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| Overview of the 2004 Election |
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George Walker Bush
Richard Bruce Cheney
Party:
REPUBLICAN
Home State: Bush - TX
; Cheney - WY
Electoral Votes:
286
Popular Votes:
62,040,610 (50.7%) |
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John Forbes Kerry
John Reid Edwards
Party:
DEMOCRATIC
Home State: Kerry - MA
; Edwards - NC
Electoral Votes:
251*
Popular Votes:
59,028,444 (48.3%) * Kerry received 251 electoral votes for president. Edwards received 252 electoral votes for vice president. |
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John Reid Edwards
Party:
DEMOCRATIC
Home State: Edwards - NC
Electoral Votes:
1** ** A Minnesota elector voted for Edwards for both President and Vice President, giving him 1 electoral vote for president and 252 electoral votes for vice president. |
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Other Candidates
Party:
Reform, Libertarian, Constitution, et al.
Electoral Votes:
0
Popular Votes:
1,226,291 (1.0%) |
Total electoral votes - 538 (from 50 states and D.C.)
Majority needed to win - 270
Total popular vote: 122,295,345
Percentage of eligible population voting: 56.7% |
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| 2004 State-by-State Results |
| STATE | BUSH | KERRY | OTHERS | ST. | | Electors | EVs |  | | ALABAMA | 1,176,394
(62.5%) | 693,933
(36.8%) | 13,122
(0.7%) | AL | | Beth Chapman, Bettye Fine Collins, Marty Connors, Martha Hosey, Mike Hubbard, Floyd Lawson, Elbert Peters, Will Sellers, Martha Stokes | 9 | | | ALASKA | 190,889
(61.1%) | 111,025
(35.5%) | 10,684
(3.4%) | AK | | Frederick H. Hahn V, Gloria J. Tokar, Roberley R. Waldron | 3 | | | ARIZONA | 1,104,294
(54.9%) | 893,524
(44.4%) | 14,767
(0.7%) | AZ | | Linda Barber, Malcolm Barrett, Jim Click, Cynthia J. Collins, Webb Crockett, Elizabeth Wilkinson Fannin, Ross Farnsworth, Ira A. Fulton, Bernice C. Roberts, Phillip Townsend | 10 | | | ARKANSAS | 572,898
(54.3%) | 469,953
(44.5%) | 12,094
(1.1%) | AR | | Jim Davis, Bobbi Dodge, John Felts, Ida Fineburg, Martha McCaskill, Gay White | 6 | | | CALIFORNIA | 5,509,826
(44.4%) | 6,745,485
(54.3%) | 166,541
(1.3%) | CA | | Franklin A. Acevedo, Joe Baca Jr., Paul Batterson, Andrew Benjamin, Adele Bihn, Moreen Blum, James G. Bohm, Pedro Carillo, Michael Carpenter, Kenneth Costa, Joseph Cotchett, Darrell Darling, Rocco Davis, Amarjit Dhaliwal, Chloe Drew, Yolanda Dyer, James T. Ewing, Louise Giacoppe, PaulL Goldenberg, Grant Gruber, Douglas E. Hitchcock, Mark Hsu, C. Paul Johnson, David Johnson, Barbara Kerr, Susan Koehler, Marvin Kropke, N. Mark Lam, Margaret Lawrence, Ted Lieu, Donald Linker M.D., Chuck Lowery, Diana Madoshi, Robert H. Manley, George Marcus, Valerie McDonald, Randy Monroe, Gwen Moore, Mitch O'Farrell, Gary Prost, Barbara Pyle, Mary Salas, Salvador Sanchez, Paula Sandusky, Barbara Schraeger, Lane M. Sherman, Andrew M. Siegel, Gary Simmons, Karl Slifer, John Smith, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos, Lynda Von Husen, Karen Waters, Lenore Wax, Adam Woo | 55 | | | COLORADO | 1,101,255
(51.7%) | 1,001,732
(47.0%) | 27,343
