2000 United States presidential election in Florida information
Election in Florida
Main article: 2000 United States presidential election
2000 United States presidential election in Florida
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November 7, 2000
2004 →
Turnout
70% [1]
Nominee
George W. Bush
Al Gore
Party
Republican
Democratic
Home state
Texas
Tennessee
Running mate
Dick Cheney
Joe Lieberman
Electoral vote
25
0
Popular vote
2,912,790
2,912,253
Percentage
48.847%
48.838%
County Results
Congressional District Results
Precinct Results
Bush
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
90–100%
Gore
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
90–100%
Tie/No Votes
President before election
Bill Clinton
Democratic
Elected President
George W. Bush
Republican
The 2000 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the nationwide presidential election. Florida, a swing state, had a major recount dispute that took center stage in the election. The outcome of the 2000 United States presidential election was not known for more than a month after balloting because of the extended process of counting and recounting Florida's presidential ballots. State results tallied on election night gave 246 electoral votes to Republican nominee Texas Governor George W. Bush and 255 to Democratic nominee Vice President Al Gore, with New Mexico (5), Oregon (7), and Florida (25) too close to call that evening. Gore won New Mexico and Oregon over the following few days; but the result in Florida was to be decisive, regardless of how those two states had voted.
After an intense recount process and the United States Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, Bush won Florida's electoral votes by a margin of only 537 votes out of almost six million cast (0.009%) and, as a result, became the president-elect. The process was extremely divisive and led to calls for electoral reform in Florida. Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Palm Beach County since the county's founding in 1909. If Gore had won the recount, then he would have won the election with a total of 292 electoral votes, and Bush would have lost with 246 electoral votes.
The final official Florida count gave the victory to Bush by 537 votes, making it by percentage not only the closest state of the election (New Mexico was decided by 366 votes but has a much smaller population, representing a 0.061% margin), but also the closest of any state in any United States presidential election ever.[a] This was the closest margin in any tipping point state in history, surpassing the record of the 1876 United States presidential election in South Carolina.
As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which the Democratic candidate won Pasco County and Hernando County.[2] It was also the first time the Democratic candidate won Orange County since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. This county, along with Charles County, Maryland, were the only two Gore flipped from the previous election.[3]
^"Voter Turnout". Florida Division of Elections. 2021. Archived from the original on June 2, 2015.
^Sullivan, Robert David; 'How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century'; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
^Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868–2004, p. 164-165 ISBN 0786422173
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