United States presidential election in Georgia, 2000

Main article: United States presidential election, 2000

November 7, 2000



Nominee	George W. Bush	Al Gore
Party	Republican	Democratic
Home state	Texas	Tennessee
Running mate	Dick Cheney	Joe Lieberman
Electoral vote	13	0
Popular vote	1,419,720	1,116,230
Percentage	54.7%	43.0%

County Results

Gore—70-80%

Gore—60-70%

Gore—50-60%

Gore—<50%

Bush—<50%

Bush—50-60%

Bush—60-70%

Bush—70-80%

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Bill Clinton
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Elected President

George W. Bush
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The 2000 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 7, 2000 throughout all 50 states and D.C., which was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Georgia was won by Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) by an 11.7% margin of victory. He won a majority of the popular vote, counties, and congressional districts. Bush dominated in most of the rural parts of the state, but Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) did well in the highly populated Fulton County and DeKalb County of the Metro Atlanta area. Within that area are the 4th and 5th congressional districts, which are the only two districts Gore won. Author and investment analyst Harry Browne (L-TN) would finish third in the popular vote in Georgia.

In other down ballot races, Zell Miller (D), who was appointed by then-Governor Roy Barnes (D) following Senator Paul Coverdell's (R) death in July 2000, won the special election for the unexpired remainder of the term. Another notalve down ballot race was the 2000 U.S. House election in Georgia's 2nd congressional district in which Incumbent U.S. Representative Sanford Bishop (D) survived a strong challenge from Dylan Glenn (R).

Results

United States presidential election in Georgia, 2000
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	George W. Bush	Dick Cheney	1,419,720	54.67%	13
	Democratic	Al Gore	Joe Lieberman	1,116,230	42.98%	0
	Libertarian	Harry Browne	Art Olivier	36,332	1.40%	0
	Green	Ralph Nader (write-in)	Winona LaDuke	13,432	0.52%	0
	Reform	Patrick Buchanan (write-in)	Ezola B. Foster	10,926	0.42%	0
	Constitution	Howard Phillips (write-in)	Curtis Frazier	140	0.0%	0
	Socialist Workers	James Harris (write-in)	Margaret Trowe	11	0.0%	0
	Write-in	Gloria Strickland	n/a	8	0.0%	0
	Independent	Joe Schriner (write-in)	n/a	5	0.0%	0
Totals				2,596,804	100.00%	13
Voter turnout (Voting age)					43%

