List of candidates in the 2004 United States presidential election

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The following are lists of candidates in the 2004 U.S. presidential election . Candidates who were not on any state ballots, withdrew from the race, suspended their presidential campaign, or failed to earn their party's nomination are listed separately.

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Party nominees

All candidates in the table below were on the ballot in multiple states. Those who were on the ballot in enough states to win a majority in the U.S. Electoral College are marked in bold. Candidates who were on the ballot in no more than one state are listed in the next section.

Presidential candidateRunning mateParty
Gene Amondson Leroy Pletten Prohibition
Michael Badnarik Richard Campagna Libertarian
Walt Brown Mary Alice Herbert Socialist
George W. Bush (winner) Richard Cheney Republican
Róger Calero Arrin Hawkins Socialist Workers
David Cobb Pat LaMarche Green
Earl F. Dodge Howard Lydick Prohibition
John Kerry John Edwards Democratic
Ralph Nader Peter Camejo Independent, Reform
John ParkerTeresa Gutierrez Workers World
Michael Peroutka Chuck Baldwin Constitution
Bill Van Auken Jim Lawrence Socialist Equality

Ballot access

The two major parties in the United States are the Democratic and the Republican parties, which are on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia.

The table below shows which third-party candidates were able to gain ballot access in each state. In some states, these candidates were on the ballot as independents, or on the ballot lines of different parties (for example, in Michigan the Socialist Party USA candidate received the Natural Law Party's ballot line.)

The Socialist Workers Party's official ticket could not be listed on the ballot in some states because Calero and Hawkins were both ineligible to be president, as Calero was not a native-born citizen and Hawkins was too young. In such states the party used their 2000 ticket of James Harris and Margaret Trowe (JH).

The Prohibition Party suffered a schism in 2003. Long-time presidential candidate Earl Dodge was the nominee of one faction, while Gene Amondson was the nominee of the other. Both factions were on the ballot in Colorado, with only Amondson on the ballot in Louisiana.

Candidates who had enough potential electoral votes to win the presidency
  Electoral Votes Libertarian (Badnarik) Green (Cobb) Nader Constitution (Peroutka)
States5149 (50)25 (43)35 (48)34 (42)
Electoral votes (EV)538527 (531)267 (479)278 (507)341 (430)
Percent of EV100%97.9% (98.7%)49.6% (89%)51.7% (94.2%)63.3% (79.9%)
Alabama 9 (write-in) (write-in)
Alaska 3   (write-in)
Arizona 10 (write-in)(write-in)
Arkansas 6    
California 55  (write-in) 
Colorado 9    
Connecticut 7    
Delaware 3    
Florida 27    
Georgia 15 (write-in)(write-in)(write-in)
Hawaii 4  
Idaho 4 (write-in)(write-in) 
Illinois 21 (write-in)(write-in)(write-in)
Indiana 11 (write-in)(write-in)
Iowa 7    
Kansas 6 (write-in)  
Kentucky 8   
Louisiana 9    
Maine 4   
Maryland 10    
Massachusetts 12 (write-in)
Michigan 17    
Minnesota 10    
Mississippi 6    
Missouri 11 (write-in) 
Montana 3    
Nebraska 5    
Nevada 5    
New Hampshire 4(write-in)(write-in) (write-in)
New Jersey 15    
New Mexico 5    
New York 31 (write-in) 
North Carolina 15 (write-in)(write-in)
North Dakota 3   
Ohio 20 (write-in) 
Oklahoma 7
Oregon 7  (write-in) 
Pennsylvania 21  (write-in) 
Rhode Island 4    
South Carolina 8    
South Dakota 3   
Tennessee 11 (write-in)  
Texas 34 (write-in)(write-in)(write-in)
Utah 5 (write-in)  
Vermont 3 (write-in) (write-in)
Virginia 13 (write-in)(write-in) 
Washington 11    
West Virginia 5 (write-in) 
Wisconsin 10   (write-in)
Wyoming 3 (write-in)  
District of Columbia 3 (write-in) 
Other third-party candidates
 Electoral Votes Prohibition (Amondson) Socialist (Brown) Socialist Workers (Calero) Workers World (Parker) Socialist Equality (Van Auken)
States5128 (19)14 (17)3 (4)5 (8)
EV5381898 (218)151 (247)18 (73)52 (93)
Percent of EV100%3.3%18.2% (40.5%)28% (45.9%)3.3% (13.6%)9.6% (17.3%)
Alabama 9
Alaska 3
Arizona 10
Arkansas 6
California 55(write-in)(write-in)
Colorado 9(also Dodge) (JH) 
Connecticut 7
Delaware 3 
Florida 27 (JH)
Georgia 15
Hawaii 4
Idaho 4(write-in)
Illinois 21(write-in)
Indiana 11(write-in)
Iowa 7(JH) 
Kansas 6(write-in)(write-in)
Kentucky 8(write-in)
Louisiana 9  (JH)
Maine 4(write-in)
Maryland 10
Massachusetts 12
Michigan 17 
Minnesota 10(write-in) 
Mississippi 6(JH)
Missouri 11
Montana 3(write-in)
Nebraska 5 
Nevada 5
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey 15   
New Mexico 5
New York 31 (write-in)
North Carolina 15(write-in)
North Dakota 3
Ohio 20(write-in)
Oklahoma 7
Oregon 7
Pennsylvania 21
Rhode Island 4 
South Carolina 8 
South Dakota 3
Tennessee 11(write-in)
Texas 34(write-in)
Utah 5(write-in)(JH)
Vermont 3  
Virginia 13(write-in)
Washington 11(JH)  
West Virginia 5
Wisconsin 10 (JH)
Wyoming 3
District of Columbia 3(JH)
Other candidates

The tickets below were on the ballot in no more than one state. Those who appeared on a single state's ballot are in bold, all others were write-in candidates. Those without party labels were independents. Some did not have vice-presidential candidates.

Although Guam has no votes in the Electoral College, they have held a straw poll for their presidential preferences since 1980. In 2004, the results were Bush 21,490 (64.1%), Kerry 11,781 (35.1%), Nader 196 (0.58%) and Badnarik 67 (0.2%). [1]

Primary and convention candidates

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References

  1. ↑ "2004 Presidential Vote". Ballot-Access.org. 2004-12-12. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  2. ↑ Talk of the Nation interview with guests Harry Braun and Vijay Vaitheeswaran (November 21, 2003). "New Energy Policy". NPR.
  3. ↑ Joel Achenbach (January 13, 2004). "A Show of Hands". The Washington Post . ...turned out to be a ballot with easy-on, easy-off access. Essentially anyone could join the fun. Among those running is Harry Braun (no relation to [Carol Moseby Braun] the former senator), the only candidate whose slogan is "Making America Energy Independent & Pollution-Free with Windship Hydrogen Production Systems." "I'm talking about making the hydrogen from water," Braun said in a phone interview Sunday. "President Bush wants to make it from coal and nuclear power. That's not clean hydrogen, that's filthy hydrogen, and that's nonrenewable hydrogen." The Braun plan is to build "windships," which he describes as 500 to 1,000 feet tall, with the "hull" anchored under the sea just off the coast. A large mast would hold wind turbines. A crew, below water, would run the machinery to convert ocean water to liquid hydrogen. Each windship would cost $10 million. How many of these enormous windships would Braun need? "About a million," he said. The project would cost $6 trillion total, in his estimation. ...
  4. ↑ hosted by The New Hampshire Political Library (January 8, 2004). "Lesser-Known Presidential Candidates' Forum". C-SPAN. Fifteen presidential and two vice presidential candidates spoke...
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