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Election 2000 Results

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2000 presidential election in Colorado

George W. Bush (Republican) beat Al Gore (Democrat) in Colorado in 2000, 50.8% to 42.4%, a margin of 8.4 points and 145,521 votes.

Colorado voted 8.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.5.

The Republican hold continued from 1996, when Bob Dole won.

Republicans led in 50 of the 63 counties and Democrats in 13. The largest, Jefferson, cast 235,491 votes and went to the Republican by 8.1 points. The closest was Conejos, where 23 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
George W. Bush won Republican 883,748 50.8%
Al Gore Democratic 738,227 42.4%
Ralph Nader Green 91,434 5.3%
All other candidates 27,959 1.6%
Total1,741,368

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Jefferson 100,970 42.9% 120,138 51.0% 14,383 235,491 R+8.1
El Paso 61,799 30.8% 128,294 63.9% 10,664 200,757 R+33.1
Denver 122,693 61.9% 61,224 30.9% 14,430 198,347 D+31.0
Arapahoe 82,614 43.5% 97,768 51.5% 9,560 189,942 R+8.0
Boulder 69,983 50.1% 50,873 36.4% 18,770 139,626 D+13.7
Larimer 46,055 38.9% 62,429 52.7% 10,053 118,537 R+13.8
Adams 54,132 50.2% 47,561 44.1% 6,159 107,852 D+6.1
Douglas 27,076 31.4% 56,007 65.0% 3,142 86,225 R+33.6
Weld 23,436 36.3% 37,409 58.0% 3,696 64,541 R+21.6
Pueblo 28,888 53.5% 22,827 42.3% 2,231 53,946 D+11.2
Mesa 15,465 30.3% 32,396 63.5% 3,193 51,054 R+33.2
La Plata 7,864 38.4% 9,993 48.8% 2,633 20,490 R+10.4
Garfield 6,087 35.6% 9,103 53.2% 1,914 17,104 R+17.6
Fremont 5,293 33.0% 9,914 61.7% 849 16,056 R+28.8
Eagle 6,772 44.6% 7,165 47.2% 1,251 15,188 R+2.6
Montrose 4,041 28.4% 9,266 65.2% 908 14,215 R+36.8
Delta 3,264 25.7% 8,372 66.0% 1,050 12,686 R+40.3
Summit 5,304 47.9% 4,497 40.6% 1,267 11,068 D+7.3
Teller 2,750 27.9% 6,477 65.8% 620 9,847 R+37.8
Routt 4,208 43.7% 4,472 46.4% 958 9,638 R+2.7
Montezuma 2,556 27.2% 6,158 65.6% 670 9,384 R+38.4
Morgan 2,885 32.1% 5,722 63.6% 391 8,998 R+31.5
Elbert 2,326 25.9% 6,151 68.6% 488 8,965 R+42.7
Logan 2,296 28.4% 5,531 68.3% 269 8,096 R+40.0
Pitkin 4,137 53.0% 2,565 32.9% 1,098 7,800 D+20.2
Chaffee 2,768 36.4% 4,300 56.5% 542 7,610 R+20.1
Otero 2,963 40.5% 4,082 55.8% 267 7,312 R+15.3
Gunnison 3,059 42.3% 3,128 43.2% 1,049 7,236 R+1.0
Park 2,393 35.9% 3,677 55.2% 595 6,665 R+19.3
Grand 2,308 36.3% 3,570 56.2% 475 6,353 R+19.9
Las Animas 3,243 53.2% 2,569 42.2% 282 6,094 D+11.1
Alamosa 2,455 43.4% 2,857 50.5% 347 5,659 R+7.1
Moffat 1,223 22.9% 3,840 72.0% 274 5,337 R+49.0
Rio Grande 1,707 33.6% 3,111 61.3% 257 5,075 R+27.7
Clear Creek 2,188 44.4% 2,247 45.6% 489 4,924 R+1.2
Archuleta 1,432 30.1% 2,988 62.8% 338 4,758 R+32.7
Prowers 1,361 30.1% 3,026 66.9% 137 4,524 R+36.8
Yuma 1,082 24.8% 3,156 72.4% 120 4,358 R+47.6
Conejos 1,749 47.6% 1,772 48.3% 150 3,671 R+0.6
Kit Carson 809 23.4% 2,542 73.5% 107 3,458 R+50.1
San Miguel 1,598 49.1% 1,043 32.0% 614 3,255 D+17.1
Huerfano 1,495 47.1% 1,466 46.2% 213 3,174 D+0.9
Rio Blanco 543 19.0% 2,185 76.5% 127 2,855 R+57.5
Lake 1,296 49.3% 1,056 40.2% 276 2,628 D+9.1
Saguache 1,145 45.3% 1,078 42.6% 306 2,529 D+2.6
Gilpin 1,099 44.6% 1,006 40.8% 360 2,465 D+3.8
Washington 477 19.5% 1,878 76.8% 90 2,445 R+57.3
Baca 531 23.3% 1,663 73.0% 84 2,278 R+49.7
Ouray 705 31.6% 1,279 57.3% 249 2,233 R+25.7
Phillips 564 25.4% 1,573 70.9% 83 2,220 R+45.5
Lincoln 510 23.2% 1,630 74.1% 59 2,199 R+50.9
Custer 507 24.0% 1,451 68.7% 153 2,111 R+44.7
Bent 783 39.9% 1,096 55.8% 84 1,963 R+15.9
Costilla 1,054 64.0% 504 30.6% 90 1,648 D+33.4
Crowley 511 35.4% 855 59.2% 79 1,445 R+23.8
Sedgwick 384 29.5% 877 67.3% 42 1,303 R+37.8
Cheyenne 209 17.2% 957 79.0% 46 1,212 R+61.7
Dolores 293 25.8% 741 65.3% 100 1,134 R+39.5
Kiowa 211 21.8% 728 75.2% 29 968 R+53.4
Jackson 173 18.7% 682 73.7% 70 925 R+55.0
Hinsdale 188 33.2% 316 55.8% 62 566 R+22.6
Mineral 168 34.6% 294 60.5% 24 486 R+25.9
San Juan 149 34.2% 210 48.2% 77 436 R+14.0

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

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+11.0
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+13.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+4.9
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+4.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+8.4
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+1.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+4.3
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+7.8
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.3
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+28.0
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+23.1
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+19.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.3
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+5.4
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+6.8
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+23.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.8
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+35.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+23.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+26.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.9
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.1
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+14.2
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+13.4
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+71.1
1892 James B. Weaver (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+14.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.6
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+5.2