By county

County^[1]	Bush	Votes	Gore	Votes	Browne	Votes	Others	Votes	Total
Appling	64.60%	3,940	34.32%	2,093	0.77%	47	0.31%	19	6,099
Atkinson	59.30%	1,228	39.64%	821	0.92%	19	0.14%	3	2,071
Bacon	67.11%	2,010	31.92%	956	0.47%	14	0.50%	15	2,995
Baker	40.49%	615	58.79%	893	0.26%	4	0.46%	7	1,519
Baldwin	49.82%	6,041	48.60%	5,893	0.72%	87	0.86%	105	12,126
Banks	70.64%	3,202	26.91%	1,220	1.39%	63	1.06%	48	4,533
Barrow	65.49%	7,925	30.22%	3,657	3.15%	381	1.15%	139	12,102
Bartow	64.62%	14,720	32.96%	7,508	1.54%	351	0.89%	202	22,781
Ben Hill	51.08%	2,381	47.93%	2,234	0.17%	8	0.82%	38	4,661
Berrien	61.63%	2,718	37.19%	1,640	0.32%	14	0.86%	38	4,410
Bibb	48.36%	24,071	50.22%	24,996	0.63%	314	0.79%	395	49,776
Bleckley	64.98%	2,436	33.96%	1,273	0.43%	16	0.64%	24	3,749
Brantley	68.29%	3,118	30.05%	1,372	0.57%	26	1.10%	50	4,566
Brooks	52.87%	2,406	46.06%	2,096	0.48%	22	0.59%	27	4,551
Bryan	68.49%	4,835	30.77%	2,172	0.45%	32	0.28%	20	7,059
Bulloch	60.82%	8,990	37.62%	5,561	0.36%	53	1.21%	178	14,782
Burke	47.39%	3,381	52.14%	3,720	0.00%	0	0.48%	34	7,135
Butts	56.75%	3,198	40.48%	2,281	1.85%	104	0.92%	52	5,635
Calhoun	40.70%	768	58.66%	1,107	0.32%	6	0.32%	6	1,887
Camden	62.96%	6,371	35.93%	3,636	0.52%	53	0.58%	59	10,119
Candler	60.36%	1,643	38.68%	1,053	0.77%	21	0.18%	5	2,722
Carroll	63.42%	16,326	34.00%	8,752	1.33%	342	1.25%	321	27,741
Catoosa	67.90%	12,033	30.87%	5,470	0.33%	59	0.90%	159	17,721
Charlton	62.86%	1,770	36.04%	1,015	0.28%	8	0.82%	23	2,816
Chatham	49.49%	37,847	49.15%	37,590	0.36%	273	1.00%	765	76,475
Chattahoochee	48.88%	590	49.71%	600	0.50%	6	0.91%	11	1,207
Chattooga	56.20%	3,640	42.13%	2,729	0.51%	33	1.16%	75	6,477
Cherokee	72.65%	38,033	23.49%	12,295	2.79%	1,458	1.07%	562	52,348
Clarke	41.00%	15,167	52.47%	15,167	1.86%	538	4.66%	1,349	28,904
Clay	35.08%	448	64.29%	821	0.31%	4	0.31%	4	1,277
Clayton	32.52%	19,966	65.21%	40,042	1.50%	919	0.78%	475	61,402
Clinch	56.56%	1,091	42.30%	816	0.31%	6	0.83%	16	1,919
Cobb	59.78%	140,494	36.88%	86,676	2.10%	4,924	1.25%	2,933	235,027
Coffee	61.04%	5,756	38.10%	3,593	0.38%	36	0.47%	45	9,430
Colquitt	66.08%	6,589	33.06%	3,297	0.26%	26	0.60%	60	9,972
Columbia	74.04%	26,660	24.91%	8,969	0.38%	137	0.67%	242	36,008
Cook	57.78%	2,279	41.56%	1,639	0.00%	0	0.66%	26	3,944
Coweta	68.30%	21,327	29.00%	9,056	1.78%	555	0.93%	288	31,226
Crawford	55.71%	1,987	42.42%	1,513	0.81%	29	1.07%	38	3,567
Crisp	58.57%	3,285	40.44%	2,268	0.48%	27	0.52%	29	5,609
Dade	66.01%	3,333	32.24%	1,628	0.48%	24	1.27%	64	5,001
Dawson	71.38%	4,210	24.72%	1,458	2.49%	147	1.40%	83	5,898
Decatur	54.75%	4,187	44.43%	3,398	0.00%	0	0.83%	63	7,648
DeKalb	26.73%	58,807	70.24%	154,509	1.93%	4,242	1.10%	2,422	219,980
Dodge	59.08%	3,472	39.58%	2,326	0.56%	33	0.79%	46	5,877
Dooly	45.11%	1,588	54.01%	1,901	0.23%	8	0.65%	23	3,520
Dougherty	42.14%	12,248	57.29%	16,650	0.00%	0	0.57%	166	29,064
Douglas	61.02%	18,893	36.05%	11,162	1.86%	576	1.08%	333	30,964
Early	54.06%	1,938	45.24%	1,622	0.00%	0	0.70%	25	3,585
Echols	68.37%	614	30.29%	272	0.22%	2	1.11%	10	898
Effingham	68.79%	7,326	30.35%	3,232	0.36%	38	0.50%	54	10,650
Elbert	55.73%	3,262	43.17%	2,527	0.31%	18	0.79%	46	5,853
