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Presidential elections were held in theUnited States on November 8, 1904. IncumbentRepublican presidentTheodore Roosevelt defeated the conservativeDemocratic nominee,Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right.
Roosevelttook office in September 1901 following theassassination of his predecessor,William McKinley. After the February 1904 death of McKinley's ally, SenatorMark Hanna, Roosevelt faced little opposition at the1904 Republican National Convention. The conservativeBourbon Democrat allies of former presidentGrover Cleveland temporarily regained control of the Democratic Party from the followers ofWilliam Jennings Bryan, and the1904 Democratic National Convention nominatedAlton B. Parker,Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Parker triumphed on the first ballot of the convention, defeating newspaper magnateWilliam Randolph Hearst.
As there was little difference between the candidates' positions, the race was largely based on their personalities; the Democrats argued that the Roosevelt presidency was "arbitrary" and "erratic".[2] Republicans emphasized Roosevelt's success in foreign affairs and his record of firmness againstmonopolies. Roosevelt easily defeated Parker, sweeping every US region except theSouth, while Parker lost multiple states won by Bryan in 1900, as well as his home state of New York. Roosevelt'spopular vote margin of 18.8% was the largest in the century between1820 and1920. With Roosevelt's landslide, he became the first presidential candidate to receive over 300 electoral votes, as well as the first non-midwestern Republican to be elected president. This was the first time since1868 thatMissouri voted for the Republican candidate. This was also the second presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in1860,1920,1940,1944, and2016.
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Republican candidates:
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As Republicans convened inChicago on June 21–23, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt's nomination was assured. He had effectively maneuvered throughout 1902 and 1903 to gain control of the party to ensure it. A dump-Roosevelt movement had centered on the candidacy of conservative SenatorMark Hanna from Ohio, but Hanna's death in February 1904 had removed this obstacle. Roosevelt's nomination speech was delivered by former governorFrank S. Black of New York and seconded by SenatorAlbert J. Beveridge from Indiana. Roosevelt was nominated unanimously on the first ballot with 994 votes.[3]: 166
Since conservatives in the Republican Party denounced Theodore Roosevelt as a radical, they were allowed to choose the vice-presidential candidate. SenatorCharles W. Fairbanks from Indiana was the obvious choice, since conservatives thought highly of him, yet he managed not to offend the party's more progressive elements. Roosevelt was personally disappointed with the idea of Fairbanks for vice-president. He would have preferred RepresentativeRobert R. Hitt from Illinois, but he did not consider the vice-presidential nomination worth a fight. With solid support from New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, Fairbanks was easily placed on the 1904 Republican ticket to appease the Old Guard.[3]: 166–167
The Republican platform insisted on maintenance of the protective tariff, called for increased foreign trade, pledged to uphold the gold standard, favored expansion of the merchant marine, promoted a strong navy, and praised in detail Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policy.[4]: 86
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Democratic candidates:
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In 1904, bothWilliam Jennings Bryan and former PresidentGrover Cleveland declined to run for president. Since the two Democratic nominees from the previous five elections did not seek the presidential nomination,Alton B. Parker, aBourbon Democrat from New York, emerged as the frontrunner.
Parker, the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, was respected by both Democrats and Republicans in his state. On several occasions, the Republicans paid Parker the honor of running no one against him when he ran for various political positions. Parker refused to work actively for the nomination, but did nothing to restrain his conservative supporters, among them the sachems ofTammany Hall. Former President Grover Cleveland endorsed Parker.
The delegates from Florida were selected through a primary, which was the first time a primary was utilized to select the delegates for a presidential convention.[6]
The Democratic Convention that met inSt. Louis on July 6–9, 1904 has been called "one of the most exciting and sensational in the history of the Democratic Party." The struggle inside the Democratic Party over the nomination was to prove as contentious as the election itself. Though Parker, out of active politics for twenty years, had neither enemies nor errors to make him unavailable, the more liberal wing of the party waged a bitter battle against Parker's candidacy in the months before the convention.
Despite Parker's support for the regular Democratic ticket under Bryan in1896 and1900, Bryan hated him for being aGold Democrat. Bryan wanted the weakest man nominated, one who could not take the control of the party away from him. He denounced Judge Parker as a tool ofWall Street before he was nominated and declared that no self-respecting Democrat could vote for him.
