2000 United States presidential election

Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Bush/Cheney and blue denotes those won by Gore/Lieberman. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia. One of D.C.'s three electors cast a blank ballot for president and vice president.

Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 2000. The Republican ticket of Texas governor George W. Bush and former secretary of defense Dick Cheney narrowly defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent vice president Al Gore and Connecticut junior senator Joe Lieberman. It was the fourth of five U.S. presidential elections, and the first since 1888 in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote, and is considered one of the closest U.S. presidential elections in history, with long-standing controversy about the result.