Start date November 7, 2000 Popular vote 5,861,203 Percentage 53.45% Running mate Joe Lieberman | Electoral vote 54 Home state Tennessee Party Democratic | |
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The 2000 United States presidential election in California took place on November 7, 2000 throughout all 50 states and D.C., which was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket consisted of Vice President of the United States Al Gore from Tennessee for President and U.S. senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman for Vice President and the Republican ticket consisted of Texas Governor George Bush for President and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney from Wyoming for Vice president. Voters chose 54 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President. The state hosted the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles and was slightly contested by both candidates due to a large Hispanic population and a large independent and moderate base surrounding San Diego and Sacramento's suburbs. This was the first time since 1880 in which a winning Republican presidential candidate lost California.
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California was won by Vice President Al Gore by an 11.8% margin of victory.
Primaries
Results
Vice President Al Gore easily defeated Texas Governor George W. Bush in California. Bush campaigned several times in California, but it didn't seem to help as, Gore defeated Bush by 11.8%. Bush did make substantial headway in Southern California winning in San Diego and San Bernardino Counties. However, Gore overwhelmingly won Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the state. Gore also performed well in the San Francisco Bay Area. This helped Gore win statewide by a little over 1.3 million votes. California is also almost certainly what helped Gore pull ahead in the popular vote. California was called for Gore, right when the polls closed at 11 P.M. EST.
By congressional district
Gore won 32 of 52 congressional districts.
Electors
Technically the voters of California cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. California is allocated 54 electors because it has 52 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 54 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 54 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 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 Al Gore and Joe Lieberman:
- Sunil Aghi
- Amy Arambula
- Rachel Binah
- R. Stephen Bollinger
- Roberts Braden
- Laura Karolina Capps
- Anni Chung
- Joseph A. Cislowski
- Sheldon Cohn
- Thor Emblem
- Elsa Favila
- John Freidenrich
- Cecelia Fuentes
- Glen Fuller
- James Garrison
- Sally Goehring
- Florence Gold
- Jill S. Hardy
- Therese Horsting
- Georgie Huff
- Robert Eugene Hurd
- Harriet A. Ingram
- Robert Jordan
- John Koza
- John Laird
- N. Mark Lam
- Manuel M. Lopez
- Henry Lozano
- David Mann
- Beverly Martin
- R. Keith McDonald
- Carol D. Norberg
- Ron Oberndorfer
- Gerard Orozco
- Trudy Owens
- Gregory S. Pettis
- Flo Rene Pickett
- Theodore H. Plant
- Art Pulaski
- Eloise Reyes
- Alex Arthur Reza
- C. Craig Roberts
- Jason RodrÃguez
- Luis D. Rojas
- Howard L. Schock
- Lane Sherman
- David A. Torres
- Larry Trullinger
- Angelo K. Tsakopoulos
- Richard Valle
- Karen Waters
- Don Wilcox
- William K. Wong
- Rosalind Wyman