Texas presidential election results 2000

George W. Bush carried Texas by 21.32 points (1,365,893 votes), winning 32 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 32
Votes counted: 6,407,637
TX result: R+21.3
Compared with the nation: 21.8 pts more Republican
Swing since 1996: 16.4 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
George W. Bush	Republican	3,799,639	59.30%	32
Albert Gore, Jr.	Democratic	2,433,746	38.00%	—
Ralph Nader	Green	137,994	2.20%	—
Total votes		6,407,637

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
Anderson	5,041	9,835	204	15,080	31.8
Andrews	876	3,091	57	4,024	55.0
Angelina	9,957	16,648	369	26,974	24.8
Aransas	2,637	5,390	220	8,247	33.4
Archer	993	2,951	53	3,997	49.0
Armstrong	150	772	16	938	66.3
Atascosa	4,322	6,231	193	10,746	17.8
Austin	2,407	6,661	159	9,227	46.1
Bailey	488	1,589	13	2,090	52.7
Bandera	1,426	5,613	234	7,273	57.6
Bastrop	6,973	10,310	1,025	18,308	18.2
Baylor	663	1,285	36	1,984	31.4
Bee	3,795	4,429	106	8,330	7.6
Bell	21,011	41,208	1,072	63,291	31.9
Bexar	185,158	215,613	11,955	412,726	7.4
Blanco	811	2,777	179	3,767	52.2
Borden	62	283	8	353	62.6
Bosque	1,930	4,745	95	6,770	41.6
Bowie	11,662	18,325	333	30,320	22.0
Brazoria	24,883	53,445	1,691	80,019	35.7
Brazos	12,359	32,864	1,718	46,941	43.7
Brewster	1,349	1,867	364	3,580	14.5
Briscoe	224	544	4	772	41.5
Brooks	1,854	556	21	2,431	53.4
Brown	3,138	9,609	173	12,920	50.1
Burleson	2,235	3,542	89	5,866	22.3
Burnet	3,557	9,286	389	13,232	43.3
Caldwell	3,872	5,216	337	9,425	14.3
Calhoun	2,766	3,724	73	6,563	14.6
Callahan	1,174	3,656	66	4,896	50.7
Cameron	33,214	27,800	1,043	62,057	8.7
Camp	1,625	2,121	38	3,784	13.1
Carson	480	2,216	46	2,742	63.3
Cass	4,618	6,295	106	11,019	15.2
Castro	727	1,607	20	2,354	37.4
Chambers	2,888	6,769	149	9,806	39.6
Cherokee	4,755	9,599	183	14,537	33.3
Childress	602	1,506	18	2,126	42.5
Clay	1,460	3,112	65	4,637	35.6
Cochran	344	807	20	1,171	39.5
Coke	355	1,137	23	1,515	51.6
Coleman	853	2,687	38	3,578	51.3
Collin	42,884	128,179	4,357	175,420	48.6
Collingsworth	429	974	12	1,415	38.5
Colorado	2,229	4,913	107	7,249	37.0
Comal	7,131	24,599	1,018	32,748	53.3
Comanche	1,636	3,334	52	5,022	33.8
Concho	268	818	17	1,103	49.9
Cooke	3,153	10,128	188	13,469	51.8
Coryell	4,493	10,321	273	15,087	38.6
Cottle	241	502	14	757	34.5
Crane	387	1,246	21	1,654	51.9
Crockett	467	924	7	1,398	32.7
Crosby	705	1,270	27	2,002	28.2
Culberson	577	413	22	1,012	16.2
Dallam	341	1,385	18	1,744	59.9
Dallas	275,308	322,345	15,386	613,039	7.7
Dawson	1,463	3,337	39	4,839	38.7
Deaf Smith	1,240	3,687	57	4,984	49.1
Delta	726	1,143	31	1,900	21.9
Denton	40,144	102,171	4,475	146,790	42.3
Dewitt	1,570	4,541	72	6,183	48.1
Dickens	284	589	8	881	34.6
Dimmit	2,678	1,032	43	3,753	43.9
Donley	360	1,333	26	1,719	56.6
Duval	3,990	1,010	30	5,030	59.2
Eastland	1,774	4,531	109	6,414	43.0
Ector	9,425	22,893	583	32,901	40.9
Edwards	261	663	13	937	42.9
El Paso	83,848	57,574	3,620	145,042	18.1
Ellis	10,629	26,091	587	37,307	41.4
Erath	2,804	8,126	185	11,115	47.9
Falls	2,417	3,239	59	5,715	14.4
Fannin	4,102	6,074	164	10,340	19.1
Fayette	2,542	6,658	187	9,387	43.8
Fisher	884	968	20	1,872	4.5
Floyd	580	1,830	10	2,420	51.7
Foard	263	286	7	556	4.1
Fort Bend	47,569	73,567	2,373	123,509	21.0
Franklin	1,018	2,420	34	3,472	40.4
Freestone	2,316	4,247	78	6,641	29.1
