2000 United States presidential election in Delaware

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Nominee Al Gore George W. Bush Party Democratic Republican Home state Tennessee Texas Running mate Joe Lieberman Dick Cheney Electoral vote 3 0 Popular vote 180,068 137,288 Percentage 54.96% 41.90%

County Results State House Results Gore   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Bush   40–50%   50–60%

President before election Bill Clinton Democratic Elected President George W. Bush Republican

The2000 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 7, 2000, part of the2000 United States presidential election in all 50 states andD.C. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

Delaware was won byVice PresidentAl Gore with a 13.1% margin of victory. Gore carried Delaware's most populous county,New Castle County, with almost 60% of the vote. Bush won the other two counties, but by relatively narrow margins. This was the first election since1948, and only the fourth since1892, in which Delaware backed the losing nominee, indicating its transformation from historicalbellwether state to reliableblue state. Bush became the first Republican sinceBenjamin Harrison in1888 to win a presidential election without New Castle County or Delaware at-large. Gore also became the first losing Democrat sinceJohn W. Davis in1924 to win any of Delaware's counties.

Delaware was one of ten states that backedGeorge H. W. Bush for president in1988 that did not back George W. Bush in either 2000 or 2004.

• Kent (largest city:Dover)
• Sussex (largest city:Seaford)

Due to the state's low population, only 1 congressional district,Delaware's at-large congressional district is allocated.

Technically the voters of Delaware cast their ballots for electors: representatives to theElectoral College. Delaware is allocated three electors because it has onecongressional district and twosenators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of three 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 three 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 afaithless elector.

The electors of each state and theDistrict of Columbia met on December 18, 2000^[1] 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:^[2]

• Michael Begatto
• Margaret Rose Henry
• Ruth Ann Messick

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