2000 United States presidential election in Kentucky

2000 United States presidential election in Kentucky
Bush 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90%	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 Kentucky took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the 2000 United States presidential election, which included elections in all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose 8 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Kentucky was won by Governor George W. Bush. He won most of the counties and congressional districts in the state. Bush dominated among the rural areas of the state. The only congressional district Gore won was the third district, which is a part of Jefferson County, Kentucky, the highest populated county in the state. The only other region where Gore performed strongly was in the coal dependent counties in the southeastern part of the state. As of the 2020 presidential election^[update], this is the last election in which Boyd County, Muhlenberg County, Harlan County, Perry County, Letcher County, Ballard County, and Fulton County voted for the Democratic candidate, and also the first in which Wolfe County and Morgan County ever voted for a Republican.^[1]

Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Jefferson County since Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.

Results

United States presidential election in Kentucky, 2000^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	George W. Bush	872,492	56.50%	8
	Democratic	Al Gore	638,898	41.37%	0
	Green Party	Ralph Nader	23,192	1.50%	0
	Reform	Patrick Buchanan	4,173	0.27%	0
	Libertarian	Harry Browne	2,896	0.19%	0
	Natural Law	John Hagelin	1,533	0.10%	0
	Independent	Howard Phillips	1,145	0.07%	0
Totals			1,544,329	100.00%	6
Voter turnout (Voting age/registered)					51%/60%

