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2000 United States elections

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Field	Value
year	2000
type	Presidential election year
incumbent_president	Bill Clinton (Democratic)
election_day	November 7, 2000
next_congress	[107th](107th-united-states-congress)
president_control	Republican gain
president_pv_margin	Democratic +0.5%
president_candidate1	George W. Bush (R)
electoral_vote1	271
president_candidate2	Al Gore (D)
electoral_vote2	266
president_map
president_map_caption	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_seats_contested	34 of 100 seats
(33 Class I seats +1 special election)
senate_control	Republican hold
senate_net_change	Democratic +4
senate_map
senate_map_caption	2000 Senate results

house_seats_contested	All 435 voting members
house_control	Republican hold
house_pv_margin	Republican +0.5%
house_net_change	Democratic +1
house_map	[[File:2000 House Elections in the United States.png	400px]]
house_map_caption	2000 House of Representatives results
(territorial delegate races not shown)

governor_seats_contested	14 (12 states, 2 territories)
governor_net_change	Democratic +1
governor_map
governor_map_caption	2000 gubernatorial election results

(33 Class I seats +1 special election)

(territorial delegate races not shown)

Elections were held in the United States on November 7, 2000. Republican governor George W. Bush of Texas defeated Democratic Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee in the presidential election. Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress, giving the party unified control of Congress and the presidency for the first time since the 1954 elections.

With Democratic president Bill Clinton term-limited, Gore won his party's nomination by defeating Senator Bill Bradley in the Democratic primaries. Bush defeated Senator John McCain in the Republican primaries to win his party's presidential nomination. Bush took 271 of the 538 electoral votes, winning the decisive state of Florida by a margin of 537 votes after a recount was halted by the Supreme Court in the case of Bush v. Gore. Bush was the first winning presidential candidate to lose the popular vote since the 1888 presidential election. This marked the first time since 1988 where the winning presidential candidate's party failed to have any coattails in either house of Congress.

Democrats picked up a net of four seats in the Senate, tying Republicans, but Dick Cheney provided the tie-breaking vote as Vice President of the United States. Republicans maintained control of the chamber until June 6, 2001, when Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party and began caucusing with the Democrats. Democrats also picked up a net of one seat in the House, but Republicans retained an overall narrow majority. In the gubernatorial elections, Democrats won a net gain of one seat.

Federal elections

President

Main article: 2000 United States presidential election

In the 2000 presidential election, Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Democratic incumbent vice president Al Gore. The election was eye-catchingly close, but was the third straight election where neither party won a majority of the popular vote.

United States Senate

Main article: 2000 United States Senate elections

The 33 seats in the United States Senate Class 1 were up for election plus one special election. Democrats picked up net of four seats. Six senators were defeated in the November 2000 election. The five defeated Republicans included Spencer Abraham of Michigan, John Ashcroft of Missouri, Slade Gorton of Washington, Rod Grams of Minnesota, and William V. Roth of Delaware. The single defeated Democrat was Charles S. Robb of Virginia.

The Senate elections left both parties with control of fifty Senate seats. In the subsequent 107th United States Congress, Democrats controlled the Senate from January 3, 2001, to January 20, 2001, when Dick Cheney was sworn in as vice president. Republicans maintained control of the chamber until June 6, 2001, when Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party and began caucusing with the Democrats.

United States House of Representatives

Main article: 2000 United States House of Representatives elections

Republicans won the national popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 0.5 points. Republicans lost two seats in the House, while Democrats gained 1 seat and 1 independent, Virgil Goode, was elected. Following the 2000 election, the majority of the House seaters in the South and Midwest were held by the Republican party, while the larger number of seats in the Northeast and West were held by the Democratic party.

State elections

Gubernatorial elections

Main article: 2000 United States gubernatorial elections

One sitting governor was defeated in the November 2000 general election. Cecil H. Underwood, Republican of West Virginia, concluded the 2000 election with a 47.2 election percentage. Democrat Bob Wise was elected to a four-year term.

State legislative elections

Ballot Initiatives

Vote for same-sex marriage ban by counties: ]]

State constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage and civil unions is passed in Nebraska. Nevada passes a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage only, but it doesn't go into effect because the Nevada Constitution requires two ballot votes for citizen-initiated constitutional amendments.

Local elections

Mayoral elections

Some of the major American cities that held their mayoral elections in 2000 included:

San Diego – Superior Court Judge Dick Murphy (R) was elected to a first term as mayor.

References

Republicans briefly lost their Senate majority in January 2001 when the 107th Congress was seated, but they regained their majority that same month when Republican [[Dick Cheney]] was sworn in as vice president. Democrats gained the majority in the Senate in May 2001 after Senator [[Jim Jeffords]] left the Republican Senate Caucus.
Scammon, Richard M., Alice V. McGillivray, and Rhodes Cook. America Votes 24: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics, 2000. Washington, D.C.: CQ, 2001. Print.
"Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 2000". U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk.
Scammon, Richard M., Alice V. McGillivray, and Rhodes Cook. America Votes 24: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics, 2000. Washington, D.C.: CQ, 2001. Print.
"Election Statistics, 1920 to Present". United States House of Representatives.
"2000 Presidential Election". The American Presidency Project.
Scammon, Richard M., Alice V. McGillivray, and Rhodes Cook. America Votes 24: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics, 2000. Washington, D.C.: CQ, 2001. Print.
Scammon, Richard M., Alice V. McGillivray, and Rhodes Cook. America Votes 24: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics, 2000. Washington, D.C.: CQ, 2001. Print.
(November 9, 2000). "San Diego Winner Puts Ethics Panel on Agenda". Los Angeles Times.

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