1904 United States presidential election in Georgia

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1904 United States presidential election in Georgia
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  1900 November 8, 1904 (1904-11-08) 1908  
  AltonBParker.png Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros (cropped 3x4).jpg Tom E Watson.jpg
Nominee Alton Parker Theodore Roosevelt Thomas E. Watson
Party Democratic Republican Populist
Home state New York New York Georgia
Running mate Henry G. Davis Charles W. Fairbanks Thomas Tibbles
Electoral vote1300
Popular vote83,46624,00422,635
Percentage63.72%18.33%17.28%

Georgia Presidential Election Results 1904.svg
County Results

President before election

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

Elected President

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

The 1904 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen, doing so in the early 1870s. [1] This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns. [2] The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club. [3]

However, politics after the first demobilization by a cumulative poll tax was chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly the Populist Party, gained support amongst poor whites and the remaining black voters in opposition to the planter elite. [4] The fact that Georgia had already substantially reduced its poor white and black electorate two decades ago, alongside pressure from urban elites in Atlanta, [4] and the decline of isolationism due to the success of the Spanish–American War, [5] meant the Populist movement substantially faded in the late 1890s. [6] However, Populism would revive in 1904 when it became clear a conservative would be nominated by the Democratic Party, [7] whilst Watson did not find it difficult to get a somewhat demoralized party’s nomination over William V. Allen.

Georgia was won by the Democratic nominees, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker and his running mate, former US Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. They defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Parker won the state by a landslide margin of 45.39%.

Populist candidate and Georgia native Thomas E. Watson would campaign in the state in August, but as Georgia had not voted Republican even during Reconstruction neither major party candidate visited the state. Watson would collapse from his campaigning at the end of September, [8] No polls were taken until October 29, by which time the state was naturally viewed as certain for Parker. [9] Parker would eventually win Georgia with over five-eighths of the vote, although he declined by about three percent from William Jennings Bryan’s performance four years previously. Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and Watson ran a very close race for second, with the President edging the Populist for this position. Watson's 17.28% of the vote in Georgia was the largest percentage the Populists won in a state during the 1904 presidential election. [10]

Results

1904 United States presidential election in Georgia [11]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Alton B. Parker 83,46663.72%13
Republican Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent)24,00418.33%0
People's Thomas E. Watson 22,63517.28%0
Prohibition Silas C. Swallow 6850.52%0
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 1960.15%0

