| Presidential Candidate | Party | Home State | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote | Running Mate | Running Mate's Home State |
Running Mate's Electoral Vote |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | |||||||
| George W. Bush | Republican | Texas | 50,460,110 | 47.9% | 271 | Dick Cheney | Wyoming | 271 |
| Al Gore | Democratic | Tennessee | 51,003,926 | 48.4% | 266 | Joe Lieberman | Connecticut | 266 |
| (abstention) (a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | (n/a) | 1 | (abstention) (a) | (n/a) | 1 |
| Ralph Nader | Green | Connecticut | 2,883,105 | 2.7% | 0 | Winona LaDuke | Minnesota | 0 |
| Pat Buchanan | Reform | Virginia | 449,225 | 0.4% | 0 | Ezola B. Foster | California | 0 |
| Harry Browne | Libertarian | Tennessee | 384,516 | 0.4% | 0 | Art Olivier | California | 0 |
| Howard Phillips | Constitution | Virginia | 98,022 | 0.1% | 0 | Curtis Frazier | Missouri | 0 |
| John Hagelin | Natural Law/Reform | Iowa | 83,702 | 0.1% | 0 | Nat Goldhaber | California | 0 |
| Ross Perot | Write-in | Texas | 9 | 0.0% | 0 | None | N/A | 0 |
| Other(b) | 54,652 | 0.1% | 0 | Other(b) | 0 | |||
| Total | 105,417,258 | 100.0% | 538 | Total | 538 | |||
| Needed to win | 270 | Needed to win | 270 | |||||
Is that Perot number for real?
Wrong! Most of Buchanan supporters voted for Bush, while many Naderites refused to vote for Gore. GWB owes his presidency to them.