See main article: 2000 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
| Election Name: | 2000 Tennessee Democratic presidential primary |
| Country: | Tennessee |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1996 Tennessee Democratic presidential primary |
| Previous Year: | 1996 |
| Next Election: | 2004 Tennessee Democratic presidential primary |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
| Candidate1: | Al Gore |
| Colour1: | 3333FF |
| Home State1: | Tennessee |
| Delegate Count1: | 68 |
| Popular Vote1: | 198,264 |
| Percentage1: | 92.13% |
| Candidate2: | Bill Bradley (withdrawn) |
| Colour2: | FA8320 |
| Home State2: | New Jersey |
| Delegate Count2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 11,323 |
| Percentage2: | 5.26% |
| Outgoing Members: | OK |
| Elected Members: | TX |
| Votes For Election: | 81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (68 pledged, 13 unpledged) The number of pledged delegates received is determined by the popular vote |
| Pledged national convention delegates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Type | |||
| CD1 | 3 | CD6 | 5 | |
| CD2 | 5 | CD7 | 4 | |
| CD3 | 5 | CD8 | 5 | |
| CD4 | 4 | CD9 | 7 | |
| CD5 | 6 | |||
| 9 | At-large | 15 | ||
| Total pledged delegates | 68 | |||
Vice president Al Gore easily decided the primary in his home state, winning 92.1% of the vote and all 68 delegates. Senator Bill Bradley took only 5.3% of the vote and earned 0 delegates, while Lyndon LaRouche Jr. only got 0.5% of the vote.
Tennessee was one of six states which held primaries on March 14, 2000, alongside Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas after Super Tuesday the week before.[1]
Voting was expected to take place throughout the state from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. in the parts of the state in the Eastern Time Zone, and from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in parts of the state in the Central Time Zone.
In the open primary, candidates had to meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 68 pledged delegates to the 2000 Democratic National Convention were allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of these, between 3 and 7 were allocated to each of the state's 9 congressional districts and another 9 were allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 15 at-large delegates.[2]
Afterwards, the state executive committee convened to vote on the 15 at-large and 9 pledged PLEO delegates for the Democratic National Convention. The delegation also included 12 unpledged PLEO delegates: 7 members of the Democratic National Committee, 4 representatives from Congress (Bob Clement, Bart Gordon, John Tanner, and Harold Ford Jr.), 1 distinguished party leader, that being Vice president Al Gore himself, and 1 add-on.
The following candidates appeared on the ballot:
Withdrawn
There was also an Uncommitted option.
| Al Gore | 198,264 | 92.13 | 68 | |
| Bill Bradley (withdrawn) | 11,323 | 5.26 | rowspan=1 | |
| Uncommitted | 4,407 | 2.05 | 13 | |
| Lyndon LaRouche Jr. | 1,031 | 0.48 | rowspan=2 | |
| Write-in votes | 178 | 0.08 | ||
| Total | 215,203 | 100% | 81 |
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