Results by county

CountyAlton Brooks Parker [12]
Democratic
Theodore Roosevelt [12]
Republican
Thomas Edward Watson [12]
Populist
Various candidates [12]
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%#%
Appling 55462.04%23726.54%9610.75%60.67%31735.50%893
Baker 51194.45%81.48%224.07%00.00%489 [lower-alpha 1] 90.39%541
Baldwin 49481.65%152.48%9215.21%40.66%402 [lower-alpha 1] 66.45%605
Banks 47444.30%19918.60%38836.26%90.84%86 [lower-alpha 1] 8.04%1,070
Bartow 79159.25%40630.41%1269.44%120.90%38528.84%1,335
Berrien 88981.34%686.22%12211.16%141.28%767 [lower-alpha 1] 70.17%1,093
Bibb 2,11788.47%2369.86%210.88%190.79%1,88178.60%2,393
Brooks 42969.98%10216.64%8113.21%10.16%32753.34%613
Bryan 25956.80%12527.41%7115.57%10.22%13429.39%456
Bulloch 59671.55%546.48%17120.53%121.44%425 [lower-alpha 1] 51.02%833
Burke 65787.02%526.89%425.56%40.53%60580.13%755
Butts 53172.64%8010.94%11615.87%40.55%415 [lower-alpha 1] 56.77%731
Calhoun 34587.56%194.82%307.61%00.00%315 [lower-alpha 1] 79.95%394
Camden 38054.76%31244.96%20.29%00.00%689.80%694
Campbell 30854.32%407.05%21037.04%91.59%98 [lower-alpha 1] 17.28%567
Carroll 1,18754.13%40018.24%58526.68%210.96%602 [lower-alpha 1] 27.45%2,193
Catoosa 28161.22%12026.14%449.59%143.05%16135.08%459
Charlton 20786.97%3113.03%00.00%00.00%17673.95%238
Chatham 2,64587.52%36312.01%60.20%80.26%2,28275.51%3,022
Chattahoochee 10754.87%6231.79%2412.31%21.03%4523.08%195
Chattooga 47249.74%37839.83%808.43%192.00%949.91%949
Cherokee 62250.78%24620.08%34227.92%151.22%280 [lower-alpha 1] 22.86%1,225
Clarke 77376.61%11811.69%11411.30%40.40%65564.92%1,009
Clay 27062.36%4710.85%11626.79%00.00%154 [lower-alpha 1] 35.57%433
Clayton 33359.25%5910.50%16930.07%10.18%164 [lower-alpha 1] 29.18%562
Clinch 28563.19%14131.26%235.10%20.44%14431.93%451
Cobb 1,17168.40%22012.85%31618.46%50.29%855 [lower-alpha 1] 49.94%1,712
Coffee 57163.16%26729.54%647.08%20.22%30433.63%904
Colquitt 44659.23%628.23%23631.34%91.20%210 [lower-alpha 1] 27.89%753
Columbia 18956.76%20.60%13841.44%41.20%51 [lower-alpha 1] 15.32%333
Coweta 1,07083.27%16012.45%493.81%60.47%91070.82%1,285
Crawford 31485.09%41.08%4813.01%30.81%266 [lower-alpha 1] 72.09%369
Dade 21773.06%3712.46%4013.47%31.01%177 [lower-alpha 1] 59.60%297
Dawson 20737.98%26047.71%6712.29%112.02%-53-9.72%545
De Kalb 75957.28%21316.08%34325.89%100.75%416 [lower-alpha 1] 31.40%1,325
Decatur 98575.42%18213.94%1309.95%90.69%80361.49%1,306
Dodge 68885.79%9812.22%162.00%00.00%59073.57%802
Dooly 98681.22%1078.81%1189.72%30.25%868 [lower-alpha 1] 71.50%1,214
Dougherty 47591.35%458.65%00.00%00.00%43082.69%520
Douglas 23035.71%13320.65%27843.17%30.47%-48 [lower-alpha 1] -7.45%644
Early 46666.95%121.72%21430.75%40.57%252 [lower-alpha 1] 36.21%696
Echols 15992.98%127.02%00.00%00.00%14785.96%171
Effingham 37074.00%479.40%5410.80%295.80%316 [lower-alpha 1] 63.20%500
Elbert 87783.13%60.57%16715.83%50.47%710 [lower-alpha 1] 67.30%1,055
Emanuel 51951.74%949.37%38838.68%20.20%131 [lower-alpha 1] 13.06%1,003
