craig Roberts
  43. Jason Rodríguez
  44. Luis D. Rojas
  45. Howard L. Schock
  46. Lane Sherman
  47. David A. Torres
  48. Larry Trullinger
  49. Angelo K. Tsakopoulos
  50. Richard Valle
  51. Karen Waters
  52. Don Wilcox
  53. William K. Wong
  54. Rosalind Wyman

References
  1. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - California". Retrieved 2013-01-07.
  2. "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.
  3. http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/
  4. http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/pe2000timeline.php
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2009-10-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

See also
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