2000 United States presidential election in New York

The 2000 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 2000 as part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 33 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

2000 United States presidential election in New York

November 7, 2000
Turnout	60.7%
Nominee Al Gore George W. Bush Party Democratic Republican Alliance Parties Liberal Working Families Conservative Home state Tennessee Texas Running mate Joe Lieberman Dick Cheney Electoral vote 33 0 Popular vote 4,113,791 2,405,676 Percentage 60.22% 35.22%
County Results Gore   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%   70-80%   80-90% Bush   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%
President before election Bill Clinton Democratic Elected President George W. Bush Republican

New York was won by the Incumbent Democratic Vice President of the United States Al Gore in a landslide victory; Gore received 60.22% of the vote to Republican George W. Bush's 35.22%, a Democratic victory margin of 25.00%. This marked the first time since 1964 that a Democratic presidential candidate won more than 60% of the vote in New York State, and only the second time in history, solidifying New York's status as a solid blue state in the 21st century. New York weighed in as about 25% more Democratic than the national average in the 2000 election.

The key to Gore's victory was wide margins of victory in greater New York City and Long Island. He did win some counties in upstate New York, but won with small margins, except for Albany County, which voted almost exactly the same as the statewide results. Since third-party candidates received over 4% of the vote, Bush did very poorly, although he won a majority of the counties in upstate New York, including his largest victory in small and rural Hamilton County. Bush won just four congressional districts, the 22nd, 23rd, 27th, and 31st districts. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the Democratic candidate won Montgomery County.

Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Nassau County since the county's founding in 1899, the first to do so without carrying Westchester County since Benjamin Harrison in 1888, and the first to do so without carrying Suffolk County since Rutherford Hayes in 1876.

Democratic primary

Polling

Source	Date	Al Gore	Bill Bradley
Quinnipiac	July 1, 1999	52%	34%
Quinnipiac	August 2, 1999	47%	38%
Quinnipiac	September 15, 1999	42%	40%
Quinnipiac	October 3, 1999	41%	44%
Quinnipiac	November 11, 1999	38%	47%
Quinnipiac	December 14, 1999	42%	39%
Quinnipiac	January 19, 2000	44%	39%
Quinnipiac	February 10, 2000	56%	32%
Quinnipiac	March 1, 2000	59%	33%
Quinnipiac	March 6, 2000	60%	32%

Republican primary

Polling

Source	Date	Lamar Alexander	Gary Bauer	Patrick Buchanan	George W. Bush	Elizabeth Dole	Steve Forbes	Orrin Hatch	John Kasich	Alan Keyes	John McCain	Dan Quayle	Bob Smith
Quinnipiac	July 1, 1999	6%	1%	1%	56%	13%	3%	-	2%	-	7%	2%	1%
Quinnipiac	November 11, 1999	-	2%	-	56%	-	8%	2%	-	1%	17%	-	-
Quinnipiac	December 14, 1999	-	2%	-	49%	-	7%	1%	-	1%	24%	-	-
Quinnipiac	January 19, 2000	-	1%	-	47%	-	5%	2%	-	2%	28%	-	-
Quinnipiac	February 10, 2000	-	-	-	44%	-	4%	-	-	4%	37%	-	-
Quinnipiac	March 1, 2000	-	-	-	40%	-	-	-	-	4%	47%	-	-
Quinnipiac	March 6, 2000	-	-	-	48%	-	-	-	-	7%	39%	-	-

General election

Polling

Source	Date	Al Gore (D)	George W. Bush (R)	Patrick Buchanan (Ref)	Ralph Nader (G)
Quinnipiac	February 24, 1999	49%	40%	-	-
Quinnipiac	March 24, 1999	47%	42%	-	-
Quinnipiac	July 1, 1999	44%	45%	-	-
Quinnipiac	August 2, 1999	45%	43%	-	-
Quinnipiac	September 15, 1999	46%	43%	-	-
Quinnipiac	October 3, 1999	43%	41%	-	-
Quinnipiac	November 11, 1999	47%	43%	-	-
Quinnipiac	December 14, 1999	47%	39%	-	-
Quinnipiac	January 19, 2000	47%	39%	-	-
Quinnipiac	February 10, 2000	53%	37%	-	-
Quinnipiac	March 1, 2000	53%	36%	-	-
Quinnipiac	April 6, 2000	52%	34%	4%	-
Quinnipiac	May 2, 2000	50%	34%	4%	-
Quinnipiac	July 13, 2000	45%	35%	2%	7%
Quinnipiac	August 10, 2000	42%	38%	1%	6%
Quinnipiac	September 13, 2000	56%	29%	2%	6%
Quinnipiac	September 28, 2000	54%	34%	1%	6%
Quinnipiac	November 6, 2000	55%	34%	1%	6%