Inheriting Bryan's support was publisher, now congressman,William Randolph Hearst of New York. Hearst owned eight newspapers, all of them friendly to labor, vigorous in their trust-busting activities, fighting the cause of "the people who worked for a living." Because of this liberalism, Hearst had the Illinois delegation pledged to him and the promise of several other states. Although Hearst's newspaper was the only major publication in the East to support William Jennings Bryan andBimetallism in 1896, he found that his support for Bryan was not reciprocated. Instead, Bryan seconded the nomination ofFrancis Cockrell.
The prospect of having Hearst for a candidate frightened conservative Democrats so much that they renewed their efforts to get Parker nominated on the first ballot. Parker received 658 votes on the first roll call, 9 short of the necessary two-thirds. Before the result could be announced, 21 more votes were transferred to Parker. As a result, Parker handily won the nomination on the first ballot with 679 votes to 181 for Hearst and the rest scattered.
After Parker's nomination, Bryan charged that it had been dictated by the trusts and secured by "crooked and indefensible methods." Bryan also said that labor had been betrayed in the convention and could look for nothing from the Democratic Party. Indeed, Parker was one of the judges on the New York Court of Appeals who declared the eight-hour law unconstitutional.[7]
Before a vice-presidential candidate could be nominated, Parker sprang into action when he learned that the Democratic platform pointedly omitted reference to the monetary issue. To make his position clear, Parker, after his nomination, informed the convention by letter that he supported the gold standard. The letter read, "I regard the gold standard as firmly and irrevocably established and shall act accordingly if the action of the convention today shall be ratified by the people. As the platform is silent on the subject, my view should be made known to the convention, and if it is proved to be unsatisfactory to the majority, I request you to decline the nomination for me at once, so that another may be nominated before adjournment."[8]
It was the first time a candidate had made such a move. It was an act of daring that might have lost him the nomination and made him an outcast from the party he had served and believed in all his life.[9][10]
Former SenatorHenry G. Davis from West Virginia was nominated for vice president; at 80, he was the oldest major party candidate ever nominated for national office.[11] Davis received the nomination because party leaders believed that as a millionaire mine owner, railroad magnate, and banker, he could be counted on to help finance the campaign.[11] Their hopes were unrealized, as Davis did not substantially contribute to the party coffers.[11]
Parker protested against "the rule of individual caprice," the presidential "usurpation of authority," and the "aggrandizement of personal power." But his more positive proposals were so backward-looking, such as his proposal to let state legislatures and the common law develop a remedy for the trust problem, that theNew York World characterized the campaign as a struggle of "conservative and constitutional Democracy against radical and arbitrary Republicanism."[12]
The Democratic platform called for reduction in government expenditures and a congressional investigation of the executive departments "already known to teem with corruption"; condemned monopolies; pledged an end to government contracts with companies violating antitrust laws; opposed imperialism; insisted upon independence for thePhilippines; and opposed the protective tariff. It favored strict enforcement of theeight-hour day in labor; construction of aPanama Canal; the direct election of senators; statehood for the Western territories; the extermination of polygamy; reciprocal trade agreements; cuts in the army; and enforcement of the civil service laws. It condemned the Roosevelt administration in general as "spasmodic, erratic, sensational, spectacular, and arbitrary."[13]
| Presidential ballot | 1st(before shifts) | 1st(after shifts) | Unanimous | Vice-presidential ballot | 1st | Unanimous |
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| Alton B. Parker | 658 | 679 | 1,000 | Henry G. Davis | 654 | 1,000 |
| William Randolph Hearst | 200 | 181 | James R. Williams | 165 | ||
| Francis Cockrell | 42 | 42 | George Turner | 100 | ||
| Richard Olney | 38 | 38 | William Alexander Harris | 58 | ||
| Edward C. Wall | 27 | 27 | Abstaining | 23 | ||
| George Gray | 12 | 12 | ||||
| John Sharp Williams | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Robert E. Pattison | 4 | 4 | ||||
| George B. McClellan Jr. | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Nelson A. Miles | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Charles A. Towne | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Arthur Pue Gorman | 2 | - | ||||
| Bird Sim Coler | 1 | 1 |
TheSocialist Party of America was formed from theSocial Democratic Party of America and the Kangaroo faction of theSocialist Labor Party of America at a 1901 convention inIndianapolis. The Socialists received over 227,000 votes in the1902 United States House of Representatives elections, which was twice the number of votes thatEugene V. Debs had received in 1900. Nine Socialists were elected to the city council inMilwaukee,Wisconsin, in the 1904 election.[14][15]
On May 5, 1904,George D. Herron nominated Debs for the presidential nomination whileHermon F. Titus nominatedBen Hanford for the vice-presidential nomination. The 183 delegates who attended the convention voted unanimously to give the presidential and vice-presidential nominations to Debs and Hanford. Debs accepted the nomination on May 6, and chairSeymour Stedman referred to Debs as the "Ferdinand Lassalle of the twentieth century".[14][16][17]
The Socialists raised $32,700 during the campaign. Debs received 402,810 votes, which was over four times the number that he had received in 1900, and he received his largest amount of support fromIllinois.[14] Debs received more votes than Parker in counties such asRock Island in Illinois andSkamania inWashington, and outpolled Roosevelt in some Southern counties.
