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The1904 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the1904 presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
Alabama was won by theDemocratic nominees,Chief JudgeAlton B. Parker ofNew York and his running mateHenry G. Davis ofWest Virginia. They defeated theRepublican nominees, incumbent PresidentTheodore Roosevelt ofNew York and his running mateCharles W. Fairbanks ofIndiana. Parker won the state by a landslide margin of 52.72%.
Due to the widespread disenfranchisement of African-Americans during the Jim Crow era, only 13 African-Americans in all of Sumter County voted in the 1904 presidential election, all thirteen of whom voted for Theodore Roosevelt and all thirteen of whom would be prevented from voting in the next several presidential elections.[1]
With 73.37% of the popular vote, Alabama would prove to be Parker's fourth strongest state afterSouth Carolina,Mississippi andLouisiana.[2]
| 1904 United States presidential election in Alabama[3] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Alton B. Parker | 79,857 | 73.37% | 11 | |
| Republican | Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) | 22,472 | 20.65% | 0 | |
| Watson Populist[4] | Thomas E. Watson | 5,051 | 4.64% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 853 | 0.78% | 0 | |
| Swallow Populist[4] | Silas C. Swallow | 612 | 0.56% | 0 | |
| Totals | 108,845 | 100.00% | 11 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| County | Alton B. Parker Democratic | Theodore Roosevelt Republican | Thomas E. Watson[5] Watson Populist | Eugene V. Debs[5] Socialist | Silas C. Swallow[5] Swallow Populist | Margin | Total votes cast[6] | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Autauga | 733 | 89.83% | 73 | 8.95% | 9 | 1.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.12% | 660 | 80.88% | 816 |
| Baldwin | 454 | 73.94% | 126 | 20.52% | 9 | 1.47% | 24 | 3.91% | 1 | 0.16% | 328 | 53.42% | 614 |
| Barbour | 1,356 | 94.04% | 49 | 3.40% | 29 | 2.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 8 | 0.55% | 1,307 | 90.64% | 1,442 |
| Bibb | 1,085 | 83.08% | 155 | 11.87% | 48 | 3.68% | 13 | 1.00% | 5 | 0.38% | 930 | 71.21% | 1,306 |
| Blount | 1,383 | 57.01% | 910 | 37.51% | 117 | 4.82% | 3 | 0.12% | 13 | 0.54% | 473 | 19.50% | 2,426 |
| Bullock | 726 | 99.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 724[a] | 99.45% | 728 |
| Butler | 805 | 84.29% | 83 | 8.69% | 63 | 6.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 4 | 0.42% | 722 | 75.60% | 955 |
| Calhoun | 1,556 | 80.50% | 287 | 14.85% | 57 | 2.95% | 7 | 0.36% | 26 | 1.35% | 1,269 | 65.65% | 1,933 |
| Chambers | 1,421 | 90.80% | 74 | 4.73% | 59 | 3.77% | 1 | 0.06% | 10 | 0.64% | 1,347 | 86.07% | 1,565 |
| Cherokee | 905 | 53.49% | 502 | 29.67% | 232 | 13.71% | 38 | 2.25% | 15 | 0.89% | 403 | 23.82% | 1,692 |
| Chilton | 738 | 44.54% | 648 | 39.11% | 257 | 15.51% | 8 | 0.48% | 6 | 0.36% | 90 | 5.43% | 1,657 |
| Choctaw | 558 | 88.57% | 45 | 7.14% | 22 | 3.49% | 1 | 0.16% | 4 | 0.63% | 513 | 81.43% | 630 |
| Clarke | 1,131 | 91.50% | 79 | 6.39% | 9 | 0.73% | 4 | 0.32% | 13 | 1.05% | 1,052 | 85.11% | 1,236 |
| Clay | 1,345 | 56.54% | 990 | 41.61% | 44 | 1.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 355 | 14.92% | 2,379 |
