1904 United States gubernatorial elections

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1904 United States gubernatorial elections
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  1903 November 8, 1904 [lower-alpha 1] 1905  

33 governorships [lower-alpha 2]
 Majority partyMinority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Seats before2717
Seats after2519
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Seats up2310
Seats won2112

 Third party
 
Party Silver
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Seats up0
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1904 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg
     Democratic gain     Democratic hold
     Republican gain     Republican hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1904, in 33 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 8, 1904 (except in Arkansas, Georgia, Maine and Vermont, which held early elections).

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In Wyoming, a special election was held following the death of Governor DeForest Richards in April 1903.

Results

StateIncumbentPartyStatusOpposing candidates
Arkansas
(held, 5 September 1904)
Jefferson Davis DemocraticRe-elected, 60.97% Harry H. Myers (Republican) 36.41%
John G. Adams (Prohibition) 2.22%
Scattering 0.40%
[1]
Colorado James H. Peabody RepublicanDefeated, 46.80% Alva Adams (Democratic) 50.64%
Robert A. N. Wilson (Prohibition) 1.24%
Andrew H. Floaten (Socialist) 1.07%
James Merwin (People's) 0.13%
J. A. Knight (Socialist Labor) 0.12%
[2]
Connecticut Abiram Chamberlain Republican[ data unknown/missing ] Henry Roberts (Republican) 54.88%
A. Heaton Richardson (Democratic) 41.48%
George A. Sweetland (Socialist) 2.30%
Oliver G. Beard (Prohibition) 0.79%
Timothy Sullivan (Socialist Labor) 0.30%
Joseph Sheldon (Populist) 0.25%
[3]
Delaware John Hunn RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Preston Lea (Republican) 51.40%
Caleb S. Pennewill (Democratic) 45.13%
Joseph H. Chandler (Independent Republican) 1.83%
John R. Price (Prohibition) 1.34%
Gustave E. Reinicke (Socialist) 0.30%
[4]
Florida William Sherman Jennings DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory Napoleon Bonaparte Broward (Democratic) 79.16%
Matthew B. MacFarlane (Republican) 17.37%
W. R. Healey (Socialist) 3.47%
[5]
Georgia
(held, 5 October 1904)
Joseph M. Terrell DemocraticRe-elected, 100.00% [6] (Democratic primary results)
Joseph M. Terrell unopposed
[7] [8]
Idaho John T. Morrison RepublicanLost re-nomination, Republican victory Frank R. Gooding (Republican) 58.74%
Henry Heitfeld (Democratic) 34.02%
Theodore B. Shaw (Socialist) 5.61%
Edwin R. Headley (Prohibition) 1.39%
T. W. Bartley (People's) 0.25%
[9]
Illinois Richard Yates Jr. RepublicanLost re-nomination, Republican victory Charles Samuel Deneen (Republican) 59.09%
Lawrence B. Stringer (Democratic) 31.21%
John Collins (Socialist) 5.51%
Robert H. Patton (Prohibition) 3.30%
Philip Veal (Socialist Labor) 0.41%
James Hogan (People's) 0.41%
Andrew G. Specht (Continental) 0.07%
[10]
Indiana Winfield T. Durbin RepublicanTerm-limited, Republican victory James Frank Hanly (Republican) 53.51%
John Worth Kern (Democratic) 40.95%
Felix T. McWhirter (Prohibition) 3.38%
Matthew Hallenberger (Socialist) 1.64%
Leroy Templeton (People's) 0.31%
E. J. Dillon (Socialist Labor) 0.21%
[11]
Kansas Willis J. Bailey RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Edward W. Hoch (Republican) 57.92%
David M. Dale (Democratic) 36.29%
Granville Lowther (Socialist) 3.75%
James Kerr (Prohibition) 2.04%
[12]
Maine
(held, 12 September 1904)
John Fremont Hill Republican[ data unknown/missing ] William T. Cobb (Republican) 58.52%
Cyrus W. Davis (Democratic) 38.13%
Nathan F. Woodbury (Prohibition) 2.12%
Wilbur G. Hapgood (Socialist) 1.21%
Scattering 0.02%
[13]
Massachusetts John L. Bates RepublicanDefeated, 44.14% William L. Douglas (Democratic) 52.14%
John Quincy Adams (Socialist) 2.58%
Oliver W. Cobb (Prohibition) 0.70%
Michael T. Berry (Socialist Labor) 0.45%
[14]
Michigan Aaron T. Bliss RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Fred M. Warner (Republican) 54.09%
Woodbridge N. Ferris (Democratic) 42.61%
James M. Shackleton (Prohibition) 1.98%
Clayton J. Lamb (Socialist) 1.18%
Meiko Meyer (Socialist Labor) 0.15%
[15]
Minnesota Samuel R. Van Sant RepublicanRetired, Democratic victory John Albert Johnson (Democratic) 48.71%
Robert C. Dunn (Republican) 46.13%
Charles W. Dorsett (Prohibition) 2.49%
Jay E. Nash (Public Ownership) 1.91%
A. W. M. Anderson (Socialist Labor) 0.76%
[16]