The Continental Party met in Chicago on August 31, 1904. They nominated Austin Holcomb as their presidential candidate. Initially, George H. Shibley was nominated for vice-president. He turned down the nomination, however, and A. King was nominated in his stead.[18][19]
ThePopulist Party held their national convention inSpringfield, Illinois from July 4 to 6, 1904. Unsatisfied with the Democratic Party's nomination of Alton Parker for president they chose to nominate their own candidates to contest the office, unlike in 1896 and 1900, when they endorsed Bryan. After two ballots,Thomas Watson was selected as the party's presidential candidate andThomas Tibbles was selected as his running mate.[18]
| Presidential ballot | 1st | 2nd | Vice-presidential ballot | 1st |
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| Thomas E. Watson | 334 | 698 | Thomas H. Tibbles | 698 |
| William V. Allen | 319 | 0 | ||
| Samuel W. Williams | 45 | 0 |
TheProhibition Party met in Indianapolis from June 29 to July 1. The convention was attended by 758 delegates representing 39 states.Silas C. Swallow was selected as the party's presidential candidate andGeorge W. Carrol was selected as the vice-presidential candidate.[18]
TheSocialist Labor Party met at theGrand Central Palace inNew York City from July 2 to July 8. Their convention was attended by 38 delegates representing 18 states. Those delegates nominatedCharles H. Corregan and William W. Cox for president and vice-president respectively.[18]
The National Liberty Party met in St. Louis from July 5 to 6 to nominate a presidential slate. While 28 delegates attended the convention and elected to nominate Stanley P. Mitchell and William C. Payne as their candidates, the party ultimately did not contest the election after Mitchell declined the nomination.[18]
The major parties campaigned much less vigorously than they had in1896 and1900. The campaign season was pervaded by goodwill, and it went a long way toward mending the damage done by the previous class-war elections. This was due to the fact that Parker and Roosevelt, with the exception of charisma, were so similar in political outlook.
So close were the two candidates that few differences could be detected. Both men were for the gold standard; though the Democrats were more outspokenly against imperialism, both believed in fair treatment for the Filipinos and eventual liberation; and both believed that labor unions had the same rights as individuals before the courts. The radicals in the Democratic Party denounced Parker as a conservative; the conservatives in the Republican Party denounced Theodore Roosevelt as a radical.
During the campaign, there were a couple of instances in which Roosevelt was seen as vulnerable. In the first place,Joseph Pulitzer'sNew York World carried a full-page story about alleged corruption in the Bureau of Corporations. President Roosevelt admitted certain payments had been made, but denied any "blackmail." Secondly, in appointingGeorge B. Cortelyou as his campaign manager, Roosevelt had purposely used his former Secretary of Commerce and Labor. This was of importance because Cortelyou, knowing the secrets of the corporations, could extract large contributions from them. The charge created quite a stir and in later years was proven to be sound. In 1907, it was disclosed that the insurance companies had contributed rather too heavily to the Roosevelt campaign. Only a week before the election, Roosevelt himself calledE. H. Harriman, the railroad king, toWashington, D.C., for the purpose of raising funds to carryNew York.[9]
Both candidates received insiders' money, however. Parker received financial support from theMorgan banking interests, just asBourbon DemocratCleveland had before him.Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston millionaire, charged thatNew York state SenatorPatrick Henry McCarren, a prominent Parker backer, was on the payroll ofStandard Oil at the rate of twenty thousand dollars a year. Lawson offered Senator McCarren $100,000 (equivalent to $3.5 million today) if he would disprove the charge.[7] According to one account, "No denial of the charge was ever made by the Senator." One paper even referred to McCarren as "the Standard Oil serpent of Brooklyn politics."[20]
In the election, 29.7% of the voting age population and 65.5% of eligible voters participated.[21] Theodore Roosevelt won alandslide victory, taking every Northern and Western state.
