2000 United States presidential election in Colorado

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2000 United States presidential election in Colorado
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  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 Ralph Nader 1999 (cropped).jpg
Nominee George W. Bush Al Gore Ralph Nader
Party Republican Democratic Green
Home state Texas Tennessee Connecticut
Running mate Dick Cheney Joe Lieberman Winona LaDuke
Electoral vote800
Popular vote883,745738,22791,434
Percentage50.75%42.39%5.25%

Colorado 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 Colorado 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

Colorado was won by Governor George W. Bush by an 8.36% margin of victory, although almost 7% of the electorate voted for third-party candidates. Nader's best performance in the state and indeed the nation was in San Miguel County where he received over 17.20% of the vote, [1] a performance that remains the Green Party's second best performance in any county nationwide as of the 2020 presidential election after this record was bested in 2016 when Jill Stein carried 25% of the vote in Kalawao County, Hawaii. [2]

As of 2020 , this is the last election in which San Juan County, Gunnison County, Clear Creek County, Routt County, Eagle County, and La Plata County voted for a Republican presidential candidate, as well as the last time that Colorado voted to the right of many modern-day red and swing states, specifically Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, [3] Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia. Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Summit County since William Howard Taft in 1908.

Colorado was 1 of 14 states that Bill Clinton carried at least once that Gore, the sitting VP under Clinton in 2000, lost to Bush.

Results

2000 United States presidential election in Colorado [4]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican George W. Bush 883,74550.75%8
Democratic Al Gore 738,22742.39%0
Green Ralph Nader 91,4345.25%0
Libertarian Harry Browne 12,7990.73%0
American Patrick Buchanan 10,4650.60%0
Natural Law John Hagelin 2,2400.13%0
Constitution Howard Phillips 1,3190.08%0
Socialist David McReynolds 7120.04%0
Socialist Workers James Harris 2160.01%0
Prohibition Earl Dodge 2080.01%0
Totals1,741,365100.00%8
Voter turnout (Voting age)54%