Frio	2,317	1,774	37	4,128	13.2
Gaines	723	2,691	45	3,459	56.9
Galveston	40,020	50,397	2,566	92,983	11.2
Garza	454	1,302	14	1,770	47.9
Gillespie	1,511	8,096	313	9,920	66.4
Glasscock	39	528	4	571	85.6
Goliad	1,233	2,108	51	3,392	25.8
Gonzales	1,877	4,092	100	6,069	36.5
Gray	1,376	6,732	77	8,185	65.4
Grayson	13,647	25,596	697	39,940	29.9
Gregg	11,244	26,739	450	38,433	40.3
Grimes	2,450	4,197	155	6,802	25.7
Guadalupe	8,311	21,499	757	30,567	43.1
Hale	2,158	6,868	84	9,110	51.7
Hall	472	966	8	1,446	34.2
Hamilton	878	2,447	51	3,376	46.5
Hansford	198	1,874	16	2,088	80.3
Hardeman	566	976	15	1,557	26.3
Hardin	5,595	11,962	279	17,836	35.7
Harris	418,267	529,159	27,396	974,822	11.4
Harrison	8,878	13,834	258	22,970	21.6
Hartley	359	1,645	27	2,031	63.3
Haskell	1,401	1,488	38	2,927	3.0
Hays	11,387	20,170	2,760	34,317	25.6
Hemphill	251	1,203	20	1,474	64.6
Henderson	8,704	16,607	316	25,627	30.8
Hidalgo	61,390	38,301	1,359	101,050	22.8
Hill	3,524	7,054	157	10,735	32.9
Hockley	1,419	5,250	76	6,745	56.8
Hood	4,704	12,429	372	17,505	44.1
Hopkins	3,692	7,076	142	10,910	31.0
Houston	2,833	5,308	95	8,236	30.1
Howard	2,744	6,668	136	9,548	41.1
Hudspeth	380	514	28	922	14.5
Hunt	7,857	16,177	432	24,466	34.0
Hutchinson	1,796	7,443	112	9,351	60.4
Irion	162	624	7	793	58.3
Jack	822	2,107	45	2,974	43.2
Jackson	1,446	3,365	45	4,856	39.5
Jasper	4,533	7,071	138	11,742	21.6
Jeff Davis	283	708	69	1,060	40.1
Jefferson	45,409	40,320	1,180	86,909	5.9
Jim Hogg	1,512	623	22	2,157	41.2
Jim Wells	7,418	4,498	107	12,023	24.3
Johnson	11,778	26,202	746	38,726	37.2
Jones	1,899	4,080	69	6,048	36.1
Karnes	1,617	2,638	53	4,308	23.7
Kaufman	7,455	15,290	318	23,063	34.0
Kendall	1,901	8,788	384	11,073	62.2
Kenedy	119	106	3	228	5.7
Kent	185	346	5	536	30.0
Kerr	4,002	14,637	589	19,228	55.3
Kimble	328	1,313	25	1,666	59.1
King	14	120	3	137	77.4
Kinney	486	932	26	1,444	30.9
Kleberg	4,481	4,526	187	9,194	0.5
Knox	617	947	12	1,576	20.9
La Salle	1,266	731	17	2,014	26.6
Lamar	5,553	9,775	102	15,430	27.4
Lamb	1,114	3,451	33	4,598	50.8
Lampasas	1,569	4,526	119	6,214	47.6
Lavaca	2,171	5,288	87	7,546	41.3
Lee	1,733	3,699	104	5,536	35.5
Leon	1,893	4,362	71	6,326	39.0
Liberty	7,311	12,458	308	20,077	25.6
Limestone	2,768	4,212	95	7,075	20.4
Lipscomb	206	1,072	16	1,294	66.9
Live Oak	1,114	2,828	62	4,004	42.8
Llano	2,143	6,295	189	8,627	48.1
Loving	29	124	3	156	60.9
Lubbock	18,469	56,054	1,485	76,008	49.4
Lynn	562	1,507	15	2,084	45.3
Madison	1,241	2,333	49	3,623	30.1
Marion	1,852	2,039	39	3,930	4.8
Martin	415	1,520	14	1,949	56.7
Mason	417	1,352	32	1,801	51.9
Matagorda	4,696	7,584	179	12,459	23.2
Maverick	5,995	3,143	91	9,229	30.9
McCulloch	794	2,084	42	2,920	44.2
McLennan	23,462	43,955	1,372	68,789	29.8
McMullen	77	358	4	439	64.0
Medina	4,025	8,590	258	12,873	35.5
Menard	334	642	14	990	31.1
Midland	7,534	31,514	692	39,740	60.3
Milam	3,429	4,706	134	8,269	15.4
Mills	548	1,738	28	2,314	51.4
Mitchell	837	1,708	29	2,574	33.8
Montague	2,256	4,951	123	7,330	36.8
Montgomery	23,286	80,600	2,327	106,213	54.0
Moore	1,040	4,201	49	5,290	59.8
Morris	2,455	2,381	53	4,889	1.5
Motley	118	514	10	642	61.7
Nacogdoches	6,204	13,145	450	19,799	35.1
Navarro	5,366	8,358	166	13,890	21.5
Newton	2,503	2,423	64	4,990	1.6
Nolan	1,874	3,337	101	5,312	27.5
Nueces	45,349	49,906	2,071	97,326	4.7