Roosevelt was the first Republican to carry the state of Missouri sinceUlysses S. Grant in1868. In voting Republican, Missouri repositioned itself from being associated with theSolid South to being seen as abellwetherswing state throughout the 20th century. The vote inMaryland was extremely close. For the first time in that state's history, secret paper ballots, supplied at public expense, and without political symbols of any kind, were issued to each voter. Candidates for electors were listed under the presidential and vice presidential candidates for each party; there were four parties recognized in the election: Democratic, Republican, Prohibition, and Socialist. Voters were free to mark their ballots for up to eight candidates of any party. While Roosevelt's victory nationally was quickly determined, the election in Maryland remained in doubt for several weeks. On November 30, Roosevelt was declared the statewide victor by just 51 votes. However, as voters had voted for individualpresidential electors, only one Republican elector,Charles Bonaparte, survived the tally. The other seven top vote recipients were Democrats.[22]
Roosevelt won the election by more than 2.5 million popular votes, making him the first president to win a primarily two-man race by more than a million votes. Roosevelt won 56.4% of the popular vote; that, along with his popular vote margin of 18.8%, was the largest recorded betweenJames Monroe'suncontested re-election in 1820 and the election ofWarren G. Harding in1920. Of the 2,754 counties making returns, Roosevelt carried 1,611 (58.50%) and won a majority of votes in 1,538; he and Parker were tied in one county (0.04%).
Populist candidateThomas Watson received 117,183 votes and won nine counties (0.33%) in his home state of Georgia. He had a majority in five of the counties, and his vote total was double the Populist showing in 1900 but less than one eighth of the party's total in1892.
Parker carried 1,133 counties (41.14%) and won a majority in 1,057. The distribution of the vote by counties reveals him to have been a weaker candidate thanWilliam Jennings Bryan, the party's nomineefour years earlier, in every section of the nation, except for the deep South, where Democratic dominance remained strong, due in large part to pervasivedisfranchisement of blacks.[24] In 17 states, the Parker–Davis ticket failed to carry a single county, and outside the South carried only 84.[25]
This was the last election in which the Republicans won Colorado, Nebraska, and Nevada until 1920.
Roosevelt won 5.24% of his votes from the eleven states of the former Confederacy and he won 29% of the vote in that region.[26]
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
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| Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) | Republican | New York | 7,630,457 | 56.42% | 336 | Charles W. Fairbanks | Indiana | 336 |
| Alton B. Parker | Democratic | New York | 5,083,880 | 37.59% | 140 | Henry Gassaway Davis | West Virginia | 140 |
| Eugene V. Debs | Socialist | Indiana | 402,810 | 2.98% | 0 | Benjamin Hanford | New York | 0 |
| Silas C. Swallow | Prohibition | Pennsylvania | 259,102 | 1.92% | 0 | George Washington Carroll | Texas | 0 |
| Thomas E. Watson | Populist | Georgia | 114,070 | 0.84% | 0 | Thomas Tibbles | Nebraska | 0 |
| Charles Hunter Corregan | Socialist Labor | New York | 33,454 | 0.25% | 0 | William Wesley Cox | Illinois | 0 |
| Other | 1,229 | 0.01% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 13,525,002 | 100% | 476 | 476 | ||||
| Needed to win | 239 | 239 | ||||||
Source (popular vote):Leip, David."1904 Presidential Election Results".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. RetrievedJuly 28, 2005.
