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The1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 12 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
New Jersey was won by theRepublican nominees, incumbentPresidentTheodore Roosevelt ofNew York and his running mate incumbentVice PresidentCharles W. Fairbanks ofIndiana. Roosevelt and Fairbanks defeated theDemocratic nominees,Chief Judge of the New York Court of AppealsAlton B. Parker ofNew York and his running mateSenatorHenry G. Davis ofWest Virginia Also in the running was theSocialist Party candidate,Eugene V. Debs, who ran withBen Hanford.
Roosevelt carried New Jersey with 56.68% of the vote to Parker's 38.05%, a victory margin of 18.63%.[1]
Eugene Debs came in a distant third, with 2.22%.
Like much of theNortheast, New Jersey in the early decades of the 20th century was a staunchly Republican state, having not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since1892. While winning a landslide victory nationwide, Roosevelt easily held New Jersey in the Republican column in 1904.
On the county level map, Roosevelt carried 17 of the state's 21 counties, breaking 60% of the vote in 7 counties. Parker's most significant win was urbanHudson County, which he won along with the 3 rural counties in westernNorth Jersey,Warren,Sussex, andHunterdon, which had long been non-Yankee Democratic enclaves in the otherwise Republican Northeast.[2]
Amidst Roosevelt's nationwide landslide, New Jersey's election result in 1904 made the state less than 1% more Democratic than the national average. Roosevelt's victory in New Jersey was underwhelming in part because of Alton Parker's popularity in theNew York City area, his victory in New York City spilling over to allow him to win heavily populated urban Hudson County, New Jersey just across theHudson River, which is part of the New York City metro area.
| 1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) | 245,164 | 56.68% | 12 | |
| Democratic | Alton B. Parker | 164,566 | 38.05% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 9,587 | 2.22% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Silas C. Swallow | 6,845 | 1.58% | 0 | |
| People's | Thomas E. Watson | 3,705 | 0.86% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Charles Hunter Corregan | 2,680 | 0.62% | 0 | |
| Totals | 432,547 | 100.0% | 12 | ||
| County | Theodore Roosevelt[3] Republican | Alton B. Parker[3] Democratic | Eugene V. Debs[4] Socialist | Silas C. Swallow[3] Prohibition | Thomas E. Watson[4] Populist | Charles Corregan[4] Socialist Labor | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Atlantic | 7,933 | 70.53% | 3,064 | 27.24% | 37 | 0.33% | 183 | 1.63% | 30 | 0.27% | 18 | 0.16% | 4,869 | 43.29% | 11,247 |
| Bergen | 9,957 | 55.00% | 7,301 | 40.33% | 461 | 2.55% | 194 | 1.07% | 190 | 1.05% | 115 | 0.64% | 2,656 | 14.67% | 18,103 |
| Burlington | 8,655 | 60.05% | 4,962 | 34.43% | 128 | 0.89% | 538 | 3.73% | 129 | 0.90% | 35 | 0.24% | 3,693 | 25.62% | 14,412 |
| Camden | 18,225 | 63.47% | 9,423 | 32.82% | 384 | 1.34% | 569 | 1.98% | 114 | 0.40% | 45 | 0.16% | 8,802 | 30.65% | 28,715 |
| Cape May | 2,832 | 66.60% | 1,238 | 29.12% | 49 | 1.15% | 122 | 2.87% | 11 | 0.26% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,594 | 37.49% | 4,252 |
| Cumberland | 7,402 | 64.45% | 3,317 | 28.88% | 162 | 1.41% | 548 | 4.77% | 56 | 0.49% | 30 | 0.26% | 4,085 | 35.57% | 11,485 |
| Essex | 50,508 | 63.24% | 25,452 | 31.87% | 2,479 | 3.10% | 582 | 0.73% | 842 | 1.05% | 647 | 0.81% | 25,056 | 31.37% | 79,863 |
| Gloucester | 4,829 | 59.24% | 2,818 | 34.57% | 48 | 0.59% | 399 | 4.89% | 58 | 0.71% | 13 | 0.16% | 2,011 | 24.67% | 8,152 |
| Hudson | 36,683 | 46.66% | 38,021 | 48.36% | 2,860 | 3.64% | 372 | 0.47% | 677 | 0.86% | 396 | 0.50% | -1,338 | -1.70% | 78,613 |
| Hunterdon | 3,856 | 44.60% | 4,361 | 50.44% | 22 | 0.25% | 291 | 3.37% | 116 | 1.34% | 10 | 0.12% | -505 | -5.84% | 8,646 |
| Mercer | 14,900 | 60.90% | 8,527 | 34.85% | 586 | 2.40% | 335 | 1.37% | 119 | 0.49% | 118 | 0.48% | 6,373 | 26.05% | 24,467 |
| Middlesex | 10,117 | 57.44% | 6,996 | 39.72% | 113 | 0.64% | 214 | 1.22% | 173 | 0.98% | 69 | 0.39% | 3,121 | 17.72% | 17,613 |
| Monmouth | 10,885 | 53.01% | 9,032 | 43.99% | 93 | 0.45% | 415 | 2.02% | 109 | 0.53% | 45 | 0.22% | 1,853 | 9.02% | 20,534 |
| Morris | 8,201 | 58.15% | 4,768 | 33.81% | 373 | 2.65% | 514 | 3.64% | 246 | 1.74% | 104 | 0.74% | 3,433 | 24.34% | 14,102 |
| Ocean | 3,666 | 66.02% | 1,709 | 30.78% | 23 | 0.41% | 140 | 2.52% | 15 | 0.27% | 7 | 0.13% | 1,957 | 35.24% | 5,553 |
| Passaic | 17,705 | 57.21% | 11,532 | 37.26% | 1,017 | 3.29% | 261 | 0.84% | 433 | 1.40% | 439 | 1.42% | 6,173 | 19.95% | 30,948 |
| Salem | 3,694 | 54.73% | 2,775 | 41.11% | 18 | 0.27% | 228 | 3.38% | 35 | 0.52% | 5 | 0.07% | 919 | 13.61% | 6,750 |
| Somerset | 4,633 | 57.70% | 3,195 | 39.79% | 21 | 0.26% | 136 | 1.69% | 44 | 0.55% | 18 | 0.22% | 1,438 | 17.91% | 8,029 |
| Sussex | 2,642 | 43.61% | 3,133 | 51.72% | 56 | 0.92% | 141 | 2.33% | 86 | 1.42% | 8 | 0.13% | -491 | -8.10% | 6,058 |
| Union | 13,906 | 59.44% | 8,574 | 36.65% | 535 | 2.29% | 261 | 1.12% | 120 | 0.51% | 204 | 0.87% | 5,332 | 22.79% | 23,396 |
| Warren | 3,935 | 44.07% | 4,368 | 48.92% | 122 | 1.37% | 402 | 4.50% | 102 | 1.14% | 51 | 0.57% | -433 | -4.85% | 8,929 |
| Totals | 245,164 | 56.72% | 164,566 | 38.07% | 9,587 | 2.22% | 6,845 | 1.58% | 3,705 | 0.86% | 2,380 | 0.55% | 80,598 | 18.65% | 432,247 |
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