How America Moves

How America Votes

2004 presidential election results by county: who got the votes, where, and by how much. Certified returns, presented as numbers only.

George W. Bush
Republican
61,931,981
50.6% of votes cast
John Kerry
Democratic
58,899,063
48.2% of votes cast
All others
combined
1,489,505
1.2% of votes cast

122,320,549 total votes counted nationwide

Republican wonDemocratic wonIndependent / other
Which party received the most votes, as a solid color.Winning margin as a share of all votes cast.Change in margin since 2000, in percentage points.Total votes cast, all candidates.
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Hover an area for its results; click to open its page. The toggle switches between county and state granularity. Alaska reports results by legislative district rather than borough, so it has no county shading; its statewide totals are on the state view and in the table below. Kansas City, MO reports separately from its surrounding counties, so those counties' shading excludes the city's votes.

Results by state

Popular vote by state, 2004. Click a column to sort; click a state for its migration and county pages.

Alabama693,9331,176,39413,088R +25.61,883,415
Alaska180,365292,26716,061R +22.9488,693
Arizona893,5241,104,29414,767R +10.52,012,585
Arkansas468,631572,77012,293R +9.91,053,694
California6,737,3555,501,496144,827D +10.012,383,678
Colorado1,001,7321,101,25526,643R +4.72,129,630
Connecticut857,488693,82627,455D +10.41,578,769
Delaware200,141171,6513,378D +7.6375,170
District of Columbia202,97021,2563,360D +79.8227,586
Florida3,583,5443,964,52261,744R +5.07,609,810
Georgia1,366,1491,914,25418,387R +16.63,298,790
Hawaii231,335194,1163,104D +8.7428,555
Idaho181,098409,2358,043R +38.1598,376
Illinois2,891,9892,346,60836,818D +10.35,275,415
Indiana969,0111,479,43819,553R +20.72,468,002
Iowa741,898751,95713,053R +0.71,506,908
Kansas434,993736,45616,307R +25.41,187,756
Kentucky712,7331,069,43913,688R +19.91,795,860
Louisiana820,2991,102,16920,638R +14.51,943,106
Maine364,153308,99713,360D +8.0686,510
Maryland1,334,4931,024,70327,482D +13.02,386,678
Massachusetts1,803,8001,071,10937,479D +25.22,912,388
Michigan2,479,1832,313,74646,323D +3.44,839,252
Minnesota1,444,7511,346,45136,648D +3.52,827,850
Mississippi440,034666,2958,530R +20.31,114,859
Missouri1,259,1711,455,71316,480R +7.22,731,364
Montana173,710266,06310,661R +20.5450,434
Nebraska254,328512,81411,044R +33.2778,186
Nevada397,190418,69013,707R +2.6829,587
New Hampshire340,511331,2375,914D +1.4677,662
New Jersey1,911,4301,668,00330,258D +6.73,609,691
New Mexico370,942376,9308,432R +0.8756,304
New York4,180,7552,806,993403,288D +18.67,391,036
North Carolina1,525,8491,961,16613,992R +12.43,501,007
North Dakota111,052196,6515,130R +27.4312,833
Ohio2,739,9522,858,72726,952R +2.15,625,631
Oklahoma503,966959,7920R +31.11,463,758
Oregon943,163866,83126,788D +4.21,836,782
Pennsylvania2,938,0952,793,84733,822D +2.55,765,764
Rhode Island259,760169,0467,483D +20.8436,289
South Carolina661,699937,97418,057R +17.11,617,730
South Dakota149,244232,5846,387R +21.5388,215
Tennessee1,032,9101,381,22516,359R +14.32,430,494
Texas2,832,7044,526,91751,128R +22.97,410,749
Utah241,199663,74222,903R +45.5927,844
Vermont184,067121,1807,062D +20.1312,309
Virginia1,454,7421,716,95926,666R +8.23,198,367
Washington1,510,2011,304,89443,989D +7.22,859,084
West Virginia326,541423,5505,568R +12.8755,659
Wisconsin1,489,5041,478,12029,383D +0.42,997,007
Wyoming70,776167,6295,023R +39.8243,428

Margins are the popular-vote gap as a share of all votes cast in the state. Electoral votes are not shown here.

Results compiled from certified state returns by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (CC0). Numbers only, no interpretation. Election results and migration data are separate datasets; this site does not connect one to the other.