Escambia County elections, 2000

Various county-wide offices, three of five Escambia County Commission seats, two of five ECUA Board seats, various Circuit Court judgeships, and two Escambia County School Board seats were contested in elections held in 2000. Primary elections were held on September 5, and the general election was held on November 7.

Incumbents are marked by (i).

Primary elections

Primary elections were held September 5. All voters were able to participate to some degree, due to the fact that nonpartisan races and referendums were on the ballot in additional the the Democratic and Republican party primaries.

County-wide offices

Escambia County Sheriff

Democratic

●DEM	Jim Lowman (i)	15,860	60.73%
●DEM	James E. Brooks	10,255	50.91%

Republican

Republican candidate Ron McNesby was unopposed in the primary and as such advanced automatically to the general election.

Escambia County Commission

District 1

Democratic

Democratic candidate Williemae Stanberry was unopposed in the primary and as such advanced automatically to the general election.

Republican

●REP	W. D. Childers	3,697	62.91%
●REP	Gail Fournier	2,180	37.09%

District 3

As only Democrats, and no members of any other party, filed for this race, it was a universal primary, meaning the vote was open to voters of any party affiliation, and the race was decided by this primary.

Universal primary

●DEM	Willie J. Junior (i)	5,894	68.57%
●DEM	Rita E. Jones	2,701	31.43%

District 5

Democratic

●DEM	Larry Walker (i)	3,884	63.36%
●DEM	Eddie Cook	2,246	36.64%

Republican

●REP	Terry Smith	2,569	43.23%
●REP	Frank A. Montenes	1,469	24.72%
●REP	Jerry L. Webb, Sr.	692	11.65%
●REP	John B. Johnson	671	11.29%
●REP	Mary (Petty) Chirico	541	9.10%

General election

The general election was held November 7.

County-wide offices

Escambia County Sheriff

●REP	Ron "Ronnie Mc" McNesby	59,190	39.27%
●DEM	Jim Lowman (i)	57,073	49.09%