United States presidential election in New Hampshire, 2000
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County Results
Gore—50-60%
Gore—<50%
Bush—<50%
Bush—50-60%
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The 2000 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on Election Day on November 7, 2000. The two major candidates were Texas Governor George W. Bush of the Republican Party and sitting Vice President Al Gore of the Democratic Party. When all votes were tallied, Bush was declared the winner with a plurality of the vote over Gore, receiving 48% of the vote to Gore's 47%, while Green Party candidate Ralph Nader received almost 4% of the vote in the state. Bush went on to win the election nationwide. As of 2016, this is the last time that the Republican nominee carried New Hampshire or any state in New England.
Had Gore won the state, he would've gotten to 270 electoral votes and therefore the presidency.
In 2000, New Hampshire was considered a swing state. While it had voted for Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the 1980s, Democrat Bill Clinton won the state twice in the 1990s, and polling indicated that the state would be a toss-up in 2000. New Hampshire would play a pivotal role in the outcome of the 2000 Presidential Election.
George W. Bush defeated Al Gore in New Hampshire, by a narrow 7,211 votes, in the midst of one of the closest elections in US history. Had Gore won the state, New Hampshire's electoral college votes would have swung the national election in his favor.
The 2000 election was the last time that a Republican presidential candidate won New Hampshire or any state in New England, though Donald Trump did win an electoral vote from Maine in 2016. New Hampshire would vote for Democrats John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 by increasingly larger margins. However, Hillary Clinton carried the state with a razor-thin margin over Republican Donald Trump in 2016.
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