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2000 United States presidential election in Illinois

Main article: 2000 United States presidential election

The 2000 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 22 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

2000 United States presidential election in Illinois
← 1996November 7, 20002004 →
Turnout66.52%
 
NomineeAl GoreGeorge W. Bush
PartyDemocraticRepublican
Home stateTennesseeTexas
Running mateJoe LiebermanDick Cheney
Electoral vote220
Popular vote2,589,0262,019,421
Percentage54.60%42.58%
President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

Illinois was easily won by sitting Vice President Al Gore of the State of Tennessee, unlike other states in the Midwest, such as nearby Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, which Gore won, albeit by much smaller margins. George W. Bush, Republican of Texas, did not perform terribly at the county level, as he obtained less than forty percent of the vote in only three counties. Gore's key to victory was Cook County, home of Chicago, by far the most populous county in the state and one of the most populated counties in the nation. Gore won that county with almost seventy percent of the vote, his best performance in any county in the state.[1]

The election marked the first time since 1976 that Illinois did not vote for the winning presidential nominee and marked an end to Illinois’ status as a bellwhether state, as it had voted for the winning candidate all but two times in the 20th-century, making it tied with Missouri as having the most consistent streak of backing the winner in that century. Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Illinois; he also became the first Republican ever to win the White House without carrying Champaign, Peoria, or Whiteside Counties.[2] This was also the first time since 1848 that a Democrat would carry Illinois without winning the presidency.

Illinois was one of ten states that backed George H. W. Bush for President in 1988 that didn't backed George W. Bush in either 2000 or 2004.

Primaries

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The primaries and general elections coincided with those for congress and those for state offices.

Turnout

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See also: 2000 Illinois elections § Turnout

For the state-run primaries (Democratic and Republican), turnout was 22.92%, with 1,546,588 votes cast.[3][4] For the general election, turnout was 66.52%, with 4,742,123 votes cast.[3][4]

Democratic

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2000 Illinois Democratic presidential primary
← 1996March 21, 2000 (2000-03-21)2004 →
190 Democratic National Convention delegates (161 pledged, 29 unpledged)
The number of pledged delegates received is determined by the popular vote
 
CandidateAl GoreBill Bradley
withdrawn
Home stateTennesseeNew Jersey
Delegate count14912
Popular vote682,932115,320
Percentage84.35%14.24%

The 2000 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on March 21, 2000 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 2000 presidential election.[5]

161 of the state's 190 delegates were pledged delegates elected in the primary (the remaining 29 delegates were superdelegates).[5] Of the 161 pledged delegates, 35 were elected based upon the statewide popular vote, with the remaining 126 being elected based upon congressional district popular votes.[5] In order to receive delegates from either the popular vote of either the state at-large of the popular vote of a congressional district, a candidate needed to reach the threshold of 15% or more of said vote.[5]

2000 Illinois Democratic presidential primary[4][5]
CandidateVotes%Delegates
Al Gore682,93284.35149
Bill Bradley withdrew115,32014.2412
Lyndon LaRouche11,4151.410
Total809,667100%161

Republican

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2000 Illinois Republican presidential primary
← 1996March 21, 2000 (2000-03-21)2004 →
74 Republican National Convention delegates (64 pledged, 10 unpledged)
Pledged delegates directly-elected in vote separate from statewide presidential preference vote
 
CandidateGeorge W. BushJohn McCain
withdrawn		Alan Keyes
Home stateTexasArizonaMaryland
Delegate count6400
Popular vote496,685158,76866,066
Percentage67.40%21.54%8.97%
Main article: 2000 Illinois Republican presidential primary

The 2000 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on March 21, 2000 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 2000 presidential election.[6]

