| Election Name: | 2000 Tennessee elections |
| Country: | Tennessee |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
| Previous Year: | 1998 |
Tennessee state elections in 2000 were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Primary elections for the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, Tennessee Senate, and Tennessee House of Representatives, as well as various judicial retention elections, were held on August 3, 2000.[1]
See main article: 2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee, 2000 Tennessee Democratic presidential primary and 2000 Tennessee Republican presidential primary. In 2000, Tennessee had 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College. In the general election, Republican candidate George W. Bush narrowly won the state with 51.15% of the to Democratic Vice President Al Gore's 47.28%.
The presidential primaries were held on March 14, 2000. George W. Bush won Tennessee's Republican primary. Tennessee native Al Gore easily won the Democratic primary.
| United States presidential election in Tennessee, 2000[2] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Republican | George Walker Bush | 1,061,949 | 51.15% | 11 | ||
| Democratic | Albert Arnold Gore Jr. | 981,720 | 47.28% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Ralph Nader | 19,781 | 0.95% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Harry Edson Browne | 4,284 | 0.21% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Patrick Joseph Buchanan | 4,250 | 0.20% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 2,071,984 | 11 | ||||
| Al Gore | 198,264 | 92.13 | 68 | |
| Bill Bradley (withdrawn) | 11,323 | 5.26 | rowspan=1 | |
| Uncommitted | 4,407 | 2.05 | 13 | |
| Lyndon LaRouche Jr. | 1,031 | 0.48 | rowspan=2 | |
| Write-in votes | 178 | 0.08 | ||
| Total | 215,203 | 100% | 81 |
|---|
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Delegates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George W. Bush | 193,166 | 77.02% | 37 | |
| 36,436 | 14.53% | 0 | ||
| Alan Keyes | 16,916 | 6.75% | 0 | |
| Gary Bauer | 1,305 | 0.52% | 0 | |
| Steve Forbes | 1,018 | 0.41% | 0 | |
| Orrin Hatch | 252 | 0.10% | 0 | |
| Write-ins | 75 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Uncommitted | 1,623 | 0.65% | 0 | |
| Total | 250,791 | 100.00% | 37 |
See main article: 2000 United States Senate election in Tennessee.
Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Bill Frist won re-election to a second term, defeating Democratic candidate Jeff Clark.
August 3, 2000, Primary Results
See main article: 2000 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee.
Tennessee elected nine U.S. representatives, each representing one of Tennessee's nine congressional districts.
| District | Incumbent | Results | Candidates | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | First elected | ||||||
| Bill Jenkins | Republican | 1996 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
| Jimmy Duncan | Republican | 1988 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
| Zach Wamp | Republican | 1994 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
| Van Hilleary | Republican | 1994 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
| Bob Clement | Democratic | 1988 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
| Bart Gordon | Democratic | 1984 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
| Ed Bryant | Republican | 1994 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
| John S. Tanner | Democratic | 1988 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
| Harold Ford Jr. | Democratic | 1996 | Incumbent re-elected. | nowrap | ||||
See also: Tennessee General Assembly. Elections for 16 of the 33 seats in Tennessee's State Senate were held on November 7, 2000.
After this election, Democrats had 18 seats while Republicans had 15 seats. Both parties maintained their respective amount of seats.
The election of all 99 seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives occurred on November 7, 2000.
Democrats won 58 seats, while Republicans won 41 seats. Republicans gained one seat.