2000 Pennsylvania Attorney General election
Pennsylvania's Attorney General election was held November 7, 2000.[1] Necessary primary elections were held on April 4, 2000.[2] Incumbent Mike Fisher was unopposed for the Republican nomination and won a second term by a relatively comfortable margin. Jim Eisenhower, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and close confidant of Ed Rendell was the Democratic nominee; he earned a narrow victory in the party primary over John Morganelli, the District Attorney of Northampton County.
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
County Results Fisher: 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% Eisenhower: 40–50% 50–60% 70–80% | |||||||||||||||||
|
Elections in Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
General election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Mike Fisher | 2,495,253 | 54.0 | |
Democratic | Jim Eisenhower | 1,991,144 | 43.1 | |
Green | Tom Linzey | 61,216 | 1.3 | |
Libertarian | Julian Heicklen | 41,519 | 0.9 | |
Constitution | Jim Clymer | 30,306 | 0.7 |
Primary Election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Jim Eisenhower | 304,097 | 50.8 | |
Democratic | John Morganelli | 294,030 | 49.2 |
gollark: Or your system will not meet those criteria.
gollark: No, I mean, as far as I can see that requires you to have three candidates and no more.
gollark: That would limit you to three candidates.
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow's_impossibility_theorem
gollark: Approval voting (basically just what we have now but you can vote for multiple people) is among the less bad ways to vote.
References
- "2000 General Election". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on 2008-11-27. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- "2000 General Primary". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- "Pennsylvania Attorney General - 2000 General Election". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- "Pennsylvania Attorney General - 2000 General Primary". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.