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The1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
For over a century afterthe Civil War,Tennessee was divided according to political loyalties established in that war.Unionist regions covering almost all ofEast Tennessee,Kentucky Pennyroyal-alliedMacon County, and the fiveWest TennesseeHighland Rim counties ofCarroll,Henderson,McNairy,Hardin andWayne[1] voted Republican – generally by landslide margins – as they saw the Democratic Party as the “war party” who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.[2] Contrariwise, the rest ofMiddle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state's secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans withReconstruction.[3] Afterthe disfranchisement of the state's African-American population bya poll tax was largely complete in the 1890s,[4] the Democratic Party was certain of winning statewide elections if united,[5] although unlike the Deep South Republicans would almost always gain thirty to forty percent of the statewide vote from mountain and Highland Rim support.
Tennessee would be 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 mate SenatorCharles W. Fairbanks ofIndiana. Parker won the state by a margin of 10.83%.
Although the GOP had lost by only single figures in theprevioustwo elections, the shift to the more conservative Democrat Parker who opposed Roosevelt's hosting ofBooker T. Washington[6] meant that the state swung slightly – though significantly given the extremely deep partisan loyalties – against the GOP to the Democrats.
| 1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee[7] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Alton B. Parker | 131,653 | 54.23% | 12 | |
| Republican | Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) | 105,363 | 43.40% | 0 | |
| Populist | Thomas E. Watson | 2,491 | 1.03% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Silas C. Swallow | 1,889 | 0.78% | 0 | |
| Social Democratic | Eugene V. Debs | 1,354 | 0.56% | 0 | |
| Totals | 242,750 | 100.00% | 12 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| 1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee by county[8][9] | |||||||||||||
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| County | Alton Brooks Parker Democratic | Theodore Roosevelt Republican | Thomas Edward Watson Populist | Silas Comfort Swallow Prohibition | Eugene Victor Debs Social Democratic | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Anderson | 512 | 26.22% | 1,407 | 72.04% | 1 | 0.05% | 9 | 0.46% | 24 | 1.23% | -895 | -45.83% | 1,953 |
| Bedford | 2,063 | 61.13% | 1,301 | 38.55% | 4 | 0.12% | 3 | 0.09% | 4 | 0.12% | 762 | 22.58% | 3,375 |
| Benton | 1,352 | 55.98% | 974 | 40.33% | 85 | 3.52% | 4 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 378 | 15.65% | 2,415 |
| Bledsoe | 534 | 42.65% | 718 | 57.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -184 | -14.70% | 1,252 |
| Blount | 618 | 23.49% | 1,987 | 75.52% | 6 | 0.23% | 17 | 0.65% | 3 | 0.11% | -1,369 | -52.03% | 2,631 |
| Bradley | 701 | 35.48% | 1,242 | 62.85% | 6 | 0.30% | 19 | 0.96% | 8 | 0.40% | -541 | -27.38% | 1,976 |
| Campbell | 309 | 19.24% | 1,198 | 74.60% | 4 | 0.25% | 72 | 4.48% | 23 | 1.43% | -889 | -55.35% | 1,606 |
| Cannon | 1,014 | 62.21% | 614 | 37.67% | 2 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 400 | 24.54% | 1,630 |
| Carroll | 1,633 | 38.07% | 2,424 | 56.52% | 203 | 4.73% | 22 | 0.51% | 7 | 0.16% | -791 | -18.44% | 4,289 |
