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2000 presidential election in Massachusetts

Al Gore (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in Massachusetts in 2000, 59.8% to 32.5%, a margin of 27.3 points and 737,985 votes.

Massachusetts voted 26.8 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 14 of the 14 counties. The largest, Middlesex, cast 657,048 votes and went to the Democrat by 31.2 points. The closest was Nantucket, where 1,250 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 1,616,487 59.8%
George W. Bush Republican 878,502 32.5%
Ralph Nader Green 173,564 6.4%
All other candidates 34,431 1.3%
Total2,702,984

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Middlesex 404,043 61.5% 198,914 30.3% 54,091 657,048 D+31.2
Norfolk 188,450 59.4% 107,033 33.7% 21,694 317,177 D+25.7
Essex 178,400 57.5% 110,010 35.4% 21,923 310,333 D+22.0
Worcester 173,769 56.0% 114,139 36.8% 22,240 310,148 D+19.2
Suffolk 154,888 71.4% 44,441 20.5% 17,671 217,000 D+50.9
Plymouth 115,376 54.5% 82,751 39.1% 13,450 211,577 D+15.4
Bristol 136,325 64.5% 62,848 29.7% 12,164 211,337 D+34.8
Hampden 100,103 58.2% 59,558 34.6% 12,432 172,093 D+23.6
Barnstable 62,363 51.5% 49,686 41.0% 9,037 121,086 D+10.5
Hampshire 38,543 56.2% 19,202 28.0% 10,881 68,626 D+28.2
Berkshire 37,934 63.9% 15,805 26.6% 5,672 59,411 D+37.2
Franklin 17,945 53.8% 10,176 30.5% 5,245 33,366 D+23.3
Dukes 5,474 61.8% 2,315 26.1% 1,067 8,856 D+35.7
Nantucket 2,874 58.3% 1,624 33.0% 428 4,926 D+25.4

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

Massachusetts in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+25.2
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+33.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+27.2
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.8
2004 John Kerry (D) D+25.2
2000 Al Gore (D) D+27.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+33.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.5
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+7.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.8
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+0.2
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+15.7
1972 George McGovern (D) D+9.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+30.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+52.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+20.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+18.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+11.5
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.7
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.0
1928 Al Smith (D) D+1.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+37.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+40.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+24.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+19.7
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.1
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.6
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+9.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+8.0
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+18.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+16.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+38.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+39.5