(1.3%) | CO | | Vicki A. Edwards, Diane B. Gallagher, Booker T. Graves, Theodore S. Halaby, Robert A. Martinez, Sylvia Morgan-Smith, Cynthia H. Murphy, Lilly Y. Nunez, Frances W. Owens | 9 | | | CONNECTICUT | 693,826
(43.9%) | 857,488
(54.3%) | 27,455
(1.7%) | CT | | Andres Ayala, Jr., Andrea J. Jackson-Brooks, Donna King, Joshua King, Elizabeth O'Neil, David J. Papandrea, Larry Pleasant | 7 | | | DELAWARE | 171,660
(45.8%) | 200,152
(53.3%) | 3,378
(0.9%) | DE | | Nancy W. Cook, James Johnson, Timothy G. Willard | 3 | | | DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | 21,256
(9.3%) | 202,970
(89.2%) | 3,360
(1.5%) | DC | | Linda W. Cropp, Arrington Dixon, Jack Evans | 3 | | | FLORIDA | 3,964,522
(52.1%) | 3,583,544
(47.1%) | 61,744
(0.8%) | FL | | Al Austin, Allan Bense, Sally Bradshaw, Al Cardenas, Jennifer Carroll, Armando Codina, Sharon Day, Maria de la Milera, Jim Dozier, David Griffin, Fran Hancock, Cynthia Handley, William Harrison, Al Hoffman, Bill Jordan, Tom Lee, Randall McElheney, Jeanne McIntosh, Nancy Mihm, Gary Morse, Marilyn Paul, Tom Petway, Sergio Pino, John Thrasher, Janet Westling, Robert Woody, Zach Zachariah | 27 | | | GEORGIA | 1,914,254
(58.0%) | 1,366,149
(41.4%) | 21,472
(0.7%) | GA | | Anna R. Cablik, Fred Cooper, Nancy N. Coverdell, James C. Edenfield, Karen Handel, Donald F. Layfield, Carolyn Dodgen Meadows, Sunny K. Park, Alec Poitevint, Joan Ransom, Narender G. Reddy, Jamie Reynolds, Norma Mountain Rogers, Eric J. Tanenblatt, Virgil Williams | 15 | | | HAWAII | 194,191
(45.3%) | 231,708
(54.0%) | 3,114
(0.7%) | HI | | Frances Kagawa, Joy Kobashigawa Lewis, Samuel Mitchell, Dolly Strazar | 4 | | | IDAHO | 409,235
(68.4%) | 181,098
(30.3%) | 8,114
(1.4%) | ID | | Pete T. Cenarrusa, Debbie Field, Sandra Patano, John A. Sandy | 4 | | | ILLINOIS | 2,345,946
(44.5%) | 2,891,550
(54.8%) | 36,826
(0.7%) | IL | | Carrie Austin, Mary Boland, Joan Brennan, Barbara Flynn Currie, John R. Daley, Vera Davis, James DeLeo, Lynn Foster, Debbie Halvorson, Constance A. Howard, Mary Lou Kearns, Shirley R. Madigan, William Marovitz, Beth Ann May, Shirley McCombs, Molly McKenzie, Tony Munoz, John Nelson, Linda Pasternak, Dan Pierce, Jerry Sinclair | 21 | | | INDIANA | 1,479,438
(59.9%) | 969,011
(39.3%) | 19,553
(0.8%) | IN | | Leeann Cook, Dudley Curea, Kenneth Culp, Jean Ann Harcourt, Saundra Huddleston, James Kittle, Michael Miner, Melissa Proffitt Reese, Ted Ogle, Larry Shickles, John Zentz | 11 | | | IOWA | 751,957
(49.9%) | 741,898
(49.2%) | 13,053
(0.9%) | IA | | Marilyn Bose, Julie Hosch, Velma Huebner, Don Kass, Don Racheter, Dorothy Schlitter, Wanda Sears | 7 | | | KANSAS | 736,456
(62.0%) | 434,993
(36.6%) | 16,307
(1.4%) | KS | | Ruth Garvey Fink, Bernard "Bud" Hentzen, Dennis Jones, Wanda Konold, Jack Ranson, Patricia Pitney Smith | 6 | | | KENTUCKY | 1,069,439
(59.5%) | 712,733
(39.7%) | 13,710
(0.8%) | KY | | Carla T. Bartleman, Carolyn Cole, Donald E. Girdler, Constance M. Gray, Keith A. Hall, Martha G. Prewitt, Rachel N. McCubbin, Frank Schwendeman | 8 | | | LOUISIANA | 1,102,169
(56.7%) | 820,299
(42.2%) | 20,638
(1.1%) | LA | | Winston Thomas "Tom" Angers, Michael Bayham, David R. Carroll, Archie Corder, Floyd Gonzalez, E. Gerald Hebert, John H. Musser, IV, Salvador "Sal" Palmisano, III, Ruth L. Ulrich | 9 | | | MAINE | 330,201
