2000 United States presidential election in Arizona

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2000 United States presidential election in Arizona
Flag of Arizona.svg
  1996 November 7, 2000 2004  
  Official Portrait- President George Walker Bush, 43rd President of the United States, Republican - DPLA - 7482eac0e113bf03014d1686a3733f97.jpeg Al Gore, Vice President of the United States, official portrait 1994.jpg
Nominee George W. Bush Al Gore
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Tennessee
Running mate Dick Cheney Joe Lieberman
Electoral vote80
Popular vote781,652685,341
Percentage50.95%44.67%

Arizona Presidential Election Results 2000.svg
County Results

President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

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

Contents

Arizona was won by Governor George W. Bush by a 6.3 point margin of victory. Ralph Nader received 3%, whilst all of the other candidates received a combined 1%. Pre-election polling showed that Bush had a solid lead over Gore. [1] Bush won all the congressional districts, except Arizona's 2nd congressional district. The key for Bush's victory was Maricopa County, which has by far the highest population in the state. After breaking the longest Republican streak in the last election, last voting Democratic in 1948 prior to 1996, Arizona made a return to the Republican column in 2000. Bush made history by winning Greenlee County, the first Republican presidential candidate to ever do so. [2] This thinly populated working class county, which has been dependent on copper mining as the basis for its economy, had previously voted Democratic in every election since Arizona achieved statehood in 1912, but has not done so since.

Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Coconino or Pima Counties since Arizona statehood, as well as the first to do so without carrying Santa Cruz County since Herbert Hoover in 1928.

Results

2000 United States presidential election in Arizona [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican George W. Bush 781,65251.0%8
Democratic Al Gore 685,34144.7%0
Green Ralph Nader 45,6453.0%0
Reform Patrick Buchanan 12,3730.8%0
Libertarian L. Neil Smith 5,7750.4%0
Write-ins Various candidates2,0970.1%0
Natural Law John Hagelin 1,1200.1%0
Constitution Howard Phillips 1100.0%0
Totals1,534,113100.0%8
Voter turnout40%

Results by county

CountyGeorge W. Bush [5]
Republican
Al Gore [5]
Democratic
Ralph Nader [5]
Green
Pat Buchanan [5]
Reform
Various candidates [5]
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %# %
Apache 5,94730.57%13,02566.95%2451.26%1350.69%1040.54%-7,078-36.38%19,456
Cochise 18,18054.69%13,36040.19%1,1133.35%3150.95%2730.82%4,82014.50%33,241
Coconino 17,56242.96%20,28049.60%2,4786.06%2440.60%3190.78%-2,718-6.64%40,883
Gila 9,15851.64%7,70043.41%4972.80%2271.28%1540.87%1,4588.23%17,736
Graham 6,00762.16%3,35534.73%1441.49%1311.36%270.28%2,65227.43%9,664
Greenlee 1,61954.70%1,21641.08%682.30%421.42%150.51%40313.62%2,960
La Paz 2,54356.73%1,76939.46%912.03%531.18%270.61%77417.27%4,483
Maricopa 479,96753.23%386,68342.88%22,4652.49%7,1560.79%5,4280.60%93,28410.35%901,699
Mohave 24,38655.25%17,47039.58%1,3233.00%6221.41%3400.77%6,91615.67%44,141
Navajo 12,38649.25%11,79446.90%5172.06%2661.06%1840.73%5922.35%25,147
Pima 124,57943.31%147,68851.34%12,3554.30%1,7310.60%1,2870.44%-23,109-8.03%287,640
Pinal 20,12248.73%19,65047.59%9042.19%4421.07%1720.42%4721.14%41,290
Santa Cruz 3,34437.60%5,23358.84%2172.44%440.49%550.62%-1,889-21.24%8,893
Yavapai 40,14458.84%24,06335.27%2,7334.01%7491.10%5390.79%16,08123.57%68,228
Yuma 15,70854.82%12,05542.07%4951.73%2160.75%1780.63%3,65312.75%28,652
Total781,65250.95%685,34144.67%45,6452.98%12,3730.81%9,1020.60%96,3116.28%1,534,113

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

County flips from 1996-2000:
Republican
Hold
Gain from Democratic Arizona county flips the 1996 to 2000 Presidential elections.png
County flips from 1996-2000:

Results by congressional district

Bush won five of six congressional districts. [6]

DistrictBushGoreRepresentative
1st 51%44% Matt Salmon
Jeff Flake
2nd 34%62% Ed Pastor
3rd 56%40% Bob Stump
4th 52%44% John Shadegg
5th 49%46% Jim Kolbe
6th 51%45% J.D. Hayworth

Electors

Technically the voters of Arizona cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Arizona is allocated eight electors because it has 6 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 8 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 8 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 [7] 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:

  1. Joe Arpaio
  2. Linda Barber
  3. Dennis Booth
  4. Webb Crockett
  5. Paul Robert Fannin
  6. LaVelle McCoy
  7. Susan Minnaugh
  8. Frank Straka

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