Results by county

CountyGeorge W. Bush
Republican
Al Gore
Democratic
Ralph Nader
Green
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Adams 47,56144.10%54,13250.19%4,1653.86%1,9941.85%-6,571-6.09%107,852
Alamosa 2,85750.49%2,45543.38%2654.68%821.44%4027.11%5,659
Arapahoe 97,76851.47%82,61443.49%6,9523.66%2,6081.38%15,1547.98%189,942
Archuleta 2,98862.80%1,43230.10%2655.57%731.54%1,55632.70%4,758
Baca 1,66373.00%53123.31%472.06%371.62%1,13249.69%2,278
Bent 1,09655.83%78339.89%442.24%402.04%31315.94%1,963
Boulder 50,87336.44%69,98350.12%16,49811.82%2,2721.63%-19,110-13.68%139,626
Chaffee 4,30056.50%2,76836.37%4596.03%831.09%1,53220.13%7,610
Cheyenne 95778.96%20917.24%221.82%241.98%74861.72%1,212
Clear Creek 2,24745.63%2,18844.44%3547.19%1352.73%591.19%4,924
Conejos 1,77248.27%1,74947.64%792.15%711.93%230.63%3,671
Costilla 50430.58%1,05463.96%714.31%191.15%-550-33.38%1,648
Crowley 85559.17%51135.36%281.94%513.54%34323.81%1,445
Custer 1,45168.74%50724.02%1004.74%532.51%94444.72%2,111
Delta 8,37265.99%3,26425.73%8526.72%1981.56%5,10840.26%12,686
Denver 61,22430.87%122,69361.86%11,6245.86%2,8061.42%-61,469-30.99%198,347
Dolores 74165.34%29325.84%736.44%272.38%44839.50%1,134
Douglas 56,00764.95%27,07631.40%2,2302.59%9121.06%28,93133.55%86,225
Eagle 7,16547.18%6,77244.59%1,0456.88%2061.35%3932.59%15,188
El Paso 128,29463.91%61,79930.78%7,1163.54%3,5481.76%66,49533.13%200,757
Elbert 6,15168.61%2,32625.95%2923.26%1962.19%3,82542.66%8,965
Fremont 9,91461.75%5,29332.97%5163.21%3332.07%4,62128.78%16,056
Garfield 9,10353.22%6,08735.59%1,6089.40%3061.80%3,01617.63%17,104
Gilpin 1,00640.81%1,09944.58%27611.20%843.40%-93-3.77%2,465
Grand 3,57056.19%2,30836.33%3665.76%1091.71%1,26219.86%6,353
Gunnison 3,12843.23%3,05942.27%92712.81%1221.69%690.96%7,236
Hinsdale 31655.83%18833.22%519.01%111.94%12822.61%566
Huerfano 1,46646.19%1,49547.10%1695.32%441.39%-29-0.91%3,174
Jackson 68273.73%17318.70%404.32%303.23%50955.03%925
Jefferson 120,13851.02%100,97042.88%10,3364.39%4,0471.71%19,1688.14%235,491
Kiowa 72875.21%21121.80%131.34%161.66%51753.41%968
Kit Carson 2,54273.51%80923.40%581.68%491.42%1,73350.11%3,458
La Plata 9,99348.77%7,86438.38%2,37811.61%2551.25%2,12910.39%20,490
Lake 1,05640.18%1,29649.32%2138.11%632.40%-240-9.14%2,628
Larimer 62,42952.67%46,05538.85%8,1946.91%1,8591.56%16,37413.82%118,537
Las Animas 2,56942.16%3,24353.22%1993.27%831.37%-674-11.06%6,094
Lincoln 1,63074.12%51023.19%271.23%321.45%1,12050.93%2,199
Logan 5,53168.32%2,29628.36%1401.73%1291.60%3,23539.96%8,096
Mesa 32,39663.45%15,46530.29%2,2354.38%9581.88%16,93133.16%51,054
Mineral 29460.49%16834.57%193.91%51.03%12625.92%486
Moffat 3,84071.95%1,22322.92%1693.17%1051.97%2,61749.03%5,337
Montezuma 6,15865.62%2,55627.24%5305.65%1401.50%3,60238.38%9,384
Montrose 9,26665.18%4,04128.43%6564.61%2521.78%5,22536.75%14,215
Morgan 5,72263.59%2,88532.06%2112.34%1801.99%2,83731.53%8,998
Otero 4,08255.83%2,96340.52%1381.89%1291.76%1,11915.31%7,312
Ouray 1,27957.28%70531.57%22410.03%251.12%57425.71%2,233
Park 3,67755.17%2,39335.90%4046.06%1912.87%1,28419.27%6,665
Phillips 1,57370.86%56425.41%482.16%351.59%1,00945.45%2,220
Pitkin 2,56532.88%4,13753.04%1,01312.99%851.09%-1,572-20.16%7,800
Prowers 3,02666.89%1,36130.08%791.75%581.28%1,66536.81%4,524
Pueblo 22,82742.31%28,88853.55%1,5202.82%7111.32%-6,061-11.24%53,946
Rio Blanco 2,18576.53%54319.02%852.98%421.47%1,64257.51%2,855
Rio Grande 3,11161.30%1,70733.64%1793.53%781.53%1,40427.66%5,075
Routt 4,47246.40%4,20843.66%8208.51%1381.44%2642.74%9,638
Saguache 1,07842.63%1,14545.27%26110.32%451.77%-67-2.64%2,529
San Juan 21048.17%14934.17%5813.30%194.35%6114.00%436
San Miguel 1,04332.04%1,59849.09%56017.20%541.67%-555-17.05%3,255
Sedgwick 87767.31%38429.47%251.92%171.30%49337.84%1,303
Summit 4,49740.63%5,30447.92%1,13110.22%1361.22%-807-7.29%11,068
Teller 6,47765.78%2,75027.93%4294.36%1911.93%3,72737.85%9,847
Washington 1,87876.81%47719.51%502.04%401.63%1,40157.30%2,445
Weld 37,40957.96%23,43636.31%2,4383.78%1,2581.94%13,97321.65%64,541
Yuma 3,15672.42%1,08224.83%601.38%601.38%2,07447.59%4,358
Total883,74550.75%738,22742.39%91,4345.25%27,9591.61%145,5188.36%1,741,365

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

By congressional district

Bush won four of six congressional districts. [5]

DistrictBushGoreRepresentative
1st 32%61% Diana DeGette
2nd 42%48% Mark Udall
3rd 53%39% Scott McInnis
4th 56%37% Bob Schaffer
5th 63%32% Joel Hefley
6th 51%44% Tom Tancredo

Electors

Technically the voters of Colorado cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Colorado is allocated 8 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 [6] 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: [7] [8]

  1. Bob Beauprez
  2. Marcy Benson
  3. Robert Dieter
  4. Mary Hergert
  5. Robert Martinez
  6. Ralph Nagel
  7. Lilly Nunez
  8. Joe Rogers

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