Illinois assigned 60 directly-elected delegates (the state had another 10 delegates that were not directly elected by voters).[6] The Illinois primary was a so-called "Loophole" primary. This meant that the statewide presidential preference vote was a "beauty contest", from which no delegates would be assigned. Instead, the delegates were assigned by separate direct-votes on delegate candidates (whose proclaimed presidential preferences were listed beside their names on the ballot).[6] These delegates were noted voted on at-large by a state vote, but rather by congressional district votes.[6] The number of delegates each congressional district would be able to elect had been decided based upon the strength of that district's vote for the Republican nominee (Bob Dole) in the previous 1996 election.[6]

The remaining ten delegates not directly elected by congressional district were selected at the Illinois Republican Party Convention, and were unpledged delegates.[6]

2000 Illinois Republican presidential primary[4][5]
CandidateVotes%Delegates
George W. Bush496,68567.4064
John McCain withdrawn158,76821.540
Alan Keyes66,0668.970
Steve Forbes withdrawn10,3341.400
Gary Bauer withdrawn5,0680.690
Total736,921100%64

Results

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2000 United States presidential election in Illinois
PartyCandidateRunning mateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
DemocraticAl GoreJoe Lieberman2,589,02654.6%22
RepublicanGeorge W. BushDick Cheney2,019,42142.6%0
GreenRalph NaderWinona LaDuke103,7592.2%0
ReformPat BuchananEzola Foster16,1060.3%0
LibertarianHarry BrowneWayne Allyn Root11,6230.3%0
Natural LawJohn HagelinMary Alice Herbert2,1270.0%0
ConstitutionHoward PhillipsMichael Peroutka570.0%0
Write InDavid McReynolds-40.0%0
Totals4,742,123100.00%3
Voter turnout (Voting age/Registered)52%/67%

