2000 United States presidential election in Maryland

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2000 United States presidential election in Maryland
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  1996 November 7, 2000 2004  
  Al Gore, Vice President of the United States, official portrait 1994.jpg GeorgeWBush.jpg
Nominee Al Gore George W. Bush
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Tennessee Texas
Running mate Joe Lieberman Dick Cheney
Electoral vote100
Popular vote1,145,782813,797
Percentage56.57%40.18%

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County Results

President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

The 2000 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 7, 2000. Maryland participated in the 2000 United States presidential election along with the 49 other U.S. states and Washington, D.C. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for the President and Vice President.

Contents

Democratic Vice President Al Gore easily carried Maryland on election day, taking 56.57% of the vote to Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush’s 40.18%. Maryland was the only state where, along with Washington, D.C., Gore improved on Bill Clinton's margin four years earlier [1] [2] Gore's strong performance in the most highly-populated counties in the state, which are home to many urban and African American communities, contributed to his victory in the state. Gore flipped Charles County; it was one of only two counties in the country to vote for Gore after having voted for Bob Dole in 1996, the other being Orange County, Florida. This was the first time since 1888 that Maryland gave a majority of the vote to a losing candidate.

In this election, Maryland voted 15.87% to the left of the nation at-large. [3]

Results

2000 United States presidential election in Maryland
PartyCandidateRunning mateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Al Gore Joe Lieberman 1,145,78256.6%10
Republican George W. Bush Dick Cheney 813,79740.2%0
Green Ralph Nader Winona LaDuke 53,7682.7%0
Libertarian Harry Browne Wayne Allyn Root 5,3100.3%0
Reform Pat Buchanan Ezola Foster 4,2480.2%0
Write Ins1,4800.1%0
Constitution Howard Phillips Michael Peroutka 9190.1%0
Write In John Hagelin 1760.0%0
Totals2,025,480100.00%10
Voter turnout (Voting age/Registered)51%/74%

Results by county

CountyAl Gore
Democratic
George W. Bush
Republican
Ralph Nader
Green
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Allegany 10,89441.31%14,65655.58%6102.31%2110.80%-3,762-14.27%26,371
Anne Arundel 89,62444.67%104,20951.93%5,4932.74%1,3310.66%-14,585-7.26%200,657
Baltimore 160,63552.83%133,03343.75%8,5442.81%1,8720.62%27,6029.08%304,084
Baltimore City 158,76582.52%27,15014.11%5,5122.86%9770.51%131,61568.41%192,404
Calvert 12,98643.57%16,00453.69%6602.21%1560.52%-3,018-10.12%29,806
Caroline 3,39637.94%5,30059.20%1982.21%580.65%-1,904-21.26%8,952
Carroll 20,14631.46%41,74265.19%1,6812.63%4580.72%-21,596-33.73%64,027
Cecil 12,32742.69%15,49453.66%7942.75%2610.90%-3,167-10.97%28,876
Charles 21,87349.05%21,76848.82%7551.69%1960.44%1050.23%44,592
Dorchester 5,23245.93%5,84751.33%2221.95%910.80%-615-5.40%11,392
Frederick 30,72539.06%45,35057.65%2,0522.61%5340.68%-14,625-18.59%78,661
Garrett 2,87226.95%7,51470.52%2031.91%660.62%-4,642-43.57%10,655
Harford 35,66539.01%52,86257.82%2,2982.51%5990.66%-17,197-18.81%91,424
Howard 58,55651.92%49,80944.17%3,6433.23%7710.68%8,7477.75%112,779
Kent 3,62744.86%4,15551.39%2703.34%330.41%-528-6.53%8,085
Montgomery 232,45362.54%124,58033.52%12,4853.36%2,1700.58%107,87329.02%371,688
Prince George's 216,11979.48%49,98718.38%4,4971.65%1,3060.48%166,13261.10%271,909
Queen Anne's 6,25737.33%9,97059.48%4462.66%880.53%-3,713-22.15%16,761
Somerset 3,78549.78%3,60947.46%1421.87%680.89%1762.32%7,604
St. Mary's 11,91240.38%16,85657.14%5681.93%1650.56%-4,944-16.76%29,501
Talbot 5,85438.43%8,87458.25%4242.78%820.54%-3,020-19.82%15,234
Washington 18,22138.38%27,94858.88%1,0272.16%2740.58%-9,727-20.50%47,470
Wicomico 14,46945.51%16,33851.39%7622.40%2260.71%-1,869-5.88%31,795
Worcester 9,38945.24%10,74251.76%4822.32%1400.67%-1,353-6.52%20,753
Totals1,145,78256.57%813,79740.18%53,7682.65%12,1330.60%331,98516.39%2,025,480

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Results by congressional district

Gore won 5 of the state's 8 congressional districts, including one that elected a Republican. [4]

DistrictGoreBushRepresentative
1st 44%53% Wayne Gilchrest
2nd 41%55% Bob Ehrlich
3rd 63%34% Ben Cardin
4th 84%13% Albert Wynn
5th 55%42% Steny Hoyer
6th 38%58% Roscoe Bartlett
7th 84%14% Elijah Cummings
8th 60%36% Connie Morella

Electors

Technically the voters of Maryland cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Maryland is allocated 10 electors because it has 8 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 10 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins a plurality of votes in the state is awarded all ten 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 Gore and Lieberman: [6]

  1. Clarence W. Blount
  2. Gene W. Counihan
  3. Howard Friedman
  4. Mary Ann E. Love
  5. Thomas V. Mike Miller
  6. Mary Butler Murphy
  7. Mary Jo Neville
  8. Gregory Pecoraro
  9. Ina Taylor
  10. Beatrice P. Tignor

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References

  1. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 2000 Presidential General Election Results – Maryland. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  2. There were several other states where Gore scored a higher overall percentage of the vote than Clinton, due to a significant reduction in the third-party vote, as Ross Perot was no longer a candidate.
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