Georgia presidential election results 2000

George W. Bush carried Georgia by 11.69 points (303,490 votes), winning 13 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 13
Votes counted: 2,596,645
GA result: R+11.7
Compared with the nation: 12.2 pts more Republican
Swing since 1996: 10.5 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
George W. Bush	Republican	1,419,720	54.70%	13
Albert Gore, Jr.	Democratic	1,116,230	43.00%	—
Ralph Nader	Green	13,273	0.50%	—
Total votes		2,596,645

Sources: 2000

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Albert Gore, Jr.	George W. Bush	Others	Total	Margin
Appling	2,093	3,940	66	6,099	30.3
Atkinson	821	1,228	22	2,071	19.7
Bacon	956	2,010	29	2,995	35.2
Baker	893	615	11	1,519	18.3
Baldwin	5,893	6,041	192	12,126	1.2
Banks	1,220	3,202	111	4,533	43.7
Barrow	3,657	7,925	520	12,102	35.3
Bartow	7,508	14,720	553	22,781	31.7
Ben Hill	2,234	2,381	46	4,661	3.2
Berrien	1,640	2,718	52	4,410	24.4
Bibb	24,996	24,071	709	49,776	1.9
Bleckley	1,273	2,436	40	3,749	31.0
Brantley	1,372	3,118	76	4,566	38.2
Brooks	2,096	2,406	49	4,551	6.8
Bryan	2,172	4,835	52	7,059	37.7
Bulloch	5,561	8,990	231	14,782	23.2
Burke	3,720	3,381	34	7,135	4.8
Butts	2,281	3,198	156	5,635	16.3
Calhoun	1,107	768	12	1,887	18.0
Camden	3,636	6,371	112	10,119	27.0
Candler	1,053	1,643	26	2,722	21.7
Carroll	8,752	16,326	663	25,741	29.4
Catoosa	5,470	12,033	218	17,721	37.0
Charlton	1,015	1,770	31	2,816	26.8
Chatham	37,590	37,847	1,038	76,475	0.3
Chattahoochee	600	590	17	1,207	0.8
Chattooga	2,729	3,640	108	6,477	14.1
Cherokee	12,295	38,033	2,020	52,348	49.2
Clarke	15,167	11,850	1,887	28,904	11.5
Clay	821	448	8	1,277	29.2
Clayton	40,042	19,966	1,394	61,402	32.7
Clinch	816	1,091	22	1,929	14.3
Cobb	86,676	140,494	7,857	235,027	22.9
Coffee	3,593	5,756	81	9,430	22.9
Colquitt	3,297	6,589	86	9,972	33.0
Columbia	8,969	26,660	379	36,008	49.1
Cook	1,639	2,279	26	3,944	16.2
Coweta	9,056	21,327	843	31,226	39.3
Crawford	1,513	1,987	67	3,567	13.3
Crisp	2,268	3,285	56	5,609	18.1
Dade	1,628	3,333	88	5,049	33.8
Dawson	1,458	4,210	230	5,898	46.7
DeKalb	154,509	58,807	6,664	219,980	43.5
Decatur	3,398	4,187	63	7,648	10.3
Dodge	2,326	3,472	79	5,877	19.5
Dooly	1,901	1,588	31	3,520	8.9
Dougherty	16,650	12,248	166	29,064	15.1
Douglas	11,162	18,893	909	30,964	25.0
Early	1,622	1,938	25	3,585	8.8
Echols	272	614	12	898	38.1
Effingham	3,232	7,326	92	10,650	38.4
Elbert	2,527	3,262	64	5,853	12.6
Emanuel	2,835	3,343	85	6,263	8.1
Evans	1,217	1,841	22	3,080	20.3
Fannin	2,736	5,463	191	8,390	32.5
Fayette	11,912	29,338	1,199	42,449	41.1
Floyd	10,282	16,194	349	26,825	22.0
Forsyth	6,694	27,769	1,292	35,755	58.9
Franklin	2,040	3,659	63	5,762	28.1
Fulton	152,039	104,870	6,303	263,212	17.9
Gilmer	2,230	4,941	199	7,370	36.8
Glascock	249	763	8	1,020	50.4
Glynn	7,778	14,346	260	22,384	29.3
Gordon	4,032	7,944	229	12,205	32.1
Grady	2,721	3,894	88	6,703	17.5
Greene	2,137	2,980	80	5,197	16.2
Gwinnett	61,434	121,756	7,921	191,111	31.6
Habersham	2,530	6,964	197	9,691	45.8
Hall	10,259	26,841	1,050	38,150	43.5
Hancock	2,414	662	10	3,086	56.8
Haralson	2,869	5,153	145	8,167	28.0
Harris	2,912	5,554	96	8,562	30.9
Hart	3,192	4,242	102	7,536	13.9
Heard	1,178	1,947	73	3,198	24.0
Henry	11,971	25,815	1,081	38,867	35.6
Houston	13,301	23,174	513	36,988	26.7
Irwin	1,105	1,720	27	2,852	21.6
Jackson	3,420	7,878	337	11,635	38.3
Jasper	1,558	2,298	87	3,943	18.8
