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2000 presidential election in Connecticut

Al Gore (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in Connecticut in 2000, 55.9% to 38.4%, a margin of 17.5 points and 254,921 votes.

Connecticut voted 17.0 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.

Democrats led in 8 of the 8 counties. The largest, Fairfield, cast 370,289 votes and went to the Democrat by 9.2 points. The closest was Litchfield, where 2,634 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 816,015 55.9%
George W. Bush Republican 561,094 38.4%
All other candidates 82,416 5.6%
Total1,459,525

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Fairfield 193,769 52.3% 159,659 43.1% 16,861 370,289 D+9.2
Hartford 221,167 60.2% 127,468 34.7% 18,921 367,556 D+25.5
New Haven 197,928 58.0% 122,919 36.0% 20,252 341,099 D+22.0
New London 60,449 55.4% 41,168 37.7% 7,530 109,147 D+17.7
Litchfield 41,806 47.9% 39,172 44.9% 6,360 87,338 D+3.0
Middlesex 43,319 55.9% 29,295 37.8% 4,819 77,433 D+18.1
Tolland 33,554 53.5% 24,705 39.4% 4,441 62,700 D+14.1
Windham 24,023 54.6% 16,708 38.0% 3,232 43,963 D+16.6

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

Connecticut in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+14.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+20.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+13.6
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+22.4
2004 John Kerry (D) D+10.4
2000 Al Gore (D) D+17.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.1
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+6.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+5.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+21.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+9.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+5.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+18.4
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+7.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+27.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.6
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+7.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+15.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.1
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+8.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+29.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.3
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.0
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+30.7
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.3
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.2
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.9
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+2.0
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.8
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+3.1