Source (electoral vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedJuly 31, 2005.
| Roosevelt | 56.42% | |||
| Parker | 37.59% | |||
| Debs | 2.98% | |||
| Swallow | 1.92% | |||
| Watson | 0.84% | |||
| Others | 0.26% | |||
| Roosevelt | 70.59% | |||
| Parker | 29.41% | |||
Source:[27]
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| Theodore Roosevelt Republican | Alton B. Parker Democratic | Eugene V. Debs Socialist | Silas Swallow Prohibition | Thomas Watson Populist | Charles Corregan Socialist Labor | Margin | State total | ||||||||||||||||
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| State | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | # | |
| Alabama | 11 | 22,472 | 20.66 | - | 79,797 | 73.35 | 11 | 853 | 0.78 | - | 612 | 0.56 | - | 5,051 | 4.64 | - | - | - | - | -57,325 | -52.70 | 108,785 | AL |
| Arkansas | 9 | 46,860 | 40.25 | - | 64,434 | 55.35 | 9 | 1,816 | 1.56 | - | 993 | 0.85 | - | 2,318 | 1.99 | - | - | - | - | -17,574 | -15.10 | 116,421 | AR |
| California | 10 | 205,226 | 61.84 | 10 | 89,404 | 26.94 | - | 29,535 | 8.90 | - | 7,380 | 2.22 | - | 2 | 0.00 | - | - | - | - | 115,822 | 34.90 | 331,878 | CA |
| Colorado | 5 | 134,661 | 55.26 | 5 | 100,105 | 41.08 | - | 4,304 | 1.77 | - | 3,438 | 1.41 | - | 824 | 0.34 | - | 335 | 0.14 | - | 34,556 | 14.18 | 243,667 | CO |
| Connecticut | 7 | 111,089 | 58.12 | 7 | 72,909 | 38.15 | - | 4,543 | 2.38 | - | 1,506 | 0.79 | - | 495 | 0.26 | - | 575 | 0.30 | - | 38,180 | 19.98 | 191,128 | CT |
| Delaware | 3 | 23,705 | 54.05 | 3 | 19,347 | 44.11 | - | 146 | 0.33 | - | 607 | 1.38 | - | 51 | 0.12 | - | - | - | - | 4,358 | 9.94 | 43,856 | DE |
| Florida | 5 | 8,314 | 21.48 | - | 26,449 | 68.33 | 5 | 2,337 | 6.04 | - | - | - | - | 1,605 | 4.15 | - | - | - | - | -18,135 | -46.85 | 38,705 | FL |
| Georgia | 13 | 24,004 | 18.33 | - | 83,466 | 63.72 | 13 | 196 | 0.15 | - | 685 | 0.52 | - | 22,635 | 17.28 | - | - | - | - | -59,462 | -45.40 | 130,986 | GA |
| Idaho | 3 | 47,783 | 65.84 | 3 | 18,480 | 25.46 | - | 4,949 | 6.82 | - | 1,013 | 1.40 | - | 353 | 0.49 | - | - | - | - | 29,303 | 40.37 | 72,578 | ID |
| Illinois | 27 | 632,645 | 58.77 | 27 | 327,606 | 30.43 | - | 69,225 | 6.43 | - | 34,770 | 3.23 | - | 6,725 | 0.62 | - | 4,698 | 0.44 | - | 305,039 | 28.34 | 1,076,499 | IL |
| Indiana | 15 | 368,289 | 53.99 | 15 | 274,345 | 40.22 | - | 12,013 | 1.76 | - | 23,496 | 3.44 | - | 2,444 | 0.36 | - | 1,598 | 0.23 | - | 93,944 | 13.77 | 682,185 | IN |
| Iowa | 13 | 308,158 | 63.39 | 13 | 149,276 | 30.71 | - | 14,849 | 3.05 | - | 11,603 | 2.39 | - | 2,207 | 0.45 | - | - | - | - | 158,882 | 32.69 | 486,093 | IA |
| Kansas | 10 | 212,955 | 64.81 | 10 | 86,174 | 26.23 | - | 15,869 | 4.83 | - | 7,306 | 2.22 | - | 6,257 | 1.90 | - | - | - | - | 126,781 | 38.59 | 328,561 | KS |