By county

County	Al Gore		George W. Bush		Other		Margin		Total
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total
Adair	1,779	24.28%	5,460	74.51%	89	1.21%	3,681	50.23%	7,328
Allen	1,950	30.33%	4,415	68.67%	64	1.00%	2,465	38.34%	6,429
Anderson	2,902	36.43%	4,909	61.62%	156	1.96%	2,007	25.19%	7,967
Ballard	1,880	49.88%	1,824	48.39%	65	1.72%	-56	-1.49%	3,769
Barren	4,930	35.61%	8,741	63.14%	173	1.25%	3,811	27.53%	13,844
Bath	2,087	46.66%	2,303	51.49%	83	1.86%	216	4.83%	4,473
Bell	4,787	45.11%	5,585	52.63%	239	2.25%	798	7.52%	10,611
Boone	9,248	28.91%	22,016	68.83%	720	2.25%	12,768	39.92%	31,984
Bourbon	3,048	42.92%	3,881	54.65%	173	2.44%	833	11.73%	7,102
Boyd	9,541	49.74%	9,247	48.21%	394	2.05%	-294	-1.53%	19,182
Boyle	3,963	38.38%	6,126	59.33%	237	2.30%	2,163	20.95%	10,326
Bracken	888	29.41%	2,065	68.40%	66	2.19%	1,177	38.99%	3,019
Breathitt	2,902	57.20%	2,084	41.08%	87	1.71%	-818	-16.12%	5,073
Breckinridge	2,595	34.82%	4,763	63.91%	95	1.27%	2,168	29.09%	7,453
Bullitt	8,195	36.13%	14,054	61.97%	430	1.90%	5,859	25.83%	22,679
Butler	1,299	25.93%	3,654	72.93%	57	1.14%	2,355	47.01%	5,010
Caldwell	2,223	40.55%	3,161	57.66%	98	1.79%	938	17.11%	5,482
Calloway	5,635	41.21%	7,705	56.35%	333	2.44%	2,070	15.14%	13,673
Campbell	12,040	35.61%	20,789	61.49%	980	2.90%	8,749	25.88%	33,809
Carlisle	1,149	44.31%	1,405	54.18%	39	1.50%	256	9.87%	2,593
Carroll	1,601	45.76%	1,818	51.96%	80	2.29%	217	6.20%	3,499
Carter	4,182	46.68%	4,617	51.53%	160	1.79%	435	4.86%	8,959
Casey	1,122	20.52%	4,284	78.33%	63	1.15%	3,162	57.82%	5,469
Christian	6,778	38.14%	10,787	60.69%	208	1.17%	4,009	22.56%	17,773
Clark	4,918	39.52%	7,297	58.64%	228	1.83%	2,379	19.12%	12,443
Clay	1,723	25.64%	4,926	73.31%	70	1.04%	3,203	47.67%	6,719
Clinton	1,032	23.97%	3,224	74.89%	49	1.14%	2,192	50.92%	4,305
Crittenden	1,610	38.76%	2,469	59.44%	75	1.81%	859	20.68%	4,154
Cumberland	736	24.48%	2,220	73.85%	50	1.66%	1,484	49.37%	3,006
Daviess	14,126	38.98%	21,361	58.94%	753	2.08%	7,235	19.96%	36,240
Edmonson	1,710	34.23%	3,250	65.07%	35	0.70%	1,540	30.83%	4,995
Elliott	1,525	64.05%	827	34.73%	29	1.22%	-698	-29.32%	2,381
Estill	1,591	33.78%	3,033	64.39%	86	1.83%	1,442	30.62%	4,710
Fayette	47,277	44.82%	54,495	51.67%	3,703	3.51%	7,218	6.84%	105,475
Fleming	1,813	35.01%	3,282	63.37%	84	1.62%	1,469	28.36%	5,179
Floyd	10,088	65.53%	5,068	32.92%	238	1.55%	-5,020	-32.61%	15,394
Franklin	10,853	50.12%	10,209	47.15%	592	2.73%	-644	-2.97%	21,654
Fulton	1,452	52.08%	1,293	46.38%	43	1.54%	-159	-5.70%	2,788
Gallatin	1,049	42.66%	1,345	54.70%	65	2.64%	296	12.04%	2,459
Garrard	1,713	29.42%	4,043	69.43%	67	1.15%	2,330	40.01%	5,823
Grant	2,568	36.15%	4,405	62.02%	130	1.83%	1,837	25.86%	7,103
Graves	6,097	42.84%	7,849	55.15%	285	2.00%	1,752	12.31%	14,231
Grayson	2,604	30.45%	5,843	68.33%	104	1.22%	3,239	37.88%	8,551
Green	1,085	22.81%	3,615	76.01%	56	1.18%	2,530	53.20%	4,756
Greenup	7,164	48.86%	7,233	49.33%	266	1.81%	69	0.47%	14,663
Hancock	1,508	41.77%	2,032	56.29%	70	1.94%	524	14.52%	3,610
Hardin	11,095	36.15%	18,964	61.79%	631	2.06%	7,869	25.64%	30,690
Harlan	5,365	50.93%	4,980	47.27%	190	1.80%	-385	-3.65%	10,535
Harrison	2,658	40.21%	3,793	57.37%	160	2.42%	1,135	17.17%	6,611
Hart	2,201	36.57%	3,725	61.89%	93	1.55%	1,524	25.32%	6,019
Henderson	8,054	50.22%	7,698	48.00%	287	1.79%	-356	-2.22%	16,039
Henry	2,117	38.68%	3,244	59.27%	112	2.05%	1,127	20.59%	5,473
Hickman	940	44.26%	1,151	54.19%	33	1.55%	211	9.93%	2,124
Hopkins	6,734	40.84%	9,490	57.55%	265	1.61%	2,756	16.71%	16,489
Jackson	701	14.44%	4,079	84.02%	75	1.54%	3,378	69.58%	4,855
Jefferson	149,901	49.58%	145,052	47.97%	7,408	2.45%	-4,849	-1.60%	302,361
Jessamine	4,633	30.76%	10,074	66.89%	354	2.35%	5,441	36.13%	15,061
Johnson	3,251	39.74%	4,783	58.47%	146	1.78%	1,532	18.73%	8,180
Kenton	19,100	33.97%	35,363	62.90%	1,760	3.13%	16,263	28.93%	56,223
Knott	4,349	67.34%	2,029	31.42%	80	1.24%	-2,320	-35.92%	6,458
Knox	3,690	37.24%	6,058	61.13%	162	1.63%	2,368	23.90%	9,910
LaRue	1,727	33.35%	3,384	65.34%	68	1.31%	1,657	31.99%	5,179
Laurel	4,856	26.80%	13,029	71.90%	235	1.30%	8,173	45.10%	18,120
Lawrence	2,258	42.55%	2,969	55.94%	80	1.51%	711	13.40%	5,307
Lee	836	30.25%	1,893	68.49%	35	1.27%	1,057	38.24%	2,764
Leslie	1,210	27.29%	3,159	71.24%	65	1.47%	1,949	43.96%	4,434
Letcher	4,698	52.29%	4,092	45.54%	195	2.17%	-606	6.74%	8,985
Lewis	1,293	28.31%	3,217	70.42%	58	1.27%	1,924	42.12%	4,568
Lincoln	2,678	35.25%	4,795	63.12%	124	1.63%	2,117	27.87%	7,597
Livingston	2,022	47.80%	2,118	50.07%	90	2.13%	96	2.27%	4,230
Logan	3,885	41.63%	5,344	57.27%	103	1.10%	1,459	15.63%	9,332