Emanuel	53.38%	3,343	45.27%	2,835	0.62%	39	0.74%	46	6,263
Evans	59.77%	1,841	39.51%	1,217	0.00%	0	0.71%	22	3,080
Fannin	65.11%	5,463	32.61%	2,736	1.01%	85	1.26%	106	8,390
Fayette	69.11%	29,338	28.06%	11,912	1.82%	773	1.00%	426	42,449
Floyd	60.37%	16,194	38.33%	10,282	0.72%	194	0.58%	155	26,825
Forsyth	77.66%	27,769	18.72%	6,694	2.81%	1,003	0.81%	289	35,755
Franklin	63.50%	3,659	35.40%	2,040	0.69%	40	0.40%	23	5,762
Fulton	39.84%	104,870	57.76%	152,039	1.70%	4,474	0.69%	1,829	263,212
Gilmer	67.04%	4,941	30.26%	2,230	1.09%	80	1.61%	119	7,370
Glascock	74.80%	763	24.41%	249	0.29%	3	0.49%	5	1,020
Glynn	64.09%	14,346	34.75%	7,778	0.35%	78	0.81%	182	22,384
Gordon	65.09%	7,944	33.04%	4,032	0.74%	90	1.14%	139	12,205
Grady	58.09%	3,894	40.59%	2,721	0.25%	17	1.06%	70	6,703
Greene	57.34%	2,980	41.12%	2,137	0.94%	49	0.60%	31	5,197
Gwinnett	63.71%	121,756	32.15%	61,434	3.08%	5,883	1.07%	2,038	191,111
Habersham	71.86%	6,964	26.11%	2,530	1.01%	98	1.02%	99	9,691
Hall	70.36%	26,841	26.89%	10,259	1.65%	630	1.10%	420	38,150
Hancock	21.45%	662	78.22%	2,414	0.00%	0	0.32%	10	3,086
Haralson	63.10%	5,153	35.13%	2,869	0.96%	78	0.82%	67	8,167
Harris	64.87%	5,554	34.01%	2,912	0.41%	35	0.71%	61	8,562
Hart	56.29%	4,242	42.36%	3,192	0.58%	44	0.77%	58	7,536
Heard	60.88%	1,947	36.84%	1,178	1.09%	35	1.19%	38	3,198
Henry	66.42%	25,815	30.80%	11,971	2.15%	834	0.63%	247	38,867
Houston	62.65%	23,174	35.96%	13,301	0.70%	258	0.69%	255	36,988
Irwin	60.31%	1,720	38.74%	1,405	0.28%	8	0.67%	19	2,852
Jackson	67.71%	7,878	29.39%	3,420	1.93%	224	0.97%	113	11,635
Jasper	58.28%	2,298	39.51%	1,558	1.55%	61	0.66%	26	3,943
Jeff Davis	66.26%	2,797	32.67%	1,379	0.26%	11	0.81%	34	4,221
Jefferson	45.98%	2,559	53.41%	2,973	0.00%	0	0.61%	34	5,566
Jenkins	50.79%	1,317	48.21%	1,250	0.39%	10	0.61%	16	2,593
Johnson	62.33%	1,797	36.94%	1,065	0.31%	9	0.41%	12	2,883
Jones	60.11%	4,850	38.45%	3,102	0.64%	52	0.80%	64	8,068
Lamar	55.68%	2,912	41.95%	2,194	1.43%	75	0.94%	49	5,230
Lanier	55.04%	1,048	43.70%	832	0.26%	5	1.00%	19	1,904
Laurens	57.94%	8,133	40.78%	5,724	0.77%	108	0.51%	71	14,036
Lee	74.48%	5,872	24.56%	1,936	0.34%	27	0.62%	49	7,884
Liberty	44.68%	4,455	53.62%	5,347	0.76%	76	0.94%	94	9,972
Lincoln	58.23%	1,807	41.09%	1,275	0.29%	9	0.39%	12	3,103
Long	57.04%	1,320	42.13%	975	0.00%	0	0.82%	19	2,314
Lowndes	56.87%	14,462	41.74%	10,616	0.27%	69	1.12%	285	25,432
Lumpkin	65.59%	4,427	31.42%	2,121	2.06%	139	0.93%	63	6,750
McDuffie	59.94%	3,926	39.39%	2,580	0.00%	0	0.67%	44	6,550
McIntosh	46.03%	1,766	53.35%	2,047	0.26%	10	0.36%	14	3,837
Macon	35.96%	1,566	63.31%	2,757	0.25%	11	0.48%	21	4,355
Madison	69.17%	5,529	28.59%	2,285	1.01%	81	1.22%	98	7,993
Marion	54.35%	1,187	44.96%	982	0.27%	6	0.41%	9	2,184
Meriwether	47.13%	3,162	51.29%	3,441	0.69%	46	0.89%	60	6,709
Miller	62.74%	1,349	36.42%	783	0.14%	3	0.70%	15	2,150
Mitchell	48.11%	2,790	51.23%	2,971	0.00%	0	0.65%	38	5,799
Monroe	60.48%	4,561	37.65%	2,839	1.09%	82	0.78%	59	7,541
Montgomery	58.39%	1,465	40.37%	1,013	0.20%	5	1.04%	26	2,509
Morgan	59.71%	3,524	37.92%	2,238	1.25%	74	1.12%	66	5,902
Murray	66.16%	5,539	32.06%	2,684	0.44%	37	1.34%	112	8,372
