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2000 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Election in Nebraska
The 2000 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Main article: 2000 United States presidential election
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Nebraska was won by Governor George W. Bush by a 29% margin of victory, winning every county. Also, with 62.25% of the popular vote, the state proved to be his fourth strongest state in the 2000 election after Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.[1] As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time the Democratic ticket did not win a single county in Nebraska.
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| 2000 United States presidential election in Nebraska[2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | George W. Bush | 433,862 | 62.25% | 5 | |
| Democratic | Al Gore | 231,780 | 33.25% | 0 | |
| Green | Ralph Nader | 24,540 | 3.52% | 0 | |
| Reform | Pat Buchanan | 3,646 | 0.52% | 0 | |
| Libertarian | Harry Browne | 2,245 | 0.32% | 0 | |
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Results by county
More information County, George W. Bush Republican ...
| County[3] | George W. Bush Republican |
Al Gore Democratic |
Ralph Nader Green |
Pat Buchanan Independent |
Harry E. Browne Libertarian |
Various candidates Other parties |
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 8,162 | 65.62% | 3,686 | 29.63% | 472 | 3.79% | 64 | 0.51% | 31 | 0.25% | 23 | 0.18% | 4,476 | 35.99% | 12,438 |
| Antelope | 2,562 | 76.07% | 678 | 20.13% | 84 | 2.49% | 31 | 0.92% | 7 | 0.21% | 6 | 0.18% | 1,884 | 55.94% | 3,368 |
| Arthur | 235 | 86.40% | 26 | 9.56% | 6 | 2.21% | 4 | 1.47% | 1 | 0.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 209 | 76.84% | 272 |
| Banner | 390 | 84.42% | 65 | 14.07% | 2 | 0.43% | 4 | 0.87% | 1 | 0.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 325 | 70.35% | 462 |
| Blaine | 299 | 85.67% | 43 | 12.32% | 5 | 1.43% | 1 | 0.29% | 1 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 256 | 73.35% | 349 |
| Boone | 2,196 | 76.73% | 575 | 20.09% | 65 | 2.27% | 22 | 0.77% | 4 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,621 | 56.64% | 2,862 |
| Box Butte | 3,208 | 63.04% | 1,614 | 31.72% | 203 | 3.99% | 40 | 0.79% | 12 | 0.24% | 12 | 0.24% | 1,594 | 31.32% | 5,089 |
| Boyd | 931 | 74.96% | 265 | 21.34% | 25 | 2.01% | 10 | 0.81% | 3 | 0.24% | 8 | 0.64% | 666 | 53.62% | 1,242 |
| Brown | 1,375 | 81.65% | 250 | 14.85% | 36 | 2.14% | 14 | 0.83% | 4 | 0.24% | 5 | 0.30% | 1,125 | 66.80% | 1,684 |
| Buffalo | 11,931 | 72.48% | 3,927 | 23.86% | 483 | 2.93% | 65 | 0.39% | 42 | 0.26% | 13 | 0.08% | 8,004 | 48.62% | 16,461 |
| Burt | 2,056 | 60.61% | 1,223 | 36.06% | 73 | 2.15% | 22 | 0.65% | 12 | 0.35% | 6 | 0.18% | 833 | 24.55% | 3,392 |
