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 
 

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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%).

Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001  Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action.