| Cleburne | 701 | 60.85% | 414 | 35.94% | 33 | 2.86% | 1 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.26% | 287 | 24.91% | 1,152 |
| Coffee | 1,106 | 64.34% | 226 | 13.15% | 380 | 22.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 7 | 0.41% | 726[a] | 42.23% | 1,719 |
| Colbert | 936 | 80.55% | 203 | 17.47% | 3 | 0.26% | 15 | 1.29% | 5 | 0.43% | 733 | 63.08% | 1,162 |
| Conecuh | 739 | 85.43% | 106 | 12.25% | 18 | 2.08% | 1 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.12% | 633 | 73.18% | 865 |
| Coosa | 933 | 61.26% | 472 | 30.99% | 106 | 6.96% | 5 | 0.33% | 7 | 0.46% | 461 | 30.27% | 1,523 |
| Covington | 907 | 67.99% | 310 | 23.24% | 110 | 8.25% | 1 | 0.07% | 6 | 0.45% | 597 | 44.75% | 1,334 |
| Crenshaw | 1,077 | 79.25% | 180 | 13.25% | 93 | 6.84% | 5 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.29% | 897 | 66.00% | 1,359 |
| Cullman | 1,497 | 49.60% | 1,238 | 41.02% | 240 | 7.95% | 3 | 0.10% | 40 | 1.33% | 259 | 8.58% | 3,018 |
| Dale | 997 | 69.92% | 345 | 24.19% | 73 | 5.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 11 | 0.77% | 652 | 45.72% | 1,426 |
| Dallas | 1,472 | 96.65% | 36 | 2.36% | 4 | 0.26% | 11 | 0.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,436 | 94.29% | 1,523 |
| DeKalb | 1,716 | 55.91% | 1,237 | 40.31% | 100 | 3.26% | 6 | 0.20% | 10 | 0.33% | 479 | 15.61% | 3,069 |
| Elmore | 1,226 | 86.64% | 151 | 10.67% | 35 | 2.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 0.21% | 1,075 | 75.97% | 1,415 |
| Escambia | 627 | 87.20% | 83 | 11.54% | 3 | 0.42% | 2 | 0.28% | 4 | 0.56% | 544 | 75.66% | 719 |
| Etowah | 1,431 | 56.88% | 823 | 32.71% | 230 | 9.14% | 10 | 0.40% | 22 | 0.87% | 608 | 24.17% | 2,516 |
| Fayette | 712 | 46.87% | 599 | 39.43% | 177 | 11.65% | 12 | 0.79% | 19 | 1.25% | 113 | 7.44% | 1,519 |
| Franklin | 767 | 50.90% | 668 | 44.33% | 65 | 4.31% | 7 | 0.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 99 | 6.57% | 1,507 |
| Geneva | 743 | 48.88% | 473 | 31.12% | 288 | 18.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 16 | 1.05% | 270 | 17.76% | 1,520 |
| Greene | 477 | 95.98% | 17 | 3.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 0.60% | 460 | 92.56% | 497 |
| Hale | 723 | 96.02% | 27 | 3.59% | 3 | 0.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 696 | 92.43% | 753 |
| Henry | 701 | 76.95% | 104 | 11.42% | 105 | 11.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.11% | 596[a] | 65.42% | 911 |
| Houston | 1,248 | 72.47% | 384 | 22.30% | 74 | 4.30% | 0 | 0.00% | 16 | 0.93% | 864 | 50.17% | 1,722 |
| Jackson | 1,641 | 69.62% | 666 | 28.26% | 43 | 1.82% | 1 | 0.04% | 6 | 0.25% | 975 | 41.37% | 2,357 |
| Jefferson | 6,424 | 80.08% | 1,090 | 13.59% | 54 | 0.67% | 386 | 4.81% | 68 | 0.85% | 5,334 | 66.49% | 8,022 |
| Lamar | 848 | 78.81% | 215 | 19.98% | 8 | 0.74% | 2 | 0.19% | 3 | 0.28% | 633 | 58.83% | 1,076 |
| Lauderdale | 1,269 | 79.02% | 316 | 19.68% | 4 | 0.25% | 7 | 0.44% | 10 | 0.62% | 953 | 59.34% | 1,606 |
| Lawrence | 909 | 68.14% | 410 | 30.73% | 8 | 0.60% | 2 | 0.15% | 5 | 0.37% | 499 | 37.41% | 1,334 |
| Lee | 1,348 | 94.40% | 40 | 2.80% | 18 | 1.26% | 19 | 1.33% | 3 | 0.21% | 1,308 | 91.60% | 1,428 |
