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2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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Nominee George W. Bush Al Gore
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Tennessee
Running mate Dick Cheney Joe Lieberman
Electoral vote 8 0
Popular vote 744,337 474,276
Percentage 60.31% 38.43%


President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

The 2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma 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.

Oklahoma was won by the Republican Party candidate, Texas Governor George W. Bush with a 21.88% margin of victory. This is the last time that the Republican presidential nominee failed to win all 77 counties in Oklahoma; as a result, this is the last time the Democratic nominee won the following counties: Ottawa, Cherokee, Muskogee, Okmulgee, McIntosh, Hughes, Haskell, Latimer, and Choctaw. This was also the last time until 2016 that any third-party candidates were granted ballot access in Oklahoma and the last time until 2020 that any county was won by only a plurality.

Primaries

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Democratic

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2000 Oklahoma Democratic presidential primary[1]
Candidate Votes % Delegates[2]
Al Gore 92,654 68.71 38
Bill Bradley 34,311 25.44 7
Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. 7,885 5.85
Total 134,850 100% 45

Results

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2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma[3]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican George W. Bush 744,337 60.31% 8
Democratic Al Gore 474,276 38.43% 0
Reform Pat Buchanan 9,014 0.73% 0
Libertarian Harry Browne 6,602 0.53% 0

By county

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County George W. Bush
Republican
Al Gore
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total
# % # % # % # %
Adair 3,503 58.61% 2,361 39.50% 113 1.89% 1,142 19.11% 5,977
Alfalfa 1,886 75.23% 583 23.25% 38 1.52% 1,303 51.98% 2,507
Atoka 2,375 54.93% 1,906 44.08% 43 0.99% 469 10.85% 4,324
Beaver 2,092 85.18% 339 13.80% 25 1.02% 1,753 71.38% 2,456
Beckham 4,067 62.26% 2,408 36.86% 57 0.87% 1,659 25.40% 6,532
Blaine 2,633 64.31% 1,402 34.25% 59 1.44% 1,231 30.06% 4,094
Bryan 6,084 51.80% 5,554 47.28% 108 0.92% 530 4.52% 11,746
Caddo 4,835 52.50% 4,272 46.38% 103 1.12% 563 6.12% 9,210
Canadian 22,679 72.32% 8,367 26.68% 314 1.00% 14,312 45.64% 31,360
Carter 9,667 58.74% 6,659 40.46% 132 0.80% 3,008 18.28% 16,458
Cherokee 6,918 47.82% 7,256 50.15% 294 2.03% -338 -2.33% 14,468
Choctaw 2,461 46.30% 2,799 52.66% 55 1.03% -338 -6.36% 5,315
Cimarron 1,230 82.88% 227 15.30% 27 1.82% 1,003 67.58% 1,484
Cleveland 47,393 62.22% 27,792 36.49% 986 1.29% 19,601 25.73% 76,171
Coal 1,196 50.64% 1,148 48.60% 18 0.76% 48 2.04% 2,362
Comanche 17,103 58.31% 11,971 40.81% 259 0.88% 5,132 17.50% 29,333
Cotton 1,388 55.92% 1,068 43.03% 26 1.05% 320 12.89% 2,482
Craig 2,815 51.33% 2,568 46.83% 101 1.84% 247 4.50% 5,484
Creek 13,580 57.20% 9,753 41.08% 408 1.72% 3,827 16.12% 23,741
Custer 6,527 66.99% 3,115 31.97% 101 1.04% 3,412 35.02% 9,743
Delaware 7,618 57.05% 5,514 41.29% 221 1.66% 2,104 15.76% 13,353
Dewey 1,607 72.39% 599 26.98% 14 0.63% 1,008 45.41% 2,220
Ellis 1,513 75.16% 468 23.25% 32 1.59% 1,045 51.91% 2,013
Garfield 14,902 68.73% 6,543 30.18% 238 1.10% 8,359 38.55% 21,683
Garvin 5,536 56.24% 4,189 42.56% 118 1.20% 1,347 13.68% 9,843
Grady 10,040 61.69% 6,037 37.09% 199 1.22% 4,003 24.60% 16,276
Grant 1,762 70.40% 709 28.33% 32 1.28% 1,053 42.07% 2,503
Greer 1,287 59.80% 839 38.99% 26 1.21% 448 20.81% 2,152
Harmon 692 57.43% 507 42.07% 6 0.50% 185 15.36% 1,205
Harper 1,296 77.01% 374 22.22% 13 0.77% 922 54.79% 1,683
Haskell 2,039 44.06% 2,510 54.24% 79 1.71% -471 -10.18% 4,628
Hughes 2,196 47.90% 2,334 50.91% 55 1.20% -138 -3.01% 4,585
Jackson 5,591 68.53% 2,515 30.82% 53 0.65% 3,076 37.71% 8,159
Jefferson 1,320 50.91% 1,245 48.01% 28 1.08% 75 2.90% 2,593
Johnston 2,072 52.72% 1,809 46.03% 49 1.25% 263 6.69% 3,930
Kay 11,768 64.79% 6,122 33.71% 272 1.50% 5,646 31.08% 18,162
Kingfisher 4,693 77.49% 1,304 21.53% 59 0.97% 3,389 55.96% 6,056
Kiowa 2,173 57.95% 1,544 41.17% 33 0.88% 629 16.78% 3,750
Latimer 1,739 47.40% 1,865 50.83% 65 1.77% -126 -3.43% 3,669
Le Flore 8,215 54.82% 6,536 43.62% 234 1.56% 1,679 11.20% 14,985
Lincoln 7,387 63.13% 4,140 35.38% 174 1.49% 3,247 27.25% 11,701
Logan 8,187 63.61% 4,510 35.04% 173 1.34% 3,677 28.57% 12,870
Love 1,807 53.59% 1,530 45.37% 35 1.04% 277 8.22% 3,372
McClain 6,750 64.05% 3,679 34.91% 110 1.04% 3,071 29.14% 10,539
McCurtain 6,601 62.97% 3,752 35.79% 129 1.23% 2,849 27.18% 10,482
McIntosh 3,444 44.26% 4,206 54.05% 131 1.68% -762 -9.79% 7,781
Major 2,672 79.71% 635 18.94% 45 1.34% 2,037 60.77% 3,352
Marshall 2,641 53.90% 2,210 45.10% 49 1.00% 431 8.80% 4,900
Mayes 7,132 50.94% 6,618 47.27% 251 1.79% 514 3.67% 14,001
Murray 2,609 53.01% 2,263 45.98% 50 1.02% 346 7.03% 4,922
Muskogee 11,820 47.87% 12,520 50.70% 353 1.43% -700 -2.83% 24,693
Noble 3,230 68.77% 1,416 30.15% 51 1.09% 1,814 38.62% 4,697
Nowata 2,069 53.75% 1,703 44.25% 77 2.00% 366 9.50% 3,849
Okfuskee 1,910 50.42% 1,814 47.89% 64 1.69% 96 2.53% 3,788
Oklahoma 139,078 62.34% 81,590 36.57% 2,443 1.09% 57,488 25.77% 223,111
Okmulgee 5,797 43.99% 7,186 54.53% 195 1.48% -1,389 -10.54% 13,178
Osage 8,138 51.15% 7,540 47.39% 231 1.45% 598 3.76% 15,909
Ottawa 5,625 49.29% 5,647 49.49% 139 1.22% -22 -0.20% 11,411
Pawnee 3,386 57.15% 2,435 41.10% 104 1.76% 951 16.05% 5,925
Payne 15,256 61.15% 9,319 37.36% 372 1.49% 5,937 23.79% 24,947
Pittsburg 8,514 52.05% 7,627 46.63% 216 1.32% 887 5.42% 16,357
Pontotoc 7,299 56.86% 5,387 41.97% 150 1.17% 1,912 14.89% 12,836
Pottawatomie 13,235 59.31% 8,763 39.27% 318 1.42% 4,472 20.04% 22,316
Pushmataha 2,331 53.61% 1,969 45.29% 48 1.10% 362 8.32% 4,348
Roger Mills 1,234 73.15% 441 26.14% 12 0.71% 793 47.01% 1,687
Rogers 17,713 61.18% 10,813 37.35% 425 1.47% 6,900 23.83% 28,951
Seminole 4,011 50.99% 3,783 48.09% 72 0.92% 228 2.90% 7,866
Sequoyah 6,614 53.97% 5,425 44.27% 215 1.75% 1,189 9.70% 12,254
Stephens 10,860 62.10% 6,467 36.98% 161 0.92% 4,393 25.12% 17,488
Texas 4,964 81.54% 1,084 17.81% 40 0.66% 3,880 63.73% 6,088
Tillman 1,920 57.33% 1,400 41.80% 29 0.87% 520 15.53% 3,349
Tulsa 134,152 61.34% 81,656 37.34% 2,883 1.32% 52,496 24.00% 218,691
Wagoner 12,981 60.33% 8,244 38.31% 292 1.36% 4,737 22.02% 21,517
Washington 13,788 66.47% 6,644 32.03% 312 1.50% 7,144 34.44% 20,744
Washita 2,850 63.79% 1,564 35.00% 54 1.21% 1,286 28.79% 4,468
Woods 2,774 68.56% 1,235 30.52% 37 0.91% 1,539 38.04% 4,046
Woodward 5,067 71.37% 1,950 27.46% 83 1.17% 3,117 43.91% 7,100
Totals 744,337 60.31% 474,276 38.43% 15,616 1.27% 270,061 21.88% 1,234,229

