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The Electoral College results were the closest since 1876, making this election the second-closest Electoral College result in history and the third-closest popular vote victory. Gore's 266 electoral votes are the highest for a losing nominee.
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
2000 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Bush, blue denotes states won by Gore. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Republican hold [1] Seats contested: 34 of 100 seats (33 Class I seats +1 special election) Net seat change: Democratic +4: 2000 Senate results
Post-election analysis has found that Palm Beach County's butterfly ballot misdirected over 2,000 votes from Gore to third-party candidate Pat Buchanan, tipping Florida—and the election—to Bush. [2] 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 ...
The "butterfly ballot" used in Palm Beach County, Florida, was suspected of causing Al Gore's supporters to accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan. The 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
Prior to the election of 1824, most states did not have a popular vote. In the election of 1824, only 18 of the 24 states held a popular vote, but by the election of 1828, 22 of the 24 states held a popular vote. Minor candidates are excluded if they received fewer than 100,000 votes or less than 0.1% of the vote in their election year.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
2000 United States presidential election in West Virginia Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote Swing Count % Count % Republican: George W. Bush of Texas: Dick Cheney of Wyoming: 336,475: 51.92%: 5: 100.00%: 15.16%: Democratic: Al Gore of Tennessee: Joe Lieberman of Connecticut: 295,497 45.59% 0 0.00% 5.92% Green: Ralph Nader ...