2000 United States presidential election in Montana

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2000 United States presidential election in Montana
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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 vote300
Popular vote240,178137,12624,437
Percentage58.44%33.37%5.95%

Montana 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 Montana took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Montana was won by Governor George W. Bush. Bush won most of the counties in the state, and only obtained less than 40% in three counties. Bush won the highest populated county, Yellowstone County with exactly 59% of the vote. Gore won a total of five counties, and did the best in Deer Lodge County.

Ralph Nader, the Green party nominee, performed very well here, getting 5.95% of the vote statewide. He did very well in the western part of the state, getting over 5% of the vote in most of the counties in the region. His best performance by far was in Missoula County, where he got over 15% of the vote, which was the only county Nader cracked double digits. Nader's performance in Montana made it his fifth strongest state after Alaska, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. [1]

As of the 2020 presidential election , this is the last election in which Missoula County voted for the Republican candidate. Al Gore's 33.4% of the vote was the worst performance for a Democrat in Montana since Jimmy Carter in 1980, and no Democrat has fallen under that number since. Gore's margin of loss is the largest for a Democrat in Montana since James M. Cox in 1920.

Results

2000 United States presidential election in Montana [2]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican George W. Bush 240,17858.44%3
Democratic Al Gore 137,12633.37%0
Green Ralph Nader 24,4375.95%0
Reform Patrick Buchanan 5,6971.39%0
Libertarian Harry Browne 1,7180.42%0
Constitution Howard Phillips 1,1550.28%0
Natural Law John Hagelin 6750.16%0
Totals410,986100.00%3
Voter turnout (Voting age/registered)61%/59%

By county

CountyGeorge W. Bush
Republican
Al Gore
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal
#%#%#%#%
Beaverhead 3,11374.19%79919.04%2846.77%2,31455.15%4,196
Big Horn 1,65139.68%2,34556.36%1653.97%-694-16.68%4,161
Blaine 1,41051.11%1,24645.16%1033.73%1645.95%2,759
Broadwater 1,48871.75%46222.28%1245.98%1,02649.47%2,074
Carbon 3,00862.81%1,43429.94%3477.25%1,57432.87%4,789
Carter 57388.84%538.22%192.95%52080.62%645
Cascade 18,16454.52%13,13739.43%2,0166.05%5,02715.09%33,317
Chouteau 2,03970.68%68623.78%1605.55%1,35346.90%2,885
Custer 3,15664.34%1,50130.60%2485.06%1,65533.74%4,905
Daniels 75067.57%30327.30%575.14%44740.27%1,110
Dawson 2,72363.76%1,36431.94%1844.31%1,35931.82%4,271
Deer Lodge 1,49332.93%2,67258.93%3698.14%-1,179-26.00%4,534
Fallon 1,06177.50%25618.70%523.80%80558.80%1,369
Fergus 4,35372.62%1,35222.56%2894.82%3,00150.06%5,994
Flathead 22,51966.55%8,32924.61%2,9918.84%14,19041.94%33,839
Gallatin 18,83358.78%10,00931.24%3,1989.98%8,82427.54%32,040
Garfield 65187.50%618.20%324.30%59079.30%744
Glacier 1,70941.44%2,21153.61%2044.95%-502-12.17%4,124
Golden Valley 40576.27%8816.57%387.16%31759.70%531
Granite 1,18174.28%29518.55%1147.17%88655.73%1,590
Hill 3,39251.72%2,76042.09%4066.19%6329.63%6,558
Jefferson 3,30864.07%1,51329.30%3426.62%1,79534.77%5,163
Judith Basin 1,05775.82%27819.94%594.23%77955.88%1,394
Lake 6,44156.26%3,88433.93%1,1239.81%2,55722.33%11,448
Lewis and Clark 15,09155.34%9,98236.61%2,1968.05%5,10918.73%27,269
Liberty 75272.03%24323.28%494.69%50948.75%1,044
Lincoln 5,57871.09%1,62920.76%6398.14%3,94950.33%7,846
Madison 2,65672.65%75820.73%2426.62%1,89851.92%3,656
McCone 82772.42%26723.38%484.20%56049.04%1,142
Meagher 69874.65%17618.82%616.52%52255.83%935
Mineral 1,07865.77%38223.31%17910.92%69642.46%1,639
Missoula 21,47446.11%17,24137.02%7,86116.88%4,2339.09%46,576
Musselshell 1,58271.68%51223.20%1135.12%1,07048.48%2,207
Park 4,52361.07%2,15429.08%7299.84%2,36931.99%7,406
Petroleum 25483.01%3611.76%165.23%21871.25%306
Phillips 1,72777.51%42318.99%783.50%1,30458.52%2,228
Pondera 1,94867.27%79227.35%1565.39%1,15639.92%2,896
Powder River 86085.32%11511.41%333.27%74573.91%1,008
Powell 1,97169.60%63822.53%2237.87%1,33347.07%2,832
Prairie 54172.52%16421.98%415.50%37750.54%746
Ravalli 11,24165.21%4,45125.82%1,5468.97%6,79039.39%17,238
Richland 2,85870.87%1,01825.24%1573.89%1,84045.63%4,033
Roosevelt 1,60542.09%2,05954.00%1493.91%-454-11.91%3,813
Rosebud 1,82653.35%1,39440.72%2035.93%43212.63%3,423
Sanders 3,14466.60%1,16524.68%4128.73%1,97941.92%4,721
Sheridan 1,17659.85%70235.73%874.43%47424.12%1,965
Silver Bow 6,29937.71%8,96753.68%1,4378.60%-2,628-15.97%16,703
Stillwater 2,76570.57%92523.61%2285.82%1,84046.96%3,918
Sweet Grass 1,45078.55%30516.52%914.93%1,14562.03%1,846
Teton 2,29469.22%84725.56%1735.22%1,44743.66%3,314
Toole 1,63968.92%63026.49%1094.58%1,00942.43%2,378
Treasure 34471.82%10622.13%296.05%23849.69%479
Valley 2,50063.08%1,27332.12%1904.79%1,22730.96%3,963
Wheatland 70870.87%24324.32%484.80%46546.55%999
Wibaux 36971.24%12123.36%285.41%24847.88%518
Yellowstone 33,92259.00%20,37035.43%3,2075.58%13,55223.57%57,499
Totals240,17858.44%137,12633.36%33,6938.20%103,05225.08%410,997

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

By congressional district

Due to the state's low population, only one congressional district is allocated. This district, called the At-Large district, because it covers the entire state, and thus is equivalent to the statewide election results.

DistrictBushGoreRepresentative
At-large 58.4%33.4% Denny Rehberg

Electors

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 [3] to cast their votes for president and vice president. The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state, each of whom was pledged to and voted for George W. Bush: Thelma Baker, Jack Galt, and Tillie Pierce. [4]

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References

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  2. "2000 Presidential General Election Results - Montana".
  3. "2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events".
  4. "President Elect - 2000". Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved October 31, 2009.