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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in Vermont

John Kerry (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in Vermont in 2004, 58.9% to 38.8%, a margin of 20.1 points and 62,887 votes.

Vermont voted 22.6 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.

Democrats led in 13 of the 14 counties and Republicans in 1. The largest, Chittenden, cast 77,696 votes and went to the Democrat by 29.5 points. The closest was Essex, where 315 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 184,067 58.9%
George W. Bush Republican 121,180 38.8%
All other candidates 7,062 2.3%
Total312,309

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Chittenden 49,369 63.5% 26,422 34.0% 1,905 77,696 D+29.5
Washington 19,177 61.0% 11,461 36.4% 810 31,448 D+24.5
Rutland 15,904 51.3% 14,440 46.6% 631 30,975 D+4.7
Windsor 18,561 60.3% 11,491 37.3% 715 30,767 D+23.0
Windham 15,489 66.4% 7,280 31.2% 547 23,316 D+35.2
Franklin 10,598 53.2% 8,936 44.9% 386 19,920 D+8.3
Bennington 11,069 58.1% 7,616 39.9% 380 19,065 D+18.1
Addison 11,147 60.0% 7,077 38.1% 355 18,579 D+21.9
Orange 8,159 54.8% 6,421 43.1% 315 14,895 D+11.7
Caledonia 7,106 50.0% 6,765 47.6% 340 14,211 D+2.4
Orleans 6,330 51.7% 5,666 46.3% 246 12,242 D+5.4
Lamoille 7,636 62.7% 4,260 35.0% 285 12,181 D+27.7
Grand Isle 2,246 55.1% 1,754 43.0% 77 4,077 D+12.1
Essex 1,276 43.4% 1,591 54.2% 70 2,937 R+10.7

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

Vermont in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+31.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+35.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+26.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+35.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+37.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+20.1
2000 Al Gore (D) D+9.9
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+22.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+17.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+6.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+26.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+32.6
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+44.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+43.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+24.6
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+9.9
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+13.2
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+16.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+34.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+62.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+52.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+27.2
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+53.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+59.1
1900 William McKinley (R) R+52.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+63.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+38.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+43.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+37.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+41.9
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+37.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.1