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Elections to state legislatures were held on November 7, 2000, simultaneously with the 2000 United States presidential election. Elections were held for 86 legislative chambers in 44 states, simultaneous to those states' gubernatorial elections. [ 9 ]
Because the 2000 presidential election was so close in Florida, the federal government and state governments pushed for election reform to be prepared by the 2004 presidential election. Many of Florida's 2000 election night problems stemmed from usability and ballot design factors with voting systems, including the potentially confusing ...
If Gore had won the recount, then he would have won the election with a total of 292 electoral votes, and Bush would have lost with 246 electoral votes. 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 ...
The 2000 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 7, 2000, to elect U.S. Representatives to serve in the 107th United States Congress. They coincided with the election of George W. Bush as President of the United States. The Republican Party won 221 seats, while the Democratic Party won 212 and independents won two ...
As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Monmouth County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. [ 5 ] Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Bergen County , Burlington County, or Monmouth County, as well as the state of New Jersey since Benjamin Harrison in 1888 .
New Hampshire would play a pivotal role in the outcome of the 2000 presidential election as George W. Bush defeated Al Gore in New Hampshire by a narrow 1.27% (or a raw-vote margin of 7,211 votes), in the midst of one of the closest elections in US history. Had Gore won the state, New Hampshire's electoral college votes would have swung the ...
The State of Washington was considered a competitive swing state in 2000, and both campaigns sent advertisements into the state. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On election day, Gore won the state with a margin of 5.6%. Gore's best performance in the state was in King County , also the largest populated county, which he won with 60% of the vote.
The 2000 United States presidential election in Connecticut 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. Connecticut was won by Vice President Al Gore by a 17.5% margin of victory.