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Election 2000 Results

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2000 presidential election in West Virginia

George W. Bush (Republican) beat Al Gore (Democrat) in West Virginia in 2000, 51.9% to 45.6%, a margin of 6.3 points and 40,978 votes.

West Virginia voted 6.8 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.5.

West Virginia changed party: in 1996 it went Democratic, for Bill Clinton.

Republicans led in 42 of the 55 counties and Democrats in 13. The largest, Kanawha, cast 76,670 votes and went to the Democrat by 2.2 points. The closest was Summers, where 5 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 336,475 51.9%
Al Gore Democratic 295,497 45.6%
All other candidates 16,152 2.5%
Total648,124

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 38,524 50.2% 36,809 48.0% 1,337 76,670 D+2.2
Wood 12,664 37.4% 20,428 60.3% 765 33,857 R+22.9
Cabell 14,896 46.2% 16,440 51.0% 880 32,216 R+4.8
Monongalia 12,603 46.1% 13,595 49.7% 1,169 27,367 R+3.6
Harrison 13,009 48.9% 12,948 48.7% 621 26,578 D+0.2
Raleigh 11,047 45.9% 12,587 52.3% 427 24,061 R+6.4
Berkeley 8,797 38.2% 13,619 59.2% 594 23,010 R+21.0
Marion 12,315 53.8% 9,972 43.6% 586 22,873 D+10.2
Putnam 7,891 38.6% 12,173 59.6% 362 20,426 R+21.0
Mercer 8,347 44.2% 10,206 54.1% 322 18,875 R+9.8
Ohio 7,653 42.6% 9,607 53.5% 704 17,964 R+10.9
Wayne 7,940 48.9% 7,993 49.2% 308 16,241 R+0.3
Fayette 8,371 57.3% 5,897 40.3% 351 14,619 D+16.9
Logan 8,927 61.8% 5,334 36.9% 178 14,439 D+24.9
Jefferson 6,860 47.7% 7,045 49.0% 473 14,378 R+1.3
Marshall 6,000 44.5% 6,859 50.8% 639 13,498 R+6.4
Hancock 6,249 46.4% 6,458 47.9% 765 13,472 R+1.6
Greenbrier 5,627 43.9% 6,866 53.6% 315 12,808 R+9.7
Jackson 4,937 42.9% 6,341 55.1% 240 11,518 R+12.2
Mason 4,963 44.2% 5,972 53.2% 288 11,223 R+9.0
Preston 3,515 33.7% 6,607 63.3% 317 10,439 R+29.6
Mingo 6,049 60.2% 3,866 38.5% 128 10,043 D+21.7
Mineral 3,341 34.2% 6,180 63.2% 261 9,782 R+29.0
Randolph 4,028 42.2% 5,248 55.0% 266 9,542 R+12.8
Brooke 4,678 49.7% 4,195 44.6% 532 9,405 D+5.1
Boone 5,656 61.9% 3,353 36.7% 132 9,141 D+25.2
Nicholas 4,059 47.3% 4,359 50.8% 161 8,579 R+3.5
Upshur 2,770 34.1% 5,165 63.6% 188 8,123 R+29.5
Wyoming 4,289 54.4% 3,473 44.1% 116 7,878 D+10.4
Lincoln 3,939 52.8% 3,389 45.4% 136 7,464 D+7.4
McDowell 4,845 66.3% 2,348 32.2% 110 7,303 D+34.2
Wetzel 2,849 45.3% 3,239 51.5% 200 6,288 R+6.2
Lewis 2,355 38.4% 3,606 58.8% 173 6,134 R+20.4
Hampshire 2,069 33.9% 3,879 63.6% 149 6,097 R+29.7
Barbour 2,503 41.4% 3,411 56.4% 137 6,051 R+15.0
Morgan 1,939 33.6% 3,639 63.0% 194 5,772 R+29.5
Taylor 2,473 43.3% 3,124 54.7% 115 5,712 R+11.4
Roane 2,332 41.5% 3,172 56.4% 121 5,625 R+14.9
Braxton 2,719 51.0% 2,529 47.5% 80 5,328 D+3.6
Monroe 2,094 40.7% 2,940 57.2% 105 5,139 R+16.5
Summers 2,299 48.8% 2,304 48.9% 110 4,713 R+0.1
Grant 891 19.7% 3,571 78.8% 72 4,534 R+59.1
Hardy 1,621 35.9% 2,816 62.4% 77 4,514 R+26.5
Tyler 1,214 30.9% 2,582 65.7% 132 3,928 R+34.8
Ritchie 1,024 26.9% 2,717 71.3% 71 3,812 R+44.4
Clay 1,617 45.1% 1,887 52.7% 78 3,582 R+7.5
Pocahontas 1,392 40.1% 1,970 56.8% 105 3,467 R+16.7
Tucker 1,319 39.4% 1,935 57.8% 92 3,346 R+18.4
Webster 1,764 53.3% 1,484 44.9% 60 3,308 D+8.5
Pendleton 1,172 36.4% 1,996 62.0% 53 3,221 R+25.6
Pleasants 1,267 39.5% 1,884 58.7% 57 3,208 R+19.2
Doddridge 773 27.5% 1,955 69.4% 88 2,816 R+42.0
Gilmer 1,092 39.9% 1,560 56.9% 88 2,740 R+17.1
Calhoun 1,112 42.5% 1,425 54.5% 78 2,615 R+12.0
Wirt 818 34.3% 1,518 63.7% 46 2,382 R+29.4

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

West Virginia in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+41.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+38.9
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+42.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+26.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+13.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+12.9
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.7
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.7
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+10.5
1980 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.5
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+16.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.2
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+8.8
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+3.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+15.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+10.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+12.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+0.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+10.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.2
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.5
1896 William McKinley (R) R+5.4
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.3
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.2
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+9.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+14.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+17.6