2000 United States presidential election in Alabama

2000 United States presidential election in Alabama
Bush 50–60% 60–70% 70–80%	Gore 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%
President before election; Bill Clinton; Democratic	Elected President ; George W. Bush; Republican

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.

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 2024 presidential election^[update], 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

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
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	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

Butler (Largest city: Greenville)
Chambers (Largest city: Valley)
Cherokee (Largest city: Centre)
Clarke (Largest city: Jackson)
Coosa (Largest city: Goodwater)
Crenshaw (Largest city: Luverne)
Etowah (Largest city: Gadsden)
Fayette (Largest city: Fayette)
Franklin (Largest city: Russellville)
Marion (Largest city: Hamilton)
Pickens (Largest city: Aliceville)
Walker (Largest city: Jasper)
Washington (Largest city: Chatom)

By congressional district

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

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]

Glen Dunlap
Bob Fincher
Homer Jackson
Jerry Lathan
Elaine Little
Melba Peters
Martha Stokes
Jean Sullivan
Edgar Welden

References

[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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