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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By congressional district

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Bush won all 6 congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.[4]

District Bush Gore Representative
1st 62% 37% Steve Largent
2nd 53% 46% Tom Coburn
Brad Carson
3rd 56% 43% Wes Watkins
4th 61% 38% J. C. Watts
5th 68% 31% Ernest Istook
6th 61% 38% Frank Lucas

Electors

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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 George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:[6]

  1. Steve Byas
  2. James Cruson
  3. Paul Hollrah
  4. Kristal Markowitz
  5. Bob McDowell
  6. Donald O'Nesky
  7. Tom Prince
  8. George W. Wiland

The slates of electors for the defeated candidates are as follows:

Reform: Robert Kiwanis Bell, Jr., Isabel Faith Lyman, Patrick S. J. Carmack, Ivette P. Farmer, Earl David Shaffer, William Bruce Charles, Gregory D. Brown, Mary Patricia Ziglinski

Democrat: George Nigh, Carma Lee Brock, Edmund Synar, Beulah Vernon, Jay Parmley, Rhonda Walters, Mary Jac Rauh, Obera Bergdall

Libertarian: Charles Burris, Agnes Regier, Christine M. Kane, Mary Laurent, Anne Fruits, Jack Litherland, David Lewis, Lynn Atherton[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "OKLAHOMA STATE ELECTION BOARD PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION March 14, 2000 SUMMARY RESULTS" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Election 2000: Missouri Democrat". The Green Papers. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  3. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".
  4. ^ 2000 Presidential General Election Results - Oklahoma US Election Atlas
  5. ^ 2000 Presidential General Election Results - Pennsylvania US Election Atlas
  6. ^ "President Elect - 2000". Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
  7. ^ 2000 Presidential Electors - Oklahoma US Election Atlas