1904 United States presidential election in Missouri

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1904 United States presidential election in Missouri
Flag of Missouri.svg
  1900 November 8, 1904 1908  
  Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros (cropped 3x4).jpg AltonBParker.png
Nominee Theodore Roosevelt Alton B. Parker
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York New York
Running mate Charles W. Fairbanks Henry G. Davis
Electoral vote180
Popular vote321,449296,312
Percentage49.93%46.02%

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County Results

President before election

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

Elected President

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

The 1904 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 8, 1904. Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Missouri voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won the state by a narrow margin of 3.91%.

With his victory, Roosevelt became the third Republican presidential candidate to win Missouri, but the first one since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868. In voting for the GOP, Missouri repositioned itself from being associated with the Solid South to being seen as a bellwether swing state throughout the twentieth century. From this election until 2008, Missouri only backed a losing presidential candidate once, in 1956.

"The Mysterious Stranger" - A political cartoon showing Missouri having left the Democratic Solid South by voting Republican. McCutcheonMysteriousStrange.jpg
"The Mysterious Stranger" – A political cartoon showing Missouri having left the Democratic Solid South by voting Republican.

Results

1904 United States presidential election in Missouri [1]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Republican Theodore Roosevelt of New York (incumbent) Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana 321,44949.93%18100.00%
Democratic Alton Brooks Parker of New York Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia 296,31246.02%00.00%
Socialist Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana Benjamin Hanford of New York 13,0092.02%00.00%
Prohibition Silas Comfort Swallow of Pennsylvania George Washington Carroll of Texas 7,1911.12%00.00%
Populist Thomas E. Watson of Georgia Thomas Tibbles of Nebraska 4,2260.66%00.00%
Socialist Labor Charles Hunter Corregan of New York William Wesley Cox of Illinois 1,6740.26%00.00%
Total643,861100.00%18100.00%

