Alabama

ALABAMA

9 Electoral Votes

Population
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Alabama Secretary of State)

Total Population, April 1, 2000	4,447,100
Voting Age Population, Nov. 2000	3,333,000	% change from '96 +3.5
Total Registration, Oct. 27, 2000	2,528,963

Alabama has: 67 counties.
Largest counties: Jefferson, Mobile, Madison, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa.
Largest cities: Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, Huntsville.

Government
Governor: Don Siegelman (D) elected in Nov. 1998.
State Legislature: Alabama Legislature House: 68D, 37R Senate: 24D, 11R
Local: Cities or more local NACO Counties
U.S. House: 5R, 2D - 1. S.Callahan (R) | 2. T.Everett (R) | 3. B.Riley (R) | 4. R.Aderholt (R) | 5. B.Cramer (D) | 6. S.Bachus (R) | 7. E.Hilliard (D).
U.S. Senate: Jeff Sessions (R) faces re-election in 2002, Richard C. Shelby (R) re-elected in 1998.

Changes as of the November 2000 Elections
No legislative seats were up. There were no changes in the congressional delegation (4 of the 7 incumbent congressmen did not even have a major party challenger).

Heart of Dixie

State of Alabama
Secretary of State

AL Democratic Party
AL Green Party
AL Reform Party
AL Republican Party
Libertarian Party of AL
Natural Law Party of AL
Constitution Party of AL

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General Election -- Tuesday, November 7, 2000

Past Results
1996

Dole (Rep.)...........769,044	(50.12)
Clinton (Dem.)......662,165	(43.16)
Perot (Ind.).............92,149	(6.00)
Others (4+w/ins).....10,991	(0.72)
Total........1,534,349

1992

Bush (Rep.)..........804,283 (47.64)

Clinton (Dem.)......690,080 (40.88)

Perot (Ind.)...........183,109 (10.85)

Others (5+w/ins)....10,588
(0.63)

Total........1,688,060

Results
2000

Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)	692,611	(41.57)
Browne/Olivier (Lib.)	5,893	(0.35)
+Bush/Cheney (Rep.)	941,173	(56.48)
Buchanan/Foster (Ind.)	6,351	(0.38)
Hagelin/Goldhaber (Ind.)	447	(0.02)
Nader/LaDuke (Ind.)	18,323	(1.10)
Phillips/Frazier (Ind.)	775	(0.05)
Write-ins	699	(0.04)
Total........1,666,272

Turnout as a percentage of voting age population was 49.99%. (U.S. avg: 53.76%).

Overview
Bush consistently had a comfortable lead in the polls, and there were no surprises on Election Day as the Bush-Cheney ticket won with a plurality of 248,562 votes (14.91 percentage points) and finished ahead of Gore-Lieberman in 49 of the state's 67 counties. In other races, "Ten Commandments" judge Roy Moore handily won the race for chief justice of the state Supreme Court, and voters approved Amendment 2 to remove the state's ban on interracial marriages.
General Election Activity

Primary Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2000

Election 2000

Republican Primary

	Total Vote	Percent
+George W. Bush	171,077	84.24%
Alan Keyes	23,394	11.52%
Uncommitted	8,608	4.24%
Total	203,079

Total Delegates
44 of 2,066 (2.1%).

Democratic Primary

	Total Vote	Percent
+Al Gore	210,802	76.74%
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.	15,328	5.58%
Uncommitted	48,573	17.68%
Total	274,703

Total Pledged Delegates
54 of 3,537 (1.5%).
Total Delegates
65 of 4,335 (1.5%).