2000 United States presidential election in Arizona

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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 Bush   40–50%   50–60%   60–70% Gore   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%

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. 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. 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
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 Republican		Al Gore Democratic		Ralph Nader Green		Pat Buchanan Reform		Various candidates 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
Total	781,652	50.95%	685,341	44.67%	45,645	2.98%	12,373	0.81%	9,102	0.60%	96,311	6.28%	1,534,113

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Gila (Largest city: Payson)
• Greenlee (Largest city: Clifton)
• La Paz (Largest city: Parker)
• Navajo (Largest city: Show Low)
• Pinal (Largest city: San Tan Valley)

County flips from 1996-2000:

Republican

  Hold

  Gain from Democratic

Results by congressional district

Bush won five of six congressional districts.

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

Main article: List of 2000 United States presidential 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 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