Election Name: | 2000 Pennsylvania Attorney General election |
Country: | Pennsylvania |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1996 Pennsylvania Attorney General election |
Previous Year: | 1996 |
Next Election: | 2004 Pennsylvania Attorney General election |
Next Year: | 2004 |
Election Date: | November 7, 2000 |
Image1: | File:MikeFisher (cropped).jpg |
Nominee1: | Michael Fisher |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 2,495,253 |
Percentage1: | 54.02% |
Nominee2: | Jim Eisenhower |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 1,991,144 |
Percentage2: | 43.10% |
Map Size: | 260px |
Attorney General | |
Before Election: | Tom Corbett |
Before Party: | Republican |
After Election: | Michael Fisher |
After Party: | Republican |
Pennsylvania's Attorney General election was held November 7, 2000.[1] Necessary primary elections were held on April 4, 2000.[2] Incumbent Mike Fisher was unopposed for the Republican nomination and won a second term by a relatively comfortable margin. Jim Eisenhower, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and close confidant of Ed Rendell was the Democratic nominee; he earned a narrow victory in the party primary over John Morganelli, the District Attorney of Northampton County.