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The1904 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 8, 1904. State voters chose four electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
President Roosevelt was extremely popular in Oregon because of his policies of reforming the railroads, creatinga Department of Commerce and Labor and conservation of the forests that were at the time heavily exploited by large businesses.[1] Parker's re-emphasis on theGold Standard, which harked back toGrover Cleveland, aroused little enthusiasm in Oregon.[2] Nor did his opposition to Roosevelt's policy ofimperialism in the Pacific,[3] with the result that Parker's showing was the worst-ever by any major-party nominee in Oregon except for his mentor Cleveland twelve years previously.[4] At the same time, Roosevelt's performance remains the best ever by any presidential candidate since Oregon's statehood in 1859. Parker did not win more than thirty percent of the vote in a single county, and overall took just a little over nineteen percent of Oregon's ballots, 18% below his national result and a 20% drop from Democratic performance in1900.
Socialist nomineeEugene V. Debs, whose campaign focused ontrust-busting and the opposition tomonopolies,[5] traveled all around the nation in a charismatic campaign that netted him over four hundred thousand votes nationwide. Although he did not outpoll Parker in any Oregon county, Debs nonetheless received over eight percent of the vote, 5.5% higher than his national performance.
| 1904 United States presidential election in Oregon[6] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) | 60,455 | 67.06% | 4 | |
| Democratic | Alton B. Parker | 17,521 | 19.43% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 7,619 | 8.45% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Silas C. Swallow | 3,806 | 4.22% | 0 | |
| Populist | Thomas E. Watson | 753 | 0.84% | 0 | |
| Totals | 90,154 | 100.00% | 4 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| County | Theodore Roosevelt Republican | Alton Brooks Parker Democratic | Eugene Victor Debs[7] Socialist | Silas Comfort Swallow[7] Prohibition | Thomas Edward Watson[7] Populist | Margin | Total votes cast[8] | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Baker | 1,990 | 59.76% | 938 | 28.17% | 335 | 10.06% | 52 | 1.56% | 15 | 0.45% | 1,052 | 31.59% | 3,330 |
| Benton | 1,107 | 62.51% | 442 | 24.96% | 74 | 4.18% | 136 | 7.68% | 12 | 0.68% | 665 | 37.55% | 1,771 |
| Clackamas | 2,783 | 67.78% | 684 | 16.66% | 421 | 10.25% | 141 | 3.43% | 77 | 1.88% | 2,099 | 51.12% | 4,106 |
| Clatsop | 1,408 | 68.68% | 336 | 16.39% | 256 | 12.49% | 41 | 2.00% | 9 | 0.44% | 1,072 | 52.29% | 2,050 |
| Columbia | 1,301 | 74.26% | 221 | 12.61% | 160 | 9.13% | 61 | 3.48% | 9 | 0.51% | 1,080 | 61.64% | 1,752 |
| Coos | 1,712 | 64.26% | 490 | 18.39% | 342 | 12.84% | 92 | 3.45% | 28 | 1.05% | 1,222 | 45.87% | 2,664 |
| Crook | 763 | 65.33% | 266 | 22.77% | 116 | 9.93% | 16 | 1.37% | 7 | 0.60% | 497 | 42.55% | 1,168 |
| Curry | 322 | 70.77% | 87 | 19.12% | 38 | 8.35% | 5 | 1.10% | 3 | 0.66% | 235 | 51.65% | 455 |
| Douglas | 2,443 | 63.21% | 908 | 23.49% | 387 | 10.01% | 95 | 2.46% | 32 | 0.83% | 1,535 | 39.72% | 3,865 |
| Gilliam | 568 | 67.46% | 195 | 23.16% | 48 | 5.70% | 28 | 3.33% | 3 | 0.36% | 373 | 44.30% | 842 |