Results by county

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CountyAl Gore
Democratic		George W. Bush
Republican		Ralph Nader
Green		Various candidates
Other parties		MarginTotal
#%#%#%#%#%
Adams12,19740.51%17,33157.56%3711.23%2100.70%-5,134-17.05%30,109
Alexander2,35758.60%1,58839.48%280.70%491.22%76919.12%4,022
Bond3,06043.52%3,80454.10%1131.61%550.78%-744-10.58%7,032
Boone6,48141.75%8,61755.51%3252.09%1000.64%-2,136-13.76%15,523
Brown1,07740.49%1,52957.48%291.09%250.94%-452-16.99%2,660
Bureau7,75446.09%8,52650.68%3632.16%1801.07%-772-4.59%16,823
Calhoun1,31050.35%1,22947.23%421.61%210.81%813.12%2,602
Carroll3,11343.37%3,83553.43%1542.15%751.05%-722-10.06%7,177
Cass2,78947.28%2,96850.31%941.59%480.81%-179-3.03%5,899
Champaign35,51547.81%34,64546.64%3,5434.77%5820.78%8701.17%74,285
Christian6,79946.03%7,53751.03%2691.82%1661.12%-738-5.00%14,771
Clark2,93239.03%4,39858.55%1261.68%560.75%-1,466-19.52%7,512
Clay2,21236.06%3,78961.76%781.27%560.91%-1,577-25.70%6,135
Clinton6,43641.72%8,58855.67%2951.91%1080.70%-2,152-13.95%15,427
Coles8,90444.31%10,49552.23%5072.52%1870.93%-1,591-7.92%20,093
Cook1,280,54768.63%534,54228.65%42,0682.25%8,7500.47%746,00539.98%1,865,907
Crawford3,33339.21%4,97458.52%1181.39%750.88%-1,641-19.31%8,500
Cumberland1,87037.59%2,96459.58%721.45%691.39%-1,094-21.99%4,975
DeKalb14,79844.53%17,13951.57%1,0323.11%2640.79%-2,341-7.04%33,233
DeWitt2,87040.70%3,96856.28%1331.89%801.13%-1,098-15.58%7,051
Douglas3,21539.44%4,73458.07%1321.62%710.87%-1,519-18.63%8,152
DuPage152,55041.87%201,03755.18%8,7112.39%2,0640.57%-48,487-13.31%364,362
Edgar3,21639.07%4,83358.71%1131.37%700.85%-1,617-19.64%8,232
Edwards97830.00%2,21267.85%421.29%280.86%-1,234-37.85%3,260
Effingham4,22529.17%9,85568.04%2131.47%1921.33%-5,630-38.87%14,485
Fayette3,88641.61%5,20055.69%1221.31%1301.39%-1,314-14.08%9,338
Ford2,09033.97%3,88963.20%1161.89%580.94%-1,799-29.23%6,153
Franklin10,20153.10%8,49044.19%3471.81%1740.91%1,7118.91%19,212
Fulton8,94054.92%6,93642.61%2761.70%1250.77%2,00412.31%16,277
Gallatin1,87852.78%1,59144.72%401.12%491.38%2878.06%3,558
Greene2,49043.18%3,12954.26%931.61%550.95%-639-11.08%5,767
Grundy7,51645.32%8,70952.51%2571.55%1020.62%-1,193-7.19%16,584
Hamilton1,94342.36%2,51954.92%751.64%501.09%-576-12.56%4,587
Hancock4,25643.92%5,13452.98%1611.66%1401.44%-878-9.06%9,691
Hardin1,18444.90%1,36651.80%411.55%461.74%-182-6.90%2,637
Henderson2,03052.51%1,70844.18%741.91%541.40%3228.33%3,866
Henry11,92150.79%10,89646.43%4281.82%2250.96%1,0254.36%23,470
Iroquois4,39732.75%8,68564.70%2291.71%1130.84%-4,288-31.95%13,424
Jackson11,77350.99%9,82342.54%1,2285.32%2661.15%1,9508.45%23,090
Jasper1,81536.15%3,11962.12%501.00%370.74%-1,304-25.97%5,021
Jefferson6,68543.52%8,36254.44%2111.37%1020.66%-1,677-10.92%15,360
Jersey4,35546.27%4,69949.92%2312.45%1281.36%-344-3.65%9,413
Jo Daviess4,58544.42%5,30451.39%3143.04%1191.15%-719-6.97%10,322
Johnson1,92835.96%3,28561.26%831.55%661.23%-1,357-25.30%5,362
Kane60,12742.52%76,99654.45%3,2742.32%1,0080.71%-16,869-11.93%141,405
Kankakee19,18047.73%20,04949.89%7131.77%2410.60%-869-2.16%40,183
Kendall8,44437.09%13,68860.12%4812.11%1560.69%-5,244-23.03%22,769
Knox12,57254.25%9,91242.77%4551.96%2351.01%2,66011.48%23,174
Lake115,05847.51%120,98849.96%4,8432.00%1,2750.53%-5,930-2.45%242,164
LaSalle23,35550.76%21,27646.25%9922.16%3840.83%2,0794.51%46,007