| Butler | 2,638 | 68.91% | 1,028 | 26.85% | 108 | 2.82% | 34 | 0.89% | 11 | 0.29% | 9 | 0.24% | 1,610 | 42.06% | 3,828 |
| Cass | 6,144 | 59.77% | 3,656 | 35.56% | 369 | 3.59% | 55 | 0.54% | 41 | 0.40% | 15 | 0.15% | 2,488 | 24.21% | 10,280 |
| Cedar | 2,989 | 70.02% | 1,062 | 24.88% | 140 | 3.28% | 62 | 1.45% | 10 | 0.23% | 6 | 0.14% | 1,927 | 45.14% | 4,269 |
| Chase | 1,505 | 80.27% | 306 | 16.32% | 38 | 2.03% | 15 | 0.80% | 8 | 0.43% | 3 | 0.16% | 1,199 | 63.95% | 1,875 |
| Cherry | 2,322 | 81.56% | 446 | 15.67% | 50 | 1.76% | 20 | 0.70% | 4 | 0.14% | 5 | 0.18% | 1,876 | 65.89% | 2,847 |
| Cheyenne | 3,207 | 76.61% | 844 | 20.16% | 76 | 1.82% | 36 | 0.86% | 16 | 0.38% | 7 | 0.17% | 2,363 | 56.45% | 4,186 |
| Clay | 2,326 | 72.35% | 774 | 24.07% | 86 | 2.67% | 17 | 0.53% | 3 | 0.09% | 9 | 0.28% | 1,552 | 48.28% | 3,215 |
| Colfax | 2,338 | 70.53% | 863 | 26.03% | 72 | 2.17% | 29 | 0.87% | 6 | 0.18% | 7 | 0.21% | 1,475 | 44.50% | 3,315 |
| Cuming | 3,232 | 76.68% | 857 | 20.33% | 91 | 2.16% | 24 | 0.57% | 4 | 0.09% | 7 | 0.17% | 2,375 | 56.35% | 4,215 |
| Custer | 4,245 | 78.41% | 976 | 18.03% | 140 | 2.59% | 32 | 0.59% | 11 | 0.20% | 10 | 0.18% | 3,269 | 60.38% | 5,414 |
| Dakota | 3,119 | 51.46% | 2,695 | 44.46% | 141 | 2.33% | 87 | 1.44% | 9 | 0.15% | 10 | 0.16% | 424 | 7.00% | 6,061 |
| Dawes | 2,549 | 70.39% | 823 | 22.73% | 212 | 5.85% | 22 | 0.61% | 12 | 0.33% | 3 | 0.08% | 1,726 | 47.66% | 3,621 |
| Dawson | 5,511 | 73.41% | 1,740 | 23.18% | 143 | 1.90% | 84 | 1.12% | 22 | 0.29% | 7 | 0.09% | 3,771 | 50.23% | 7,507 |
| Deuel | 783 | 75.80% | 213 | 20.62% | 27 | 2.61% | 6 | 0.58% | 4 | 0.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 570 | 55.18% | 1,033 |
| Dixon | 1,834 | 66.40% | 820 | 29.69% | 30 | 1.09% | 65 | 2.35% | 9 | 0.33% | 4 | 0.14% | 1,014 | 36.71% | 2,762 |
| Dodge | 8,871 | 61.30% | 5,021 | 34.69% | 443 | 3.06% | 58 | 0.40% | 63 | 0.44% | 16 | 0.11% | 3,850 | 26.61% | 14,472 |
| Douglas | 101,025 | 55.16% | 73,347 | 40.05% | 7,109 | 3.88% | 690 | 0.38% | 749 | 0.41% | 236 | 0.13% | 27,678 | 15.11% | 183,156 |
| Dundy | 801 | 79.23% | 179 | 17.71% | 19 | 1.88% | 6 | 0.59% | 3 | 0.30% | 3 | 0.30% | 622 | 61.52% | 1,011 |
| Fillmore | 2,024 | 67.51% | 848 | 28.29% | 103 | 3.44% | 14 | 0.47% | 8 | 0.27% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,176 | 39.22% | 2,998 |
| Franklin | 1,196 | 71.70% | 420 | 25.18% | 36 | 2.16% | 9 | 0.54% | 2 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.30% | 776 | 46.52% | 1,668 |
| Frontier | 1,102 | 79.11% | 244 | 17.52% | 27 | 1.94% | 10 | 0.72% | 6 | 0.43% | 4 | 0.29% | 858 | 61.59% | 1,393 |
| Furnas | 1,849 | 76.06% | 534 | 21.97% | 29 | 1.19% | 12 | 0.49% | 6 | 0.25% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,315 | 54.09% | 2,431 |
| Gage | 5,538 | 58.26% | 3,516 | 36.99% | 355 | 3.73% | 57 | 0.60% | 33 | 0.35% | 7 | 0.07% | 2,022 | 21.27% | 9,506 |
