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Election 1904 Results

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1904 presidential election in California

Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) beat Alton B. Parker (Democrat) in California in 1904, 61.8% to 26.9%, a margin of 34.9 points and 115,822 votes.

California voted 16.0 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+18.9.

The Republican hold continued from 1900, when William McKinley won.

Republicans led in 55 of the 57 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 2. The largest, San Francisco, cast 65,434 votes and went to the Republican by 33.3 points. The closest was Colusa, where 21 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Theodore Roosevelt won Republican 205,226 61.8%
Alton B. Parker Democratic 89,404 26.9%
Eugene V. Debs Socialist 29,535 8.9%
All other candidates 7,713 2.3%
Total331,878

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
San Francisco 18,034 27.6% 39,816 60.8% 7,584 65,434 R+33.3
Los Angeles 9,979 20.4% 32,507 66.6% 6,346 48,832 R+46.1
Alameda 4,409 16.3% 19,065 70.3% 3,646 27,120 R+54.0
Santa Clara 3,066 24.6% 8,274 66.3% 1,143 12,483 R+41.7
Sacramento 2,372 23.2% 6,666 65.3% 1,170 10,208 R+42.1
Fresno 2,807 31.8% 4,929 55.8% 1,092 8,828 R+24.0
Sonoma 2,818 33.0% 5,269 61.6% 463 8,550 R+28.7
San Joaquin 2,289 31.4% 4,498 61.7% 505 7,292 R+30.3
San Diego 1,396 19.3% 4,303 59.5% 1,529 7,228 R+40.2
Humboldt 1,244 18.5% 4,930 73.3% 554 6,728 R+54.8
San Bernardino 1,571 23.6% 3,884 58.2% 1,213 6,668 R+34.7
Solano 1,542 29.9% 3,176 61.5% 444 5,162 R+31.7
Butte 1,566 33.0% 2,799 58.9% 384 4,749 R+26.0
Mendocino 1,490 31.6% 2,904 61.5% 325 4,719 R+30.0
Tulare 1,646 36.0% 2,221 48.6% 705 4,572 R+12.6
Kern 1,723 37.7% 2,359 51.6% 488 4,570 R+13.9
Contra Costa 1,261 27.8% 2,833 62.5% 439 4,533 R+34.7
Orange 1,035 23.1% 2,665 59.5% 777 4,477 R+36.4
Santa Cruz 1,096 25.4% 2,626 60.8% 598 4,320 R+35.4
Santa Barbara 1,164 27.3% 2,676 62.7% 430 4,270 R+35.4
Monterey 1,423 34.3% 2,453 59.1% 278 4,154 R+24.8
Riverside 680 16.8% 2,638 65.2% 728 4,046 R+48.4
Nevada 1,167 30.5% 2,249 58.7% 414 3,830 R+28.3
Napa 1,132 29.6% 2,425 63.3% 271 3,828 R+33.8
San Luis Obispo 1,163 31.7% 2,015 55.0% 485 3,663 R+23.3
Siskiyou 1,223 34.6% 2,104 59.6% 203 3,530 R+25.0
Shasta 932 27.2% 1,891 55.1% 606 3,429 R+28.0
Yolo 1,297 39.6% 1,702 51.9% 278 3,277 R+12.4
Placer 1,018 31.1% 2,050 62.7% 201 3,269 R+31.6
San Mateo 861 27.4% 2,146 68.2% 138 3,145 R+40.9
Ventura 846 27.0% 1,995 63.7% 289 3,130 R+36.7
Marin 770 24.8% 2,199 70.8% 139 3,108 R+46.0
Stanislaus 1,108 40.4% 1,437 52.4% 196 2,741 R+12.0
Calaveras 841 31.5% 1,571 58.8% 259 2,671 R+27.3
Tuolumne 1,007 38.3% 1,280 48.7% 339 2,626 R+10.4
Amador 912 38.9% 1,279 54.5% 155 2,346 R+15.6
El Dorado 864 37.5% 1,248 54.1% 194 2,306 R+16.7
Tehama 716 32.7% 1,234 56.4% 237 2,187 R+23.7
Merced 865 43.6% 972 49.0% 146 1,983 R+5.4
Yuba 629 32.3% 1,235 63.5% 81 1,945 R+31.2
Colusa 906 47.7% 885 46.6% 107 1,898 D+1.1
Kings 593 31.4% 1,110 58.7% 187 1,890 R+27.4
San Benito 637 39.3% 888 54.8% 96 1,621 R+15.5
Glenn 736 47.8% 765 49.7% 39 1,540 R+1.9
Madera 609 40.3% 784 51.9% 118 1,511 R+11.6
Sutter 489 34.1% 872 60.8% 74 1,435 R+26.7
Lake 593 42.0% 641 45.4% 177 1,411 R+3.4
Sierra 376 30.9% 791 65.0% 49 1,216 R+34.1
Plumas 347 32.0% 707 65.3% 29 1,083 R+33.2
Mariposa 489 45.4% 461 42.8% 128 1,078 D+2.6
Modoc 439 42.5% 559 54.2% 34 1,032 R+11.6
Lassen 301 32.9% 573 62.7% 40 914 R+29.8
Trinity 308 35.7% 467 54.1% 88 863 R+18.4
Inyo 227 28.1% 452 56.0% 128 807 R+27.9
Del Norte 186 26.1% 429 60.3% 97 712 R+34.1
Mono 87 22.7% 245 63.8% 52 384 R+41.1
Alpine 9 10.8% 74 89.2% 83 R+78.3

Counties as they stood in 1904; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5