2000 United States presidential election in Indiana explained

Election Name:	2000 United States presidential election in Indiana
Country:	Indiana
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1996 United States presidential election in Indiana
Previous Year:	1996
Next Election:	2004 United States presidential election in Indiana
Next Year:	2004
Election Date:	November 7, 2000
Turnout:	55%
Image1:	Official Portrait- President George Walker Bush, 43rd President of the United States, Republican - DPLA - 7482eac0e113bf03014d1686a3733f97.jpeg
Nominee1:	George W. Bush
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:	Texas
Running Mate1:	Dick Cheney
Electoral Vote1:	12
Popular Vote1:	1,245,836
Percentage1:	56.65%
Nominee2:	Al Gore
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	Tennessee
Running Mate2:	Joe Lieberman
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	901,980
Percentage2:	41.01%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Bill Clinton
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	George W. Bush
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

The 2000 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Indiana was won by Texas Governor George W. Bush. He won a majority of the counties and congressional districts in the state. Gore only won two congressional districts and six counties. However, Gore won five of the six counties by very small margins. Lake County, part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the state's second most-populous county,^[1] was Gore's best performance, winning with over 60%. Bush ran up the margins in more conservative rural areas to help him win the state. Bush won Vigo County with 49.7% of the vote, which is considered the most reliable bellwether county in the nation.

This would be the last time that Marion County (containing the state's largest city, Indianapolis) and Monroe County voted for the Republican nominee, as they would end up shifting to Democratic strongholds in future elections. Conversely, this is also the last time that Scott County voted for the Democratic candidate. Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying LaPorte County since Benjamin Harrison in 1888.

Results

2000 United States presidential election in Indiana^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney	1,245,836	56.65%	12
	Democratic	Albert Arnold Gore Jr. and Joseph Isadore Lieberman	901,980	41.01%	0
	Write In	Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke	18,531	0.8%	0
	Reform	Patrick Buchanan	16,959	0.8%	0
	Libertarian	Harry Browne	15,530	0.7%	0
	Write In	Howard Phillips	200	0.0%	0
	Write In	John Hagelin	167	0.0%	0
Totals			2,199,203	100.00%	12
Voter turnout (Voting age/registered)					49%/55%

By county

^[3]