| Carter | 379 | 12.70% | 2,584 | 86.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 21 | 0.70% | 0 | 0.00% | -2,205 | -73.89% | 2,984 |
| Cheatham | 1,015 | 70.05% | 420 | 28.99% | 8 | 0.55% | 6 | 0.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 595 | 41.06% | 1,449 |
| Chester | 824 | 54.07% | 578 | 37.93% | 103 | 6.76% | 10 | 0.66% | 9 | 0.59% | 246 | 16.14% | 1,524 |
| Claiborne | 959 | 48.70% | 993 | 50.43% | 9 | 0.46% | 1 | 0.05% | 7 | 0.36% | -34 | -1.73% | 1,969 |
| Clay | 544 | 49.59% | 501 | 45.67% | 24 | 2.19% | 25 | 2.28% | 3 | 0.27% | 43 | 3.92% | 1,097 |
| Cocke | 626 | 26.55% | 1,726 | 73.20% | 1 | 0.04% | 5 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,100 | -46.65% | 2,358 |
| Coffee | 1,441 | 71.20% | 536 | 26.48% | 1 | 0.05% | 1 | 0.05% | 45 | 2.22% | 905 | 44.71% | 2,024 |
| Crockett | 1,167 | 51.21% | 1,102 | 48.35% | 2 | 0.09% | 8 | 0.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 65 | 2.85% | 2,279 |
| Cumberland | 375 | 28.17% | 898 | 67.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 27 | 2.03% | 31 | 2.33% | -523 | -39.29% | 1,331 |
| Davidson | 7,735 | 77.69% | 1,900 | 19.08% | 85 | 0.85% | 94 | 0.94% | 142 | 1.43% | 5,835 | 58.61% | 9,956 |
| DeKalb | 1,095 | 45.30% | 1,274 | 52.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 48 | 1.99% | 0 | 0.00% | -179 | -7.41% | 2,417 |
| Decatur | 858 | 48.18% | 921 | 51.71% | 1 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.06% | -63 | -3.54% | 1,781 |
| Dickson | 1,490 | 61.34% | 828 | 34.09% | 21 | 0.86% | 41 | 1.69% | 49 | 2.02% | 662 | 27.25% | 2,429 |
| Dyer | 1,771 | 73.30% | 625 | 25.87% | 7 | 0.29% | 9 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.17% | 1,146 | 47.43% | 2,416 |
| Fayette | 2,010 | 96.22% | 62 | 2.97% | 13 | 0.62% | 4 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,948 | 93.25% | 2,089 |
| Fentress | 278 | 27.72% | 724 | 72.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.10% | -446 | -44.47% | 1,003 |
| Franklin | 2,180 | 74.71% | 704 | 24.13% | 6 | 0.21% | 20 | 0.69% | 8 | 0.27% | 1,476 | 50.58% | 2,918 |
| Gibson | 3,014 | 66.01% | 1,421 | 31.12% | 67 | 1.47% | 58 | 1.27% | 6 | 0.13% | 1,593 | 34.89% | 4,566 |
| Giles | 2,736 | 62.64% | 1,583 | 36.24% | 45 | 1.03% | 3 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,153 | 26.40% | 4,368 |
| Grainger | 592 | 31.85% | 1,253 | 67.40% | 6 | 0.32% | 6 | 0.32% | 2 | 0.11% | -661 | -35.56% | 1,859 |
| Greene | 2,128 | 50.78% | 2,036 | 48.58% | 4 | 0.10% | 14 | 0.33% | 9 | 0.21% | 92 | 2.20% | 4,191 |
| Grundy | 554 | 57.89% | 264 | 27.59% | 39 | 4.08% | 2 | 0.21% | 98 | 10.24% | 290 | 30.30% | 957 |
| Hamblen | 531 | 38.96% | 812 | 59.57% | 1 | 0.07% | 17 | 1.25% | 2 | 0.15% | -281 | -20.62% | 1,363 |
| Hamilton | 3,287 | 43.87% | 3,849 | 51.37% | 24 | 0.32% | 106 | 1.41% | 227 | 3.03% | -562 | -7.50% | 7,493 |
| Hancock | 382 | 23.49% | 1,244 | 76.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -862 | -53.01% | 1,626 |
| Hardeman | 1,903 | 63.92% | 986 | 33.12% | 70 | 2.35% | 14 | 0.47% | 4 | 0.13% | 917 | 30.80% | 2,977 |
| Hardin | 837 | 35.57% | 1,463 | 62.18% | 45 | 1.91% | 5 | 0.21% | 3 | 0.13% | -626 | -26.60% | 2,353 |
| Hawkins | 935 | 38.01% | 1,510 | 61.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 15 | 0.61% | 0 | 0.00% | -575 | -23.37% | 2,460 |
| Haywood | 1,341 | 95.24% | 64 | 4.55% | 1 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.07% | 1,277 | 90.70% | 1,408 |
| Henderson | 864 | 38.20% | 1,313 | 58.05% | 37 | 1.64% | 37 | 1.64% | 11 | 0.49% | -449 | -19.85% | 2,262 |
