1904 United States presidential election in Idaho

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1904 United States presidential election in Idaho

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Nominee Theodore Roosevelt Alton B. Parker Eugene V. Debs Party Republican Democratic Socialist Home state New York New York Indiana Running mate Charles W. Fairbanks Henry G. Davis Ben Hanford Electoral vote 3 0 0 Popular vote 47,783 18,480 4,949 Percentage 65.84% 25.46% 6.82%

County Results Roosevelt   50-60%   60-70%   70-80% The 1904 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Although the Republican Party had not carried Idaho in any of the state’s three previous presidential elections, at state level, Idaho had begun in 1902 to be very much a one-party Republican state, [1] which it has largely remained since apart from the New Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s. Moreover, Democratic nominee Alton Brooks Parker’s defense of the Gold Standard, which harked back to Grover Cleveland, aroused no enthusiasm in Idaho. [2] Nor did his opposition to Roosevelt’s policy of imperialism in the Pacific, [3] whilst Roosevelt’s strong efforts to regulate big businesses were extremely popular in the remote Northwest. [4] Parker was also affected by the perception that the Bryan Democrats had failed severely as a party of reform. [5] As a result, Roosevelt was able to achieve the first-ever Republican victory in Idaho by an overwhelming margin – 40.38 percentage points – in the process emulating William Jennings Bryan’s 1896 sweep of all Idaho’s counties. Results 1904 United States presidential election in Idaho [6] Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Republican Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) 47,783 65.84% 3 Democratic Alton B. Parker 18,480 25.46% 0 Social Democratic Eugene V. Debs 4,949 6.82% 0 Prohibition Silas C. Swallow 1,013 1.40% 0 Populist Thomas E. Watson 353 0.49% 0 Totals 72,578 100.00% 3 Voter turnout — Results by county County Theodore Roosevelt Republican Alton Brooks Parker Democratic Eugene Victor Debs [7] Socialist Silas Comfort Swallow [7] Prohibition Thomas Edward Watson [7] Populist Margin Total votes cast [8] #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % Ada 4,536 69.52% 1,466 22.47% 318 4.87% 164 2.51% 41 0.63% 3,070 47.05% 6,525 Bannock 2,826 68.58% 1,063 25.79% 227 5.51% 3 0.07% 2 0.05% 1,763 42.78% 4,121 Bear Lake 1,538 66.26% 769 33.13% 11 0.47% 3 0.13% 0 0.00% 769 33.13% 2,321 Bingham 3,186 71.18% 890 19.88% 365 8.15% 22 0.49% 13 0.29% 2,296 51.30% 4,476 Blaine 1,225 56.37% 775 35.66% 140 6.44% 11 0.51% 22 1.01% 450 20.71% 2,173 Boise 1,053 56.31% 639 34.17% 125 6.68% 35 1.87% 18 0.96% 414 22.14% 1,870 Canyon 3,172 66.55% 1,025 21.51% 316 6.63% 190 3.99% 63 1.32% 2,147 45.05% 4,766 Cassia 1,105 72.51% 346 22.70% 59 3.87% 5 0.33% 9 0.59% 759 49.80% 1,524 Custer 496 51.29% 429 44.36% 33 3.41% 6 0.62% 3 0.31% 67 6.93% 967 Elmore 593 53.09% 433 38.76% 68 6.09% 17 1.52% 6 0.54% 160 14.32% 1,117 Fremont 3,869 70.56% 1,278 23.31% 313 5.71% 11 0.20% 12 0.22% 2,591 47.26% 5,483 Idaho 2,731 61.12% 1,381 30.91% 304 6.80% 33 0.74% 19 0.43% 1,350 30.21% 4,468 Kootenai 4,165 67.55% 1,178 19.10% 664 10.77% 132 2.14% 27 0.44% 2,987 48.44% 6,166 Latah 3,276 70.19% 940 20.14% 283 6.06% 138 2.96% 30 0.64% 2,336 50.05% 4,667 Lemhi 786 55.43% 564 39.77% 28 1.97% 6 0.42% 34 2.40% 222 15.66% 1,418 Lincoln 688 68.19% 262 25.97% 50 4.96% 9 0.89% 0 0.00% 426 42.22% 1,009 Nez Perce 3,956 62.98% 1,696 27.00% 448 7.13% 160 2.55% 21 0.33% 2,260 35.98% 6,281 Oneida 2,339 70.45% 906 27.29% 75 2.26% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,433 43.16% 3,320 Owyhee 663 54.98% 393 32.59% 118 9.78% 9 0.75% 23 1.91% 270 22.39% 1,206 Shoshone 3,695 66.12% 1,116 19.97% 748 13.39% 23 0.41% 6 0.11% 2,579 46.15% 5,588 Washington 1,894 60.71% 931 29.84% 256 8.21% 36 1.15% 3 0.10% 963 30.87% 3,120 Totals 47,792 65.84% 18,480 25.46% 4,949 6.82% 1,013 1.40% 352 0.48% 29,312 40.38% 72,586 See also United States presidential elections in Idaho References Burnham, Walter Dean; ‘The System of 1896’, in Kleppner, Paul (editor), The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 176-179 ISBN   0313213798 Archer, Clark; Martis, Kenneth C. and Shelley, Fred M.; Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 1788-2004, p. 99 ISBN   1568029551 Warren, Kenneth F.; Encyclopedia of U.S. campaigns, elections, and electoral behavior: A-M, p. 609 ISBN   1412954894 Murray, Keith; ‘Issues and Personalities of Pacific Northwest Politics, 1889-1950’; The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 41, No. 3 (July 1950), pp. 213-233 Robinson, Edgar Eugene; ‘The Decline of the Democratic Party’; American Journal of Sociology, vol. 20, no. 3 (November 1914), pp. 313-334 Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Idaho Géoelections; Popular Vote for Eugene V. Debs (1904) (.xlsx file for €15) Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 174-177 ISBN   9780804716963 This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.