Lawrence2,82242.90%3,59454.64%1011.54%610.93%-772-11.74%6,578
Lee6,11141.80%8,06955.19%3202.19%1200.82%-1,958-13.39%14,620
Livingston5,82937.80%9,18759.57%2851.85%1200.78%-3,358-21.77%15,421
Logan4,60035.21%8,14162.31%2081.59%1160.89%-3,541-27.10%13,065
Macon24,26249.02%23,83048.14%9821.98%4250.86%4320.88%49,499
Macoupin11,01551.50%9,74945.58%4261.99%1990.93%1,2665.92%21,389
Madison59,07753.17%48,82143.94%2,3592.12%8470.76%10,2569.23%111,104
Marion8,06848.42%8,24049.45%2381.43%1170.70%-172-1.03%16,663
Marshall2,57043.51%3,14553.24%1342.27%580.98%-575-9.73%5,907
Mason3,19247.14%3,41150.37%1171.73%520.77%-219-3.23%6,772
Massac2,91243.18%3,67654.51%831.23%731.08%-764-11.33%6,744
McDonough6,08046.73%6,46549.68%3642.80%1030.79%-385-2.95%13,012
McHenry40,69838.33%62,11258.49%2,7512.59%6240.59%-21,414-20.16%106,185
McLean24,93640.95%34,00855.84%1,5462.54%4080.67%-9,072-14.89%60,898
Menard2,16434.89%3,86262.27%1352.18%410.66%-1,698-27.38%6,202
Mercer4,40052.90%3,68844.34%1561.88%740.89%7128.56%8,318
Monroe5,79742.02%7,63255.32%2621.90%1050.76%-1,835-13.30%13,796
Montgomery6,54249.97%6,22647.55%1911.46%1341.02%3162.42%13,093
Morgan5,89941.15%8,05856.22%2531.77%1240.87%-2,159-15.07%14,334
Moultrie2,52944.17%3,05853.41%781.36%601.05%-529-9.24%5,725
Ogle7,67337.25%12,32559.83%4672.27%1360.66%-4,652-22.58%20,601
Peoria38,60450.26%36,39847.39%1,3321.73%4780.62%2,2062.87%76,812
Perry4,86248.90%4,80248.30%1731.74%1051.06%600.60%9,942
Piatt3,48841.60%4,61955.09%2172.59%610.73%-1,131-13.49%8,385
Pike3,19839.42%4,70658.01%1151.42%931.15%-1,508-18.59%8,112
Pope92739.79%1,34657.77%311.33%261.12%-419-17.98%2,330
Pulaski1,51850.33%1,43047.41%311.03%371.23%882.92%3,016
Putnam1,65752.12%1,43745.20%581.82%270.85%2206.92%3,179
Randolph6,79447.55%7,12749.88%2291.60%1370.96%-333-2.33%14,287
Richland2,49133.54%4,71863.52%1341.80%851.14%-2,227-29.98%7,428
Rock Island37,95758.31%25,19438.70%1,3642.10%5800.89%12,76319.61%65,095
Saline5,42746.58%5,93350.93%1811.55%1090.94%-506-4.35%11,650
Sangamon38,41441.99%50,37455.06%2,0012.19%6960.76%-11,960-13.07%91,485
Schuyler1,58742.07%2,07755.06%721.91%360.95%-490-12.99%3,772
Scott95438.64%1,45859.05%311.26%261.05%-504-20.41%2,469
Shelby4,01839.54%5,85157.57%1621.59%1321.30%-1,833-18.03%10,163
St. Clair55,96155.74%42,29942.13%1,5691.56%5640.56%13,66213.61%100,393
Stark1,21140.52%1,69456.67%551.84%290.97%-483-16.15%2,989
Stephenson8,06241.60%10,71555.29%4762.46%1250.65%-2,653-13.69%19,378
Tazewell25,37943.50%31,53754.05%1,0221.75%4100.70%-6,158-10.55%58,348
Union3,98245.98%4,39750.77%1892.18%921.06%-415-4.79%8,660
Vermilion15,40647.99%15,78349.17%6051.88%3060.95%-377-1.18%32,100
Wabash1,98736.07%3,40661.84%751.36%400.73%-1,419-25.77%5,508
Warren3,52446.18%3,89951.09%1301.70%781.02%-375-4.91%7,631
Washington2,63836.96%4,35360.98%961.34%510.71%-1,715-24.02%7,138
Wayne2,20928.71%5,34769.50%771.00%600.78%-3,138-40.79%7,693
White2,95838.73%4,52159.20%1131.48%450.59%-1,563-20.47%7,637
Whiteside12,88651.88%11,25245.30%5152.07%1840.74%1,6346.58%24,837
Will90,90247.43%95,82850.00%3,7691.97%1,1710.61%-4,926-2.57%191,670
Williamson12,19245.26%14,01252.01%4761.77%2590.96%-1,820-6.75%26,939
Winnebago51,98147.56%53,81649.24%2,6372.41%8630.79%-1,835-1.68%109,297
Woodford5,52932.92%10,90564.94%2631.57%960.57%-5,376-32.02%16,793
Totals2,589,02654.60%2,019,42142.58%103,7592.19%29,9170.63%569,60512.01%4,742,123