Lyon	1,680	49.12%	1,688	49.36%	52	1.52%	8	0.23%	3,420
McCracken	11,412	42.76%	14,745	55.25%	532	1.99%	3,333	12.49%	26,689
McCreary	1,418	29.55%	3,321	69.20%	60	1.25%	1,903	39.65%	4,799
McLean	1,747	43.44%	2,219	55.17%	56	1.39%	472	11.74%	4,022
Madison	9,309	39.33%	13,682	57.81%	675	2.85%	4,373	18.48%	23,666
Magoffin	2,603	47.74%	2,785	51.07%	65	1.19%	182	3.34%	5,453
Marion	2,778	44.98%	3,259	52.77%	139	2.25%	481	7.79%	6,176
Marshall	6,203	45.08%	7,294	53.00%	264	1.92%	1,091	7.93%	13,761
Martin	1,714	38.46%	2,667	59.85%	75	1.68%	953	21.39%	4,456
Mason	2,178	37.08%	3,572	60.82%	123	2.09%	1,394	23.74%	5,873
Meade	3,596	39.64%	5,319	58.64%	156	1.72%	1,723	18.99%	9,071
Menifee	1,038	46.15%	1,170	52.02%	41	1.82%	132	5.87%	2,249
Mercer	3,092	35.82%	5,362	62.12%	178	2.06%	2,270	26.30%	8,632
Metcalfe	1,318	34.24%	2,476	64.33%	55	1.43%	1,158	30.09%	3,849
Monroe	1,158	20.79%	4,377	78.60%	34	0.61%	3,219	57.80%	5,569
Montgomery	3,833	44.99%	4,534	53.22%	152	1.78%	701	8.23%	8,519
Morgan	1,875	44.22%	2,295	54.13%	70	1.65%	420	9.91%	4,240
Muhlenberg	6,295	52.65%	5,518	46.15%	143	1.20%	-777	-6.50%	11,956
Nelson	5,481	40.64%	7,714	57.19%	293	2.17%	2,233	16.56%	13,488
Nicholas	994	37.19%	1,613	60.34%	66	2.47%	619	23.16%	2,673
Ohio	3,303	37.19%	5,413	60.94%	166	1.87%	2,110	23.76%	8,882
Oldham	6,236	30.77%	13,580	67.00%	452	2.23%	7,344	36.23%	20,268
Owen	1,394	34.25%	2,582	63.44%	94	2.31%	1,188	29.19%	4,070
Owsley	339	18.57%	1,466	80.28%	21	1.15%	1,127	61.72%	1,826
Pendleton	1,670	34.77%	3,044	63.38%	89	1.85%	1,374	28.61%	4,803
Perry	5,514	50.15%	5,300	48.20%	182	1.66%	-214	-1.95%	10,996
Pike	13,611	54.59%	11,005	44.13%	319	1.28%	-2,606	-10.45%	24,935
Powell	2,008	46.17%	2,258	51.92%	83	1.91%	250	5.75%	4,349
Pulaski	5,415	25.14%	15,845	73.56%	281	1.30%	10,430	48.42%	21,541
Robertson	341	34.17%	630	63.13%	27	2.71%	289	28.96%	998
Rockcastle	1,174	22.37%	3,992	76.08%	81	1.54%	2,818	53.71%	5,247
Rowan	3,505	48.51%	3,546	49.07%	175	2.42%	41	0.57%	7,226
Russell	1,710	24.17%	5,268	74.47%	96	1.36%	3,558	50.30%	7,074
Scott	5,472	39.69%	7,952	57.68%	362	2.63%	2,480	17.99%	13,786
Shelby	4,435	34.82%	8,068	63.34%	235	1.84%	3,633	28.52%	12,738
Simpson	2,583	44.35%	3,169	54.41%	72	1.24%	586	10.06%	5,824
Spencer	1,554	32.56%	3,150	66.01%	68	1.42%	1,596	33.45%	4,772
Taylor	2,790	30.83%	6,151	67.96%	110	1.22%	3,361	37.13%	9,051
Todd	1,496	35.73%	2,646	63.20%	45	1.07%	1,150	27.47%	4,187
Trigg	2,110	39.48%	3,130	58.57%	104	1.95%	1,020	19.09%	5,344
Trimble	1,181	38.33%	1,837	59.62%	63	2.04%	656	21.29%	3,081
Union	2,547	47.45%	2,749	51.21%	72	1.34%	202	3.76%	5,368
Warren	12,180	36.94%	20,235	61.36%	560	1.70%	8,055	24.43%	32,975
Washington	1,458	31.78%	3,044	66.35%	86	1.87%	1,586	34.57%	4,588
Wayne	2,312	35.71%	4,069	62.85%	93	1.44%	1,757	27.14%	6,474
Webster	2,388	47.08%	2,599	51.24%	85	1.68%	211	4.16%	5,072
Whitley	4,101	34.83%	7,502	63.72%	171	1.45%	3,401	28.89%	11,774
Wolfe	1,136	46.85%	1,267	52.25%	22	0.91%	131	5.40%	2,425
Woodford	3,995	39.41%	5,890	58.10%	252	2.49%	1,895	18.69%	10,137
Total	638,898	41.38%	872,492	56.51%	32,671	2.12%	233,594	15.13%	1,544,061

By congressional district

Bush won 5 of 6 congressional districts.

District	Bush	Gore	Representative
1st	58%	41%	Ed Whitfield
2nd	62%	36%	Ron Lewis
3rd	46%	51%	Anne Northup
4th	61%	37%	Ken Lucas
5th	57%	42%	Hal Rogers
6th	56%	42%	Ernie Fletcher

Electors

Technically the voters of Kentucky cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Kentucky is allocated 8 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^[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 George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:^[4]

George S. Beard
William S. Farish Jr
Robert B. Fearing
Connie S. Hayes
G. Richard Noss Jr.
A. Douglas Reece
Michael A. Shea
Larry Joe Walden

References

^ "The Political Graveyard: Wolfe County, Ky". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
^ "2000 Presidential General Election Results - Kentucky".
^ "2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events".
^ "President Elect - 2000". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2009-10-25.

[1] "The Political Graveyard: Wolfe County, Ky". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved 2020-06-21.

[2] "2000 Presidential General Election Results - Kentucky".

[3] "2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events".

[4] "President Elect - 2000". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2009-10-25.

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