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| 2000 United States presidential election | ||||
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| November 7, 2000 | ||||
| Turnout | 51.2%▲2.2% | |||
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| Nominee | Al Gore | George W. Bush | ||
| Party | Democratic | Republican | ||
| Home state | Tennessee | Texas | ||
| Running mate | Dick Gephardt | Dick Cheney | ||
| Electoral vote | 270 | 267 | ||
| States carried | 23 | 27 | ||
| Popular vote | 51,080,126 | 50,375,773 | ||
| Percentage | 48.6% | 47.7% | ||
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| Election results map. Red denotes states won by Bush/Cheney, blue those won by Gore/Gephardt. | ||||
The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 7, 2000. In the election, Democratic nominee and incumbent Vice-President, Al Gore managed to narrowly defeat the Republican candidate, governor of Texas and son of former president, George W. Bush. Along with winning the Electoral College Gore also won the popular vote by a million votes. It was one of the closest elections in American history, with just 3 electoral votes separating both of the candidates.
Gore won the Democratic primaries in a landslide gaining over three thousand delegates against the former U.S. senator from New Jersey, Bill Bradley. Bush secured the nomination against a relatively small field of candidates, defeating incumbent senator from Arizona – John McCain by Super Tuesday. Al Gore picked House of Representatives minority leader Dick Gephardt as his running mate, while Bush chose the former Secretary of State under president Ronald Reagan – Dick Cheney.
Issues of the campaign centred around domestic policy with Gore announcing ambitious plan of Medicare and Medicaid expansion. The morning after November 7 all states were called except two, those being Florida and Tennessee, where the results were too close to call, eventually, after multiple lawsuits and recounts the former was pronounced for George W. Bush, and the latter for Al Gore. The victory of Bush was historic in turning 11 of the states Bill Clinton won in 1996 into his column.