1904 United States presidential election
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476 members of the Electoral College 239 electoral votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 65.5%[1] 8.2 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Roosevelt/Fairbanks, blue denotes those won by Parker/Davis. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1904 United States presidential election occurred on November 8, 1904. It was the 30th election in the history of the United States. The election was won by incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, who had been president since the death of William McKinley in 1901.
This election was between incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won the election with 336 electoral votes. Parker got only 140 electoral votes.
This would be the second of six elections in the history of the United States where both major candidates share the same home state, the first being the 1860 election
Nominations
Republican Party
| 1904 Republican Party ticket | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Theodore Roosevelt | Charles W. Fairbanks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| for President | for Vice President | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 26th President of the United States (1901–1909) |
U.S. Senator from Indiana (1897–1905) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States from New York (1901-1909) (Nominee) (ran unopposed)
Democratic Party
| 1904 Democratic Party ticket | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alton B. Parker | Henry G. Davis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| for President | for Vice President | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals (1898–1904) |
U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1871–1883) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Alton B. Parker, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals (1898-1904) (Nominee)
- William Randolph Hearst, Congressman of New York (1903-1907)
- Francis Cockrell, Senator of Missouri (1875-1905)
- Richard Olney, former U.S Secretary of State from Massachusetts (1895-1897)
- Edward C. Wall, former Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (1890-1896)
- George Gray, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1899-1914)
- Nelson A. Miles, former Commanding General of the US Army and Military Governor of Puerto Rico (1895-1903; 1898)
Declined to run
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States from New York (1885-1889; 1893-1897)
- William Jennings Bryan, former Congressman of Nebraska (1891-1895) and Nominee in 1896 and 1900
- John Sharp Williams, Congressman of Mississippi (1893-1909)
References
- ↑ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press.