| Kentucky | 13 | 205,457 | 47.13 | - | 217,170 | 49.82 | 13 | 3,599 | 0.83 | - | 6,603 | 1.51 | - | 2,521 | 0.58 | - | 596 | 0.14 | - | -11,713 | -2.69 | 435,946 | KY |
| Louisiana | 9 | 5,205 | 9.66 | - | 47,708 | 88.50 | 9 | 995 | 1.85 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -42,503 | -78.84 | 53,908 | LA |
| Maine | 6 | 65,432 | 67.44 | 6 | 27,642 | 28.49 | - | 2,102 | 2.17 | - | 1,510 | 1.56 | - | 337 | 0.35 | - | - | - | - | 37,790 | 38.95 | 97,023 | ME |
| Maryland | 8 | 109,497 | 48.83 | 1 | 109,446 | 48.81 | 7 | 2,247 | 1.00 | - | 3,034 | 1.35 | - | 1 | 0.00 | - | - | - | - | 51 | 0.02 | 224,229 | MD |
| Massachusetts | 16 | 257,822 | 57.92 | 16 | 165,746 | 37.24 | - | 13,604 | 3.06 | - | 4,279 | 0.96 | - | 1,294 | 0.29 | - | 2,359 | 0.53 | - | 92,076 | 20.69 | 445,109 | MA |
| Michigan | 14 | 364,957 | 69.51 | 14 | 135,392 | 25.79 | - | 9,042 | 1.72 | - | 13,441 | 2.56 | - | 1,159 | 0.22 | - | 1,036 | 0.20 | - | 229,565 | 43.72 | 525,027 | MI |
| Minnesota | 11 | 216,651 | 73.98 | 11 | 55,187 | 18.84 | - | 11,692 | 3.99 | - | 6,253 | 2.14 | - | 2,103 | 0.72 | - | 974 | 0.33 | - | 161,464 | 55.13 | 292,860 | MN |
| Mississippi | 10 | 3,280 | 5.59 | - | 53,480 | 91.07 | 10 | 462 | 0.79 | - | - | - | - | 1,499 | 2.55 | - | - | - | - | -50,200 | -85.49 | 58,721 | MS |
| Missouri | 18 | 321,449 | 49.93 | 18 | 296,312 | 46.02 | - | 13,009 | 2.02 | - | 7,191 | 1.12 | - | 4,226 | 0.66 | - | 1,674 | 0.26 | - | 25,137 | 3.90 | 643,861 | MO |
| Montana | 3 | 34,932 | 54.21 | 3 | 21,773 | 33.79 | - | 5,676 | 8.81 | - | 335 | 0.52 | - | 1,520 | 2.36 | - | 208 | 0.32 | - | 13,159 | 20.42 | 64,444 | MT |
| Nebraska | 8 | 138,558 | 61.38 | 8 | 52,921 | 23.44 | - | 7,412 | 3.28 | - | 6,323 | 2.80 | - | 20,518 | 9.09 | - | - | - | - | 85,637 | 37.94 | 225,732 | NE |
| Nevada | 3 | 6,864 | 56.66 | 3 | 3,982 | 32.87 | - | 925 | 7.64 | - | - | - | - | 344 | 2.84 | - | - | - | - | 2,882 | 23.79 | 12,115 | NV |
| New Hampshire | 4 | 54,163 | 60.07 | 4 | 34,074 | 37.79 | - | 1,090 | 1.21 | - | 750 | 0.83 | - | 83 | 0.09 | - | - | - | - | 20,089 | 22.28 | 90,161 | NH |
| New Jersey | 12 | 245,164 | 56.68 | 12 | 164,566 | 38.05 | - | 9,587 | 2.22 | - | 6,845 | 1.58 | - | 3,705 | 0.86 | - | 2,680 | 0.62 | - | 80,598 | 18.63 | 432,547 | NJ |
| New York | 39 | 859,533 | 53.13 | 39 | 683,981 | 42.28 | - | 36,883 | 2.28 | - | 20,787 | 1.28 | - | 7,459 | 0.46 | - | 9,127 | 0.56 | - | 175,552 | 10.85 | 1,617,770 | NY |
| North Carolina | 12 | 82,442 | 39.67 | - | 124,091 | 59.71 | 12 | 124 | 0.06 | - | 342 | 0.16 | - | 819 | 0.39 | - | - | - | - | -41,649 | -20.04 | 207,818 | NC |
| North Dakota | 4 | 52,595 | 75.12 | 4 | 14,273 | 20.39 | - | 2,009 | 2.87 | - | 1,137 | 1.62 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 38,322 | 54.73 | 70,014 | ND |