(44.6%) | 396,842
(53.6%) | 13,709
(1.9%) | ME | | Lu Bauer, Jill Duson, David Garrity, Samuel Shapiro | 4 | | | MARYLAND | 1,024,703
(42.9%) | 1,334,493
(55.9%) | 27,482
(1.2%) | MD | | Daphne Bloomberg, Dorothy Chaney, Norman Conway, Wendy Fiedler, Gary Gensler, Pam Jackson, Delores Kelley, Lainy Lebow-Sachs, Tom Perez, John Riley | 10 | | | MASSACHUSETTS | 1,071,109
(36.8%) | 1,803,800
(61.9%) | 37,479
(1.3%) | MA | | Cathaleen L. Ashton, Thomas V. Barbera, Calvin T. Brown, Robert P. Cassidy, Helen Covington, William P. Dooling, William Eddy, Candice E. Lopes, Mushtaque A. Minza, Elizabeth Moroney, Sharon M. Pollard, Susan Thomson | 12 | | | MICHIGAN | 2,313,746
(47.8%) | 2,479,183
(51.2%) | 46,323
(1.0%) | MI | | Joan Robinson Cheeks, Ida I. DeHaas, Stanley W. Harris, Charley Jackson Jr., Bruce McAttee, Carol Vining Moore, Marcela L. Ort, Michael Pitt, Vickie Sue Price, Margaret Robinson, Harless Scott, Richard Shoemaker, Roger Short, Leonard Smigielski, Elizabeth D. Tavarozzi, Paul Todd, Yvonne Williams | 17 | | | MINNESOTA | 1,346,695
(47.6%) | 1,445,014
(51.1%) | 36,678
(1.3%) | MN | | Sonja Berg, Vi Grooms-Alban, Matthew Little, Michael Meuers, Tim O'Brien, Lil Ortendahl, Everett Pettiford, Jean Schiebel, Frank Simon, Chandler Harrison Stevens | 9 | | One of the above electors (identity unknown) voted for John Edwards for president. | 1 | | | MISSISSIPPI | 684,981
(59.5%) | 458,094
(39.8%) | 9,070
(0.8%) | MS | | James H. "Jimmy" Creekmore, Victor Mavar, W.D. "Billy" Mounger, Wayne Parker, John F. Phillips, Kelly S. Segars | 6 | | | MISSOURI | 1,455,713
(53.3%) | 1,259,171
(46.1%) | 16,480
(0.6%) | MO | | Fred Dyer, Warren Erdman, Richard Hardy, Rosemary Kochner, Steve Krueger, John Marschalk, Carolyn McDowell, Emory Melton, Cathy Owens, John Schudy, Miriam Stonebraker | 11 | | | MONTANA | 266,063
(59.1%) | 173,710
(38.6%) | 10,672
(2.4%) | MT | | Jack Galt, Thelma Baker, John Brenden | 3 | | | NEBRASKA | 512,814
(65.9%) | 254,328
(32.7%) | 11,044
(1.4%) | NE | | Bill Barrett, Curt Bromm, Michael John Hogan, Kay Orr, Ken Stinson | 5 | | | NEVADA | 418,690
(50.5%) | 397,190
(47.9%) | 13,707
(1.7%) | NV | | Joe Brown, John Marvel, Milton Schwartz, Beverly Willard, Paul Willis | 5 | | | NEW HAMPSHIRE | 331,237
(48.9%) | 340,511
(50.2%) | 5,990
(0.9%) | NH | | Peter Burling, Judy Reardon, James Ryan, Jeanne Shaheen | 4 | | | NEW JERSEY | 1,670,003
(46.2%) | 1,911,430
(52.9%) | 30,258
(0.8%) | NJ | | Peggy Anastos, Abed Awad, Wendy Benchley, Tom Canzanella, Wilfredo Caraballo, Upendra Chivukula, Riletta Cream, Loni Kaplan, Bernie Kenny, Jack McGreevey, Bernadette McPherson, Ron Rice, Carolyn Wade, Carolyn Walch, Warren Wallace | 15 | | | NEW MEXICO | 376,930
(49.8%) | 370,942
(49.0%) | 8,432
(1.1%) | NM | | Rod Adair, Ruth D. Kelly, Rick Lopez, Lou Melvin, Rodney Montoya | 5 | | | NEW YORK | 2,962,567
(40.1%) | 4,314,280
(58.4%) | 114,189
(1.5%) | NY | | Joseph Ashton, Bill De Blasio, Molly Clifford, Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez, Inez Dickens, Danny Donahue, Herman D. Farrell, Virginia Fields, Emily Giske, Bea Gonzalez, Alan Hevesi, Frank Hoare, Virginia Kee, Peggy Kerry, Denise King, Len Lenihan, Bertha Lewis, Alan Lubin, Thomas Manton, Dennis Mehiel, June O'Neill, David Paterson, Jose Rivera, Rich Schaffer, Chung Seto, Sheldon Silver, Eliot Spitzer, Antoine Thompson, Paul Tokasz, Bill Wood, Robert Zimmerman | 31 | | | NORTH CAROLINA | 1,961,166
