# Canonical recap data for 2000 U.S. Presidential Election (2000)
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slug: 2000-us-election
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/2000/2000-us-election"
title: 2000 U.S. Presidential Election
subtitle: Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision controversially awarded Florida's electoral votes to George W. Bush, exposing fragilities in American electoral law.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 2000-11-07
datePrecision: day
year: 2000
decade: 2000
country:
name: United States
slug: united-states
summaryShort: 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 fiv
summaryLong: 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.
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "2000 United States presidential election"
importance: 85
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election"
  title: 2000 U.S. Presidential Election
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- election
metaDescription: 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 defens
wikidataQid: Q327959
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20080823044345/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election"
  capturedAt: 2008-08-23
  label: 2000 U.S. Presidential Election
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election"