Source	Date	Bill Bradley (D)	George W. Bush (R)
Quinnipiac	February 24, 1999	41%	38%
Quinnipiac	March 24, 1999	45%	39%
Quinnipiac	July 1, 1999	43%	44%
Quinnipiac	August 2, 1999	46%	39%
Quinnipiac	September 15, 1999	47%	37%
Quinnipiac	October 3, 1999	51%	32%
Quinnipiac	November 11, 1999	52%	35%
Quinnipiac	December 14, 1999	50%	35%
Quinnipiac	January 19, 2000	52%	35%
Quinnipiac	February 10, 2000	53%	34%
Quinnipiac	March 1, 2000	51%	35%

Source	Date	Al Gore (D)	Elizabeth Dole (R)
Quinnipiac	February 24, 1999	50%	37%
Quinnipiac	March 24, 1999	49%	38%
Quinnipiac	July 1, 1999	50%	37%

Source	Date	Bill Bradley (D)	Elizabeth Dole (R)
Quinnipiac	February 24, 1999	46%	34%
Quinnipiac	March 24, 1999	47%	35%
Quinnipiac	July 1, 1999	50%	35%

Source	Date	Al Gore (D)	John McCain (R)
Quinnipiac	November 11, 1999	49%	35%
Quinnipiac	December 14, 1999	45%	39%
Quinnipiac	January 19, 2000	47%	38%
Quinnipiac	February 10, 2000	46%	42%
Quinnipiac	March 1, 2000	44%	43%

Source	Date	Bill Bradley (D)	John McCain (R)
Quinnipiac	November 11, 1999	55%	23%
Quinnipiac	December 14, 1999	48%	29%
Quinnipiac	January 19, 2000	49%	29%
Quinnipiac	February 10, 2000	43%	40%
Quinnipiac	March 1, 2000	39%	44%

Results

2000 United States presidential election in New York[1]
Party		Candidate	Popular votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Al Gore	3,942,215	57.78%
	Working Families	Al Gore	88,395	1.30%
	Liberal	Al Gore	77,087	1.13%
	Total	Albert A. Gore Jr. and Joe Lieberman	4,113,791	60.22%	33
	Republican	George W. Bush	2,258,577	33.10%
	Conservative	George W. Bush	144,797	2.12%
	Total	George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney	2,405,676	35.22%	0
	Green	Ralph Nader	244,398	3.58%	0
	Right to Life	Pat Buchanan	25,175	0.37%
	Reform	Pat Buchanan	6,424	0.09%
	Total	Pat Buchanan	31,659	0.46%	0
	Independence (a)	John Hagelin	24,369	0.36%	0
	Libertarian	Harry Browne	7,718	0.11%	0
	Constitution	Howard Phillips	1,503	0.02%	0
	Socialist Workers	James Harris	1,450	0.02%	0
	Others	-	614	0.01%	0
-		Totals	6,831,178	100.00%	33
Voter turnout (Registered)					60.70%

(a) John Hagelin was then nominee of the Natural Law Party nationally.

Results breakdown

By congressional district

Gore won 27 of 31 congressional districts, including 8 that were won by a Republican in the 2000 House of Representatives elections: the 1st, 3rd, 13th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, and 30th congressional districts, respectively.[2]