Jeff Davis	1,379	2,797	45	4,221	33.6
Jefferson	2,973	2,559	34	5,566	7.4
Jenkins	1,250	1,317	26	2,593	2.6
Johnson	1,065	1,797	21	2,883	25.4
Jones	3,102	4,850	116	8,068	21.7
Lamar	2,194	2,912	124	5,230	13.7
Lanier	832	1,048	24	1,904	11.3
Laurens	5,724	8,133	179	14,036	17.2
Lee	1,936	5,872	76	7,884	49.9
Liberty	5,347	4,455	170	9,972	8.9
Lincoln	1,275	1,807	21	3,103	17.1
Long	975	1,320	19	2,314	14.9
Lowndes	10,616	14,462	354	25,432	15.1
Lumpkin	2,121	4,427	202	6,750	34.2
Macon	2,757	1,566	32	4,355	27.3
Madison	2,285	5,529	179	7,993	40.6
Marion	982	1,187	15	2,184	9.4
McDuffie	2,580	3,926	44	6,550	20.5
McIntosh	2,047	1,766	24	3,837	7.3
Meriwether	3,441	3,162	106	6,709	4.2
Miller	783	1,349	18	2,150	26.3
Mitchell	2,971	2,790	38	5,799	3.1
Monroe	2,839	4,561	141	7,541	22.8
Montgomery	1,013	1,465	31	2,509	18.0
Morgan	2,238	3,524	140	5,902	21.8
Murray	2,684	5,539	149	8,372	34.1
Muscogee	28,193	23,479	491	52,163	9.0
Newton	6,703	11,127	545	18,375	24.1
Oconee	3,184	7,611	373	11,168	39.6
Oglethorpe	1,519	2,706	160	4,385	27.1
Paulding	6,743	16,881	636	24,260	41.8
Peach	3,540	3,525	72	7,137	0.2
Pickens	2,489	5,488	224	8,201	36.6
Pierce	1,300	3,348	33	4,681	43.8
Pike	1,413	3,358	114	4,885	39.8
Polk	4,112	5,841	163	10,116	17.1
Pulaski	1,390	1,922	34	3,346	15.9
Putnam	2,612	3,596	91	6,299	15.6
Quitman	542	348	14	904	21.5
Rabun	1,776	3,451	114	5,341	31.4
Randolph	1,381	1,174	14	2,569	8.1
Richmond	31,413	25,485	640	57,538	10.3
Rockdale	8,295	15,440	914	24,649	29.0
Schley	460	706	10	1,176	20.9
Screven	2,233	2,461	25	4,719	4.8
Seminole	1,313	1,537	27	2,877	7.8
Spalding	5,831	9,271	289	15,391	22.4
Stephens	2,869	5,370	137	8,376	29.9
Stewart	1,267	675	12	1,954	30.3
Sumter	4,748	4,847	102	9,697	1.0
Talbot	1,662	844	25	2,531	32.3
Taliaferro	556	271	5	832	34.3
Tattnall	1,963	3,597	50	5,610	29.1
Taylor	1,340	1,412	28	2,780	2.6
Telfair	1,777	1,693	23	3,493	2.4
Terrell	1,584	1,504	25	3,113	2.6
Thomas	4,862	7,093	103	12,058	18.5
Tift	3,547	6,678	103	10,328	30.3
Toombs	2,643	4,487	80	7,210	25.6
Towns	1,495	2,902	100	4,497	31.3
Treutlen	879	1,062	22	1,963	9.3
Troup	6,379	11,198	227	17,804	27.1
Turner	1,169	1,258	29	2,456	3.6
Twiggs	1,977	1,570	68	3,615	11.3
Union	2,230	4,567	159	6,956	33.6
Upson	3,158	5,019	105	8,282	22.5
Walker	6,341	12,326	228	18,895	31.7
Walton	5,484	12,966	633	19,083	39.2
Ware	3,480	6,099	49	9,628	27.2
Warren	1,196	933	16	2,145	12.3
Washington	3,476	3,162	53	6,691	4.7
Wayne	2,736	5,219	49	8,004	31.0
Webster	541	359	9	909	20.0
Wheeler	752	813	10	1,575	3.9
White	2,014	4,857	172	7,043	40.4
Whitfield	7,034	15,852	416	23,302	37.8
Wilcox	962	1,381	22	2,365	17.7
Wilkes	1,940	2,044	42	4,026	2.6
Wilkinson	1,884	1,800	56	3,740	2.2
Worth	2,214	3,792	55	6,061	26.0

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Georgia in 2000?

George W. Bush won Georgia by 11.69 percentage points (303,490 votes).

How many electoral votes did Georgia have in 2000?

Georgia cast 13 electoral votes in 2000.

How many people voted for president in Georgia in 2000?

2,596,645 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Georgia in 2000?

George W. Bush 125, Albert Gore, Jr. 34 (out of 159 counties with results).

How did Georgia change from 1996 to 2000?

The margin moved 10.5 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 1.2 points to Republican by 11.7 points.

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