How America Moves

How America Votes

2000 presidential election results by county: who got the votes, where, and by how much. Certified returns, presented as numbers only.

Al Gore
Democratic
51,001,968
48.4% of votes cast
George W. Bush
Republican
50,457,896
47.9% of votes cast
All others
combined
3,951,511
3.7% of votes cast

105,411,375 total votes counted nationwide

Republican wonDemocratic wonIndependent / other
Which party received the most votes, as a solid color.Winning margin as a share of all votes cast.Change in margin since 1996, in percentage points.Total votes cast, all candidates.
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Hover an area for its results; click to open its page. The toggle switches between county and state granularity. Alaska reports results by legislative district rather than borough, so it has no county shading; its statewide totals are on the state view and in the table below. Kansas City, MO reports separately from its surrounding counties, so those counties' shading excludes the city's votes.

Results by state

Popular vote by state, 2000. Click a column to sort; click a state for its migration and county pages.

Alabama695,602944,40932,540R +14.91,672,551
Alaska79,004167,39839,128R +31.0285,530
Arizona685,341781,65267,120R +6.31,534,113
Arkansas422,768472,94026,073R +5.4921,781
California5,861,2034,567,429537,224D +11.810,965,856
Colorado738,227883,745119,393R +8.41,741,365
Connecticut816,015561,09482,416D +17.51,459,525
Delaware180,068137,28810,173D +13.1327,529
District of Columbia171,92318,07311,898D +76.2201,894
Florida2,911,4172,911,215138,028D +0.05,960,660
Georgia1,116,2301,419,72060,854R +11.72,596,804
Hawaii205,242137,81924,810D +18.3367,871
Idaho138,637336,93726,047R +39.5501,621
Illinois2,589,0262,019,421133,676D +12.04,742,123
Indiana901,9801,245,83651,489R +15.62,199,305
Iowa638,517634,37342,673D +0.31,315,563
Kansas399,276622,33250,608R +20.81,072,216
Kentucky638,898872,49232,797R +15.11,544,187
Louisiana792,344927,87145,441R +7.71,765,656
Maine319,951286,61645,250D +5.1651,817
Maryland1,145,782813,79765,901D +16.42,025,480
Massachusetts1,616,487878,502207,995D +27.32,702,984
Michigan2,170,4181,953,139109,154D +5.14,232,711
Minnesota1,168,2661,109,659160,760D +2.42,438,685
Mississippi404,964573,23016,732R +16.9994,926
Missouri1,111,1381,189,92458,830R +3.32,359,892
Montana137,126240,17833,682R +25.1410,986
Nebraska231,780433,86231,377R +29.0697,019
Nevada279,978301,57527,417R +3.5608,970
New Hampshire266,348273,55929,174R +1.3569,081
New Jersey1,788,8501,284,173114,203D +15.83,187,226
New Mexico286,783286,41725,405D +0.1598,605
New York4,107,6972,403,374310,928D +25.06,821,999
North Carolina1,257,6921,631,16322,407R +12.82,911,262
North Dakota95,284174,85218,131R +27.6288,267
Ohio2,186,1902,351,209168,058R +3.54,705,457
Oklahoma474,276744,33715,616R +21.91,234,229
Oregon720,342713,577100,049D +0.41,533,968
Pennsylvania2,485,9672,281,127145,091D +4.24,912,185
Rhode Island249,508130,55529,049D +29.1409,112
South Carolina566,039786,42631,312R +15.91,383,777
South Dakota118,804190,7006,765R +22.7316,269
Tennessee981,7201,061,94932,512R +3.92,076,181
Texas2,433,7463,799,639174,252R +21.36,407,637
Utah203,053515,09652,605R +40.5770,754
Vermont149,022119,77525,511D +9.9294,308
Virginia1,216,4221,436,87784,616R +8.12,737,915
Washington1,247,6521,108,864131,925D +5.62,488,441
West Virginia295,497336,47516,152R +6.3648,124
Wisconsin1,242,9871,237,279118,341D +0.22,598,607
Wyoming60,481147,9479,923R +40.1218,351

Margins are the popular-vote gap as a share of all votes cast in the state. Electoral votes are not shown here.

Results compiled from certified state returns by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (CC0). Numbers only, no interpretation. Election results and migration data are separate datasets; this site does not connect one to the other.