2004 United States presidential election in Alabama

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Turnout	72.50%[1]
Nominee George W. Bush John Kerry Party Republican Democratic Home state Texas Massachusetts Running mate Dick Cheney John Edwards Electoral vote 9 0 Popular vote 1,176,394 693,933 Percentage 62.46% 36.84%
County results Congressional district results Bush   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Kerry   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%
President before election George W. Bush Republican Elected President George W. Bush Republican

The2004 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 2, 2004. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

Alabama was won by incumbent PresidentGeorge W. Bush by a 25.62% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 12 news organizations considered this was a state Bush would win, or otherwise ared state. On election day, it trended Republican sharply, by a swing margin of 10.70% from the 2000 election, the strongest such swing in the nation. Bush won with over 60% of the vote, a first since1984, and carried most of the counties and congressional districts. Historically, Alabama is a very reliable Republican state that a Democratic presidential nominee has not won since1976, when Southerngovernor ofGeorgiaJimmy Carter ran and swept theDeep South.

• 2004 Alabama Democratic presidential primary

There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.^[2]

Bush won every single pre-election poll, and won each by a double-digit margin of victory. The final three polls averaged Bush leading 58% to 38%.^[3]

Bush raised $3,092,923.^[4] Kerry raised $514,589.^[5]

Neither campaign advertised or visited this state during the fall campaign.^[6][7]

Bush easily won every poll taken in the state prior to the election. Kerry won a small section of counties in the middle of the state, including winningAlabama's 7th congressional district. In 2000, the state voted for Bush 56%–41% by fifteen points; this year it voted for him by 25 points.^[3]

With the exception ofOklahoma in 2004, the state was also Bush's best performance in the South, with not evenTexas, Bush's home state, voting as red as Alabama.

CNNexit polls showed that almost 70% of male voters voted for Bush as did 99% of registeredRepublicans (which made up 48% of the population). 43% of the state describe themselves asevangelical Christians, and 88% of them voted for Bush. 62% of the state approved of Bush, and 60% approved of the decision to go to war in Iraq. 82% of white men and 79% of white women voted for Bush. Finally, 70% of voters over the age of 60 voted for Bush. Alabama was racially divided: Alabama Whites voted 80%–19% for Bush while Blacks voted 91%-9% for Kerry.^[8]

As of the2024 presidential election^[update], Bush is the last Republican to carryJefferson County (home ofBirmingham, the state's largest city) in a presidential election. Majority-blackMarengo County wouldn't vote Republican again until2024.

• Barbour (Largest city:Eufaula)
• Choctaw (Largest city:Butler)
• Colbert (Largest city:Muscle Shoals)
• Conecuh (Largest city:Evergreen)
• Jackson (Largest city:Scottsboro)
• Lawrence (Largest city:Moulton)
• Marengo (Largest city:Linden)

Bush won six of seven congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat.

District		Bush	Kerry	Representative
1st		64%	35%	Jo Bonner
2nd		67%	33%	Terry Everett
3rd		58%	41%	Mike D. Rogers
4th		71%	28%	Robert Aderholt
5th		60%	39%	Bud Cramer
6th		78%	22%	Spencer Bachus
7th		35%	64%	Artur Davis
[10]

Technically the voters of Alabama cast their ballots for electors: representatives to theElectoral College. Alabama is allocated 9 electors because it has 7congressional districts and 2senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 9 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 9 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as afaithless elector.

The electors of each state and theDistrict of Columbia met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.^[11][12]

1. Beth Chapman
2. Marty Connors
3. Martha Hosey
4. Will Sellers
5. Mike Hubbard
6. Floyd Lawson
7. Elbert Peters
8. Bettye Fine Collins
9. Martha Stokes

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