District	Bush	Gore	Representative
1st	43%	53%	Michael Forbes
			Felix Grucci
2nd	40%	56%	Rick Lazio
			Steve Israel
3rd	42%	55%	Peter T. King
4th	38%	59%	Carolyn McCarthy
5th	35%	62%	Gary Ackerman
6th	11%	88%	Gregory W. Meeks
7th	25%	71%	Joseph Crowley
8th	17%	77%	Jerrold Nadler
9th	29%	68%	Anthony D. Weiner
10th	7%	90%	Edolphus Towns
11th	7%	89%	Major Owens
12th	13%	81%	Nydia Velasquez
13th	44%	53%	Vito Fossella
14th	23%	71%	Carolyn B. Maloney
15th	6%	90%	Charlie Rangel
16th	6%	93%	Jose Serrano
17th	11%	87%	Eliot L. Engel
18th	37%	60%	Nita Lowey
19th	45%	50%	Sue W. Kelly
20th	42%	54%	Benjamin Gilman
21st	37%	57%	Michael R. McNulty
22nd	50%	44%	John E. Sweeney
23rd	50%	45%	Sherwood Boehlert
24th	48%	48%	John M. McHugh
25th	42%	53%	James T. Walsh
26th	42%	51%	Maurice Hinchey
27th	53%	42%	Thomas M. Reynolds
28th	42%	53%	Louise Slaughter
29th	43%	52%	John J. LaFalce
30th	35%	60%	Jack Quinn
31st	53%	42%	Amo Houghton

By county

County	Gore%	Gore#	Bush%	Bush#	Others%	Others#	Total
Albany	60.31%	85,617	33.55%	47,624	6.15%	8,728	141,969
Allegany	33.90%	6,336	61.19%	11,436	4.91%	917	18,689
Bronx	86.29%	265,801	11.77%	36,245	1.96%	6,002	308,048
Broome	52.12%	45,381	42.44%	36.946	5.44%	4,736	87,063
Cattaraugus	40.60%	13,697	54.49%	18,382	4.90%	1,654	33,733
Cayuga	50.12%	17,031	44.31%	14,988	5.77%	1,959	33,978
Chautauqua	46.01%	27,016	49.50%	29,064	4.50%	2,640	58,720
Chemung	46.21%	17,424	49.80%	18,779	4.00%	1,507	37,710
Chenango	45.00%	9,112	49.95%	10,033	5.46%	1,105	20,250
Clinton	50.87%	15,542	43.44%	13,274	5.69%	1,739	30,555
Columbia	47.01%	13,489	45.84%	13,153	7.14%	2,049	28,691
Cortland	46.76%	9,691	47.56%	9,857	5.67%	1,175	20,723
Delaware	41.88%	8,450	52.85%	10,662	5.27%	1,063	20,175
Dutchess	46.88%	52,390	47.13%	52,669	6.00%	6,703	111,762
Erie	56.55%	240,176	37.72%	160,176	5.72%	24,302	424,654
Essex	44.21%	7,927	49.20%	8,822	6.58%	1,180	17,932
Franklin	50.84%	8,870	43.81%	7,643	5.35%	934	17,447
Fulton	42.98%	9,314	52.76%	11,434	4.26%	923	21,671
Genesee	39.09%	10,191	55.46%	14.459	5.44%	1,419	26,069
Greene	40.20%	8,480	53.72%	11,332	6.10%	1,286	21,094
Hamilton	30.26%	1,114	64.86%	2,388	4.89%	180	3,682
Herkimer	44.12%	12,224	51.06%	14,147	4.82%	1,334	27,705
Jefferson	46.12%	16,799	49.95%	18,192	3.92%	1,427	36,418
Kings	80.61%	497,468	15.65%	96,605	3.73%	23,032	617,105
Lewis	39.67%	4,333	55.87%	6,103	4.56%	497	10,923
Livingston	38.48%	10,476	56.00%	15,244	5.52%	1,503	27,223
Madison	42.36%	12,017	52.45%	14,879	5.18%	1,470	28,366
Monroe	50.90%	161,743	44.46%	141,266	4.64%	14,743	317,762
Montgomery	49.15%	10,249	46.93%	9,765	3.82%	795	20,809
Nassau	57.93%	341,610	38.49%	226,954	3.59%	21,143	589,707
New York	79.77%	449,300	14.18%	79,921	6.04%	34,011	563,232
Niagara	51.24%	47,781	43.91%	40,952	4.85%	4,524	93,257
Oneida	45.77%	43,933	47.57%	47,603	4.65%	4,460	95,996
Onondaga	53.97%	109,896	41.00%	83,678	4.94%	10,055	203,629
Ontario	43.00%	19,761	51.98%	23,885	5.01%	2,302	45,948
Orange	45.97%	58,170	49.07%	62,852	4.37%	5,527	126,549
Orleans	37.81%	5,991	58.08%	9,202	4.10%	650	15,843
Oswego	47.15%	22,857	47.96%	23,249	4.88%	2,367	48,473
Otsego	45.19%	11,460	48.19%	12,219	6.62%	1,679	25,358
Putnam	43.54%	18,525	51.36%	21,853	5.10%	2,169	42,547
Queens	75.00%	416,967	21.95%	122,052	3.04%	16,911	555,930
Rensselaer	50.86%	34,808	43.20%	29,562	5.94%	4,066	68,436
Richmond	51.94%	73,828	44.96%	63,903	3.09%	4,390	142,121
Rockland	56.72%	69,530	39.52%	48,441	3.76%	4,609	122,580
Saratoga	45.61%	43,359	49.05	46,623	5.33%	5,075	95,057
Schenectady	53.08%	35,534	41.77%	27,961	5.15%	3,451	66,946
Schoharie	39.78%	5,390	55.06%	7,459	5.16%	6.99	13,548
Schuyler	40.49%	3,301	53.73%	4,381	5.78%	471	8,153
Seneca	47.73%	6,841	46.98%	6,734	5.29%	758	14,333
St. Lawrence	53.76%	21,386	41.35%	16,449	4.89%	1,944	39,779
Steuben	35.99%	14,600	59.66%	'24,200	4.35%	1,763	40,563
Suffolk	53.38%	306,306	41.99%	240,992	4.63%	26,568	573,866
Sullivan	50.30%	14,348	44.53%	12,703	5.16%	1,473	28,524
Tioga	40.84%	9,170	54.57%	12,239	4.65%	1,045	22,454
Tompkins	54.44%	21,807	33.33%	13,351	12.23	4,902	40,058
Ulster	48.78%	38,162	42.76%	33,447	8.45%	6,616	78,225
Warren	42.60%	12,193	52.38%	14,993	5.01%	1,435	28,621
Washington	40.93%	9,641	53.47%	12,596	5.59%	1,318	23,555
Wayne	39.07%	14,977	56.62%	21,701	4.31%	1,651	38,329
Westchester	58.64%	218,064	37.46%	139,278	3.90%	24,487	371,775
Wyoming	33.67%	5,935	61.32%	10,809	5.01%	883	17,627
Yates	39.42%	3,962	55.36%	5,565	5.22%	525	10,052