Missouri Alexander Monroe Dockery DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory Joseph W. Folk (Democratic) 50.73%
Cyrus P. Walbridge (Republican) 46.05%
Ernest T. Behrens (Socialist) 1.71%
Orange J. Hill (Prohibition) 0.87%
William C. Alldredge (People's) 0.42%
J. E. White (Socialist Labor) 0.22%
[17]
Montana Joseph K. Toole DemocraticRe-elected, 53.79% William Lindsay (Republican) 40.99%
Malcolm A. O'Malley (Socialist) 5.22%
[18]
Nebraska John H. Mickey RepublicanRe-elected, 49.67% George W. Berge (Democratic/Populist fusion) 45.61%
Clarence F. Swander (Prohibition) 2.44%
Benjamin H. Vail (Socialist) 2.28%
[19]
New Hampshire Nahum J. Bachelder Republican[ data unknown/missing ] John McLane (Republican) 57.83%
Henry F. Hollis (Democratic) 40.05%
Sumner F. Claflin (Socialist) 1.07%
David Heald (Prohibition) 0.97%
George Howie (People's) 0.07%
Scattering 0.02%
[20]
New Jersey Franklin Murphy RepublicanTerm-limited, Republican victory Edward C. Stokes (Republican) 53.50%
Charles C. Black (Democratic) 41.56%
Henry R. Kearns (Socialist) 2.05%
James Parker (Prohibition) 1.55%
George A. Honnecker (Populist) 0.76%
George P. Herrschaft (Socialist Labor) 0.58%
[21]
New York Benjamin Odell RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Frank W. Higgins (Republican) 50.27%
D. Cady Herrick (Democratic) 45.29%
Thomas Pendergast (Social Democrat) 2.24%
John McKee (Prohibition) 1.27%
Daniel De Leon (Socialist Labor) 0.56%
Alfred J. Boulton (People's) 0.37%
[22]
North Carolina Charles Brantley Aycock DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory Robert B. Glenn (Democratic) 61.72%
Charles J. Harris (Republican) 38.11%
James M. Templeton (Prohibition) 0.11%
William Pegram (Socialist) 0.05%
[23]
North Dakota Frank White RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Elmore Y. Sarles (Republican) 70.71%
Marthinus F. Hegge (Democratic) 24.65%
Arthur Basset (Socialist) 2.59%
Hans H. Aaker (Prohibition) 2.04%
[24]
Rhode Island Lucius F. C. Garvin DemocraticDefeated, 47.70% George H. Utter (Republican) 48.94%
William E. Brightman (Prohibition) 1.58%
John Edward Carney (Socialist) 1.08%
Peter McDermott (Socialist Labor) 0.71%
[25]
South Carolina Duncan Clinch Heyward DemocraticRe-elected Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic) 100.00% [26]
(Democratic primary results)
Duncan Clinch Heyward unopposed
[ citation needed ]
South Dakota Charles N. Herreid RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Samuel H. Elrod (Republican) 68.29%
Louis N. Crill (Democratic) 24.68%
Freeman Knowles (Socialist) 3.02%
W. J. Edgar (Prohibition) 2.91%
R. C. Warne (Populist) 1.11%
[27]
Tennessee James B. Frazier DemocraticRe-elected, 55.72% Jessie M. Littleton (Republican) 43.81%
John M. Ray (Socialist) 0.47%
[28]
Texas Samuel W. T. Lanham DemocraticRe-elected, 73.57% J. G. Lowden (Republican) 20.29%
Pat B. Clark (Populist) 3.32%
W. D. Jackson (Prohibition) 1.61%
Word H. Mills (Socialist) 1.02%
Frank Leitner (Socialist Labor) 0.20%
[29]
Utah Heber Manning Wells RepublicanLost re-nomination, Republican victory John C. Cutler (Republican) 49.97%
James Henry Moyle (Democratic) 37.40%
William Montague Ferry (American) 7.82%
Joseph A. Kauffman (Socialist) 4.81%
[30]
Vermont
(held, 6 September 1904)
John G. McCullough RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Charles J. Bell (Republican) 72.22%
Eli H. Porter (Democratic) 24.85%
Homer Fletcher Comings (Prohibition) 1.76%
Clarence E. Morse (Socialist) 1.15%
Scattering 0.01%
[31]
Washington Henry McBride RepublicanLost re-nomination, Republican victory Albert Edward Mead (Republican) 51.34%
George Turner (Democratic) 40.87%
David Burgess (Socialist) 5.13%
Ambrose H. Sherwood (Prohibition) 1.92%
William McCormick (Socialist Labor) 0.74%
[32]
West Virginia Albert B. White RepublicanTerm-limited, Republican victory William M. O. Dawson (Republican) 50.78%
John Jacob Cornwell (Democratic) 47.02%
Joseph W. Bedford (Prohibition) 1.67%
J. M. Eskey (Socialist) 0.53%
[33]
Wisconsin Robert M. LaFollette RepublicanRe-elected, 50.55% George Wilbur Peck (Democratic) 39.22%
William A. Arnold (Social Democrat) 5.53%
Edward Schofield (National Republican) 2.70%
William H. Clark (Prohibition) 1.95%
Charles M. Minkley (Socialist Labor) 0.06%
[34]
Wyoming
(special election)
Fenimore Chatterton RepublicanLost re-nomination, Republican victory Bryant B. Brooks (Republican) 57.48%
John E. Osborne (Democratic) 39.27%
James W. Gates (Socialist) 2.64%
George W. Blain (Prohibition) 0.62%
[35]

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Notes

  1. Arkansas, Georgia, Maine and Vermont held early elections.
  2. Including a special election in Wyoming.