2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania


The 2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 23 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Pennsylvania was won by Vice President Al Gore by a 4.17% margin of victory. However, voter enthusiasm for both candidates was generally low throughout the campaign. Gore failed to capture Clinton's appeal in strongly Democratic regions such as Pittsburgh and Scranton, and thus carried these areas by a smaller number than his predecessor. However, opposition to George W. Bush was particularly strong in the suburban counties of Philadelphia; although these areas at the time were typically Republican leaning, they featured a strong culturally liberal bent, and thus Bush was unable to appeal to voters. Bush support was particularly strong in rural, central Pennsylvania, where the Texas Governor appealed to Evangelical voters and where Gore's connection to gun control policies was strongly rejected. Marginal wins in both of the state's metropolitan areas helped the Vice President to capture the state. This was the first election since 1968 that the candidate who won Pennsylvania did not win the general election, and only the fourth time that has happened since 1916., this is the last election in which Greene County, Mercer County, and Lawrence County voted for the Democratic candidate.

Primaries

Democratic Primary

Republican Primary

Electors

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:
  1. Kathy Black
  2. Richard W. Bloomingdale
  3. Robert P. Casey Jr.
  4. Nelson Diaz
  5. William M. George
  6. Ken Jarin
  7. James J. Johnston
  8. Edward Keller
  9. Robert Mellow
  10. Thomas J. Murphy, Jr.
  11. Elsa Favila
  12. Robert O'Connor
  13. Lazar M. Palnick
  14. Stephen R. Reed
  15. T. J. Rooney
  16. Joyce Savocchio
  17. John F. Street
  18. Patsy J. Tallarico
  19. Christine M. Tartaglione
  20. Margaret M. Tartaglione
  21. Marian Tasco
  22. Sala Udin
  23. Anna Verna

    Results

By county

By congressional district

Gore won 11 of 21 congressional districts. Gore won 3 that elected Republican representatives while Bush won 2 that elected Democrats.
DistrictBushGoreRepresentative
13%85%Bob Brady
11%88%Chaka Fattah
31%66%Robert Borski
51%47%Ron Klink
51%47%Melissa Hart
59%38%John E. Peterson
53%44%Tim Holden
47%50%Curt Weldon
47%50%James C. Greenwood
65%32%Bud Shuster
50%47%Don Sherwood
47%49%Paul Kanjorski
52%45%John Murtha
43%54%Joe Hoeffel
35%62%William J. Coyne
47%49%Pat Toomey
58%39%Joe Pitts
60%37%George Gekas
41%57%Mike Doyle
61%36%William F. Goodling
61%36%Todd Platts
46%51%Frank Mascara
49%48%Phil English