Results by county

1904 United States presidential election in Missouri by county [2] [3]
CountyTheodore Roosevelt
Republican
Alton Brooks Parker
Democratic
Eugene Victor Debs
Socialist
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Adair 2,79157.76%1,68734.91%1833.79%1713.54%1,10422.85%4,832
Andrew 2,30656.45%1,69141.40%110.27%771.88%61515.06%4,085
Atchison 1,83952.75%1,50643.20%230.66%1183.38%3339.55%3,486
Audrain 1,45431.81%3,00665.76%180.39%932.03%-1,552-33.95%4,571
Barry 2,56851.21%2,23744.61%981.95%1122.23%3316.60%5,015
Barton 1,84346.13%1,81145.33%2125.31%1293.23%320.80%3,995
Bates 2,95647.11%2,96747.28%911.45%2614.16%-11-0.18%6,275
Benton 1,96357.00%1,37239.84%130.38%962.79%59117.16%3,444
Bollinger 1,58753.26%1,35545.47%00.00%381.28%2327.79%2,980
Boone 1,85729.35%4,37569.15%80.13%871.38%-2,518-39.80%6,327
Buchanan 8,70351.62%7,73645.89%2081.23%2121.26%9675.74%16,859
Butler 1,96054.93%1,36938.37%1915.35%481.35%59116.56%3,568
Caldwell 2,27660.92%1,35036.13%20.05%1082.89%92624.79%3,736
Callaway 1,76532.29%3,59665.79%30.05%1021.87%-1,831-33.50%5,466
Camden 1,46660.23%88336.28%50.21%803.29%58323.95%2,434
Cape Girardeau 3,09056.31%2,18739.86%260.47%1843.35%90316.46%5,487
Carroll 3,03251.67%2,67345.55%260.44%1372.33%3596.12%5,868
Carter 51046.11%55650.27%201.81%201.81%-46-4.16%1,106
Cass 2,37544.36%2,75051.36%991.85%1302.43%-375-7.00%5,354
Cedar 1,88552.90%1,53343.03%300.84%1153.23%3529.88%3,563
Chariton 2,06439.39%3,05858.36%120.23%1062.02%-994-18.97%5,240
Christian 1,94766.13%87129.59%682.31%581.97%1,07636.55%2,944
Clark 1,83650.50%1,72447.41%10.03%752.06%1123.08%3,636
Clay 1,07726.70%2,83270.22%250.62%992.45%-1,755-43.52%4,033
Clinton 1,75947.20%1,88650.60%40.11%782.09%-127-3.41%3,727
Cole 2,08147.48%2,24451.20%180.41%400.91%-163-3.72%4,383
Cooper 2,76751.98%2,48546.68%80.15%631.18%2825.30%5,323
Crawford 1,53553.97%1,17541.32%1083.80%260.91%36012.66%2,844
Dade 1,99456.09%1,37638.71%461.29%1393.91%61817.38%3,555
Dallas 1,71164.81%79730.19%130.49%1194.51%91434.62%2,640
Daviess 2,56850.31%2,34445.92%20.04%1903.72%2244.39%5,104
DeKalb 1,76851.23%1,60746.57%00.00%762.20%1614.67%3,451
Dent 1,15448.59%1,18649.94%50.21%301.26%-32-1.35%2,375
Douglas 1,83071.91%43717.17%1566.13%1224.79%1,39354.73%2,545
Dunklin 1,46138.47%2,22958.69%160.42%922.42%-768-20.22%3,798
Franklin 3,73860.90%2,27837.11%681.11%540.88%1,46023.79%6,138
Gasconade 2,04580.20%46918.39%40.16%321.25%1,57661.80%2,550
Gentry 2,06046.91%2,15749.12%471.07%1272.89%-97-2.21%4,391
Greene 6,57054.98%4,54037.99%4523.78%3873.24%2,03016.99%11,949
Grundy 2,59667.15%1,19530.91%00.00%751.94%1,40136.24%3,866
Harrison 3,01462.96%1,59633.34%80.17%1693.53%1,41829.62%4,787
Henry 2,79944.49%3,22251.22%360.57%2343.72%-423-6.72%6,291
Hickory 1,24566.65%53128.43%90.48%834.44%71438.22%1,868
Holt 2,20861.47%1,27735.55%20.06%1052.92%93125.92%3,592
Howard 1,19930.52%2,67468.06%190.48%370.94%-1,475-37.54%3,929
Howell 2,08953.39%1,60541.02%1303.32%892.27%48412.37%3,913
Iron 67042.92%86155.16%80.51%221.41%-191-12.24%1,561
Jackson 25,79453.16%20,58242.42%1,3562.79%7891.63%5,21210.74%48,521
Jasper 7,85150.53%6,00638.66%1,1857.63%4953.19%1,84511.87%15,537
Jefferson 2,90952.09%2,56045.84%450.81%711.27%3496.25%5,585
Johnson 2,98946.56%3,27751.05%500.78%1031.60%-288-4.49%6,419
Knox 1,32145.15%1,52752.19%180.62%602.05%-206-7.04%2,926
Laclede 1,87453.94%1,45041.74%491.41%1012.91%42412.20%3,474
Lafayette 3,53148.82%3,58349.54%260.36%931.29%-52-0.72%7,233
Lawrence 3,07752.55%2,37240.51%2754.70%1312.24%70512.04%5,855
Lewis 1,46739.08%2,20258.66%220.59%631.68%-735-19.58%3,754
Lincoln 1,46238.12%2,29559.84%120.31%661.72%-833-21.72%3,835
Linn 3,18252.58%2,74845.41%260.43%961.59%4347.17%6,052
Livingston 2,48048.10%2,35645.69%541.05%2665.16%1242.40%5,156