| Limestone | 1,053 | 83.77% | 187 | 14.88% | 13 | 1.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 4 | 0.32% | 866 | 68.89% | 1,257 |
| Lowndes | 697 | 95.22% | 32 | 4.37% | 3 | 0.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 665 | 90.85% | 732 |
| Macon | 562 | 90.65% | 51 | 8.23% | 7 | 1.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 511 | 82.42% | 620 |
| Madison | 2,119 | 91.61% | 182 | 7.87% | 6 | 0.26% | 1 | 0.04% | 5 | 0.22% | 1,937 | 83.74% | 2,313 |
| Marengo | 1,149 | 94.65% | 56 | 4.61% | 9 | 0.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,093 | 90.03% | 1,214 |
| Marion | 1,224 | 65.67% | 635 | 34.07% | 4 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.05% | 589 | 31.60% | 1,864 |
| Marshall | 1,336 | 51.21% | 966 | 37.03% | 294 | 11.27% | 6 | 0.23% | 7 | 0.27% | 370 | 14.18% | 2,609 |
| Mobile | 3,283 | 89.33% | 325 | 8.84% | 9 | 0.24% | 38 | 1.03% | 20 | 0.54% | 2,958 | 80.49% | 3,675 |
| Monroe | 836 | 93.72% | 46 | 5.16% | 8 | 0.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.22% | 790 | 88.57% | 892 |
| Montgomery | 2,492 | 97.53% | 50 | 1.96% | 3 | 0.12% | 8 | 0.31% | 2 | 0.08% | 2,442 | 95.58% | 2,555 |
| Morgan | 1,437 | 71.96% | 416 | 20.83% | 42 | 2.10% | 70 | 3.51% | 32 | 1.60% | 1,021 | 51.13% | 1,997 |
| Perry | 799 | 85.00% | 47 | 5.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 47 | 5.00% | 47 | 5.00% | 752 | 80.00% | 940 |
| Pickens | 866 | 81.54% | 105 | 9.89% | 77 | 7.25% | 1 | 0.09% | 13 | 1.22% | 761 | 71.66% | 1,062 |
| Pike | 1,544 | 95.66% | 29 | 1.80% | 38 | 2.35% | 1 | 0.06% | 2 | 0.12% | 1,506[a] | 93.31% | 1,614 |
| Randolph | 1,518 | 66.58% | 695 | 30.48% | 60 | 2.63% | 2 | 0.09% | 5 | 0.22% | 823 | 36.10% | 2,280 |
| Russell | 558 | 94.10% | 21 | 3.54% | 9 | 1.52% | 4 | 0.67% | 1 | 0.17% | 537 | 90.56% | 593 |
| St. Clair | 1,106 | 45.37% | 679 | 27.85% | 614 | 25.18% | 8 | 0.33% | 31 | 1.27% | 427 | 17.51% | 2,438 |
| Shelby | 908 | 46.78% | 593 | 30.55% | 425 | 21.90% | 6 | 0.31% | 9 | 0.46% | 315 | 16.23% | 1,941 |
| Sumter | 883 | 97.46% | 16 | 1.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 7 | 0.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 867 | 95.70% | 906 |
| Talladega | 1,264 | 80.77% | 252 | 16.10% | 36 | 2.30% | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 0.83% | 1,012 | 64.66% | 1,565 |
| Tallapoosa | 1,791 | 84.08% | 234 | 10.99% | 84 | 3.94% | 6 | 0.28% | 15 | 0.70% | 1,557 | 73.10% | 2,130 |
| Tuscaloosa | 1,405 | 88.20% | 132 | 8.29% | 25 | 1.57% | 26 | 1.63% | 5 | 0.31% | 1,273 | 79.91% | 1,593 |
| Walker | 1,639 | 60.66% | 1,024 | 37.90% | 3 | 0.11% | 22 | 0.81% | 14 | 0.52% | 615 | 22.76% | 2,702 |
| Washington | 443 | 86.69% | 54 | 10.57% | 9 | 1.76% | 2 | 0.39% | 3 | 0.59% | 389 | 76.13% | 511 |
| Wilcox | 912 | 98.92% | 2 | 0.22% | 5 | 0.54% | 1 | 0.11% | 2 | 0.22% | 907[a] | 98.37% | 922 |
| Winston | 602 | 42.13% | 789 | 55.21% | 36 | 2.52% | 2 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | −187 | −13.09% | 1,429 |
| Totals | 79,797 | 73.35% | 22,472 | 20.66% | 5,051 | 4.64% | 853 | 0.78% | 612 | 0.56% | 57,325 | 52.70% | 108,785 |
State and district results of the1904 United States presidential election | ||
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