List of 2000 swing states
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While the swing state of Florida received much press with regard to the outcome of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, several other states had similarly close outcomes and could have changed the outcome of the election. The following is a list of the states with the lowest margins of victory in 2000, sorted by the margin percentages and color-coded for Bush or Gore:
- Colorado- 9% 145,518 votes
- Virginia- 8% 220,200 votes
- Louisiana- 8% 135,527 votes
- Arizona- 6% 96,311 votes
- West Virginia- 6% 40,978 votes
- Ohio- 5% 165,019 votes
- Arkansas- 5% 50,172 votes
- Tennessee- 4% 80,229 votes
- Nevada- 4% 21,597 votes
- Missouri- 3% 78,786 votes
- New Hampshire- 1% 7,211 votes
- Florida- .01% 537 votes (this figure was later found to be inaccurate, however by that time the election and inauguration had already passed).
- New Mexico- .06% 366 votes
- Wisconsin- .22% 5,708 votes
- Iowa- .32% 4,144 votes
- Oregon- .44% 6,765 votes
- Minnesota- 2% 58,607 votes
- Maine- 5% 33,335 votes
- Washington- 5% 138,788 votes
- Pennsylvania- 5% 204,840 votes
- Michigan- 5% 217,279 votes