| Garden | 963 | 79.00% | 203 | 16.65% | 38 | 3.12% | 8 | 0.66% | 4 | 0.33% | 3 | 0.25% | 760 | 62.35% | 1,219 |
| Garfield | 718 | 74.56% | 202 | 20.98% | 33 | 3.43% | 9 | 0.93% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 516 | 53.58% | 963 |
| Gosper | 757 | 74.65% | 228 | 22.49% | 19 | 1.87% | 9 | 0.89% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 529 | 52.16% | 1,014 |
| Grant | 324 | 84.16% | 49 | 12.73% | 10 | 2.60% | 2 | 0.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 275 | 71.43% | 385 |
| Greeley | 839 | 64.05% | 416 | 31.76% | 37 | 2.82% | 13 | 0.99% | 4 | 0.31% | 1 | 0.08% | 423 | 32.29% | 1,310 |
| Hall | 11,803 | 63.64% | 5,952 | 32.09% | 595 | 3.21% | 116 | 0.63% | 52 | 0.28% | 28 | 0.15% | 5,851 | 31.55% | 18,546 |
| Hamilton | 3,251 | 72.39% | 1,066 | 23.74% | 141 | 3.14% | 21 | 0.47% | 10 | 0.22% | 2 | 0.04% | 2,185 | 48.65% | 4,491 |
| Harlan | 1,358 | 73.33% | 438 | 23.65% | 37 | 2.00% | 11 | 0.59% | 7 | 0.38% | 1 | 0.05% | 920 | 49.68% | 1,852 |
| Hayes | 486 | 85.11% | 66 | 11.56% | 8 | 1.40% | 8 | 1.40% | 3 | 0.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 420 | 73.55% | 571 |
| Hitchcock | 1,126 | 76.08% | 312 | 21.08% | 21 | 1.42% | 14 | 0.95% | 3 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.27% | 814 | 55.00% | 1,480 |
| Holt | 3,954 | 79.73% | 846 | 17.06% | 93 | 1.88% | 48 | 0.97% | 5 | 0.10% | 13 | 0.26% | 3,108 | 62.67% | 4,959 |
| Hooker | 317 | 77.51% | 74 | 18.09% | 13 | 3.18% | 4 | 0.98% | 1 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 243 | 59.42% | 409 |
| Howard | 1,760 | 62.26% | 955 | 33.78% | 71 | 2.51% | 21 | 0.74% | 13 | 0.46% | 7 | 0.25% | 805 | 28.48% | 2,827 |
| Jefferson | 2,351 | 61.11% | 1,361 | 35.38% | 102 | 2.65% | 15 | 0.39% | 16 | 0.42% | 2 | 0.05% | 990 | 25.73% | 3,847 |
| Johnson | 1,210 | 57.29% | 794 | 37.59% | 74 | 3.50% | 11 | 0.52% | 11 | 0.52% | 12 | 0.57% | 416 | 19.70% | 2,112 |
| Kearney | 2,333 | 74.73% | 680 | 21.78% | 75 | 2.40% | 17 | 0.54% | 12 | 0.38% | 5 | 0.16% | 1,653 | 52.95% | 3,122 |
| Keith | 2,953 | 76.72% | 778 | 20.21% | 75 | 1.95% | 30 | 0.78% | 11 | 0.29% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,175 | 56.51% | 3,849 |
| Keya Paha | 422 | 82.26% | 78 | 15.20% | 6 | 1.17% | 6 | 1.17% | 1 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 344 | 67.06% | 513 |
| Kimball | 1,379 | 75.77% | 379 | 20.82% | 41 | 2.25% | 11 | 0.60% | 5 | 0.27% | 5 | 0.27% | 1,000 | 54.95% | 1,820 |
| Knox | 2,784 | 69.98% | 1,037 | 26.07% | 110 | 2.77% | 36 | 0.90% | 5 | 0.13% | 6 | 0.15% | 1,747 | 43.91% | 3,978 |
| Lancaster | 55,514 | 51.82% | 44,650 | 41.68% | 6,182 | 5.77% | 297 | 0.28% | 360 | 0.34% | 129 | 0.12% | 10,864 | 10.14% | 107,132 |
| Lincoln | 9,220 | 61.00% | 5,205 | 34.44% | 502 | 3.32% | 126 | 0.83% | 41 | 0.27% | 20 | 0.13% | 4,015 | 26.56% | 15,114 |
