| Election Name: | 2000 United States presidential election in Alabama |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1996 United States presidential election in Alabama |
| Previous Year: | 1996 |
| Next Election: | 2004 United States presidential election in Alabama |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
| Election Date: | November 7, 2000 |
| Image1: | File: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: | 9 |
| Popular Vote1: | 944,409 |
| Percentage1: | 56.47% |
| Nominee2: | Al Gore |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Tennessee |
| Running Mate2: | Joe Lieberman |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 695,602 |
| Percentage2: | 41.59% |
| 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 Alabama took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Alabama was won by Republican Governor George W. Bush with a 14.88% margin of victory. He won the majority of counties and congressional districts in the state.
, this is the last time that a Democrat has won over 40 percent of the vote in Alabama, or carried the counties of Choctaw, Colbert, Lawrence, and Jackson. This is also the last time that the Republican nominee has won less than 60 percent of the vote in the state. Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Montgomery County since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.
| 2000 United States presidential election in Alabama[1] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Republican | George W. Bush | 944,409 | 56.47% | 9 | ||
| Democratic | Al Gore | 695,602 | 41.59% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Ralph Nader | 18,349 | 1.10% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Patrick Buchanan | 6,364 | 0.38% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Harry Browne | 5,902 | 0.35% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Howard Phillips | 777 | 0.05% | 0 | ||
| Independent | Write Ins | 701 | 0.04% | 0 | ||
| Independent | John Hagelin | 447 | 0.03% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 1,672,551 | 100.00% | 9 | |||
| Voter turnout (Voting Age population) | 50% | |||||
| County | George W. Bush Republican | Al Gore Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Autauga | 11,993 | 69.69% | 4,942 | 28.72% | 273 | 1.59% | 7,051 | 40.97% | 17,208 | ||||||||||
| Baldwin | 40,872 | 72.37% | 13,997 | 24.78% | 1,611 | 2.85% | 26,875 | 47.59% | 56,480 | ||||||||||
| Barbour | 5,096 | 49.02% | 5,188 | 49.91% | 111 | 1.07% | -92 | -0.89% | 10,395 | ||||||||||
| Bibb | 4,273 | 60.17% | 2,710 | 38.16% | 118 | 1.66% | 1,563 | 22.01% | 7,101 | ||||||||||
| Blount | 12,667 | 70.48% | 4,977 | 35.67% | 329 | 1.83% | 7,690 | 42.79% | 17,973 | ||||||||||
| Bullock | 1,433 | 29.22% | 3,395 | 69.23% | 76 | 1.55% | -1,962 | -40.01% | 4,904 | ||||||||||
| Butler | 4,127 | 52.89% | 3,606 | 46.21% | 70 | 0.90% | 521 | 6.68% | 7,803 | ||||||||||
| Calhoun | 22,306 | 57.33% | 15,781 | 40.56% | 822 | 2.11% | 6,525 | 16.77% | 38,909 | ||||||||||
| Chambers | 6,037 | 51.01% | 5,616 | 47.46% | 181 | 1.53% | 421 | 3.55% | 11,834 | ||||||||||
| Cherokee | 4,154 | 53.10% | 3,497 | 44.70% | 172 | 2.20% | 657 | 8.40% | 7,823 | ||||||||||