(56.0%) | 1,525,849
(43.6%) | 13,992
(0.4%) | NC | | William B. Carraway, Sandra (Sandy) Carter, Theresa Esposito, Jim Hastings, Martha Jenkins, Judy Keener, Elizabeth Kelly, Joe L. Morgan, Joseph W. Powell, Jr., Robert Rector, Dewitt Rhoades, Marcia M. Spiegel, Ann Sullivan, William Harry Trotter, Davey G. Williamson | 15 | | | NORTH DAKOTA | 196,651
(62.9%) | 111,052
(35.5%) | 5,130
(1.6%) | ND | | Ben Clayburgh, Betsy Dalrymple, Evan Lips | 3 | | | OHIO | 2,859,768
(50.8%) | 2,741,167
(48.7%) | 26,973
(0.5%) | OH | | Alex R. Arshinkoff, Phil A. Bowman, Merom Brachman, William O. Dewitt, Jr., Billie Jean Fiore, Robert S. Frost, Owen V. Hall, Katharina Hooper, Joyce M. Houck, David Whipple Johnson, Pernel Jones, Sr., Randy Law, Karyle Mumper, Henry M. Butch O'Neill, J. Kirk Schuring, Betty Jo Sherman, Leslie J. Spaeth, Gary C. Suhadolnik, Elizabeth A. Wagner, Carl F. Wick | 20 | | | OKLAHOMA | 959,792
(65.6%) | 503,966
(34.4%) | 0
(0.0%) | OK | | Ken Bartlett, Donald G. Burdick, Diana Gunther, Paul R. Hollrah, Bob Hudspeth, M. Colby Schwartz, George W. Wiland, III | 7 | | | OREGON | 866,831
(47.2%) | 943,163
(51.3%) | 26,788
(1.5%) | OR | | Michael J. Bohan, Shirley A. Cairns, James L. Edmunson, Moshe D. Lenske, Meredith Wood Smith, Judy A. Sugnet, Paul F. Zastrow | 7 | | | PENNSYLVANIA | 2,793,847
(48.4%) | 2,938,095
(50.9%) | 37,648
(0.7%) | PA | | Lynne Abraham, Richard W. Bloomingdale, Blondell Reynolds Brown, Robert P. Casey Jr., Eileen Connelly, H. William DeWeese, John Dougherty, Richard E. Filippi, William M. George, Renee Gillinger, Jennifer L. Mann, Robert J. Mellow, Dan Onorato, Juan Ramos, Stephen R. Reed, T. J. Rooney, Jonathan Saidel, John F. Street, Rosemary Trump, Sala Udin, Constance H. Williams | 21 | | | RHODE ISLAND | 169,046
(38.7%) | 259,765
(59.4%) | 8,323
(1.9%) | RI | | Elizabeth Dennigan, John C. Lynch, M. Teresa Paiva-Weed, Mark Weiner | 4 | | | SOUTH CAROLINA | 937,974
(58.0%) | 661,699
(40.9%) | 18,057
(1.1%) | SC | | Brenda Bedenbaugh, Katon E. Dawson, Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., Drew McKissick, Thomas H. McLean, Wayland Moody, Robert A. Reagan, Dr. Buddy Witherspoon | 8 | | | SOUTH DAKOTA | 232,584
(59.9%) | 149,244
(38.4%) | 6,387
(1.6%) | SD | | Dennis M. Daugaard, Larry Long, Mike Rounds | 3 | | | TENNESSEE | 1,384,375
(56.8%) | 1,036,477
(42.5%) | 16,467
(0.7%) | TN | | Susan Anderson, Betty Cannon, Winfield Dunn, Geneva Williams Harrison, Brock Hill, Bruce Montgomery, Claude Ramsey, Bob Rial, John Ryder, Mark Tipps, Sally Wall | 11 | | | TEXAS | 4,526,917
(61.1%) | 2,832,704
(38.2%) | 51,144
(0.7%) | TX | | Marcus Anderson, Bennie Bock, Bill Borden, Larry Bowles, Sue Brannon, Charles Burchett, Marjorie Chandler, Tom Cottar, Christopher DecLuitt, Jan Galbraith, Martha Greenlaw, Barbara Grusendorf, Kathy Haigler, Royce Hayes, Kim Hesley, Kristina Kiik, Lance Lenz, Loyce McCarter, Frank Morris, Dan Mosher, Roger O'Dell, Jay Pierce, Mike Provost, Anna Rice, Rhealyn Samuelson, Nancy Stevens, Cheryl Surber, Mike Ussery, Glenn Warren, Susan Weddington, Jim Wiggins, Morris Woods, Peter Wrench, Sid Young | 34 | | | UTAH | 663,742
