General elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 8 November 2000. The elections saw the ruling National Team under Truman Bodden suffer a heavy defeat, with Bodden losing his seat. Following the elections, Kurt Tibbetts of the Democratic Alliance was elected as the Leader of Government Business.
Caymananian elections were traditionally contested on a non-partisan basis, with candidates running as independents and or in groupings known as teams. In the August 1991 a grouping known as the Progressive Democratic Party emerged, and constituted the first substantive Cayman political organisation since the 1960s. The party renamed itself as the National Team, and won power in the 1992 elections.
Major issues in the election campaign included the Islands' constitutional status, immigration, housing, and environmental protection.[1]
John McLean, Agriculture Minister, lost his seat to his cousin, Arden McLean.[1]
| District | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left rowspan=10 | Bodden Town | Roy Bodden | 1,008 | 62.96 |
| Gilbert Allan McLean | 788 | 49.22 | ||
| Anthony Eden | 759 | 47.41 | ||
| Mary J. Lawrence | 658 | 41.10 | ||
| Joseph Ebanks | 450 | 28.11 | ||
| Osbourne Bodden | 440 | 27.48 | ||
| Heather Dianne Bodden | 279 | 17.43 | ||
| Arnold Thomas Berry | 232 | 14.49 | ||
| Anthony Scott | 185 | 11.56 | ||
| Charles Wesley Watler | 135 | 8.43 | ||
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| align=left rowspan=6 | Cayman Brac and Little Cayman | Julianna O'Connor-Connolly | 590 | 76.62 |
| Lyndon Leathan Martin | 324 | 42.08 | ||
| Audley U. Scott | 226 | 29.35 | ||
| George Eldemire | 204 | 26.49 | ||
| Maxine Avon Moore-Mccoy | 35 | 4.55 | ||
| Rupert Kelvin Thompson | 30 | 3.90 | ||
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| align=left rowspan=3 | East End | Arden McLean | 200 | 37.11 |
| John Bonwell McLean Sr. | 175 | 32.47 | ||
| Kenross Diaz Conolly | 164 | 30.43 | ||
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| align=left rowspan=14 | George Town | Kurt Tibbetts | 2,753 | 80.97 |
| Alden McLaughlin | 2,057 | 60.50 | ||
| Frank Swarres McField | 1,690 | 49.71 | ||
| Linford Ainsworth Pierson | 1,506 | 44.29 | ||
| Lucille Dell Seymour | 1,450 | 42.65 | ||
| Truman Murray Bodden | 917 | 26.97 | ||
| Berna Thompson Cummins | 788 | 23.18 | ||
| Bridget McPartland | 554 | 16.29 | ||
| Melba M. Nixon | 314 | 9.24 | ||
| A. Steve McField | 297 | 8.74 | ||
| Jefford Robert Bodden | 114 | 3.35 | ||
| Craig Anthony Brown | 78 | 2.29 | ||
| Florence Goring-Nozza | 52 | 1.53 | ||
| Rodney Robert Ebanks | 36 | 1.06 | ||
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| align=left rowspan=2 | North Side | Edna Moyle | 249 | 53.32 |
| Denison Ezzard Miller | 218 | 46.68 | ||
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| align=left rowspan=22 | West Bay | McKeeva Bush | 1,462 | 56.95 |
| Rolston Anglin | 1,030 | 40.12 | ||
| Eugene Ebanks | 929 | 36.19 | ||
| Cline Glidden | 789 | 30.74 | ||
| Bernie Bush | 742 | 28.91 | ||
| Tara Rivers | 671 | 26.14 | ||
| 539 | 21.00 | |||
| Leonard Ebanks | 533 | 20.76 | ||
| Sterling Dwayn Ebanks | 449 | 17.49 | ||
| Mario E. Ebanks | 354 | 13.79 | ||
| Mitchell Ebanks | 304 | 11.84 | ||
| Arden B. Parsons | 303 | 11.80 | ||
| Billy Ebanks | 300 | 11.69 | ||
| John Dwight Jefferson | 286 | 11.14 | ||
| Frank Banks | 277 | 10.79 | ||
| James Cyril Parsons Jr. | 204 | 7.95 | ||
| Ina Claire Orr | 195 | 7.60 | ||
| Clarence Bothwell | 154 | 6.00 | ||
| Alice Mae Coe | 138 | 5.38 | ||
| Daphne Ackermon-Orrett | 129 | 5.03 | ||
| Waldo Hilton Parchment | 124 | 4.83 | ||
| Cadian Ebanks | 16 | 0.62 |
The United Democratic Party (UDP) was formed in November 2001, and would oust Tibbetts as Leader of Government Business that month in a vote of 9 to 5. Tibbett's would be replaced as Leader of Government Business by McKeeva Bush of the UDP. Tibbett's was elected as leader of the new opposition party, the People's Progressive Movement, in May 2002. The party would go on to win the 2005 general election.[2]