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2000 United States presidential election in Maryland

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2000 United States presidential election in Maryland

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Nominee Al Gore George W. Bush
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Tennessee Texas
Running mate Joe Lieberman Dick Cheney
Electoral vote 10 0
Popular vote 1,145,782 813,797
Percentage 56.57% 40.18%

County Results

President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

The 2000 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 7, 2000. Maryland participated in the 2000 United States presidential election along with the 49 other U.S. states and Washington, D.C. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for the President and Vice President.

Democratic Vice President Al Gore easily carried Maryland on election day, taking 56.57% of the vote to Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush’s 40.18%. Maryland was the only state where, along with Washington, D.C., Gore improved on Bill Clinton's margin four years earlier[1][2] Gore's strong performance in the most highly-populated counties in the state, which are home to many urban and African American communities, contributed to his victory in the state. Gore flipped Charles County; it was one of only two counties in the country to vote for Gore after having voted for Bob Dole in 1996, the other being Orange County, Florida. This was the first time since 1888 that Maryland gave a majority of the vote to a losing candidate. Bush became the first Republican ever to win the White House without carrying Charles County, as well as the first to do so without carrying Baltimore or Howard Counties since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

In this election, Maryland voted 15.87% to the left of the nation at-large.[3]

Maryland was one of ten states that backed George H. W. Bush for President in 1988 that didn't back George W. Bush in either 2000 or 2004.

Results

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2000 United States presidential election in Maryland
Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Al Gore Joe Lieberman 1,145,782 56.6% 10
Republican George W. Bush Dick Cheney 813,797 40.2% 0
Green Ralph Nader Winona LaDuke 53,768 2.7% 0
Libertarian Harry Browne Wayne Allyn Root 5,310 0.3% 0
Reform Pat Buchanan Ezola Foster 4,248 0.2% 0
Write Ins 1,480 0.1% 0
Constitution Howard Phillips Michael Peroutka 919 0.1% 0
Write In John Hagelin 176 0.0% 0
Totals 2,025,480 100.00% 10
Voter turnout (Voting age/Registered) 51%/74%

Results by county

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County Al Gore
Democratic
George W. Bush
Republican
Ralph Nader
Green
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Allegany 10,894 41.31% 14,656 55.58% 610 2.31% 211 0.80% -3,762 -14.27% 26,371
Anne Arundel 89,624 44.67% 104,209 51.93% 5,493 2.74% 1,331 0.66% -14,585 -7.26% 200,657
Baltimore 160,635 52.83% 133,033 43.75% 8,544 2.81% 1,872 0.62% 27,602 9.08% 304,084
Baltimore City 158,765 82.52% 27,150 14.11% 5,512 2.86% 977 0.51% 131,615 68.41% 192,404
Calvert 12,986 43.57% 16,004 53.69% 660 2.21% 156 0.52% -3,018 -10.12% 29,806
Caroline 3,396 37.94% 5,300 59.20% 198 2.21% 58 0.65% -1,904 -21.26% 8,952
Carroll 20,146 31.46% 41,742 65.19% 1,681 2.63% 458 0.72% -21,596 -33.73% 64,027
Cecil 12,327 42.69% 15,494 53.66% 794 2.75% 261 0.90% -3,167 -10.97% 28,876
Charles 21,873 49.05% 21,768 48.82% 755 1.69% 196 0.44% 105 0.23% 44,592
Dorchester 5,232 45.93% 5,847 51.33% 222 1.95% 91 0.80% -615 -5.40% 11,392
Frederick 30,725 39.06% 45,350 57.65% 2,052 2.61% 534 0.68% -14,625 -18.59% 78,661
Garrett 2,872 26.95% 7,514 70.52% 203 1.91% 66 0.62% -4,642 -43.57% 10,655
Harford 35,665 39.01% 52,862 57.82% 2,298 2.51% 599 0.66% -17,197 -18.81% 91,424
Howard 58,556 51.92% 49,809 44.17% 3,643 3.23% 771 0.68% 8,747 7.75% 112,779
Kent 3,627 44.86% 4,155 51.39% 270 3.34% 33 0.41% -528 -6.53% 8,085
Montgomery 232,453 62.54% 124,580 33.52% 12,485 3.36% 2,170 0.58% 107,873 29.02% 371,688
Prince George's 216,119 79.48% 49,987 18.38% 4,497 1.65% 1,306 0.48% 166,132 61.10% 271,909
Queen Anne's 6,257 37.33% 9,970 59.48% 446 2.66% 88 0.53% -3,713 -22.15% 16,761
Somerset 3,785 49.78% 3,609 47.46% 142 1.87% 68 0.89% 176 2.32% 7,604
St. Mary's 11,912 40.38% 16,856 57.14% 568 1.93% 165 0.56% -4,944 -16.76% 29,501
Talbot 5,854 38.43% 8,874 58.25% 424 2.78% 82 0.54% -3,020 -19.82% 15,234
Washington 18,221 38.38% 27,948 58.88% 1,027 2.16% 274 0.58% -9,727 -20.50% 47,470
Wicomico 14,469 45.51% 16,338 51.39% 762 2.40% 226 0.71% -1,869 -5.88% 31,795
Worcester 9,389 45.24% 10,742 51.76% 482 2.32% 140 0.67% -1,353 -6.52% 20,753
Totals 1,145,782 56.57% 813,797 40.18% 53,768 2.65% 12,133 0.60% 331,985 16.39% 2,025,480

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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Results by congressional district

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Gore won 5 of the state's 8 congressional districts, including one that elected a Republican. [4]

District Gore Bush Representative
1st 44% 53% Wayne Gilchrest
2nd 41% 55% Bob Ehrlich
3rd 63% 34% Ben Cardin
4th 84% 13% Albert Wynn
5th 55% 42% Steny Hoyer
6th 38% 58% Roscoe Bartlett
7th 84% 14% Elijah Cummings
8th 60% 36% Connie Morella

Electors

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Technically the voters of Maryland cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Maryland is allocated 10 electors because it has 8 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 10 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins a plurality of votes in the state is awarded all ten 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[5] 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:[6]

  1. Clarence W. Blount
  2. Gene W. Counihan
  3. Howard Friedman
  4. Mary Ann E. Love
  5. Thomas V. Mike Miller
  6. Mary Butler Murphy
  7. Mary Jo Neville
  8. Gregory Pecoraro
  9. Ina Taylor
  10. Beatrice P. Tignor

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 2000 Presidential General Election Results – Maryland. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  2. ^ There were several other states where Gore scored a higher overall percentage of the vote than Clinton, due to a significant reduction in the third-party vote, as Ross Perot was no longer a candidate.
  3. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  4. ^ "2000 Presidential Election".
  5. ^ 2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events. Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  6. ^ 2000 Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine. President Elect. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.