County	George W. Bush Republican		Al Gore Democratic		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total
County		%		%		%		%	Total
	Adams		8,555		67.95%		3,775		29.98%	260	2.07%	4,780	37.97%	12,590
	Allen		70,426		61.60%		41,636		36.42%	2,258	1.98%	28,790	25.18%	114,320
	Bartholomew		16,200		62.87%		9,015		34.98%	554	2.15%	7,185	27.89%	25,769
	Benton		2,441		63.01%		1,328		34.28%	105	2.71%	1,113	28.73%	3,874
	Blackford		2,699		55.16%		2,103		42.98%	91	1.86%	596	12.18%	4,893
	Boone		13,161		71.54%		4,763		25.89%	472	2.57%	8,398	45.65%	18,396
	Brown		3,871		56.78%		2,608		38.26%	338	4.96%	1,263	18.52%	6,817
	Carroll		5,102		61.71%		2,965		35.86%	201	2.43%	2,137	25.85%	8,268
	Cass		9,305		61.60%		5,412		35.83%	389	2.58%	3,893	25.77%	15,106
	Clark		19,417		52.01%		17,360		46.50%	559	1.50%	2,057	5.51%	37,336
	Clay		6,393		62.94%		3,605		35.49%	160	1.58%	2,788	27.45%	10,158
	Clinton		7,141		64.97%		3,643		33.15%	207	1.88%	3,498	31.82%	10,991
	Crawford		2,327		55.29%		1,817		43.17%	65	1.54%	510	12.12%	4,209
	Daviess		6,872		70.40%		2,697		27.63%	192	1.97%	4,175	42.77%	9,761
	Dearborn		11,452		64.88%		6,020		34.11%	178	1.01%	5,432	30.77%	17,650
	Decatur		6,115		66.68%		2,889		31.50%	167	1.82%	3,226	35.18%	9,171
	DeKalb		8,701		63.12%		4,776		34.65%	308	2.23%	3,925	28.47%	13,785
	Delaware		22,105		50.07%		20,876		47.29%	1,166	2.64%	1,229	2.78%	44,147
	Dubois		10,134		65.36%		5,090		32.83%	280	1.81%	5,044	32.53%	15,504
	Elkhart		36,756		67.46%		16,402		30.11%	1,324	2.43%	20,354	37.35%	54,482
	Fayette		5,060		58.52%		3,415		39.49%	172	1.99%	1,645	19.03%	8,647
	Floyd		16,486		54.90%		13,209		43.99%	335	1.12%	3,277	10.91%	30,030
	Fountain		4,408		60.54%		2,717		37.32%	156	2.14%	1,691	23.22%	7,281
	Franklin		5,587		67.00%		2,591		31.07%	161	1.93%	2,996	35.93%	8,339
	Fulton		5,218		62.66%		2,960		35.55%	149	1.79%	2,258	27.11%	8,327
	Gibson		7,734		56.16%		5,802		42.13%	236	1.71%	1,932	14.03%	13,772
	Grant		16,153		61.22%		9,712		36.81%	521	1.97%	6,441	24.41%	26,386
	Greene		7,452		59.05%		4,898		38.81%	269	2.13%	2,554	20.24%	12,619
	Hamilton		56,372		74.25%		18,002		23.71%	1,552	2.04%	38,370	50.54%	75,926
	Hancock		15,943		69.47%		6,503		28.34%	504	2.20%	9,440	41.13%	22,950
	Harrison		8,711		58.48%		5,870		39.41%	315	2.11%	2,841	19.07%	14,896
	Hendricks		28,651		71.23%		10,786		26.82%	784	1.95%	17,865	44.41%	40,221
	Henry		10,321		56.35%		7,647		41.75%	347	1.89%	2,674	14.60%	18,315
	Howard		20,331		59.63%		12,899		37.83%	865	2.54%	7,432	21.80%	34,095
	Huntington		10,113		69.17%		4,119		28.17%	388	2.65%	5,994	41.00%	14,620
	Jackson		9,054		62.01%		5,330		36.50%	218	1.49%	3,724	25.51%	14,602
	Jasper		7,212		64.58%		3,744		33.53%	211	1.89%	3,468	31.05%	11,167
	Jay		4,687		58.37%		3,167		39.44%	176	2.19%	1,520	18.93%	8,030
	Jefferson		6,582		55.17%		5,117		42.89%	232	1.94%	1,465	12.28%	11,931
	Jennings		5,732		60.37%		3,549		37.38%	213	2.24%	2,183	22.99%	9,494
	Johnson		29,404		69.54%		11,952		28.27%	928	2.19%	17,452	41.27%	42,284
	Knox		8,485		56.36%		6,300		41.85%	269	1.79%	2,185	14.51%	15,054
	Kosciusko		19,040		75.30%		5,785		22.88%	459	1.82%	13,255	52.42%	25,284
	LaGrange		5,437		65.25%		2,733		32.80%	163	1.96%	2,704	32.45%	8,333
	Lake		63,389		36.02%		109,078		61.98%	3,527	2.00%	-45,689	-25.96%	175,994
	LaPorte		18,994		47.79%		19,736		49.65%	1,017	2.56%	-742	-1.86%	39,747
	Lawrence		10,677		66.14%		5,071		31.41%	394	2.44%	5,606	34.73%	16,142
	Madison		27,956		53.54%		23,403		44.82%	857	1.64%	4,553	8.72%	52,216
	Marion		137,810		49.23%		134,189		47.94%	7,904	2.82%	3,621	1.29%	279,903
	Marshall		10,266		63.57%		5,541		34.31%	343	2.12%	4,725	29.26%	16,150
	Martin		3,008		65.26%		1,518		32.94%	83	1.80%	1,490	32.32%	4,609
	Miami		8,401		64.98%		4,155		32.14%	372	2.88%	4,246	32.84%	12,928
	Monroe		19,147		47.61%		17,523		43.57%	3,550	8.83%	1,624	4.04%	40,220
	Montgomery		8,891		67.87%		3,899		29.76%	311	2.37%	4,992	38.11%	13,101
	Morgan		15,286		69.37%		6,228		28.26%	522	2.37%	9,058	41.11%	22,036
	Newton		3,250		58.98%		2,101		38.13%	159	2.89%	1,149	20.85%	5,510
	Noble		9,103		64.03%		4,822		33.92%	291	2.05%	4,281	30.11%	14,216
	Ohio		1,515		60.79%		951		38.16%	26	1.04%	564	22.63%	2,492
	Orange		4,687		62.85%		2,601		34.88%	170	2.28%	2,086	27.97%	7,458
	Owen		4,019		61.80%		2,253		34.65%	231	3.55%	1,766	27.15%	6,503
	Parke		3,841		59.58%		2,481		38.48%	125	1.94%	1,360	21.10%	6,447
	Perry		3,461		46.85%		3,823		51.75%	103	1.39%	-362	-4.90%	7,387
	Pike		3,566		56.59%		2,605		41.34%	131	2.08%	961	15.25%	6,302
	Porter		31,157		52.47%		26,790		45.12%	1,431	2.41%	4,367	7.35%	59,378
	Posey		6,498		58.49%		4,430		39.87%	182	1.64%	2,068	18.62%	11,110
	Pulaski		3,497		63.37%		1,919		34.78%	102	1.85%	1,578	28.59%	5,518
	Putnam		7,352		61.93%		4,123		34.73%	396	3.34%	3,229	27.20%	11,871
	Randolph		6,020		59.42%		3,906		38.55%	206	2.03%	2,114	20.87%	10,132
	Ripley		6,988		65.46%		3,498		32.77%	189	1.77%	3,490	32.69%	10,675
	Rush		4,749		65.20%		2,370		32.54%	165	2.27%	2,379	32.66%	7,284
	Scott		3,761		47.94%		3,915		49.90%	170	2.17%	-154	-1.96%	7,846
	Shelby		9,590		62.64%		5,374		35.10%	346	2.26%	4,216	27.54%	15,310
	Spencer		5,096		56.70%		3,752		41.75%	139	1.55%	1,344	14.95%	8,987
	St. Joseph		47,581		48.81%		47,703		48.94%	2,190	2.25%	-122	-0.13%	97,474
	Starke		4,349		49.98%		4,136		47.53%	216	2.48%	213	2.45%	8,701
	Steuben		6,953		61.66%		4,103		36.38%	221	1.96%	2,850	25.28%	11,277
	Sullivan		4,319		52.28%		3,833		46.39%	110	1.33%	486	5.89%	8,262
	Switzerland		1,831		56.53%		1,336		41.25%	72	2.22%	495	15.28%	3,239
	Tippecanoe		26,106		56.39%		18,220		39.36%	1,969	4.25%	7,886	17.03%	46,295
	Tipton		4,784		65.39%		2,392		32.70%	140	1.91%	2,392	32.69%	7,316
	Union		1,838		64.99%		927		32.78%	63	2.23%	911	32.21%	2,828
	Vanderburgh		35,846		54.13%		29,222		44.13%	1,153	1.74%	6,624	10.00%	66,221
	Vermillion		3,130		47.19%		3,370		50.81%	133	2.01%	-240	-3.62%	6,633
	Vigo		18,021		49.74%		17,570		48.50%	637	1.76%	451	1.24%	36,228
	Wabash		8,321		64.59%		4,277		33.20%	285	2.21%	4,044	31.39%	12,883
	Warren		2,218		58.86%		1,471		39.04%	79	2.10%	747	19.82%	3,768
	Warrick		13,205		59.19%		8,749		39.22%	355	1.59%	4,456	19.97%	22,309
	Washington		5,868		59.87%		3,675		37.50%	258	2.63%	2,193	22.37%	9,801
	Wayne		14,273		56.75%		10,273		40.85%	605	2.41%	4,000	15.90%	25,151
	Wells		7,755		68.74%		3,319		29.42%	207	1.83%	4,436	39.32%	11,281
	White		6,037		60.96%		3,655		36.90%	212	2.14%	2,382	24.06%	9,904
	Whitley		8,080		64.99%		4,107		33.04%	245	1.97%	3,973	31.95%	12,432
Totals	1,245,836	56.65%	901,980	41.01%	51,486	2.34%	343,856	15.63%	2,199,302

