2000 California Republican presidential primary

none June 2025 September 2023 2000 California Republican presidential primary California File:Flag of California.svg presidential 1996 California Republican presidential primary 1996 ND 2000 03 07 CT 2004 California Republican presidential primary 2004 File:Official Portrait- President George Walker Bush, 43rd President of the United States, Republican - DPLA - 7482eac0e113bf03014d1686a3733f97.jpeg x160px FF3333 George W. Bush Texas 162 1,725,162 60.6% File:John McCain.jpg x160px ffff00 John McCain Arizona 0 988,706 34.7% File:2000 California Republican Presidential Primary.svg Results by county #ff6161 Bush 40-50% #ff1a1a Bush 50-60% #e00000 Bush 60-70% #ffe166 McCain 40-50% #ffd21a McCain 50-60% The 2000 California Republican presidential primary was held on March 7, 2000. Governor George W. Bush of Texas won easily over Senator John McCain of Arizona and former Ambassador Alan Keyes. At the time, California had a blanket primary, meaning all candidates of all parties were on the same ballot, but the state parties, exploiting a loophole in the election law, used color-coded ballots so that only votes from party members would count. Thus, many votes for McCain—nearly 800,000—were discounted. It was thought by pundits that McCain could demonstrate his viability in a large Democratic state if he won the general primary; however, Bush still won a solid majority with all the non-Republican votes factored in. Results Key: Withdrewprior to contest 2000 California Republican presidential primaryhttp://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2000_primary/sum.pdf Summary Statement of Votes Cast for Offices and Measures 2008-06-01 PDF Secretary of State of California https://web.archive.org/web/20080508040600/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2000_primary/sum.pdf 2008-05-08 dead https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/FederalElections2000_PresidentialPrimaryElectionResultsbyState.pdf Federal Elections 2000: Presidential Primary Election Results by State PDF Federal Election CommissionCandidateGOP votesGOP %Total votesTotal %National delegates2000 Republican Presidential Primary Results - California George W. Bush 1,725,162 60.58% 2,168,466 52.21% 162 John McCain 988,706 34.72% 1,780,570 42.87% 0 Alan Keyes 112,747 3.96% 170,442 4.10% 0 Steve Forbes 8,449 0.30% 14,484 0.35% 0 Gary Bauer 6,860 0.24% 10,529 0.25% 0 Orrin Hatch 5,997 0.21% 9,202 0.22% 0 Glenn Redwood (write-in) N/A 0.59% 89 0.59% 0 David S. Rosenbaum (write-in) N/A <0.01% 4 <0.01% 0 Totals N/A 100.00% 4,153,702 100.00% 162 See also 2000 California Democratic presidential primary 2000 Republican Party presidential primaries Notes References Republican primary California Category:California Republican primaries