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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in West Virginia

George W. Bush (Republican) beat John Kerry (Democrat) in West Virginia in 2004, 56.1% to 43.2%, a margin of 12.9 points and 97,237 votes.

West Virginia voted 10.4 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 46 of the 55 counties and Democrats in 9. The largest, Kanawha, cast 87,928 votes and went to the Republican by 1.6 points. The closest was Braxton, where 49 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 423,778 56.1%
John Kerry Democratic 326,541 43.2%
All other candidates 5,473 0.7%
Total755,792

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 43,010 48.9% 44,430 50.5% 488 87,928 R+1.6
Wood 14,025 35.8% 24,948 63.6% 254 39,227 R+27.8
Cabell 16,583 43.7% 21,035 55.4% 332 37,950 R+11.7
Monongalia 16,313 47.6% 17,670 51.5% 323 34,306 R+4.0
Berkeley 12,244 36.2% 21,293 63.0% 248 33,785 R+26.8
Harrison 13,238 43.3% 17,111 55.9% 239 30,588 R+12.7
Raleigh 11,815 38.7% 18,519 60.7% 191 30,525 R+22.0
Marion 12,771 50.7% 12,150 48.2% 273 25,194 D+2.5
Putnam 9,301 37.0% 15,716 62.5% 134 25,151 R+25.5
Mercer 9,178 41.0% 13,057 58.3% 144 22,379 R+17.3
Ohio 8,543 41.9% 11,694 57.3% 155 20,392 R+15.5
Jefferson 9,301 46.5% 10,539 52.7% 153 19,993 R+6.2
Wayne 8,411 45.2% 10,070 54.1% 128 18,609 R+8.9
Fayette 8,971 52.9% 7,881 46.4% 115 16,967 D+6.4
Marshall 6,435 42.7% 8,516 56.5% 121 15,072 R+13.8
Logan 7,877 52.6% 7,047 47.0% 63 14,987 D+5.5
Greenbrier 6,084 41.8% 8,358 57.4% 111 14,553 R+15.6
Hancock 6,906 48.2% 7,298 51.0% 117 14,321 R+2.7
Jackson 5,384 40.9% 7,686 58.4% 88 13,158 R+17.5
Mason 5,408 45.1% 6,487 54.1% 95 11,990 R+9.0
Preston 3,963 33.2% 7,855 65.8% 111 11,929 R+32.6
Randolph 4,892 42.6% 6,512 56.7% 86 11,490 R+14.1
Mineral 3,518 30.7% 7,854 68.5% 89 11,461 R+37.8
Brooke 5,493 51.0% 5,189 48.2% 91 10,773 D+2.8
Mingo 5,983 56.2% 4,612 43.3% 60 10,655 D+12.9
Nicholas 4,788 46.3% 5,485 53.0% 78 10,351 R+6.7
Boone 5,933 58.2% 4,207 41.3% 58 10,198 D+16.9
Upshur 3,034 32.6% 6,191 66.6% 68 9,293 R+34.0
Wyoming 3,694 42.4% 4,985 57.2% 39 8,718 R+14.8
Lincoln 4,048 48.7% 4,102 49.4% 162 8,312 R+0.6
Hampshire 2,455 30.7% 5,489 68.6% 52 7,996 R+37.9
McDowell 4,501 61.7% 2,762 37.8% 36 7,299 D+23.8
Wetzel 3,330 47.3% 3,656 51.9% 52 7,038 R+4.6
Lewis 2,475 35.4% 4,445 63.5% 79 6,999 R+28.1
Morgan 2,272 33.2% 4,511 65.9% 64 6,847 R+32.7
Barbour 2,610 39.2% 4,004 60.2% 41 6,655 R+20.9
Taylor 2,617 39.9% 3,893 59.4% 41 6,551 R+19.5
Roane 2,612 42.8% 3,440 56.4% 48 6,100 R+13.6
Braxton 3,035 50.2% 2,986 49.3% 30 6,051 D+0.8
Monroe 2,311 38.8% 3,590 60.3% 50 5,951 R+21.5
Summers 2,504 45.3% 2,978 53.9% 42 5,524 R+8.6
Hardy 1,617 30.6% 3,635 68.9% 24 5,276 R+38.2
Grant 963 19.1% 4,063 80.5% 21 5,047 R+61.4
Tyler 1,401 33.0% 2,798 65.9% 46 4,245 R+32.9
Ritchie 1,070 25.5% 3,086 73.5% 40 4,196 R+48.0
Clay 1,835 45.1% 2,198 54.0% 39 4,072 R+8.9
Pocahontas 1,573 40.1% 2,295 58.6% 50 3,918 R+18.4
Webster 1,965 52.9% 1,724 46.4% 25 3,714 D+6.5
Tucker 1,400 38.9% 2,179 60.5% 21 3,600 R+21.6
Pendleton 1,381 39.0% 2,146 60.6% 17 3,544 R+21.6
Pleasants 1,349 39.3% 2,061 60.0% 25 3,435 R+20.7
Doddridge 800 25.2% 2,362 74.3% 17 3,179 R+49.1
Gilmer 1,159 40.6% 1,665 58.4% 28 2,852 R+17.7
Calhoun 1,266 47.6% 1,360 51.1% 35 2,661 R+3.5
Wirt 896 33.8% 1,727 65.1% 31 2,654 R+31.3

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

West Virginia in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+41.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+38.9
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+42.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+26.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+13.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+12.9
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.7
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.7
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+10.5
1980 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.5
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+16.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.2
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+8.8
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+3.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+15.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+10.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+12.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+0.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+10.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.2
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.5
1896 William McKinley (R) R+5.4
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.3
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.2
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+9.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+14.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+17.6