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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in Illinois

John Kerry (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in Illinois in 2004, 54.8% to 44.5%, a margin of 10.3 points and 545,604 votes.

Illinois voted 12.8 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+2.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2000, when Al Gore won.

Republicans led in 87 of the 102 counties and Democrats in 15. The largest, Cook, cast 2,049,434 votes and went to the Democrat by 41.1 points. The closest was Gallatin, where 46 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
John Kerry won Democratic 2,891,550 54.8%
George W. Bush Republican 2,345,946 44.5%
All other candidates 36,826 0.7%
Total5,274,322

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cook 1,439,724 70.2% 597,405 29.1% 12,305 2,049,434 D+41.1
DuPage 180,097 44.8% 218,902 54.4% 3,447 402,446 R+9.6
Lake 134,352 48.8% 139,081 50.5% 1,862 275,295 R+1.7
Will 115,625 46.9% 129,098 52.4% 1,686 246,409 R+5.5
Kane 75,922 44.2% 94,359 55.0% 1,434 171,715 R+10.7
McHenry 50,330 39.3% 76,412 59.7% 1,206 127,948 R+20.4
Madison 63,399 51.3% 59,384 48.0% 895 123,678 D+3.2
Winnebago 59,740 49.2% 60,782 50.1% 903 121,425 R+0.9
St. Clair 62,410 55.1% 50,203 44.4% 576 113,189 D+10.8
Sangamon 38,630 40.5% 55,904 58.6% 841 95,375 R+18.1
Peoria 41,121 49.7% 41,051 49.6% 599 82,771 D+0.1
Champaign 41,524 50.4% 39,896 48.4% 1,014 82,434 D+2.0
McLean 29,877 41.7% 41,276 57.6% 467 71,620 R+15.9
Rock Island 39,880 57.0% 29,663 42.4% 429 69,972 D+14.6
Tazewell 25,814 41.4% 36,058 57.8% 466 62,338 R+16.4
Macon 23,341 45.1% 28,118 54.3% 287 51,746 R+9.2
LaSalle 24,263 47.8% 26,101 51.5% 365 50,729 R+3.6
Kankakee 20,003 44.4% 24,739 54.9% 294 45,036 R+10.5
DeKalb 19,263 47.3% 21,095 51.7% 410 40,768 R+4.5
Vermilion 14,726 43.7% 18,731 55.6% 257 33,714 R+11.9
Kendall 12,374 38.2% 19,774 61.0% 254 32,402 R+22.8
Adams 10,511 33.4% 20,834 66.2% 132 31,477 R+32.8
Williamson 11,685 39.0% 18,086 60.4% 189 29,960 R+21.4
Whiteside 13,723 51.1% 12,959 48.2% 191 26,873 D+2.8
Jackson 14,300 55.4% 11,190 43.3% 336 25,826 D+12.0
Henry 11,877 47.1% 13,212 52.3% 152 25,241 R+5.3
Knox 13,403 54.2% 11,111 45.0% 194 24,708 D+9.3
Ogle 9,018 37.4% 14,918 61.9% 155 24,091 R+24.5
Macoupin 11,193 49.1% 11,413 50.1% 179 22,785 R+1.0
Coles 9,566 42.0% 13,015 57.1% 199 22,780 R+15.1
Stephenson 8,913 41.8% 12,212 57.3% 195 21,320 R+15.5
Grundy 8,463 42.7% 11,198 56.5% 170 19,831 R+13.8
Boone 8,286 42.4% 11,132 57.0% 123 19,541 R+14.6
Franklin 8,816 45.6% 10,388 53.7% 148 19,352 R+8.1
Woodford 6,005 31.9% 12,698 67.5% 99 18,802 R+35.6
Bureau 7,961 44.5% 9,822 54.9% 119 17,902 R+10.4
Marion 7,694 44.7% 9,413 54.7% 117 17,224 R+10.0
Clinton 6,797 39.7% 10,219 59.7% 115 17,131 R+20.0
Fulton 9,080 53.3% 7,818 45.9% 137 17,035 D+7.4
Jefferson 6,713 39.6% 10,160 59.9% 75 16,948 R+20.3
Monroe 6,788 41.5% 9,468 57.8% 114 16,370 R+16.4
Effingham 4,388 27.0% 11,774 72.3% 116 16,278 R+45.4
Livingston 5,632 35.1% 10,316 64.3% 91 16,039 R+29.2
Lee 6,416 40.4% 9,307 58.6% 153 15,876 R+18.2
Christian 6,112 40.0% 9,044 59.2% 111 15,267 R+19.2
Morgan 5,650 37.2% 9,392 61.9% 138 15,180 R+24.7
Randolph 6,771 45.3% 8,076 54.0% 109 14,956 R+8.7
McDonough 7,119 47.7% 7,656 51.3% 154 14,929 R+3.6
Iroquois 3,832 27.7% 9,914 71.7% 89 13,835 R+44.0
Logan 4,273 31.7% 9,112 67.7% 82 13,467 R+35.9
Montgomery 5,979 46.2% 6,851 53.0% 100 12,930 R+6.7
Saline 4,697 39.8% 7,057 59.7% 60 11,814 R+20.0
Jo Daviess 5,311 45.8% 6,174 53.3% 99 11,584 R+7.4
Shelby 3,744 35.4% 6,753 63.8% 80 10,577 R+28.4
Perry 4,770 45.8% 5,589 53.6% 66 10,425 R+7.9
Jersey 4,597 45.3% 5,435 53.6% 105 10,137 R+8.3
Hancock 3,975 40.2% 5,837 59.0% 87 9,899 R+18.8
Fayette 3,571 37.4% 5,880 61.6% 98 9,549 R+24.2
Crawford 3,194 34.2% 6,083 65.2% 55 9,332 R+31.0
