2000 United States presidential election in Arizona
November 7, 2000
 
Nominee George W. Bush Al Gore
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Tennessee
Running mate Dick Cheney Joe Lieberman
Electoral vote 8 0
Popular vote 781,652 685,341
Percentage 50.95% 44.67%
County Results
President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

 Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

The 2000 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Arizona was won by Governor George W. Bush by a 6.3 point margin of victory. Ralph Nader received 3%, whilst all of the other candidates received a combined 1%. Pre-election polling showed that Bush had a solid lead over Gore.[1] Bush won all the congressional districts, except Arizona's 2nd congressional district. The key for Bush's victory was Maricopa County, which has by far the highest population in the state. After breaking the longest Republican streak in the last election, last voting Democratic in 1948 prior to 1996, Arizona made a return to the Republican column in 2000. Bush made history by winning Greenlee County, the first Republican presidential candidate to ever do so.[2] This thinly populated working class county, which has been dependent on copper mining as the basis for its economy, had previously voted Democratic in every election since Arizona achieved statehood in 1912, but has not done so since.

Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Coconino or Pima Counties since Arizona statehood, as well as the first to do so without carrying Santa Cruz County since Herbert Hoover in 1928.

Results

2000 United States presidential election in Arizona[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican George W. Bush 781,652 51.0% 8
Democratic Al Gore 685,341 44.7% 0
Green Ralph Nader 45,645 3.0% 0
Reform Patrick Buchanan 12,373 0.8% 0
Libertarian L. Neil Smith 5,775 0.4% 0
Write-ins Various candidates 2,097 0.1% 0
Natural Law John Hagelin 1,120 0.1% 0
Constitution Howard Phillips 110 0.0% 0
Totals 1,534,113 100.0% 8
Voter turnout 40%

Results by county

County George W. Bush[5]
Republican		 Al Gore[5]
Democratic		 Ralph Nader[5]
Green		 Pat Buchanan[5]
Reform		 Various candidates[5]
Other parties		 Margin Total votes cast
#  % #  % #  % #  % #  % #  %
Apache 5,947 30.57% 13,025 66.95% 245 1.26% 135 0.69% 104 0.54% -7,078 -36.38% 19,456
Cochise 18,180 54.69% 13,360 40.19% 1,113 3.35% 315 0.95% 273 0.82% 4,820 14.50% 33,241
Coconino 17,562 42.96% 20,280 49.60% 2,478 6.06% 244 0.60% 319 0.78% -2,718 -6.64% 40,883
Gila 9,158 51.64% 7,700 43.41% 497 2.80% 227 1.28% 154 0.87% 1,458 8.23% 17,736
Graham 6,007 62.16% 3,355 34.73% 144 1.49% 131 1.36% 27 0.28% 2,652 27.43% 9,664
Greenlee 1,619 54.70% 1,216 41.08% 68 2.30% 42 1.42% 15 0.51% 403 13.62% 2,960
La Paz 2,543 56.73% 1,769 39.46% 91 2.03% 53 1.18% 27 0.61% 774 17.27% 4,483
Maricopa 479,967 53.23% 386,683 42.88% 22,465 2.49% 7,156 0.79% 5,428 0.60% 93,284 10.35% 901,699
Mohave 24,386 55.25% 17,470 39.58% 1,323 3.00% 622 1.41% 340 0.77% 6,916 15.67% 44,141
Navajo 12,386 49.25% 11,794 46.90% 517 2.06% 266 1.06% 184 0.73% 592 2.35% 25,147
Pima 124,579 43.31% 147,688 51.34% 12,355 4.30% 1,731 0.60% 1,287 0.44% -23,109 -8.03% 287,640
Pinal 20,122 48.73% 19,650 47.59% 904 2.19% 442 1.07% 172 0.42% 472 1.14% 41,290
Santa Cruz 3,344 37.60% 5,233 58.84% 217 2.44% 44 0.49% 55 0.62% -1,889 -21.24% 8,893
Yavapai 40,144 58.84% 24,063 35.27% 2,733 4.01% 749 1.10% 539 0.79% 16,081 23.57% 68,228
Yuma 15,708 54.82% 12,055 42.07% 495 1.73% 216 0.75% 178 0.63% 3,653 12.75% 28,652
Total781,65250.95%685,34144.67%45,6452.98%12,3730.81%9,1020.60%96,3116.28%1,534,113

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

County flips from 1996-2000:

Results by congressional district

Bush won five of six congressional districts.[6]

District Bush Gore Representative
1st 51% 44% Matt Salmon
Jeff Flake
2nd 34% 62% Ed Pastor
3rd 56% 40% Bob Stump
4th 52% 44% John Shadegg
5th 49% 46% Jim Kolbe
6th 51% 45% J.D. Hayworth

Electors

Technically the voters of Arizona cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Arizona is allocated eight electors because it has 6 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 8 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 8 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[7] 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:

  1. Joe Arpaio
  2. Linda Barber
  3. Dennis Booth
  4. Webb Crockett
  5. Paul Robert Fannin
  6. LaVelle McCoy
  7. Susan Minnaugh
  8. Frank Straka

References

  1. ↑ "Eugene Register-Guard". news.google.com – via Google News Archive Search.
  2. ↑ Menendez Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868–2004, p. 121 ISBN 0786422173
  3. ↑ "How close were U.S. Presidential Elections?". Archived from the original on August 25, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ "2000 Presidential General Election Results – Arizona".
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Our campaigns; AZ US President Race, November 07, 2000
  6. ↑ "2000 Presidential General Election Results – Arizona".
  7. ↑ "2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events". uselectionatlas.org.
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