| Henry | 2,365 | 69.70% | 928 | 27.35% | 57 | 1.68% | 38 | 1.12% | 5 | 0.15% | 1,437 | 42.35% | 3,393 |
| Hickman | 1,231 | 55.60% | 922 | 41.64% | 48 | 2.17% | 7 | 0.32% | 6 | 0.27% | 309 | 13.96% | 2,214 |
| Houston | 555 | 61.87% | 287 | 32.00% | 1 | 0.11% | 27 | 3.01% | 27 | 3.01% | 268 | 29.88% | 897 |
| Humphreys | 1,209 | 67.69% | 539 | 30.18% | 8 | 0.45% | 25 | 1.40% | 5 | 0.28% | 670 | 37.51% | 1,786 |
| Jackson | 1,222 | 60.77% | 772 | 38.39% | 17 | 0.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 450 | 22.38% | 2,011 |
| James | 222 | 29.10% | 533 | 69.86% | 7 | 0.92% | 1 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | -311 | -40.76% | 763 |
| Jefferson | 380 | 23.44% | 1,217 | 75.08% | 4 | 0.25% | 18 | 1.11% | 2 | 0.12% | -837 | -51.63% | 1,621 |
| Johnson | 219 | 10.96% | 1,769 | 88.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 11 | 0.55% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,550 | -77.54% | 1,999 |
| Knox | 3,196 | 41.25% | 4,309 | 55.61% | 20 | 0.26% | 120 | 1.55% | 103 | 1.33% | -1,113 | -14.36% | 7,748 |
| Lake | 469 | 72.83% | 174 | 27.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 295 | 45.81% | 644 |
| Lauderdale | 3,017 | 94.08% | 168 | 5.24% | 16 | 0.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 0.19% | 2,849 | 88.84% | 3,207 |
| Lawrence | 1,299 | 48.87% | 1,359 | 51.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -60 | -2.26% | 2,658 |
| Lewis | 415 | 63.26% | 220 | 33.54% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.15% | 20 | 3.05% | 195 | 29.73% | 656 |
| Lincoln | 2,227 | 70.72% | 631 | 20.04% | 195 | 6.19% | 96 | 3.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,596 | 50.68% | 3,149 |
| Loudon | 356 | 30.07% | 810 | 68.41% | 8 | 0.68% | 7 | 0.59% | 3 | 0.25% | -454 | -38.34% | 1,184 |
| Macon | 751 | 33.22% | 1,482 | 65.55% | 28 | 1.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -731 | -32.33% | 2,261 |
| Madison | 2,618 | 65.48% | 1,180 | 29.51% | 174 | 4.35% | 5 | 0.13% | 21 | 0.53% | 1,438 | 35.97% | 3,998 |
| Marion | 731 | 36.92% | 1,189 | 60.05% | 3 | 0.15% | 18 | 0.91% | 39 | 1.97% | -458 | -23.13% | 1,980 |
| Marshall | 2,152 | 73.67% | 620 | 21.23% | 128 | 4.38% | 21 | 0.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,532 | 52.45% | 2,921 |
| Maury | 2,142 | 66.85% | 973 | 30.37% | 41 | 1.28% | 37 | 1.15% | 11 | 0.34% | 1,169 | 36.49% | 3,204 |
| McMinn | 1,001 | 37.42% | 1,669 | 62.39% | 5 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -668 | -24.97% | 2,675 |
| McNairy | 1,218 | 42.50% | 1,525 | 53.21% | 121 | 4.22% | 2 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | -307 | -10.71% | 2,866 |
| Meigs | 563 | 52.86% | 481 | 45.16% | 20 | 1.88% | 1 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 82 | 7.70% | 1,065 |
| Monroe | 1,385 | 44.19% | 1,724 | 55.01% | 1 | 0.03% | 20 | 0.64% | 4 | 0.13% | -339 | -10.82% | 3,134 |
| Montgomery | 1,697 | 63.23% | 843 | 31.41% | 19 | 0.71% | 121 | 4.51% | 4 | 0.15% | 854 | 31.82% | 2,684 |
| Moore | 857 | 88.26% | 95 | 9.78% | 18 | 1.85% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 762 | 78.48% | 971 |
| Morgan | 387 | 26.63% | 1,049 | 72.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 16 | 1.10% | 1 | 0.07% | -662 | -45.56% | 1,453 |
| Obion | 2,624 | 77.18% | 756 | 22.24% | 2 | 0.06% | 18 | 0.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,868 | 54.94% | 3,400 |
| Overton | 1,125 | 57.93% | 817 | 42.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 308 | 15.86% | 1,942 |
| Perry | 752 | 56.29% | 584 | 43.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 168 | 12.57% | 1,336 |
