The 2000 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Louisiana was won by George W. Bush (the Governor of neighboring Texas) over incumbent Democratic vice president Al Gore, a dramatic swing from the statewide results in 1996 when Democratic President Bill Clinton carried the state with 52% of the vote and with a double-digit margin of victory. Bush won most of the parishes and congressional districts in the state. Bush dominated among the rural areas of the state. The only congressional district Gore won was the second district, which represents the very urban area of New Orleans. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which St. Landry Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, and Bienville Parish voted for the Democratic candidate, and the last election in which Louisiana was decided by a single-digit margin.
In this election, Louisiana voted 8.2% to the right of the nation at-large. Louisiana was one of nine states won by Bush in the 2000 election that Clinton had carried in both preceding elections.
General election
Results
Results by parish
- Acadia (largest city: Crowley)
- Allen (largest city: Oakdale)
- Ascension (largest community: Prairieville)
- Avoyelles (largest city: Marksville)
- Calcasieu (largest city: Lake Charles)
- Caldwell (largest community: Clarks)
- Cameron (largest community: Grand Lake)
- Catahoula (largest town: Jonesville)
- Claiborne (largest town: Homer)
- Concordia (largest city: Vidalia)
- DeSoto (largest city: Mansfield)
- East Baton Rouge (largest city: Baton Rouge)
- East Feliciana (largest town: Jackson)
- Evangeline (largest city: Ville Platte)
- Franklin (largest city: Winnsboro)
- Iberia (largest city: New Iberia)
- Jackson (largest town: Jonesboro)
- Jefferson Davis (largest city: Jennings)
- Lafourche (largest city: Thibodaux)
- Lincoln (largest city: Ruston)
- Morehouse (largest city: Bastrop)
- Natchitoches (largest city: Natchitoches)
- Plaquemines (largest community: Belle Chasse)
- Rapides (largest city: Alexandria)
- Red River (largest town: Coushatta)
- Richland (largest town: Rayville)
- Sabine (largest town: Many)
- Saint Bernard (largest community: Chalmette)
- Saint Charles (largest community: Luling)
- Saint Martin (largest city: Breaux Bridge)
- Saint Mary (largest city: Morgan City)
- Tangipahoa (largest city: Hammond)
- Terrebonne (Largest city: Houma)
- Vermilion (largest city: Abbeville)
- Vernon (largest city: Leesville)
- Washington (largest city: Bogalusa)
- Webster (largest city: Minden)
- West Feliciana (largest town: St. Francisville)
- Winn (largest city: Winnfield)
Results by congressional district
Bush won six of seven congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.
Electors
Technically, the voters of Louisiana cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Louisiana is allocated nine electors because it has seven congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of nine electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and their running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all nine 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 their candidate is known as a faithless elector.
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 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 George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:
- Patricia Brister
- Donald Ensenat
- Heulette Fontenot Jr.
- Mike Foster
- Steve Jordan
- Elizabeth Levy
- Al Lippman
- Suzanne Haik Terrell
- Michael Woods Sr.