(71.5%) | 241,199
(26.0%) | 22,903
(2.5%) | UT | | Lewis K. Billings, Joseph A. Cannon, Gayle McKeachnie, Scott F. Simpson, Olene S. Walker | 5 | | | VERMONT | 121,180
(38.8%) | 184,067
(58.9%) | 7,062
(2.3%) | VT | | Billi Gosh, Paul Highberg, Jeffry Taylor | 3 | | | VIRGINIA | 1,716,959
(53.7%) | 1,454,742
(45.5%) | 26,666
(0.8%) | VA | | Peter E. Broadbent, Jr., Theodore C. Brown, Jr., Charles E. Dane, Carlton John Davis, Keith C. Drake, F. Woodrow Harris, Lloyd C. Martin, Yvonne McGee McCoy, Dorothy L. Simpson, Sean Michael Spicer, Rebecca Anne Stoeckel, Loretta H. Tate, Wendell S. Walker | 13 | | | WASHINGTON | 1,304,894
(45.6%) | 1,510,201
(52.8%) | 43,989
(1.5%) | WA | | Larry Armstrong, Ken Bumgarner, Sarah Chandler, Mary Z. Crosby, Mary F. Erwin, Alan Johanson, Richard Kelley, Greg Markley, Valeria Ogden, David W. Peterson, Patsy Whitefoot | 11 | | | WEST VIRGINIA | 423,778
(56.1%) | 326,541
(43.2%) | 5,568
(0.7%) | WV | | Rob Capehart, Larry Faircloth, Doug McKinney, Dan Moore, Richie Robb | 5 | | | WISCONSIN | 1,478,120
(49.3%) | 1,489,504
(49.7%) | 29,383
(1.0%) | WI | | Jan Banicki, Glenn Carlson, Jordan Franklin, Gail Gabrelian, Daniel Hannula, Linda Honold, Margaret McEntire, Steve Mellenthin, Jim Shinners, Martha Toran | 10 | | | WYOMING | 167,629
(68.9%) | 70,776
(29.1%) | 5,023
(2.1%) | WY | | Linda Barker, Jack Van Mark, Mike Baker | 3 | | | TOTALS | 62,040,610
(50.7%) | 59,028,444
(48.3%) | 1,226,291
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VOTES | 286 | |
| | In 2004, 538 electoral votes were available; 270 votes were needed to secure the win. |
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| Other 2004 Candidates |
Presidential Candidate
Vice Presidential Candidate |
Party |
Votes |
Ralph Nader (CT)
Peter Miguel Camejo (CA) |
Reform, Populist, independent |
465,650 |
Michael J. Badnarik (TX)
Richard V. Campagna (IA) |
Libertarian |
397,265 |
Michael Anthony Peroutka (MD)
Chuck Baldwin (FL) |
Constitution |
143,630 |
David Keith Cobb (CA)
Patricia Helen LaMarche (ME) |
Green |
119,859 |
Leonard Peltier (KS)
Janice Jordan (CA) |
Peace and Freedom |
27,607 |
Walter Frederick Brown (OR)
Mary Alice Herbert (VT) |
Socialist, Natural Law |
10,837 |
James E. Harris, Jr. (GA?)
Margaret Trowe (IA?/MN?/FL?) |
Socialist Workers |
7,102 |
Róger Calero (NY)
Arrin Hawkins (NY) |
Socialist Workers |
3,689 |
Thomas J. Harens (MN)
Jennifer A. Ryan (MN?) |
Christian Freedom |
2,387 |
Gene Amondson (AK)
Leroy J. Pletten (MI) |
Concerns of People, Prohibition |
1,944 |
Bill Van Auken (NY)
Jim Lawrence (OH) |
Socialist Equality |
1,857 |
John Parker (CA)
Teresa Gutiérrez (NY) |
Workers World/Liberty Union |
1,646 |
Charles Jay (IN)
Marilyn Chambers Taylor (CA) |
Personal Choice |
946 |
Stanford E. Andress (CO)
Irene M. Deasy (CO) |
independent |
804 |
Earl Farwell Dodge (CO)
Howard Lydick (TX) |
Prohibition |
140 |
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40,928 |
| *** Neither this line nor the overall total includes 57,230 miscellaneous write-ins, blank, and void votes compiled into one total in New York.
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