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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in New Hampshire

John Kerry (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in New Hampshire in 2004, 50.2% to 48.8%, a margin of 1.4 points and 9,274 votes.

New Hampshire voted 3.8 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+2.5.

New Hampshire changed party: in 2000 it went Republican, for George W. Bush.

Democrats led in 6 of the 10 counties and Republicans in 4. The largest, Hillsborough, cast 195,427 votes and went to the Republican by 2.9 points. The closest was Coos, where 442 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 340,511 50.2%
George W. Bush Republican 331,237 48.8%
All other candidates 6,539 1.0%
Total678,287

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Hillsborough 94,121 48.2% 99,724 51.0% 1,582 195,427 R+2.9
Rockingham 75,437 47.5% 82,069 51.7% 1,260 158,766 R+4.2
Merrimack 39,975 52.1% 36,060 47.0% 620 76,655 D+5.1
Strafford 32,942 55.6% 25,825 43.6% 513 59,280 D+12.0
Grafton 26,180 55.7% 20,277 43.2% 505 46,962 D+12.6
Cheshire 24,438 59.1% 16,463 39.8% 436 41,337 D+19.3
Belknap 14,080 43.6% 17,920 55.5% 298 32,298 R+11.9
Carroll 13,319 47.2% 14,614 51.8% 289 28,222 R+4.6
Sullivan 11,434 52.5% 10,142 46.5% 220 21,796 D+5.9
Coos 8,585 50.7% 8,143 48.1% 191 16,919 D+2.6

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

New Hampshire in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+2.8
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+7.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+0.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+1.4
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+1.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+10.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+26.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+37.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+29.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.3
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+29.1
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+27.8
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+6.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.8
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.6
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+25.1
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+2.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+21.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+22.3
1900 William McKinley (R) R+20.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+4.0
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.6
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+4.8
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+3.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+7.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.5