Fannin 45644.71%50449.41%484.71%121.18%-48-4.71%1,020
Fayette 26054.97%5912.47%14731.08%71.48%113 [lower-alpha 1] 23.89%473
Floyd 1,69271.15%46619.60%1928.07%281.18%1,22651.56%2,378
Forsyth 45542.72%35733.52%24823.29%50.47%989.20%1,065
Franklin 48642.11%20717.94%45339.25%80.69%33 [lower-alpha 1] 2.86%1,154
Fulton 5,78173.66%1,76622.50%2403.06%610.78%4,01551.16%7,848
Gilmer 55047.01%61752.74%00.00%30.26%-67-5.73%1,170
Glascock 11727.79%112.61%29068.88%30.71%-173 [lower-alpha 1] -41.09%421
Glynn 50158.67%31637.00%323.75%50.59%18521.66%854
Gordon 52550.10%32330.82%19218.32%80.76%20219.27%1,048
Greene 45149.56%20122.09%25227.69%60.66%199 [lower-alpha 1] 21.87%910
Gwinnett 1,21955.23%1325.98%84538.29%110.50%374 [lower-alpha 1] 16.95%2,207
Habersham 68159.06%22919.86%22519.51%181.56%45239.20%1,153
Hall 1,13557.41%1909.61%63532.12%170.86%500 [lower-alpha 1] 25.29%1,977
Hancock 48275.08%314.83%12419.31%50.78%358 [lower-alpha 1] 55.76%642
Haralson 34929.65%47740.53%33628.55%151.27%-128-10.88%1,177
Harris 68979.75%809.26%9110.53%40.46%598 [lower-alpha 1] 69.21%864
Hart 48259.21%9311.43%23328.62%60.74%249 [lower-alpha 1] 30.59%814
Heard 36177.80%91.94%8418.10%102.16%277 [lower-alpha 1] 59.70%464
Henry 46459.41%648.19%23930.60%141.79%225 [lower-alpha 1] 28.81%781
Houston 76888.48%788.99%192.19%30.35%69079.49%868
Irwin 65859.87%34231.12%827.46%171.55%31628.75%1,099
Jackson 96443.11%331.48%1,23355.14%60.27%-269 [lower-alpha 1] -12.03%2,236
Jasper 61385.02%506.93%588.04%00.00%555 [lower-alpha 1] 76.98%721
Jefferson 37937.94%48948.95%12112.11%101.00%-110-11.01%999
Johnson 25738.13%598.75%35552.67%30.45%-98 [lower-alpha 1] -14.54%674
Jones 49879.68%8914.24%365.76%20.32%40965.44%625
Laurens 87856.87%39025.26%27217.62%40.26%48831.61%1,544
Lee 28561.82%6313.67%11324.51%00.00%172 [lower-alpha 1] 37.31%461
Liberty 24238.54%24539.01%14122.45%00.00%-3-0.48%628
Lincoln 19554.47%00.00%16345.53%00.00%32 [lower-alpha 1] 8.94%358
Lowndes 88872.91%28923.73%342.79%70.57%59949.18%1,218
Lumpkin 52563.18%25330.45%536.38%00.00%27232.73%831
Macon 46563.87%18024.73%8211.26%10.14%28539.15%728
Madison 73377.90%495.21%15416.37%50.53%579 [lower-alpha 1] 61.53%941
Marion 24754.53%5111.26%15434.00%10.22%93 [lower-alpha 1] 20.53%453
McDuffie 19640.50%40.83%28358.47%10.21%-87 [lower-alpha 1] -17.98%484
McIntosh 14442.86%19056.55%20.60%00.00%-46-13.69%336
Meriwether 76568.30%988.75%25322.59%40.36%512 [lower-alpha 1] 45.71%1,120
Miller 17459.39%10.34%11840.27%00.00%56 [lower-alpha 1] 19.11%293
Milton 26358.84%255.59%15835.35%10.22%105 [lower-alpha 1] 23.49%447
Mitchell 51163.01%14517.88%15519.11%00.00%356 [lower-alpha 1] 43.90%811
Monroe 46269.47%365.41%16324.51%40.60%299 [lower-alpha 1] 44.96%665
Montgomery 59369.03%12114.09%14116.41%40.47%452 [lower-alpha 1] 52.62%859
Morgan 51279.50%6710.40%446.83%213.26%44569.10%644
Murray 27043.90%25240.98%8613.98%71.14%182.93%615
Muscogee 1,52288.28%1649.51%60.35%321.86%1,35878.77%1,724
Newton 92868.14%35425.99%735.36%70.51%57442.14%1,362
