2000 United States presidential election in New York


The 2000 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 2000 as part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 33 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
New York was won by the Incumbent Democratic Vice President of the United States Al Gore in a landslide victory; Gore received 60.22% of the vote to Republican George W. Bush's 35.22%, a Democratic victory margin of 25.00%. This marked the first time since 1964 that a Democratic presidential candidate won more than 60% of the vote in New York State, and only the second time in history, solidifying New York's status as a solid blue state in the 21st century. New York weighed in as about 25% more Democratic than the national average in the 2000 election.
The key to Gore's victory was wide margins of victory in greater New York City and Long Island. He did win some counties in upstate New York, but won with small margins, except for Albany County, which voted almost exactly the same as the statewide results. Since third-party candidates received over 4% of the vote, Bush did very poorly. Although, Bush did win a majority of the counties in upstate New York, including his largest victory in rural Hamilton County. Bush won just four congressional districts, including New York's 22nd congressional district, New York's 23rd congressional district, New York's 27th congressional district, and New York's 31st congressional district., this is the last election in which the Democratic candidate won Montgomery County.

Democratic primary

Polling

Republican primary

Polling

General election

Polling

SourceDateBill Bradley George W. Bush
QuinnipiacFebruary 24, 199941%38%
QuinnipiacMarch 24, 199945%39%
QuinnipiacJuly 1, 199943%44%
QuinnipiacAugust 2, 199946%39%
QuinnipiacSeptember 15, 199947%37%
QuinnipiacOctober 3, 199951%32%
QuinnipiacNovember 11, 199952%35%
QuinnipiacDecember 14, 199950%35%
QuinnipiacJanuary 19, 200052%35%
QuinnipiacFebruary 10, 200053%34%
QuinnipiacMarch 1, 200051%35%

SourceDateAl Gore Elizabeth Dole
QuinnipiacFebruary 24, 199950%37%
QuinnipiacMarch 24, 199949%38%
QuinnipiacJuly 1, 199950%37%

SourceDateBill Bradley Elizabeth Dole
QuinnipiacFebruary 24, 199946%34%
QuinnipiacMarch 24, 199947%35%
QuinnipiacJuly 1, 199950%35%

SourceDateAl Gore John McCain
QuinnipiacNovember 11, 199949%35%
QuinnipiacDecember 14, 199945%39%
QuinnipiacJanuary 19, 200047%38%
QuinnipiacFebruary 10, 200046%42%
QuinnipiacMarch 1, 200044%43%

SourceDateBill Bradley John McCain
QuinnipiacNovember 11, 199955%23%
QuinnipiacDecember 14, 199948%29%
QuinnipiacJanuary 19, 200049%29%
QuinnipiacFebruary 10, 200043%40%
QuinnipiacMarch 1, 200039%44%

Results

John Hagelin was then nominee of the Natural Law Party nationally.

Results breakdown

By congressional district

Gore won 27 of 31 congressional districts.
DistrictBushGoreRepresentative
43%53%Michael Forbes
43%53%Felix Grucci
40%56%Rick Lazio
40%56%Steve Israel
42%55%Peter T. King
38%59%Carolyn McCarthy
35%62%Gary Ackerman
11%88%Gregory W. Meeks
25%71%Joseph Crowley
17%77%Jerrold Nadler
29%68%Anthony D. Weiner
7%90%Edolphus Towns
7%89%Major Owens
13%81%Nydia Velasquez
44%53%Vito Fossella
23%71%Carolyn B. Maloney
6%90%Charlie Rangel
6%93%Jose Serrano
11%87%Eliot L. Engel
37%60%Nita Lowey
45%50%Sue W. Kelly
42%54%Benjamin Gilman
37%57%Michael R. McNulty
50%44%John E. Sweeney
50%45%Sherwood Boehlert
48%48%John M. McHugh
42%53%James T. Walsh
42%51%Maurice Hinchey
53%42%Thomas M. Reynolds
42%53%Louise Slaughter
43%52%John J. LaFalce
35%60%Jack Quinn
53%42%Amo Houghton

By county

Geographic Breakdown

Al Gore won an overwhelming landslide in fiercely Democratic New York City, taking 1,703,364 votes to George W. Bush's 398,726, a 77.90% - 18.23% victory. Gore carried all 5 boroughs of New York City.
Excluding New York City's votes, Gore still would have carried New York State, but by a smaller margin, receiving 2,404,543 votes to Bush's 2,004,648, giving Gore a 54.53% - 45.47% win.

Electors

Technically the voters of New York cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. New York is allocated 33 electors because it has 31 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 33 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 33 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 Gore and Lieberman:
  1. Susan I. Abramowitz
  2. Leslie Alpert
  3. Martin S. Begun
  4. David L. Cohen
  5. Carolee A. Conklin
  6. Martin Connor
  7. Lorraine Cortez Vasquez
  8. Inez E. Dickens
  9. Cynthia Emmer
  10. Herman D. Farrell Jr.
  11. Emily Giske
  12. Patrick G. Halpin
  13. Raymond B. Harding
  14. Judith Hope
  15. Denis M. Hughes
  16. Virginia Kee
  17. Bertha Lewis
  18. Alberta Madonna
  19. Thomas J. Manton
  20. Deborah Marciano
  21. Helen Marshall
  22. Carl McCall
  23. Elizabeth F. Momrow
  24. Clarence Norman Jr.
  25. Daniel F. Donohue
  26. Shirley O'Connell
  27. G. Steven Pigeon
  28. Roberto Ramirez
  29. Michael Schell
  30. Sheldon Silver
  31. Andrew Spano
  32. Eliot Spitzer
  33. Randi Weingarten