Muscogee	45.01%	23,479	54.05%	28,193	0.00%	0	0.95%	491	52,163
Newton	60.56%	11,127	36.48%	6,703	2.24%	412	0.72%	133	18,375
Oconee	68.15%	7,611	28.51%	3,184	1.60%	179	1.74%	194	11,168
Oglethorpe	61.71%	2,706	34.34%	1,519	1.53%	67	2.12%	93	4,385
Paulding	69.58%	16,881	27.79%	6,743	1.85%	450	0.77%	186	24,260
Peach	49.39%	3,525	49.60%	3,540	0.57%	41	0.43%	31	7,137
Pickens	66.92%	5,488	30.35%	2,489	1.74%	143	0.99%	81	8,201
Pierce	71.52%	3,348	27.77%	1,300	0.00%	0	0.70%	33	4,681
Pike	68.74%	3,358	28.93%	1,413	1.47%	72	0.86%	42	4,885
Polk	57.74%	5,841	40.65%	4,112	0.68%	69	0.93%	94	10,116
Pulaski	57.44%	1,922	41.54%	1,390	0.36%	12	0.66%	22	3,346
Putnam	57.09%	3,596	41.47%	2,612	0.65%	41	0.80%	50	6,299
Quitman	38.50%	348	59.96%	542	0.55%	5	1.00%	9	904
Rabun	64.61%	3,451	33.25%	1,776	0.94%	50	1.20%	64	5,341
Randolph	45.70%	1,174	53.76%	1,381	0.12%	3	0.43%	11	2,569
Richmond	44.29%	25,485	54.60%	31,413	0.36%	209	0.75%	431	57,538
Rockdale	62.64%	15,440	33.65%	8,295	2.52%	622	1.19%	292	24,649
Schley	60.03%	706	39.12%	460	0.00%	0	0.86%	10	1,176
Screven	52.15%	2,461	47.32%	2,233	0.00%	0	0.53%	25	4,719
Seminole	53.42%	1,537	45.64%	1,313	0.35%	10	0.59%	17	2,877
Spalding	60.24%	9,271	37.89%	5,831	1.21%	187	0.66%	102	15,391
Stephens	64.11%	5,370	34.25%	2,869	0.72%	60	0.92%	77	8,376
Stewart	34.54%	675	64.84%	1,267	0.05%	1	0.56%	11	1,954
Sumter	49.98%	4,847	48.96%	4,748	0.31%	30	0.74%	72	9,697
Talbot	33.35%	844	65.67%	1,662	0.32%	8	0.67%	17	2,531
Taliaferro	32.57%	271	66.83%	556	0.00%	0	0.60%	5	832
Tattnall	64.12%	3,597	34.99%	1,963	0.29%	16	0.61%	34	5,610
Taylor	50.79%	1,412	48.20%	1,340	0.00%	0	1.01%	28	2,780
Telfair	48.47%	1,693	50.87%	1,777	0.00%	0	0.66%	23	3,493
Terrell	48.31%	1,504	50.88%	1,584	0.32%	10	0.48%	15	3,113
Thomas	58.82%	7,093	40.32%	4,862	0.00%	0	0.86%	103	12,058
Tift	64.66%	6,678	34.34%	3,547	0.32%	33	0.67%	70	10,328
Toombs	62.23%	4,487	36.66%	2,643	0.42%	30	0.69%	50	7,210
Towns	64.53%	2,902	33.24%	1,495	0.62%	28	1.47%	66	4,497
Treutlen	54.10%	1,062	44.78%	879	0.25%	5	0.86%	17	1,963
Troup	62.90%	11,198	35.83%	6,379	0.48%	86	0.79%	141	17,804
Turner	51.22%	1,258	47.60%	1,169	0.29%	7	0.89%	22	2,456
Twiggs	43.43%	1,570	54.69%	1,977	1.08%	39	0.80%	29	3,615
Union	65.66%	4,567	32.06%	2,230	0.76%	53	1.53%	106	6,956
Upson	60.60%	5,019	38.13%	3,158	0.62%	51	0.66%	54	8,282
Walker	65.23%	12,326	33.56%	6,341	0.43%	82	0.77%	146	18,895
Walton	67.95%	12,966	28.74%	5,484	2.48%	474	0.83%	159	19,083
Ware	63.35%	6,099	36.14%	3,480	0.23%	22	0.28%	27	9,628
Warren	43.50%	933	55.76%	1,196	0.42%	9	0.33%	7	2,145
Washington	47.26%	3,162	51.95%	3,476	0.00%	0	0.79%	53	6,691
Wayne	65.20%	5,219	34.18%	2,736	0.20%	16	0.41%	33	8,004
Webster	39.49%	359	59.52%	541	0.33%	3	0.66%	6	909
Wheeler	51.62%	813	47.75%	752	0.00%	0	0.63%	10	1,575
White	68.96%	4,857	28.60%	2,014	1.15%	81	1.29%	91	7,043
Whitfield	68.03%	15,852	30.19%	7,034	0.41%	96	1.37%	320	23,302
Wilcox	58.39%	1,381	40.68%	962	0.30%	7	0.63%	15	2,365
Wilkes	50.77%	2,044	48.19%	1,940	0.47%	19	0.57%	23	4,026
Wilkinson	48.13%	1,800	50.37%	1,884	0.75%	28	0.75%	28	3,740
Worth	62.56%	3,792	36.53%	2,214	0.00%	0	0.90%	55	6,061

