Mississippi · 2000 presidential election

Mississippi presidential election results 2000

George W. Bush carried Mississippi by 16.92 points (168,230 votes), winning 7 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 7
Votes counted: 994,184
MS result: R+16.9
Compared with the nation: 17.4 pts more Republican
Swing since 1996: 11.8 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
George W. Bush	Republican	572,844	57.60%	7
Albert Gore, Jr.	Democratic	404,614	40.70%	—
Ralph Nader	Green	8,122	0.80%	—
Total votes		994,184

Sources: 2000

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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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
Adams	8,065	6,691	123	14,879	9.2
Alcorn	5,059	7,254	325	12,638	17.4
Amite	2,673	3,677	58	6,408	15.7
Attala	2,922	4,206	45	7,173	17.9
Benton	1,886	1,561	34	3,481	9.3
Bolivar	8,436	4,847	255	13,538	26.5
Calhoun	2,251	3,448	59	5,758	20.8
Carroll	1,726	3,165	33	4,924	29.2
Chickasaw	3,519	3,549	107	7,175	0.4
Choctaw	1,278	2,398	43	3,719	30.1
Claiborne	3,670	883	62	4,615	60.4
Clarke	2,368	4,503	48	6,919	30.9
Clay	4,515	3,570	80	8,165	11.6
Coahoma	5,662	3,695	196	9,553	20.6
Copiah	4,845	5,643	99	10,587	7.5
Covington	2,623	4,180	78	6,881	22.6
DeSoto	9,586	24,879	471	34,936	43.8
Forrest	8,500	13,281	470	22,251	21.5
Franklin	1,486	2,427	40	3,953	23.8
George	1,977	5,143	164	7,284	43.5
Greene	1,317	3,082	37	4,436	39.8
Grenada	4,163	5,129	93	9,385	10.3
Hancock	4,801	9,326	421	14,548	31.1
Harrison	19,142	32,256	1,218	52,616	24.9
Hinds	46,789	37,753	3,228	87,770	10.3
Holmes	5,447	1,937	38	7,422	47.3
Humphreys	2,288	1,628	28	3,944	16.7
Issaquena	555	366	20	941	20.1
Itawamba	2,994	5,424	146	8,564	28.4
Jackson	14,193	30,068	846	45,107	35.2
Jasper	3,104	3,294	49	6,447	2.9
Jefferson	2,786	600	22	3,408	64.1
Jefferson Davis	2,835	2,437	45	5,317	7.5
Jones	7,713	16,341	286	24,340	35.4
Kemper	2,311	1,915	35	4,261	9.3
Lafayette	5,139	7,081	458	12,678	15.3
Lamar	3,478	12,795	329	16,602	56.1
Lauderdale	8,412	17,315	243	25,970	34.3
Lawrence	2,841	3,674	72	6,587	12.6
Leake	2,793	4,114	45	6,952	19.0
Lee	9,142	15,551	401	25,094	25.5
Leflore	6,401	4,626	249	11,276	15.7
Lincoln	4,358	8,540	102	13,000	32.2
Lowndes	7,537	11,404	289	19,230	20.1
Madison	10,416	19,109	334	29,859	29.1
Marion	4,114	6,796	88	10,998	24.4
Marshall	7,735	4,723	134	12,592	23.9
Monroe	5,783	7,397	180	13,360	12.1
Montgomery	2,187	2,630	32	4,849	9.1
Neshoba	2,563	6,409	94	9,066	42.4
Newton	2,147	5,540	51	7,738	43.8
Noxubee	3,383	1,530	41	4,954	37.4
Oktibbeha	6,443	7,959	402	14,804	10.2
Panola	5,880	5,424	85	11,389	4.0
Pearl River	4,611	11,575	291	16,477	42.3
Perry	1,285	3,026	48	4,359	39.9
Pike	6,544	7,464	158	14,166	6.5
Pontotoc	2,771	6,601	138	9,510	40.3
Prentiss	3,287	5,101	94	8,482	21.4
Quitman	2,103	1,280	30	3,413	24.1
Rankin	8,050	32,983	402	41,435	60.2
Scott	3,548	5,601	57	9,206	22.3
Sharkey	1,706	1,074	123	2,903	21.8
Simpson	3,227	6,254	93	9,574	31.6
Smith	1,620	4,838	70	6,528	49.3
Stone	1,677	3,702	144	5,523	36.7
Sunflower	4,981	3,369	65	8,415	19.2
Tallahatchie	3,041	2,428	54	5,523	11.1
Tate	3,441	5,148	104	8,693	19.6
Tippah	2,908	5,381	114	8,403	29.4
Tishomingo	2,747	4,122	123	6,992	19.7
Tunica	1,539	792	35	2,366	31.6
Union	3,094	6,087	130	9,311	32.1
Walthall	2,356	3,476	63	5,895	19.0
Warren	7,485	10,892	246	18,623	18.3
Washington	10,405	7,367	556	18,328	16.6
Wayne	2,981	4,635	89	7,705	21.5
Webster	1,426	3,069	50	4,545	36.1
Wilkinson	2,551	1,423	124	4,098	27.5
Winston	3,672	4,645	51	8,368	11.6
Yalobusha	2,674	2,470	84	5,228	3.9
Yazoo	4,997	5,254	265	10,516	2.4

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 Mississippi in 2000?

George W. Bush won Mississippi by 16.92 percentage points (168,230 votes).

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 2000?

Mississippi cast 7 electoral votes in 2000.

How many people voted for president in Mississippi in 2000?

994,184 votes were counted for president.

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

George W. Bush 57, Albert Gore, Jr. 25 (out of 82 counties with results).

How did Mississippi change from 1996 to 2000?

The margin moved 11.8 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 5.1 points to Republican by 16.9 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data