Election Name: | 2000 Pennsylvania Treasurer election |
Country: | Pennsylvania |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Year: | 1996 |
Next Election: | 2004 Pennsylvania State Treasurer election |
Next Year: | 2004 |
Image1: | 3x4.svg |
Nominee1: | Barbara Hafer |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Percentage1: | 49.3% |
Nominee2: | Catherine Knoll |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Percentage2: | 47.2% |
Map Size: | 200px |
Treasurer | |
Before Election: | Barbara Hafer |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Barbara Hafer |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
Election Date: | November 7, 2000 |
Popular Vote1: | 2,307,422 |
Popular Vote2: | 2,211,471 |
Pennsylvania's State Treasurer election was held November 7, 2000.[1] Incumbent Republican Barbara Hafer won a narrow reelection. Her Democratic opponent was Catherine Baker Knoll, a former two-term treasurer. Hafer and Knoll, both of whom faced no primary opposition, ran a campaign marked by personal attacks. The two candidates had previously been involved in a very public feud because of events surrounding the 1996 election for this office; in that year, the term limited Knoll endorsed her daughter as successor. However, Hafer had questioned the residency status of Mina Knoll, an attack that the older Knoll believed was disingenuous and clouded her daughter's candidacy.