	Al Gore	George W. Bush	Total
Counties won	34	125	159
Best score	Hancock County (78.22%)	Forsyth County (77.66%)
Counties won under statewide margin (11.69%)	19	18	37
	Peach County (0.21%) Chattahoochee County (0.83%) Bibb County (1.86%) Wilkinson County (2.24%) Telfair County (2.40%) Terrell County (2.57%) Mitchell County (3.12%) Meriwether County (4.16%) Washington County (4.69%) Burke County (4.75%) McIntosh County (7.32%) Jefferson County (7.43%) Randolph County (8.06%) Dooly County (8.90%) Liberty County (8.94%) Muscogee County (9.04%) Richmond County (10.31%) Twiggs County (11.26%) Clarke County (11.47%)	Chatham County (0.34%) Sumter County (1.02%) Baldwin County (1.22%) Jenkins County (2.58%) Wilkes County (2.58%) Taylor County (2.59%) Ben Hill County (3.15%) Turner County (3.62%) Wheeler County (3.87%) Screven County (4.83%) Brooks County (6.81%) Seminole County (7.78%) Emanuel County (8.11%) Early County (8.82%) Treutlen County (9.32%) Marion County (9.39%) Decatur County (10.32%) Lanier County (11.34%)
Counties won under nationwide margin (0.51%)	1	1	2
	Peach County (0.21%)	Chatham County (0.34%)

Electors

Main article: List of United States presidential electors, 2000

Technically the voters of Georgia cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Georgia is allocated 13 electors because it has 11 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 13 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 13 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^[2] 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:^[3]

Anna Cablik
Teresa Jeter Chappell
Charles Commander Clay
Fred Cooper
James Edenfield
Winnie LeClercq
B.J. Lopez
Carolyn Dodgen Meadows
Alec Poitevint
Eric Tanenblatt
Cynthia Teasley
Virgil Williams
Bob Young

References

State Results of the 2000 United States presidential election

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