2000 United States presidential election in Iowa
Bill Clinton Democratic George W. Bush Republican The 2000 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election.Iowa was won by Democratic Vice President Al Gore by a margin of 0.32% and 4,144 votes over Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush, with Green Party candidate Ralph Nader taking 2.23% of the vote.Along with the 1988 election, this remains the second (and last) of only two times in history that a Republican was elected president without carrying Iowa as neither George W. Bush nor George H. W. Bush carried the state on their first run for the presidency.This is the only state that Gore won in 2000 that Joe Biden lost in his successful bid for the presidency in 2020.However, he came in sixth statewide, and his vote total was less than the narrow margin separating Gore and Bush.