| Chilton | 10,066 | 66.70% | 4,806 | 31.84% | 220 | 1.46% | 5,260 | 34.86% | 15,092 | ||||||||||
| Choctaw | 3,600 | 48.82% | 3,707 | 50.27% | 67 | 0.91% | -107 | -1.45% | 7,374 | ||||||||||
| Clarke | 5,988 | 55.69% | 4,679 | 43.52% | 85 | 0.79% | 1,309 | 12.17% | 10,752 | ||||||||||
| Clay | 3,719 | 63.22% | 2,045 | 34.76% | 119 | 2.02% | 1,674 | 28.46% | 5,883 | ||||||||||
| Cleburne | 3,333 | 65.46% | 1,664 | 32.68% | 95 | 1.87% | 1,669 | 32.78% | 5,092 | ||||||||||
| Coffee | 9,938 | 64.39% | 5,220 | 33.82% | 276 | 1.79% | 4,718 | 30.57% | 15,434 | ||||||||||
| Colbert | 10,518 | 48.85% | 10,543 | 48.96% | 471 | 2.19% | -25 | -0.11% | 21,532 | ||||||||||
| Conecuh | 2,699 | 48.62% | 2,783 | 50.14% | 69 | 1.24% | -84 | -1.52% | 5,551 | ||||||||||
| Coosa | 2,382 | 52.16% | 2,104 | 46.07% | 81 | 1.77% | 278 | 6.09% | 4,567 | ||||||||||
| Covington | 8,961 | 65.83% | 4,440 | 32.62% | 212 | 1.56% | 4,521 | 33.21% | 13,613 | ||||||||||
| Crenshaw | 2,793 | 58.25% | 1,934 | 40.33% | 68 | 1.42% | 859 | 17.92% | 4,795 | ||||||||||
| Cullman | 19,157 | 64.88% | 9,758 | 33.05% | 610 | 2.07% | 9,399 | 31.83% | 29,525 | ||||||||||
| Dale | 10,593 | 67.02% | 4,906 | 31.04% | 307 | 1.94% | 5,687 | 35.98% | 15,806 | ||||||||||
| Dallas | 7,360 | 39.86% | 10,967 | 59.40% | 137 | 0.74% | -3,607 | -19.54% | 18,464 | ||||||||||
| DeKalb | 12,827 | 63.23% | 7,056 | 34.78% | 402 | 1.98% | 5,771 | 28.45% | 20,285 | ||||||||||
| Elmore | 16,777 | 70.48% | 6,652 | 27.94% | 375 | 1.58% | 10,125 | 42.54% | 23,804 | ||||||||||
| Escambia | 6,975 | 59.82% | 4,523 | 38.79% | 162 | 1.39% | 2,452 | 21.03% | 11,660 | ||||||||||
| Etowah | 21,087 | 53.59% | 17,433 | 44.30% | 828 | 2.10% | 3,654 | 9.29% | 39,348 | ||||||||||
| Fayette | 4,582 | 58.68% | 3,064 | 39.24% | 162 | 2.07% | 1,518 | 19.44% | 7,808 | ||||||||||
| Franklin | 6,119 | 55.11% | 4,793 | 43.17% | 191 | 1.72% | 1,326 | 11.94% | 11,103 | ||||||||||
| Geneva | 6,588 | 68.92% | 2,769 | 28.97% | 202 | 2.11% | 3,819 | 39.95% | 9,559 | ||||||||||
| Greene | 850 | 19.34% | 3,504 | 79.71% | 42 | 0.96% | -2,654 | -60.37% | 4,396 | ||||||||||
| Hale | 2,984 | 38.60% | 4,652 | 60.17% | 95 | 1.23% | -1,668 | -21.57% | 7,731 | ||||||||||
| Henry | 4,054 | 58.48% | 2,782 | 40.13% | 96 | 1.38% | 1,272 | 18.35% | 6,932 | ||||||||||
| Houston | 22,150 | 69.10% | 9,412 | 29.36% | 495 | 1.54% | 12,738 | 39.74% | 32,057 | ||||||||||
| Jackson | 8,475 | 47.33% | 9,066 | 50.63% | 365 | 2.04% | -591 | -3.30% | 17,906 | ||||||||||
| Jefferson | 138,491 | 50.59% | 129,889 | 47.45% | 5,383 | 1.97% | 8,602 | 3.14% | 273,763 | ||||||||||
| Lamar | 4,470 | 61.66% | 2,653 | 36.60% | 126 | 1.74% | 1,817 | 25.06% | 7,249 | ||||||||||
| Lauderdale | 17,478 | 54.39% | 13,875 | 43.17% | 784 | 2.44% | 3,603 | 11.22% | 32,137 | ||||||||||
| Lawrence | 5,671 | 46.54% | 6,296 | 51.67% | 218 | 1.79% | -625 | -5.13% | 12,185 | ||||||||||
| Lee | 22,433 | 58.63% | 14,574 | 38.09% | 1,257 | 3.29% | 7,859 | 20.54% | 38,264 | ||||||||||
| Limestone | 14,204 | 60.10% | 8,992 | 38.05% | 438 | 1.85% | 5,212 | 22.05% | 23,634 | ||||||||||
| Lowndes | 1,638 | 26.24% | 4,557 | 72.99% | 48 | 0.77% | -2,919 | -46.75% | 6,243 | ||||||||||
| Macon | 1,091 | 12.35% | 7,665 | 86.80% | 75 | 0.85% | -6,574 | -74.45% | 8,831 | ||||||||||