| Logan | 336 | 81.55% | 60 | 14.56% | 11 | 2.67% | 4 | 0.97% | 1 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 276 | 66.99% | 412 |
| Loup | 284 | 75.13% | 84 | 22.22% | 7 | 1.85% | 3 | 0.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 200 | 52.91% | 378 |
| Madison | 9,636 | 74.97% | 2,772 | 21.57% | 290 | 2.26% | 108 | 0.84% | 28 | 0.22% | 19 | 0.15% | 6,864 | 53.40% | 12,853 |
| McPherson | 244 | 81.06% | 48 | 15.95% | 1 | 0.33% | 4 | 1.33% | 4 | 1.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 196 | 65.11% | 301 |
| Merrick | 2,380 | 71.26% | 848 | 25.39% | 84 | 2.51% | 22 | 0.66% | 3 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.09% | 1,532 | 45.87% | 3,340 |
| Morrill | 1,597 | 74.70% | 460 | 21.52% | 46 | 2.15% | 26 | 1.22% | 6 | 0.28% | 3 | 0.14% | 1,137 | 53.18% | 2,138 |
| Nance | 1,105 | 66.37% | 497 | 29.85% | 46 | 2.76% | 11 | 0.66% | 3 | 0.18% | 3 | 0.18% | 608 | 36.52% | 1,665 |
| Nemaha | 2,177 | 64.62% | 1,063 | 31.55% | 94 | 2.79% | 18 | 0.53% | 10 | 0.30% | 7 | 0.21% | 1,114 | 33.07% | 3,369 |
| Nuckolls | 1,701 | 69.63% | 644 | 26.36% | 66 | 2.70% | 21 | 0.86% | 8 | 0.33% | 3 | 0.12% | 1,057 | 43.27% | 2,443 |
| Otoe | 4,178 | 62.71% | 2,208 | 33.14% | 218 | 3.27% | 35 | 0.53% | 13 | 0.20% | 10 | 0.15% | 1,970 | 29.57% | 6,662 |
| Pawnee | 937 | 61.69% | 522 | 34.36% | 38 | 2.50% | 11 | 0.72% | 8 | 0.53% | 3 | 0.20% | 415 | 27.33% | 1,519 |
| Perkins | 1,170 | 80.58% | 243 | 16.74% | 31 | 2.13% | 4 | 0.28% | 4 | 0.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 927 | 63.84% | 1,452 |
| Phelps | 3,575 | 77.26% | 934 | 20.19% | 86 | 1.86% | 14 | 0.30% | 15 | 0.32% | 3 | 0.06% | 2,641 | 57.07% | 4,627 |
| Pierce | 2,534 | 78.99% | 570 | 17.77% | 52 | 1.62% | 43 | 1.34% | 4 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.16% | 1,964 | 61.22% | 3,208 |
| Platte | 9,861 | 76.69% | 2,612 | 20.31% | 266 | 2.07% | 66 | 0.51% | 38 | 0.30% | 16 | 0.12% | 7,249 | 56.38% | 12,859 |
| Polk | 1,925 | 73.67% | 610 | 23.34% | 52 | 1.99% | 15 | 0.57% | 8 | 0.31% | 3 | 0.11% | 1,315 | 50.33% | 2,613 |
| Red Willow | 3,680 | 73.23% | 1,188 | 23.64% | 103 | 2.05% | 33 | 0.66% | 15 | 0.30% | 6 | 0.12% | 2,492 | 49.59% | 5,025 |
| Richardson | 2,623 | 63.20% | 1,382 | 33.30% | 83 | 2.00% | 33 | 0.80% | 16 | 0.39% | 13 | 0.31% | 1,241 | 29.90% | 4,150 |
| Rock | 725 | 81.10% | 141 | 15.77% | 17 | 1.90% | 9 | 1.01% | 1 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.11% | 584 | 65.33% | 894 |
| Saline | 2,581 | 50.17% | 2,321 | 45.11% | 187 | 3.63% | 35 | 0.68% | 15 | 0.29% | 6 | 0.12% | 260 | 5.06% | 5,145 |
| Sarpy | 28,979 | 64.03% | 14,637 | 32.34% | 1,308 | 2.96% | 140 | 0.32% | 165 | 0.37% | 49 | 0.11% | 44,342 | 58.89% | 75,278 |
| Saunders | 5,688 | 63.77% | 2,852 | 31.98% | 277 | 3.11% | 68 | 0.76% | 24 | 0.27% | 10 | 0.11% | 2,836 | 31.79% | 8,919 |
| Scotts Bluff | 9,397 | 67.90% | 3,937 | 28.45% | 400 | 2.89% | 62 | 0.45% | 29 | 0.21% | 14 | 0.10% | 5,460 | 39.45% | 13,839 |