Macon 3,67448.55%3,60447.63%951.26%1942.56%700.93%7,567
Madison 1,10649.33%1,07647.99%170.76%431.92%301.34%2,242
Maries 59933.08%1,18465.38%10.06%271.49%-585-32.30%1,811
Marion 2,43342.22%3,12754.27%671.16%1352.34%-694-12.04%5,762
McDonald 1,26647.15%1,26947.26%772.87%732.72%-3-0.11%2,685
Mercer 1,89668.18%81929.45%80.29%582.09%1,07738.73%2,781
Miller 1,95957.75%1,35139.83%80.24%742.18%60817.92%3,392
Mississippi 1,16147.41%1,22950.18%60.24%532.16%-68-2.78%2,449
Moniteau 1,75647.78%1,76347.97%230.63%1333.62%-7-0.19%3,675
Monroe 79018.17%3,48780.18%30.07%691.59%-2,697-62.01%4,349
Montgomery 1,97948.40%1,98648.57%90.22%1152.81%-7-0.17%4,089
Morgan 1,62455.60%1,26243.20%60.21%290.99%36212.39%2,921
New Madrid 92241.99%1,25757.24%30.14%140.64%-335-15.26%2,196
Newton 2,64748.60%2,29642.15%2003.67%3045.58%3516.44%5,447
Nodaway 3,87552.34%3,35645.33%430.58%1301.76%5197.01%7,404
Oregon 69333.72%1,21559.12%1205.84%271.31%-522-25.40%2,055
Osage 1,69952.70%1,45145.01%50.16%692.14%2487.69%3,224
Ozark 1,30568.00%55628.97%110.57%472.45%74939.03%1,919
Pemiscot 92339.39%1,37558.69%60.26%391.66%-452-19.29%2,343
Perry 1,73352.45%1,52246.07%00.00%491.48%2116.39%3,304
Pettis 3,82051.38%3,34645.00%1552.08%1141.53%4746.38%7,435
Phelps 1,37147.46%1,38447.91%110.38%1234.26%-13-0.45%2,889
Pike 2,44543.60%3,11355.51%120.21%380.68%-668-11.91%5,608
Platte 95327.06%2,53772.03%30.09%290.82%-1,584-44.97%3,522
Polk 2,65956.88%1,80738.65%130.28%1964.19%85218.22%4,675
Pulaski 83740.95%1,19058.22%20.10%150.73%-353-17.27%2,044
Putnam 2,22668.45%82225.28%571.75%1474.52%1,40443.17%3,252
Ralls 79230.32%1,79468.68%70.27%190.73%-1,002-38.36%2,612
Randolph 2,13937.59%3,35158.88%520.91%1492.62%-1,212-21.30%5,691
Ray 1,79238.86%2,74459.51%190.41%561.21%-952-20.65%4,611
Reynolds 50536.23%87762.91%10.07%110.79%-372-26.69%1,394
Ripley 78139.15%1,08954.59%110.55%1145.71%-308-15.44%1,995
Saint Charles 3,20362.91%1,78835.12%531.04%470.92%1,41527.79%5,091
Saint Clair 1,89549.65%1,76146.14%561.47%1052.75%1343.51%3,817
Saint Francois 2,89451.25%2,61546.31%550.97%831.47%2794.94%5,647
Saint Louis County 7,37569.45%2,87027.03%2502.35%1241.17%4,50542.42%10,619
Saint Louis City 57,54749.70%51,85844.79%5,1204.42%1,2671.09%5,6894.91%115,792
Sainte Genevieve 98645.50%1,16353.67%40.18%140.65%-177-8.17%2,167
Saline 2,80542.08%3,71055.66%260.39%1251.88%-905-13.58%6,666
Schuyler 1,05445.63%1,13949.31%130.56%1044.50%-85-3.68%2,310
Scotland 1,35445.54%1,53051.46%371.24%521.75%-176-5.92%2,973
Scott 1,12441.96%1,47054.87%331.23%521.94%-346-12.92%2,679
Shannon 69739.67%1,00657.26%100.57%442.50%-309-17.59%1,757
Shelby 1,25736.30%2,12461.33%60.17%762.19%-867-25.04%3,463
Stoddard 2,08845.63%2,26549.50%1433.13%801.75%-177-3.87%4,576
Stone 1,21973.52%33720.33%533.20%492.96%88253.20%1,658
Sullivan 2,47451.43%2,22446.24%280.58%841.75%2505.20%4,810
Taney 1,16264.34%56831.45%472.60%291.61%59432.89%1,806
Texas 1,80144.77%2,11852.65%451.12%591.47%-317-7.88%4,023
Vernon 2,45040.51%3,22553.32%1933.19%1802.98%-775-12.81%6,048
Warren 1,53775.31%43521.31%422.06%271.32%1,10253.99%2,041
Washington 1,67354.64%1,33943.73%50.16%451.47%33410.91%3,062
Wayne 1,67850.38%1,56747.04%280.84%581.74%1113.33%3,331
Webster 1,85452.91%1,47442.07%120.34%1644.68%38010.84%3,504
Worth 1,04249.78%96746.20%10.05%833.97%753.58%2,093
Wright 1,97258.97%1,26637.86%481.44%581.73%70621.11%3,344
Totals321,44949.93%296,31246.02%13,0092.02%13,0812.03%25,1373.90%643,851

See also

References

  1. "1904 Presidential General Election Results — Missouri". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  2. Robinson, Edgar Eugene. The Presidential Vote 1896-1932. pp. 247–256. ISBN   9780804716963.
  3. Géoelections; Popular Vote for Eugene V. Debs (1904) (.xlsx file for €15)