| Madison | 62,151 | 54.85% | 48,199 | 42.53% | 2,968 | 2.62% | 13,952 | 12.32% | 113,318 | ||||||||||
| Marengo | 4,690 | 48.81% | 4,841 | 50.39% | 77 | 0.80% | -151 | -1.58% | 9,608 | ||||||||||
| Marion | 6,910 | 58.78% | 4,600 | 39.13% | 246 | 2.09% | 2,310 | 19.65% | 11,756 | ||||||||||
| Marshall | 17,084 | 61.04% | 10,381 | 37.09% | 524 | 1.87% | 6,703 | 23.95% | 27,989 | ||||||||||
| Mobile | 78,162 | 55.93% | 58,640 | 41.96% | 2,943 | 2.11% | 19,522 | 13.97% | 139,745 | ||||||||||
| Monroe | 5,153 | 57.57% | 3,741 | 41.79% | 57 | 0.64% | 1,412 | 15.78% | 8,951 | ||||||||||
| Montgomery | 38,827 | 48.34% | 40,371 | 50.26% | 1,130 | 1.41% | -1,544 | -1.92% | 80,328 | ||||||||||
| Morgan | 25,774 | 60.39% | 16,060 | 37.63% | 847 | 1.98% | 9,714 | 22.76% | 42,681 | ||||||||||
| Perry | 1,732 | 29.93% | 4,020 | 69.47% | 35 | 0.60% | -2,288 | -39.54% | 5,787 | ||||||||||
| Pickens | 4,306 | 50.42% | 4,143 | 48.51% | 91 | 1.07% | 163 | 1.91% | 8,540 | ||||||||||
| Pike | 6,058 | 57.45% | 4,357 | 41.32% | 129 | 1.22% | 1,701 | 16.13% | 10,544 | ||||||||||
| Randolph | 4,666 | 58.92% | 3,094 | 39.07% | 159 | 2.01% | 1,572 | 19.85% | 7,919 | ||||||||||
| Russell | 6,198 | 41.95% | 8,396 | 56.83% | 181 | 1.23% | -2,198 | -14.88% | 14,775 | ||||||||||
| Shelby | 47,651 | 76.70% | 13,183 | 21.22% | 1,294 | 2.08% | 34,468 | 55.48% | 62,128 | ||||||||||
| St. Clair | 17,117 | 71.05% | 6,485 | 26.92% | 488 | 2.03% | 10,632 | 44.13% | 24,090 | ||||||||||
| Sumter | 1,629 | 26.76% | 4,415 | 72.52% | 44 | 0.72% | -2,786 | -45.76% | 6,088 | ||||||||||
| Talladega | 13,807 | 54.25% | 11,264 | 44.26% | 380 | 1.49% | 2,543 | 9.99% | 25,451 | ||||||||||
| Tallapoosa | 9,805 | 60.33% | 6,183 | 38.04% | 265 | 1.63% | 3,622 | 22.29% | 16,253 | ||||||||||
| Tuscaloosa | 34,003 | 56.56% | 24,614 | 40.95% | 1,497 | 2.49% | 9,389 | 15.61% | 60,114 | ||||||||||
| Walker | 13,486 | 52.60% | 11,621 | 45.32% | 534 | 2.08% | 1,865 | 7.28% | 25,641 | ||||||||||
| Washington | 4,117 | 54.20% | 3,386 | 44.58% | 93 | 1.22% | 731 | 9.62% | 7,596 | ||||||||||
| Wilcox | 1,661 | 32.40% | 3,444 | 67.19% | 21 | 0.41% | -1,783 | -34.79% | 5,126 | ||||||||||
| Winston | 6,413 | 68.82% | 2,692 | 28.89% | 213 | 2.29% | 3,721 | 39.93% | 9,318 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 944,409 | 56.47% | 695,602 | 41.59% | 32,540 | 1.95% | 248,807 | 14.88% | 1,672,551 | ||||||||||
Bush won 6 of 7 congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.[3]
| District | Bush | Gore | Representative | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60% | 38% | Sonny Callahan | ||||
| 63% | 36% | Terry Everett | ||||
| 57% | 41% | Bob Riley | ||||
| 59% | 39% | Robert Aderholt | ||||
| 55% | 43% | Bud Cramer | ||||
| 70% | 28% | Spencer Bachus | ||||
| 25% | 74% | Earl Hilliard |
See main article: List of 2000 United States presidential electors.
Technically the voters of Alabama cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Alabama is allocated 9 electors because it has 7 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 9 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 9 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,[4] 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:[5]