Union 3,735 41.0% 5,333 58.5% 51 9,119 R+17.5
Mercer 4,512 50.3% 4,405 49.1% 57 8,974 D+1.2
Piatt 3,124 36.4% 5,392 62.8% 70 8,586 R+26.4
Douglas 2,767 32.4% 5,702 66.8% 71 8,540 R+34.4
Warren 3,938 46.6% 4,474 52.9% 45 8,457 R+6.3
Edgar 3,093 36.7% 5,258 62.4% 78 8,429 R+25.7
White 3,071 37.0% 5,180 62.4% 50 8,301 R+25.4
Wayne 2,139 25.8% 6,102 73.6% 46 8,287 R+47.8
Carroll 3,537 43.5% 4,534 55.7% 64 8,135 R+12.3
Washington 2,986 36.8% 5,072 62.6% 46 8,104 R+25.7
Clark 2,877 35.9% 5,082 63.5% 48 8,007 R+27.5
Pike 2,849 35.7% 5,032 63.1% 99 7,980 R+27.4
De Witt 2,836 36.4% 4,920 63.1% 42 7,798 R+26.7
Richland 2,529 32.6% 5,153 66.5% 67 7,749 R+33.9
Massac 2,805 37.8% 4,578 61.7% 41 7,424 R+23.9
Bond 3,228 43.8% 4,068 55.2% 73 7,369 R+11.4
Mason 3,215 44.8% 3,907 54.4% 61 7,183 R+9.6
Lawrence 2,518 37.4% 4,162 61.9% 49 6,729 R+24.4
Marshall 2,806 42.6% 3,734 56.7% 44 6,584 R+14.1
Menard 2,137 32.5% 4,408 67.1% 29 6,574 R+34.5
Clay 2,101 32.1% 4,416 67.4% 37 6,554 R+35.3
Ford 1,912 29.5% 4,511 69.6% 56 6,479 R+40.1
Moultrie 2,388 36.9% 4,028 62.3% 50 6,466 R+25.4
Greene 2,457 40.5% 3,559 58.7% 52 6,068 R+18.2
Wabash 1,752 29.2% 4,212 70.1% 42 6,006 R+41.0
Johnson 1,813 30.9% 3,997 68.2% 55 5,865 R+37.2
Cass 2,492 43.7% 3,163 55.5% 45 5,700 R+11.8
Cumberland 1,862 34.4% 3,497 64.6% 57 5,416 R+30.2
Jasper 1,781 33.4% 3,529 66.1% 26 5,336 R+32.8
Hamilton 1,814 40.2% 2,653 58.8% 47 4,514 R+18.6
Henderson 2,269 54.6% 1,857 44.7% 27 4,153 D+9.9
Schuyler 1,594 39.5% 2,403 59.6% 34 4,031 R+20.1
Alexander 2,016 52.1% 1,831 47.3% 26 3,873 D+4.8
Edwards 930 27.6% 2,412 71.7% 22 3,364 R+44.1
Putnam 1,704 50.8% 1,623 48.4% 25 3,352 D+2.4
Gallatin 1,573 48.8% 1,619 50.2% 33 3,225 R+1.4
Pulaski 1,372 44.1% 1,720 55.3% 16 3,108 R+11.2
Stark 1,189 38.8% 1,841 60.1% 31 3,061 R+21.3
Calhoun 1,367 50.5% 1,317 48.7% 22 2,706 D+1.8
Scott 927 35.2% 1,696 64.3% 13 2,636 R+29.2
Brown 895 34.6% 1,679 65.0% 11 2,585 R+30.3
Hardin 923 37.9% 1,501 61.6% 13 2,437 R+23.7
Pope 918 37.7% 1,500 61.6% 18 2,436 R+23.9

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

Illinois in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+10.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+17.0
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+17.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+16.9
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+10.3
2000 Al Gore (D) D+12.0
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+17.5
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+12.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.9
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+2.0
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+18.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+2.9
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+0.2
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+19.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+9.9
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.8
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+18.0
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.2
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+14.8
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+35.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+42.3
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+9.2
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+13.2
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+15.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+28.3
1900 William McKinley (R) R+8.4
1896 William McKinley (R) R+13.1
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+3.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+3.7
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+6.5
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+3.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+11.4