2000 United States presidential election
National results
Though Gore came in second in the electoral vote, he received 547,398 more popular votes than Bush, making him the first person since Grover Cleveland in 1888 to win the popular vote but lose in the Electoral College.

2000 United States presidential election

Section Title: National results
Table Section Text: Though Gore came in second in the electoral vote, he received 547,398 more popular votes than Bush, making him the first person since Grover Cleveland in 1888 to win the popular vote but lose in the Electoral College.

Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote	Electoral vote	Running mate

Count	Percentage	Vice-presidential candidate

George Walker Bush	Republican	Texas	50,456,002	47.87%	271	Richard Bruce Cheney	Wyoming	271

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.	Democratic	Tennessee	50,999,897	48.38%	266	Joseph Isadore Lieberman	Connecticut	266

Ralph Nader	Green	Connecticut	2,882,955	2.74%	0	Winona LaDuke	Minnesota	0

Pat Buchanan	Reform	Virginia	448,895	0.43%	0	Ezola B. Foster	California	0

Harry Browne	Libertarian	Tennessee	384,431	0.36%	0	Art Olivier	California	0

Howard Phillips	Constitution	Virginia	98,020	0.09%	0	Curtis Frazier	Missouri	0

John Hagelin	Natural Law	Iowa	83,714	0.08%	0	Nat Goldhaber	California	0

Other	51,186	0.05%	—	Other	—

(abstention)	—	—	—	—	1	(abstention)	—	1

Total	105,421,423	100%	538	538

Needed to win	270	270

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Nader received 2.74 percent of the popular vote.

final_sentence: Nader received 2.74 percent of the popular vote.