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The American Political Almanac
RECONSTRUCTION & THE GILDED AGETHE SYSTEM OF 1896THE NEW DEAL ORDERTHE LONG REALIGNMENTPOLARIZED ERA1868RRRRD1888RDRR1904RRDDRR1928RDDDD1948DRRDD1968RRDRR1988RDDRR2008DDRD2024R

The Nation Decides

Electoral votes, the popular vote, and how every state moved
Alton B. Parker
Democrat
Alton B. Parker
140
Electoral votes
37.6% · 5,128,231
President · The System of 1896

1904

Roosevelt def. Parker, 336–140
vote totals summed from county returns

Also running: Eugene V. Debs (3.0%)

✓ Won
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt
336
Electoral votes
56.4% · 7,674,038
Electoral college — 239 to win (476 electors)140 D · 336 R
Popular vote37.6% · 56.4% · other 6.0% · margin R+18.8

13,615,883 votes counted (summed from counties) · Excludes third-party votes in 1 county whose source totals are double-counted.

Electoral map — one tile per state · coloured by county-summed popular vote
R+40D+40third party won

Per-state electoral vote detail is staged from 1976; earlier years show the national college in the bar above, and states are coloured by their county-summed popular vote.

Missouri: the source double-counts some county totals this year, so third-party vote there is understated (shown with a +).

The swing from last time
Change in each state’s margin since 1900 · ← toward Republicans · toward Democrats →

The Map Beneath the Map

Three thousand counties, and the demography of the divide

Every county that cast a ballot, shaded by its margin. Hover any county to read it; click to open its 156-year profile. Scrub the timeline above and the map redraws in place. Vote counts exist for all forty elections; the demographic lenses begin in 2000.

County margin

Drawing three thousand counties…

R+40D+40no returns

Who voted for whom? The survey record begins with the 1948 ANES — there is no comparable individual-level account of the 1904 electorate.

Notes on this election

  • Roosevelt's landslide — the widest PV margin since the popular-vote era began, until 1920.