who finally determined the winner of the 2000 presidential election
United States presidential election in Florida, 2000 After an intense recount process and the United States Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, Bush won Floridaâ€™s electoral votes by a margin of only 537 votes out of almost six million cast and as a result became the president-elect. The process was extremely divisive, and led to calls for electoral reform in Florida.