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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in Nevada

George W. Bush (Republican) beat John Kerry (Democrat) in Nevada in 2004, 50.5% to 47.9%, a margin of 2.6 points and 21,500 votes.

Nevada voted 0.1 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 16 of the 17 counties and Democrats in 1. The largest, Clark, cast 545,397 votes and went to the Democrat by 4.8 points. The closest was Esmeralda, where 268 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
George W. Bush won Republican 418,690 50.5%
John Kerry Democratic 397,190 47.9%
All other candidates 13,707 1.7%
Total829,587

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Clark 281,767 51.7% 255,337 46.8% 8,293 545,397 D+4.8
Washoe 74,841 47.0% 81,545 51.3% 2,693 159,079 R+4.2
Douglas 8,275 34.6% 15,192 63.6% 431 23,898 R+28.9
Carson City 9,441 40.9% 13,171 57.0% 494 23,106 R+16.1
Lyon 5,637 32.9% 11,136 64.9% 378 17,151 R+32.1
Elko 3,050 19.9% 11,938 78.0% 321 15,309 R+58.1
Nye 5,616 38.7% 8,487 58.5% 407 14,510 R+19.8
Churchill 2,705 26.4% 7,335 71.7% 197 10,237 R+45.2
Humboldt 1,361 25.4% 3,896 72.6% 110 5,367 R+47.2
White Pine 1,082 28.5% 2,604 68.5% 116 3,802 R+40.0
Mineral 931 40.0% 1,336 57.4% 60 2,327 R+17.4
Storey 871 40.2% 1,253 57.8% 44 2,168 R+17.6
Lander 414 20.2% 1,602 78.0% 37 2,053 R+57.9
Lincoln 418 20.4% 1,579 77.1% 50 2,047 R+56.7
Pershing 538 28.1% 1,341 70.0% 38 1,917 R+41.9
Eureka 144 19.5% 571 77.4% 23 738 R+57.9
Esmeralda 99 20.6% 367 76.3% 15 481 R+55.7

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

Nevada in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+3.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+2.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+2.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+6.7
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+12.5
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+2.6
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.6
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+33.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+35.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.4
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+17.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+15.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.9
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+3.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+45.6
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+38.8
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+13.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+19.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.7
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+17.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+23.8
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+23.8
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+24.5
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+62.3
1892 Third party (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+15.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.5
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+4.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+5.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+14.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.8