Oconee 19836.07%9918.03%24544.63%71.28%-47 [lower-alpha 1] -8.56%549
Oglethorpe 71986.11%50.60%10112.10%101.20%618 [lower-alpha 1] 74.01%835
Paulding 40232.90%34127.91%47939.20%00.00%-77 [lower-alpha 1] -6.30%1,222
Pickens 34727.80%81064.90%876.97%40.32%-463-37.10%1,248
Pierce 35469.82%7314.40%7715.19%30.59%277 [lower-alpha 1] 54.64%507
Pike 66268.32%929.49%21422.08%10.10%448 [lower-alpha 1] 46.23%969
Polk 65343.07%68945.45%17411.48%00.00%-36-2.37%1,516
Pulaski 60587.94%294.22%547.85%00.00%551 [lower-alpha 1] 80.09%688
Putnam 57396.63%30.51%162.70%10.17%557 [lower-alpha 1] 93.93%593
Quitman 11969.59%3520.47%179.94%00.00%8449.12%171
Rabun 36474.44%12124.74%40.82%00.00%24349.69%489
Randolph 55178.05%8712.32%689.63%00.00%46465.72%706
Richmond 1,81665.82%1746.31%75427.33%150.54%1,062 [lower-alpha 1] 38.49%2,759
Rockdale 43462.63%13319.19%12417.89%20.29%30143.43%693
Schley 24366.94%5515.15%6417.63%10.28%179 [lower-alpha 1] 49.31%363
Screven 43064.47%253.75%21031.48%20.30%220 [lower-alpha 1] 32.98%667
Spalding 90584.90%14213.32%131.22%60.56%76371.58%1,066
Stewart 42967.67%15524.45%507.89%00.00%27443.22%634
Sumter 91882.04%15914.21%413.66%10.09%75967.83%1,119
Talbot 48482.74%7412.65%264.44%10.17%41070.09%585
Taliaferro 37754.48%18426.59%13018.79%10.14%19327.89%692
Tattnall 62154.05%17114.88%35030.46%70.61%271 [lower-alpha 1] 23.59%1,149
Taylor 30956.80%6311.58%17031.25%20.37%139 [lower-alpha 1] 25.55%544
Telfair 78192.54%445.21%141.66%50.59%73787.32%844
Terrell 63081.29%779.94%678.65%10.13%55371.35%775
Thomas 86253.81%37423.35%35722.28%90.56%48830.46%1,602
Towns 33836.34%41744.84%17418.71%10.11%-79-8.49%930
Troup 89178.23%201.76%22019.32%80.70%671 [lower-alpha 1] 58.91%1,139
Twiggs 37888.52%307.03%194.45%00.00%34881.50%427
Union 41941.69%46646.37%11411.34%60.60%-47-4.68%1,005
Upson 46856.66%779.32%28033.90%10.12%188 [lower-alpha 1] 22.76%826
Walker 85859.42%51235.46%714.92%30.21%34623.96%1,444
Walton 87758.43%24516.32%37324.85%60.40%504 [lower-alpha 1] 33.58%1,501
Ware 63578.20%15819.46%40.49%151.85%47758.74%812
Warren 22042.15%7514.37%22142.34%61.15%-1 [lower-alpha 1] -0.19%522
Washington 97657.41%19511.47%52931.12%00.00%447 [lower-alpha 1] 26.29%1,700
Wayne 41773.81%8915.75%549.56%50.88%32858.05%565
Webster 16565.22%5320.95%3513.83%00.00%11244.27%253
White 29742.80%17925.79%21831.41%00.00%79 [lower-alpha 1] 11.38%694
Whitfield 56944.63%42733.49%21717.02%624.86%14211.14%1,275
Wilcox 50167.98%19426.32%395.29%30.41%30741.66%737
Wilkes 62274.94%60.72%19823.86%40.48%424 [lower-alpha 1] 51.08%830
Wilkinson 53980.69%375.54%9013.47%20.30%449 [lower-alpha 1] 67.22%668
Worth 52950.53%27225.98%24123.02%50.48%25724.55%1,047
Totals83,77264.11%23,79418.21%22,22017.01%8810.67%59,97845.90%130,667

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 In this county where Roosevelt ran behind both Parker and Watson, margin given is Parker vote minsu Watson vote and percentage margin Parker percentage minus Watson percentage.

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