2000 United States presidential election in Montana

The 2000 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

2000 United States presidential election in Montana

November 7, 2000
 
Nominee George W. Bush Al Gore Ralph Nader
Party Republican Democratic Green
Home state Texas Tennessee Connecticut
Running mate Dick Cheney Joe Lieberman Winona LaDuke
Electoral vote 3 0 0
Popular vote 240,178 137,126 24,437
Percentage 58.44% 33.36% 5.95%

County Results

President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

Montana was won by Governor George W. Bush. Bush won most of the counties in the state, and only obtained less than 40% in three counties. Bush won the highest populated county, Yellowstone County with exactly 59% of the vote. Gore won a total of five counties, and did the best in Deer Lodge County.

Ralph Nader, the Green party nominee, performed very well here, getting 5.95% of the vote statewide. He did very well in the western part of the state, getting over 5% of the vote in most of the counties in the region. His best performance by far was in Missoula County, where he got over 15% of the vote, which was the only county Nader cracked double digits. Nader's performance in Montana made it his fifth strongest state after Alaska, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.[1]

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Missoula County voted for the Republican candidate. Al Gore's 33.4% of the vote was the worst performance for a Democrat in Montana since Jimmy Carter in 1980, and no Democrat has fallen under that number since.

Results

2000 United States presidential election in Montana[2]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican George W. Bush 240,178 58.4% 3
Democratic Al Gore 137,126 33.4% 0
Green Ralph Nader 24,437 5.95% 0
Reform Patrick Buchanan 5,697 1.4% 0
Libertarian Harry Browne 1,718 0.4% 0
Constitution Howard Phillips 1,155 0.3% 0
Natural Law John Hagelin 675 0.2% 0
Totals 410,986 100.00% 3
Voter turnout (Voting age/registered) 61%/59%

By county

County Gore% Gore# Bush% Bush# Others% Others# Total
Beaverhead19.04%79974.19%3,1136.77%2844,196
Big Horn56.36%2,34539.68%1,6513.97%1654,161
Blaine45.16%1,24651.11%1,4103.73%1032,759
Broadwater22.28%46271.75%1,4885.98%1242,074
Carbon29.94%1,43462.81%3,0087.25%3474,789
Carter08.22%5388.84%5732.95%19645
Cascade39.43%13,13754.52%18,1646.05%2,01633,317
Chouteau23.78%68670.68%2,0395.55%1602,885
Custer30.60%1,50164.34%3,1565.06%2484,905
Daniels27.30%30367.57%7505.14%571,110
Dawson31.94%1,36463.76%2,7234.31%1844,271
Deer Lodge58.93%2,67232.93%1,4938.14%3694,534
Fallon18.70%25677.50%1,0613.8%521,369
Fergus22.56%1,35272.62%4,3534.82%2895,994
Flathead24.61%8,32966.55%22,5198.84%2,99133,839
Gallatin31.24%10,00958.78%18,8339.98%3,19832,040
Garfield08.20%6187.50%6514.3%32744
Glacier53.61%2,21141.44%1,7094.95%2044,124
Golden Valley16.57%8876.27%4057.16%38531
Granite18.55%29574.28%1,1817.17%1141,590
Hill42.09%2,76051.72%3,3926.19%4066,558
Jefferson29.30%1,51364.07%3,3086.62%3425,163
Judith Basin19.94%27875.82%1,0574.23%591,394
Lake33.93%3,88456.26%6,4419.81%1,12311,448
Lewis and Clark36.61%9,98255.34%15,0918.05%2,19627,269
Liberty23.28%24372.03%7524.69%491,044
Lincoln20.76%1,62971.09%5,5788.14%6397,846
McCone20.73%75872.65%2,6566.62%2423,656
Madison23.38%26772.42%8274.2%481,142
Meagher18.82%17674.65%6986.52%61935
Mineral23.31%38265.77%1,07810.92%1791,639
Missoula37.02%17,24146.11%21,47416.88%7,86146,576
Musselshell23.20%51271.68%1,5825.12%1132,207
Park29.08%2,15461.07%4,5239.84%7297,406
Petroleum11.76%3683.01%2545.23%16306
Phillips18.99%42377.51%1,7273.5%782,228
Pondera27.35%79267.27%1,9485.39%1562,896
Powder River11.41%11585.32%8603.27%331,008
Powell22.53%63869.60%1,9717.87%2232,832
Prairie21.98%16472.52%5415.5%41746
Ravalli25.82%4,45165.21%11,2418.97%1,54617,238
Richland25.24%1,01870.87%2,8583.89%1574,033
Roosevelt54.00%2,05942.09%1,6053.91%1493,813
Rosebud40.72%1,39453.35%1,8265.93%2033,423
Sanders24.68%1,16566.60%3,1448.73%4124,721
Sheridan35.73%70259.85%1,1764.43%871,965
Silver Bow53.68%8,96737.71%6,2998.6%1,43716,703
Stillwater23.61%92570.57%2,7655.82%2283,918
Sweet Grass16.52%30578.55%1,4504.93%911,846
Teton25.56%84769.22%2,2945.22%1733,314
Toole26.49%63068.92%1,6394.58%1092,378
Treasure22.13%10671.82%3446.05%29479
Valley32.12%1,27363.08%2,5004.79%1903,963
Wheatland24.32%24370.87%7084.8%48999
Wibaux23.36%12171.24%3695.41%28518
Yellowstone35.43%20,37059.00%33,9225.58%3,20757,499

Electors

Technically the voters of Montana cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Montana is allocated 3 electors because it has 1 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 3 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 3 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[3] 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:[4]

  1. Thelma Baker
  2. Jack Galt
  3. Tillie Pierce

References

  1. "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  2. "2000 Presidential General Election Results - Montana".
  3. http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/pe2000timeline.php
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2009-10-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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