The United States presidential election of 2000 in OTL was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush (1989–1993), and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President.
Bill Clinton, the incumbent President, was vacating the position after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Bush narrowly won the November 7 election, with 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266 (with one elector abstaining in the official tally).
The election was noteworthy for a controversy over the awarding of Florida's 25 electoral votes, the subsequent recount process in that state, and the unusual event of the winning candidate having received fewer popular votes than the runner-up. It was the closest election since 1876 and only the fourth election in which the electoral vote did not reflect the popular vote.
Alternate versions of the election have been discovered in the multiverse:
- 2000 US Presidential Election
- 2000 United States presidential election (Double Collapse)
- United States Presidential Election, 2000 (Ecological United States)
- United States Presidential Election, 2000 (Florida Voted Blue)
- United States presidential election, 2000 (King of America)
- United States Presidential election, 2000 (Napoleon's World)
- United States Presidential Election, 2000 (PNIP)
- United States presidential election, 2000 (President McCain)
- United States Presidential Election, 2000 (President Ventura)
- United States presidential election, 2000 (PS-1)
- U.S Presidental Election 2000