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Blackford (Largest city: Hartford City)
Clark (Largest city: Jeffersonville)
Crawford (Largest city: Marengo)
Delaware (Largest city: Muncie)
Floyd (Largest city: New Albany)
Gibson (Largest city: Princeton)
Jefferson (Largest city: Madison)
Knox (Largest city: Vincennes)
Madison (Largest city: Anderson)
Monroe (Largest city: Bloomington)
Pike (Largest city: Petersburg)
Porter (Largest city: Portage)
Posey (Largest city: Mount Vernon)
Spencer (Largest city: Santa Claus)
Starke (Largest city: Knox)
Sullivan (Largest city: Sullivan)
Switzerland (Largest city: Vevay)
Vanderburgh (Largest city: Evansville)
Vigo (Largest city: Terre Haute)
Warrick (Largest city: Boonville)

By congressional district

Bush won 8 of 10 congressional districts, including two held by Democrats.^[4]

Bush	Gore	Representative
	38%	58%		Pete Visclosky
56%	41%		David M. McIntosh
56%	41%	Mike Pence
	55%	42%		Tim Roemer
	62%	34%		Mark Souder
	60%	36%		Steve Buyer
	67%	28%		Dan Burton
61%	35%		Edward A. Pease
61%	35%	Brian D. Kerns
	55%	40%		John Hostettler
	57%	39%		Baron Hill
	38%	59%		Julia Carson

Electors

See main article: List of 2000 United States presidential electors.

Technically the voters of Indiana cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Indiana is allocated 12 electors because it has 10 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 12 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 12 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 George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:^[6]

Rodric D. Bray
Roger A. Chiabai
Beverly Gard
Don Heckard
Marla Irving
Virginia Lee
P.E. MacAllister
Barbara L. McClellan
Michael D. McDaniel
Max Middendorf
Michael Miner
Virgil Scheidt

Notes and References

Web site: Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20141218203824/http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf. December 18, 2014. July 10, 2014. United States Census Bureau. mdy-all.
Web site: 2000 Presidential General Election Results - Indiana.
Web site: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=2000&fips=18&f=0&off=0&elect=0&datatype=cd&def=1 2000 Presidential General Election Results - Indiana
Web site: 2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events.
Web site: President Elect - 2000 . 2009-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120212174238/http://presidentelect.org/e2000.html . 2012-02-12 . dead .