Geographic Breakdown

Al Gore won an overwhelming landslide in fiercely Democratic New York City, taking 1,703,364 votes to George W. Bush's 398,726, a 77.90% - 18.23% victory. Gore carried all 5 boroughs of New York City.

Excluding New York City's votes, Gore still would have carried New York State, but by a smaller margin, receiving 2,404,543 votes to Bush's 2,004,648, giving Gore a 54.53% - 45.47% win.

Electors

Technically the voters of New York cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. New York is allocated 33 electors because it has 31 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 33 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 33 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[3] 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 Gore and Lieberman:[4]

1. Susan I. Abramowitz
2. Leslie Alpert
3. Martin S. Begun
4. David L. Cohen
5. Carolee A. Conklin
6. Martin Connor
7. Lorraine Cortez Vasquez
8. Inez E. Dickens
9. Cynthia Emmer
10. Herman D. Farrell Jr.
11. Emily Giske
12. Patrick G. Halpin
13. Raymond B. Harding
14. Judith Hope
15. Denis M. Hughes
16. Virginia Kee
17. Bertha Lewis
18. Alberta Madonna
19. Thomas J. Manton
20. Deborah Marciano
21. Helen Marshall
22. Carl McCall
23. Elizabeth F. Momrow
24. Clarence Norman Jr.
25. Daniel F. Donohue
26. Shirley O'Connell
27. G. Steven Pigeon
28. Roberto Ramirez
29. Michael Schell
30. Sheldon Silver
31. Andrew Spano
32. Eliot Spitzer
33. Randi Weingarten

See also

• United States presidential elections in New York
• Presidency of George W. Bush

References

1. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2000 - New York". Retrieved 2013-01-07.
2. https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=2000&fips=36&f=0&off=0&elect=0&datatype=cd&def=1
3. "2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events". www.uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
4. "President Elect - 2000". presidentelect.org. Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2018.