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Election 2000 Results

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2000 presidential election in California

Al Gore (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in California in 2000, 53.4% to 41.7%, a margin of 11.8 points and 1,293,774 votes.

California voted 11.3 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1996, when Bill Clinton won.

Republicans led in 38 of the 58 counties and Democrats in 20. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,695,154 votes and went to the Democrat by 31.1 points. The closest was Alpine, where 16 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Al Gore won Democratic 5,861,203 53.4%
George W. Bush Republican 4,567,429 41.7%
All other candidates 537,190 4.9%
Total10,965,822

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 1,710,505 63.5% 871,930 32.4% 112,719 2,695,154 D+31.1
Orange 391,819 40.4% 541,299 55.8% 37,787 970,905 R+15.4
San Diego 437,666 45.7% 475,736 49.6% 45,232 958,634 R+4.0
Santa Clara 332,490 60.7% 188,750 34.4% 26,889 548,129 D+26.2
Alameda 342,889 69.4% 119,279 24.1% 32,168 494,336 D+45.2
San Bernardino 214,749 47.2% 221,757 48.7% 18,387 454,893 R+1.5
Riverside 202,576 44.9% 231,955 51.4% 16,596 451,127 R+6.5
Sacramento 212,792 49.3% 195,619 45.3% 23,139 431,550 D+4.0
Contra Costa 224,338 58.8% 141,373 37.1% 15,767 381,478 D+21.7
San Francisco 241,578 75.5% 51,496 16.1% 26,712 319,786 D+59.4
Ventura 133,258 47.1% 136,173 48.2% 13,261 282,692 R+1.0
San Mateo 166,757 64.3% 80,296 31.0% 12,346 259,399 D+33.3
Fresno 95,059 43.0% 117,342 53.1% 8,434 220,835 R+10.1
Sonoma 117,295 59.5% 63,529 32.2% 16,182 197,006 D+27.3
Kern 66,003 36.2% 110,663 60.7% 5,642 182,308 R+24.5
San Joaquin 79,776 47.7% 81,773 48.9% 5,690 167,239 R+1.2
Santa Barbara 73,411 47.4% 71,493 46.1% 10,070 154,974 D+1.2
Solano 75,116 57.0% 51,604 39.2% 5,015 131,735 D+17.8
Stanislaus 56,448 44.0% 67,188 52.4% 4,631 128,267 R+8.4
Marin 79,135 64.3% 34,872 28.3% 9,148 123,155 D+35.9
Placer 42,449 36.0% 69,835 59.3% 5,515 117,799 R+23.2
Monterey 67,618 57.5% 43,761 37.2% 6,155 117,534 D+20.3
San Luis Obispo 44,526 40.9% 56,859 52.2% 7,501 108,886 R+11.3
Santa Cruz 66,618 61.5% 29,627 27.3% 12,105 108,350 D+34.1
Tulare 33,006 36.7% 54,070 60.2% 2,742 89,818 R+23.5
Butte 31,338 37.4% 45,584 54.4% 6,799 83,721 R+17.0
El Dorado 26,220 36.3% 42,045 58.3% 3,871 72,136 R+21.9
Shasta 20,127 30.2% 43,278 65.0% 3,139 66,544 R+34.8
Yolo 33,747 54.9% 23,057 37.5% 4,632 61,436 D+17.4
Humboldt 24,851 44.4% 23,219 41.5% 7,902 55,972 D+2.9
Napa 28,097 54.3% 20,633 39.9% 2,994 51,724 D+14.4
Merced 22,726 45.1% 26,102 51.8% 1,590 50,418 R+6.7
Nevada 17,670 37.2% 25,998 54.8% 3,811 47,479 R+17.5
Mendocino 16,634 48.3% 12,272 35.7% 5,504 34,410 D+12.7
Madera 11,650 34.9% 20,283 60.7% 1,462 33,395 R+25.9
Imperial 15,489 53.5% 12,524 43.3% 924 28,937 D+10.2
Kings 11,041 39.0% 16,377 57.8% 917 28,335 R+18.8
Sutter 8,416 31.7% 17,350 65.3% 798 26,564 R+33.6
Tuolumne 9,359 39.4% 13,172 55.5% 1,196 23,727 R+16.1
Lake 10,717 51.2% 8,699 41.6% 1,503 20,919 D+9.6
Tehama 6,507 31.2% 13,270 63.6% 1,077 20,854 R+32.4
Siskiyou 6,323 31.9% 12,198 61.5% 1,298 19,819 R+29.6
Calaveras 7,093 37.6% 10,599 56.2% 1,184 18,876 R+18.6
San Benito 9,131 54.3% 7,015 41.7% 685 16,831 D+12.6
Yuba 5,546 34.4% 9,838 61.0% 743 16,127 R+26.6
Amador 5,906 38.2% 8,766 56.7% 792 15,464 R+18.5
Lassen 2,982 28.2% 7,080 66.9% 524 10,586 R+38.7
Plumas 3,458 33.2% 6,343 61.0% 600 10,401 R+27.7
Glenn 2,498 28.7% 5,795 66.5% 418 8,711 R+37.8
Del Norte 3,117 37.6% 4,526 54.6% 651 8,294 R+17.0
Mariposa 2,816 34.9% 4,727 58.5% 531 8,074 R+23.7
Inyo 2,652 33.9% 4,713 60.3% 450 7,815 R+26.4
Trinity 1,932 33.3% 3,340 57.6% 525 5,797 R+24.3
Colusa 1,745 31.2% 3,629 64.9% 216 5,590 R+33.7
Mono 1,788 40.9% 2,296 52.5% 287 4,371 R+11.6
Modoc 945 23.0% 2,969 72.3% 193 4,107 R+49.3
Sierra 540 29.2% 1,172 63.5% 135 1,847 R+34.2
Alpine 265 45.2% 281 48.0% 40 586 R+2.7

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5