| Seward | 4,457 | 63.53% | 2,250 | 32.07% | 245 | 3.49% | 36 | 0.51% | 14 | 0.20% | 14 | 0.20% | 2,207 | 31.46% | 7,016 |
| Sheridan | 2,105 | 81.72% | 392 | 15.22% | 54 | 2.10% | 18 | 0.70% | 5 | 0.19% | 2 | 0.08% | 1,713 | 66.50% | 2,576 |
| Sherman | 1,072 | 62.87% | 564 | 33.08% | 48 | 2.82% | 9 | 0.53% | 7 | 0.41% | 5 | 0.29% | 508 | 29.79% | 1,705 |
| Sioux | 629 | 83.75% | 98 | 13.05% | 17 | 2.26% | 4 | 0.53% | 2 | 0.27% | 1 | 0.13% | 531 | 70.70% | 751 |
| Stanton | 1,895 | 76.23% | 500 | 20.11% | 53 | 2.13% | 21 | 0.84% | 8 | 0.32% | 9 | 0.36% | 1,395 | 56.12% | 2,486 |
| Thayer | 2,096 | 69.73% | 821 | 27.31% | 65 | 2.16% | 13 | 0.43% | 5 | 0.17% | 6 | 0.20% | 1,275 | 42.42% | 3,006 |
| Thomas | 329 | 83.29% | 55 | 13.92% | 9 | 2.28% | 2 | 0.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 274 | 69.37% | 395 |
| Thurston | 1,040 | 49.95% | 924 | 44.38% | 56 | 2.69% | 51 | 2.45% | 5 | 0.24% | 6 | 0.29% | 116 | 5.57% | 2,082 |
| Valley | 1,610 | 71.18% | 583 | 25.77% | 45 | 1.99% | 17 | 0.75% | 4 | 0.18% | 3 | 0.13% | 1,027 | 45.41% | 2,262 |
| Washington | 5,758 | 66.75% | 2,550 | 29.56% | 234 | 2.71% | 30 | 0.35% | 41 | 0.48% | 13 | 0.15% | 3,208 | 37.19% | 8,626 |
| Wayne | 2,774 | 70.41% | 1,001 | 25.41% | 119 | 3.02% | 33 | 0.84% | 6 | 0.15% | 7 | 0.18% | 1,773 | 45.00% | 3,940 |
| Webster | 1,302 | 66.94% | 584 | 30.03% | 48 | 2.47% | 9 | 0.46% | 1 | 0.05% | 1 | 0.05% | 718 | 36.91% | 1,945 |
| Wheeler | 351 | 77.48% | 85 | 18.76% | 11 | 2.43% | 4 | 0.88% | 2 | 0.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 266 | 58.72% | 453 |
| York | 4,816 | 74.55% | 1,407 | 21.78% | 161 | 2.49% | 59 | 0.91% | 8 | 0.12% | 9 | 0.14% | 3,409 | 52.77% | 6,460 |
| Totals | 433,862 | 62.25% | 231,780 | 33.25% | 24,540 | 3.52% | 3,646 | 0.52% | 2,245 | 0.32% | 946 | 0.14% | 202,082 | 28.99% | 697,019 |
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Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
By Congressional district
Bush won all three congressional districts.[4]
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| district | Bush | Gore | Representative |
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| 1st | 59% | 36% | Doug Bereuter |
| 2nd | 57% | 39% | Lee Terry |
| 3rd | 71% | 25% | Bill Barrett |
| Tom Osborne | |||
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Main article: List of 2000 United States presidential electors
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 Bush and Dick Cheney:[6]
- Mary Johnson
- Lee Terry, Sr.
- Howard Lamb
- Mildred Curtis
- John Y. McCollister
- "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- "NE US President Race, November 07, 2000". Our Campaigns.
- 2000 Presidential General Election Results - Nebraska US Election Atlas
- "President Elect - 2000". Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2011.