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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).
In Wyoming, a special election was held following the death of Governor DeForest Richards in April 1903.
| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas (held, 5 September 1904) | Jefferson Davis | Democratic | Re-elected, 60.97% | Harry H. Myers (Republican) 36.41% John G. Adams (Prohibition) 2.22% Scattering 0.40% [1] |
| Colorado | James H. Peabody | Republican | Defeated, 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 | Republican | Retired, 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 | Democratic | Term-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 | Democratic | Re-elected, 100.00% [6] | (Democratic primary results) Joseph M. Terrell unopposed [7] [8] |
| Idaho | John T. Morrison | Republican | Lost 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. | Republican | Lost 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 | Republican | Term-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 | Republican | Retired, 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 | Republican | Defeated, 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 | Republican | Retired, 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 | Republican | Retired, 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 | Democratic | Term-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 | Democratic | Re-elected, 53.79% | William Lindsay (Republican) 40.99% Malcolm A. O'Malley (Socialist) 5.22% [18] |
| Nebraska | John H. Mickey | Republican | Re-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 | Republican | Term-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 | Republican | Retired, 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 | Democratic | Term-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 | Republican | Retired, 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 | Democratic | Defeated, 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 | Democratic | Re-elected | Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic) 100.00% [26] (Democratic primary results) Duncan Clinch Heyward unopposed [ citation needed ] |
| South Dakota | Charles N. Herreid | Republican | Retired, 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 | Democratic | Re-elected, 55.72% | Jessie M. Littleton (Republican) 43.81% John M. Ray (Socialist) 0.47% [28] |
| Texas | Samuel W. T. Lanham | Democratic | Re-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 | Republican | Lost 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 | Republican | Retired, 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 | Republican | Lost 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 | Republican | Term-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 | Republican | Re-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 | Republican | Lost 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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