| Grant | 1,007 | 67.81% | 316 | 21.28% | 123 | 8.28% | 32 | 2.15% | 7 | 0.47% | 691 | 46.53% | 1,485 |
| Harney | 395 | 58.35% | 190 | 28.06% | 80 | 11.82% | 7 | 1.03% | 5 | 0.74% | 205 | 30.28% | 677 |
| Jackson | 1,992 | 61.16% | 798 | 24.50% | 307 | 9.43% | 133 | 4.08% | 27 | 0.83% | 1,194 | 36.66% | 3,257 |
| Josephine | 914 | 60.89% | 327 | 21.79% | 208 | 13.86% | 47 | 3.13% | 5 | 0.33% | 587 | 39.11% | 1,501 |
| Klamath | 552 | 68.74% | 208 | 25.90% | 25 | 3.11% | 10 | 1.25% | 8 | 1.00% | 344 | 42.84% | 803 |
| Lake | 394 | 74.20% | 115 | 21.66% | 4 | 0.75% | 9 | 1.69% | 9 | 1.69% | 279 | 52.54% | 531 |
| Lane | 3,501 | 65.88% | 1,166 | 21.94% | 365 | 6.87% | 232 | 4.37% | 50 | 0.94% | 2,335 | 43.94% | 5,314 |
| Lincoln | 581 | 64.84% | 179 | 19.98% | 118 | 13.17% | 14 | 1.56% | 4 | 0.45% | 402 | 44.87% | 896 |
| Linn | 2,346 | 54.36% | 1,206 | 27.94% | 409 | 9.48% | 286 | 6.63% | 69 | 1.60% | 1,140 | 26.41% | 4,316 |
| Malheur | 799 | 63.82% | 280 | 22.36% | 74 | 5.91% | 77 | 6.15% | 22 | 1.76% | 519 | 41.45% | 1,252 |
| Marion | 4,106 | 70.03% | 1,084 | 18.49% | 297 | 5.07% | 312 | 5.32% | 64 | 1.09% | 3,022 | 51.54% | 5,863 |
| Morrow | 875 | 65.10% | 230 | 17.11% | 156 | 11.61% | 78 | 5.80% | 5 | 0.37% | 645 | 47.99% | 1,344 |
| Multnomah | 13,692 | 73.88% | 2,324 | 12.54% | 1,849 | 9.98% | 592 | 3.19% | 77 | 0.42% | 11,368 | 61.34% | 18,534 |
| Polk | 1,380 | 63.65% | 521 | 24.03% | 122 | 5.63% | 118 | 5.44% | 27 | 1.25% | 859 | 39.62% | 2,168 |
| Sherman | 701 | 71.10% | 163 | 16.53% | 32 | 3.25% | 86 | 8.72% | 4 | 0.41% | 538 | 54.56% | 986 |
| Tillamook | 729 | 69.49% | 136 | 12.96% | 119 | 11.34% | 65 | 6.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 593 | 56.53% | 1,049 |
| Umatilla | 2,642 | 66.27% | 840 | 21.07% | 259 | 6.50% | 223 | 5.59% | 23 | 0.58% | 1,802 | 45.20% | 3,987 |
| Union | 1,884 | 62.88% | 775 | 25.87% | 202 | 6.74% | 116 | 3.87% | 19 | 0.63% | 1,109 | 37.02% | 2,996 |
| Wallowa | 714 | 64.32% | 255 | 22.97% | 99 | 8.92% | 34 | 3.06% | 8 | 0.72% | 459 | 41.35% | 1,110 |
| Wasco | 2,092 | 67.33% | 536 | 17.25% | 228 | 7.34% | 222 | 7.15% | 29 | 0.93% | 1,556 | 50.08% | 3,107 |
| Washington | 2,296 | 73.19% | 492 | 15.68% | 139 | 4.43% | 151 | 4.81% | 59 | 1.88% | 1,804 | 57.51% | 3,137 |
| Wheeler | 462 | 69.58% | 161 | 24.25% | 22 | 3.31% | 12 | 1.81% | 7 | 1.05% | 301 | 45.33% | 664 |
| Yamhill | 2,004 | 63.14% | 652 | 20.54% | 214 | 6.74% | 283 | 8.92% | 21 | 0.66% | 1,352 | 42.60% | 3,174 |
| Totals | 60,455 | 67.06% | 17,521 | 19.43% | 7,628 | 8.46% | 3,806 | 4.22% | 744 | 0.83% | 42,934 | 47.62% | 90,154 |
This election would solidifyOregon as a one-party Republican bastion, which it would remain at a presidential level, apart from the 1912 Republican-progressive split, untilFranklin D. Roosevelt was elected in1932.[9] After this election, Democratic representation in the Oregon legislature would never exceed fifteen percent until 1954, with the exception of a brief period in the 1930s[10] and no Democrat other thanWoodrow Wilson would henceforth carry even one county in the state until theGreat Depression. Republican primaries would become the chief mode of competition: indeed Oregon became in this election year the first Western state to utilize the directprimary.[1]
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