Ochiltree	251	2,687	24	2,962	82.2
Oldham	108	659	7	774	71.2
Orange	11,887	17,325	442	29,654	18.3
Palo Pinto	3,263	5,690	165	9,118	26.6
Panola	3,011	5,975	88	9,074	32.7
Parker	8,878	23,651	696	33,225	44.5
Parmer	447	2,274	23	2,744	66.6
Pecos	1,539	2,700	64	4,303	27.0
Polk	6,877	11,746	371	18,994	25.6
Potter	7,242	17,629	505	25,376	40.9
Presidio	1,064	618	75	1,757	25.4
Rains	1,225	2,049	59	3,333	24.7
Randall	7,209	33,921	660	41,790	63.9
Reagan	282	959	14	1,255	53.9
Real	316	1,146	28	1,490	55.7
Red River	2,219	2,941	42	5,202	13.9
Reeves	1,872	1,273	31	3,176	18.9
Refugio	1,172	1,721	28	2,921	18.8
Roberts	72	472	5	549	72.9
Robertson	3,283	3,007	79	6,369	4.3
Rockwall	3,642	13,666	344	17,652	56.8
Runnels	969	3,020	57	4,046	50.7
Rusk	4,841	11,611	181	16,633	40.7
Sabine	1,753	2,764	74	4,591	22.0
San Augustine	1,636	2,116	53	3,805	12.6
San Jacinto	2,946	4,623	145	7,714	21.7
San Patricio	7,840	10,599	260	18,699	14.8
San Saba	618	1,691	24	2,333	46.0
Schleicher	338	826	9	1,173	41.6
Scurry	1,193	4,060	73	5,326	53.8
Shackelford	264	1,066	17	1,347	59.5
Shelby	3,227	5,692	86	9,005	27.4
Sherman	144	998	21	1,163	73.4
Smith	16,470	43,320	834	60,624	44.3
Somervell	752	2,120	46	2,918	46.9
Starr	6,505	1,911	48	8,464	54.3
Stephens	811	2,425	55	3,291	49.0
Sterling	132	520	7	659	58.9
Stonewall	294	496	9	799	25.3
Sutton	468	1,063	9	1,540	38.6
Swisher	856	1,612	33	2,501	30.2
Tarrant	173,758	286,921	11,710	472,389	24.0
Taylor	10,504	31,701	815	43,020	49.3
Terrell	219	243	15	477	5.0
Terry	1,108	2,910	36	4,054	44.4
Throckmorton	228	608	6	842	45.1
Titus	3,008	4,995	100	8,103	24.5
Tom Green	9,288	24,733	605	34,626	44.6
Travis	125,526	141,235	34,502	301,263	5.2
Trinity	2,142	3,093	62	5,297	18.0
Tyler	2,775	4,236	105	7,116	20.5
Upshur	4,180	8,448	180	12,808	33.3
Upton	266	982	25	1,273	56.2
Uvalde	3,436	4,855	129	8,420	16.9
Val Verde	5,056	6,223	195	11,474	10.2
Van Zandt	5,245	12,383	263	17,891	39.9
Victoria	8,176	18,787	445	27,408	38.7
Walker	4,943	9,076	355	14,374	28.8
Waller	5,046	5,686	126	10,858	5.9
Ward	1,256	2,534	84	3,874	33.0
Washington	2,996	8,645	168	11,809	47.8
Webb	18,120	13,076	375	31,571	16.0
Wharton	4,838	8,455	133	13,426	26.9
Wheeler	579	1,787	23	2,389	50.6
Wichita	14,108	27,802	803	42,713	32.1
Wilbarger	1,356	3,138	83	4,577	38.9
Willacy	3,218	1,789	55	5,062	28.2
Williamson	26,591	65,041	4,303	95,935	40.1
Wilson	3,997	7,509	192	11,698	30.0
Winkler	556	1,468	19	2,043	44.6
Wise	4,830	11,234	304	16,368	39.1
Wood	3,893	9,810	181	13,884	42.6
Yoakum	531	1,911	23	2,465	56.0
Young	1,843	5,022	89	6,954	45.7
Zapata	1,638	953	25	2,616	26.2
Zavala	2,616	751	24	3,391	55.0

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 Texas in 2000?

George W. Bush won Texas by 21.32 percentage points (1,365,893 votes).

How many electoral votes did Texas have in 2000?

Texas cast 32 electoral votes in 2000.

How many people voted for president in Texas in 2000?

6,407,637 votes were counted for president.

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

George W. Bush 230, Albert Gore, Jr. 24 (out of 254 counties with results).

How did Texas change from 1996 to 2000?

The margin moved 16.4 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 4.9 points to Republican by 21.3 points.

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