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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in Colorado

George W. Bush (Republican) beat John Kerry (Democrat) in Colorado in 2004, 51.7% to 47.0%, a margin of 4.7 points and 99,523 votes.

Colorado voted 2.2 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+2.5.

The Republican hold continued from 2000, when George W. Bush also won.

Republicans led in 45 of the 64 counties and Democrats in 19. The largest, Jefferson, cast 271,293 votes and went to the Republican by 5.2 points. The closest was Conejos, where 30 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
George W. Bush won	Republican	1,101,255	51.7%
John Kerry	Democratic	1,001,732	47.0%
All other candidates		26,643	1.3%
Total		2,129,630

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Jefferson	126,558 46.6%	140,644 51.8%	4,091	271,293	R+5.2
El Paso	77,648 32.1%	161,361 66.7%	2,777	241,786	R+34.6
Denver	166,135 69.6%	69,903 29.3%	2,634	238,672	D+40.3
Arapahoe	110,262 47.5%	119,475 51.5%	2,434	232,171	R+4.0
Boulder	105,564 66.3%	51,586 32.4%	2,107	159,257	D+33.9
Larimer	68,266 46.6%	75,884 51.8%	2,285	146,435	R+5.2
Adams	69,122 50.6%	65,912 48.2%	1,638	136,672	D+2.3
Douglas	39,661 32.7%	80,651 66.5%	888	121,200	R+33.8
Weld	31,868 35.9%	55,591 62.7%	1,193	88,652	R+26.8
Pueblo	35,369 52.6%	31,117 46.3%	696	67,182	D+6.3
Mesa	19,564 31.6%	41,539 67.1%	782	61,885	R+35.5
La Plata	13,409 52.6%	11,704 45.9%	377	25,490	D+6.7
Broomfield	10,935 47.1%	12,007 51.7%	293	23,235	R+4.6
Garfield	9,228 44.7%	11,123 53.9%	296	20,647	R+9.2
Fremont	5,933 32.0%	12,313 66.5%	277	18,523	R+34.4
Eagle	9,744 52.6%	8,533 46.1%	234	18,511	D+6.5
Montrose	4,776 29.4%	11,218 69.2%	225	16,219	R+39.7
Delta	4,224 29.8%	9,722 68.7%	213	14,159	R+38.8
Summit	8,144 59.3%	5,370 39.1%	221	13,735	D+20.2
Teller	3,556 30.0%	8,094 68.4%	190	11,840	R+38.3
Routt	6,392 54.3%	5,199 44.2%	170	11,761	D+10.1
Elbert	2,834 24.9%	8,389 73.8%	138	11,361	R+48.9
Montezuma	3,867 35.1%	6,988 63.4%	160	11,015	R+28.3
Morgan	3,039 30.6%	6,787 68.3%	110	9,936	R+37.7
Pitkin	6,335 68.4%	2,784 30.1%	136	9,255	D+38.4
Chaffee	3,766 42.9%	4,875 55.6%	128	8,769	R+12.6
Logan	2,491 28.4%	6,168 70.4%	107	8,766	R+41.9
Gunnison	4,782 56.8%	3,479 41.3%	159	8,420	D+15.5
Park	3,445 41.2%	4,781 57.2%	129	8,355	R+16.0
Otero	3,164 38.7%	4,947 60.5%	69	8,180	R+21.8
Grand	3,243 42.6%	4,260 56.0%	106	7,609	R+13.4
Las Animas	3,300 50.1%	3,196 48.5%	91	6,587	D+1.6
Alamosa	3,017 48.1%	3,179 50.7%	73	6,269	R+2.6
Archuleta	2,141 36.7%	3,601 61.7%	97	5,839	R+25.0
Moffat	1,355 23.7%	4,247 74.2%	123	5,725	R+50.5
Clear Creek	2,989 53.3%	2,522 44.9%	102	5,613	D+8.3
Rio Grande	2,006 36.3%	3,448 62.4%	69	5,523	R+26.1
Prowers	1,308 27.6%	3,392 71.5%	45	4,745	R+43.9
Yuma	1,064 23.3%	3,456 75.8%	39	4,559	R+52.5
San Miguel	2,876 71.6%	1,079 26.8%	64	4,019	D+44.7
Conejos	1,894 49.8%	1,864 49.1%	42	3,800	D+0.8
Kit Carson	729 20.8%	2,721 77.7%	52	3,502	R+56.9
Huerfano	1,663 48.9%	1,700 50.0%	39	3,402	R+1.1
Gilpin	1,807 56.5%	1,329 41.6%	60	3,196	D+15.0
Rio Blanco	566 18.8%	2,403 80.0%	34	3,003	R+61.2
Lake	1,623 55.0%	1,261 42.8%	65	2,949	D+12.3
Saguache	1,594 56.9%	1,163 41.5%	46	2,803	D+15.4
Ouray	1,278 47.0%	1,402 51.6%	39	2,719	R+4.6
Washington	455 18.0%	2,050 81.0%	25	2,530	R+63.0
Custer	739 30.4%	1,657 68.2%	32	2,428	R+37.8
Lincoln	503 21.5%	1,819 77.8%	15	2,337	R+56.3
Phillips	582 25.0%	1,717 73.8%	26	2,325	R+48.8
Baca	483 22.1%	1,680 76.9%	23	2,186	R+54.8
Bent	785 36.4%	1,338 62.1%	32	2,155	R+25.7
Costilla	1,170 66.5%	566 32.2%	23	1,759	D+34.3
Crowley	478 32.0%	1,006 67.4%	9	1,493	R+35.4
Sedgwick	374 27.5%	971 71.4%	15	1,360	R+43.9
Dolores	333 29.1%	785 68.5%	28	1,146	R+39.4
Cheyenne	198 17.5%	923 81.4%	13	1,134	R+63.9
Jackson	210 22.5%	710 76.0%	14	934	R+53.5
Kiowa	172 19.3%	712 79.8%	8	892	R+60.5
Mineral	227 36.7%	383 61.9%	9	619	R+25.2
Hinsdale	236 39.2%	355 59.0%	11	602	R+19.8
San Juan	253 52.1%	216 44.4%	17	486	D+7.6

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+11.0
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+13.5
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+4.9
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+5.4
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+9.0
2004	George W. Bush (R)	R+4.7
2000	George W. Bush (R)	R+8.4
1996	Bob Dole (R)	R+1.4
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+4.3
1988	George H. W. Bush (R)	R+7.8
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+28.3
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+24.0
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+11.4
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+28.0
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+9.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+23.1
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+9.7
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+19.7
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.3
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+5.4
1944	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+6.8
1940	Wendell Willkie (R)	R+2.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.3
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+13.4
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.8
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+35.0
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+23.4
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+26.0
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+20.9
1908	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+1.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+14.2
1900	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+13.4
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+71.1
1892	James B. Weaver (other)
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+14.4
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+12.6
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+5.2

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