| Pickett | 346 | 40.47% | 509 | 59.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -163 | -19.06% | 855 |
| Polk | 688 | 40.61% | 1,006 | 59.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -318 | -18.77% | 1,694 |
| Putnam | 1,310 | 51.35% | 1,213 | 47.55% | 11 | 0.43% | 17 | 0.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 97 | 3.80% | 2,551 |
| Rhea | 799 | 46.24% | 881 | 50.98% | 10 | 0.58% | 30 | 1.74% | 8 | 0.46% | -82 | -4.75% | 1,728 |
| Roane | 493 | 24.17% | 1,378 | 67.55% | 17 | 0.83% | 87 | 4.26% | 65 | 3.19% | -885 | -43.38% | 2,040 |
| Robertson | 2,308 | 72.44% | 811 | 25.46% | 21 | 0.66% | 43 | 1.35% | 3 | 0.09% | 1,497 | 46.99% | 3,186 |
| Rutherford | 2,504 | 64.39% | 1,348 | 34.66% | 26 | 0.67% | 7 | 0.18% | 4 | 0.10% | 1,156 | 29.72% | 3,889 |
| Scott | 166 | 9.56% | 1,567 | 90.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 0.17% | -1,401 | -80.70% | 1,736 |
| Sequatchie | 356 | 66.79% | 175 | 32.83% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.38% | 181 | 33.96% | 533 |
| Sevier | 300 | 9.40% | 2,886 | 90.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | -2,586 | -81.04% | 3,191 |
| Shelby | 8,686 | 75.64% | 2,563 | 22.32% | 13 | 0.11% | 25 | 0.22% | 196 | 1.71% | 6,123 | 53.32% | 11,483 |
| Smith | 1,562 | 55.35% | 1,080 | 38.27% | 93 | 3.30% | 87 | 3.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 482 | 17.08% | 2,822 |
| Stewart | 1,330 | 65.07% | 681 | 33.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.05% | 32 | 1.57% | 649 | 31.75% | 2,044 |
| Sullivan | 2,116 | 57.69% | 1,506 | 41.06% | 3 | 0.08% | 41 | 1.12% | 2 | 0.05% | 610 | 16.63% | 3,668 |
| Sumner | 2,178 | 76.64% | 599 | 21.08% | 57 | 2.01% | 4 | 0.14% | 4 | 0.14% | 1,579 | 55.56% | 2,842 |
| Tipton | 1,882 | 64.01% | 980 | 33.33% | 72 | 2.45% | 4 | 0.14% | 2 | 0.07% | 902 | 30.68% | 2,940 |
| Trousdale | 488 | 71.14% | 177 | 25.80% | 21 | 3.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 311 | 45.34% | 686 |
| Unicoi | 74 | 8.64% | 776 | 90.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 0.70% | 0 | 0.00% | -702 | -82.01% | 856 |
| Union | 334 | 19.04% | 1,410 | 80.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 10 | 0.57% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,076 | -61.35% | 1,754 |
| Van Buren | 352 | 68.75% | 160 | 31.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 192 | 37.50% | 512 |
| Warren | 1,815 | 69.83% | 707 | 27.20% | 29 | 1.12% | 11 | 0.42% | 37 | 1.42% | 1,108 | 42.63% | 2,599 |
| Washington | 1,268 | 36.86% | 2,120 | 61.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 48 | 1.40% | 4 | 0.12% | -852 | -24.77% | 3,440 |
| Wayne | 434 | 23.21% | 1,426 | 76.26% | 1 | 0.05% | 9 | 0.48% | 0 | 0.00% | -992 | -53.05% | 1,870 |
| Weakley | 2,892 | 61.58% | 1,629 | 34.69% | 130 | 2.77% | 44 | 0.94% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,263 | 26.90% | 4,696 |
| White | 1,682 | 70.82% | 679 | 28.59% | 3 | 0.13% | 11 | 0.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,003 | 42.23% | 2,375 |
| Williamson | 1,932 | 76.42% | 475 | 18.79% | 100 | 3.96% | 20 | 0.79% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,457 | 57.63% | 2,528 |
| Wilson | 2,386 | 70.45% | 966 | 28.52% | 12 | 0.35% | 23 | 0.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,420 | 41.93% | 3,387 |
| Totals | 131,653 | 54.23% | 105,372 | 43.41% | 2,491 | 1.03% | 1,889 | 0.78% | 1,354 | 0.56% | 26,281 | 10.83% | 242,759 |
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