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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By congressional district

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Gore won 11 of 20 congressional districts, including two that elected Republicans.[7]

DistrictGoreBushRepresentative
1st87%11%Bobby Rush
2nd88%11%Jesse Jackson Jr.
3rd55%41%Bill Lipinski
4th78%18%Luis Gutierrez
5th63%33%Rod Blagojevich
6th45%52%Henry Hyde
7th83%15%Danny K. Davis
8th42%56%Phil Crane
9th70%26%Jan Schakowsky
10th53%45%John Porter
Mark Kirk
11th53%45%Jerry Weller
12th55%43%Jerry Costello
13th42%55%Judy Biggert
14th42%55%Dennis Hastert
15th44%52%Thomas W. Ewing
Timothy V. Johnson
16th43%54%Donald Manzullo
17th51%46%Lane Evans
18th43%55%Ray LaHood
19th43%54%David D. Phelps
20th46%52%John Shimkus

Analysis

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Vice President Al Gore easily defeated Texas Governor George W. Bush in the “Land of Lincoln”. Illinois was once reckoned as a swing state or slightly Republican-leaning, but, since Bill Clinton's election in 1992, it swung heavily for the Democrats at the presidential level, remaining heavily Democratic in 1996. The blue trend can chiefly be traced to the explosive increase in the Democratic margins in Cook County, which encompasses Chicago and its inner suburbs and is the second-largest county in the country. In 1996, Bill Clinton reached 66.8% of the vote in Cook County, a level exceeding any nominee's in the county since Warren G. Harding in 1920, and Gore improved on Clinton's vote share in the county still further.

Secondarily, although Bush still retained the famously Republican Chicago collar counties, he underperformed recent competitive Republicans in them. He won DuPage County, the largest collar county, by only 13.3%, as compared to Gerald Ford's 40.5% margin in the county in 1976, and his father's 39.4% margin in 1988 (in both of which cases DuPage County provided the Republican's entire statewide margin).

Bush did do well in much of rural Illinois, although Gore retained a number of counties in the Forgottonia region that had begun going Democratic in 1988. Gore also did well in Metro East, whereas Bush held moderately-populated Sangamon County (Springfield) and McLean County (Bloomington). Ultimately, Gore's overwhelming strength in Cook County was decisive in handing Gore a more than five hundred thousand vote (or 12%) advantage in the state, which was among the first Midwestern states to be called on election night.

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Franklin County and Perry County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[8]

Electors

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Main article: List of 2000 United States presidential electors

Technically the voters of Illinois cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. For this election, Illinois is allocated 22 electors because it has 20 congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 22 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 22 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000[9] to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for Gore and Lieberman:[10]

  1. Joan Brennan
  2. Dave Bybee
  3. Vilma Colom
  4. Barbara Flynn Currie
  5. John P. Daley
  6. Vera Davis
  7. James DeLeo
  8. Marge Friedman
  9. Charles A. Hartke
  10. Tinker Harvey
  11. Carolyn Brown Hodge
  12. Constance A. Howard
  13. Mary Lou Kearns
  14. Michael J. Madigan
  15. William Marovitz
  16. Shirley McCombs
  17. Molly McKenzie
  18. Victory McNamara
  19. John Nelson
  20. Donald Pedro
  21. Dan Pierce
  22. Jerry Sinclair

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".
  2. ^ "County winners, 1836-2016". Google Docs. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Voter Turnout". www.elections.il.gov. Illinois State Board of Elections. Archived from the original on May 30, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "Election Results". www.elections.il.gov. Illinois State Board of Elections. Archived from the original on February 22, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "Illinois Democrat Delegation 2000". www.thegreenpapers.com. The Green Papers. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Illinois Republican Delegation 2000". www.thegreenpapers.com. The Green Papers. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  7. ^ "2000 Presidential General Election Data - Illinois. By Congressional District". US Election Atlas. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  8. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  9. ^ "2000 Post-Election Timeline of Events".
  10. ^ "President Elect - 2000". Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
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