| Ohio | 23 | 600,095 | 59.75 | 23 | 344,674 | 34.32 | - | 36,260 | 3.61 | - | 19,339 | 1.93 | - | 1,392 | 0.14 | - | 2,633 | 0.26 | - | 255,421 | 25.43 | 1,004,393 | OH |
| Oregon | 4 | 60,455 | 67.06 | 4 | 17,521 | 19.43 | - | 7,619 | 8.45 | - | 3,806 | 4.22 | - | 753 | 0.84 | - | - | - | - | 42,934 | 47.62 | 90,154 | OR |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | 840,949 | 68.00 | 34 | 337,998 | 27.33 | - | 21,863 | 1.77 | - | 33,717 | 2.73 | - | - | - | - | 2,211 | 0.18 | - | 502,951 | 40.67 | 1,236,738 | PA |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 41,605 | 60.60 | 4 | 24,839 | 36.18 | - | 956 | 1.39 | - | 768 | 1.12 | - | - | - | - | 488 | 0.71 | - | 16,766 | 24.42 | 68,656 | RI |
| South Carolina | 9 | 2,554 | 4.63 | - | 52,563 | 95.36 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0.00 | - | - | - | - | -50,009 | -90.73 | 55,118 | SC |
| South Dakota | 4 | 72,083 | 71.09 | 4 | 21,969 | 21.67 | - | 3,138 | 3.09 | - | 2,965 | 2.92 | - | 1,240 | 1.22 | - | - | - | - | 50,114 | 49.42 | 101,395 | SD |
| Tennessee | 12 | 105,363 | 43.40 | - | 131,653 | 54.23 | 12 | 1,354 | 0.56 | - | 1,889 | 0.78 | - | 2,491 | 1.03 | - | - | - | - | -26,290 | -10.83 | 242,750 | TN |
| Texas | 18 | 51,242 | 21.90 | - | 167,200 | 71.45 | 18 | 2,791 | 1.19 | - | 4,292 | 1.83 | - | 8,062 | 3.45 | - | 421 | 0.18 | - | -115,958 | -49.55 | 234,008 | TX |
| Utah | 3 | 62,446 | 61.42 | 3 | 33,413 | 32.86 | - | 5,767 | 5.67 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29,033 | 28.56 | 101,672 | UT |
| Vermont | 4 | 40,459 | 77.97 | 4 | 9,777 | 18.84 | - | 859 | 1.66 | - | 792 | 1.53 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30,682 | 59.13 | 51,888 | VT |
| Virginia | 12 | 48,180 | 36.95 | - | 80,649 | 61.84 | 12 | 202 | 0.15 | - | 1,379 | 1.06 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -32,469 | -24.90 | 130,410 | VA |
| Washington | 5 | 101,540 | 69.95 | 5 | 28,098 | 19.36 | - | 10,023 | 6.91 | - | 3,229 | 2.22 | - | 669 | 0.46 | - | 1,592 | 1.10 | - | 73,442 | 50.60 | 145,151 | WA |
| West Virginia | 7 | 132,620 | 55.26 | 7 | 100,855 | 42.03 | - | 1,573 | 0.66 | - | 4,599 | 1.92 | - | 339 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | 31,765 | 13.24 | 239,986 | WV |
| Wisconsin | 13 | 280,315 | 63.21 | 13 | 124,205 | 28.01 | - | 28,240 | 6.37 | - | 9,872 | 2.23 | - | 560 | 0.13 | - | 249 | 0.06 | - | 156,110 | 35.20 | 443,441 | WI |
| Wyoming | 3 | 20,489 | 66.72 | 3 | 8,930 | 29.08 | - | 1,072 | 3.49 | - | 217 | 0.71 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11,559 | 37.64 | 30,708 | WY |
| TOTALS: | 476 | 7,630,557 | 56.42 | 336 | 5,083,880 | 37.59 | 140 | 402,810 | 2.98 | - | 259,103 | 1.92 | - | 114,062 | 0.84 | - | 33,454 | 0.25 | - | 2,546,677 | 18.83 | 13,525,095 | US |
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