1904 United States presidential election in Utah

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1904 United States presidential election in Utah
Flag of Utah (1903-1904).svg
  1900 November 8, 1904 1908  
  Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros (cropped 3x4).jpg AltonBParker.png Debs-Eugene-circa1904.jpg
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 vote300
Popular vote62,452 [lower-alpha 1] 33,4135,767
Percentage61.41%32.86%5.67%

Utah 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 Utah was held on November 8, 1904, throughout all forty-five contemporary states as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

In its first presidential election during its statehood year, Utah – with its large reserves of silver – had voted five-to-one for Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan, who ran on a platform of monetizing silver. However, with a revived economy, Utah moved much closer to the national mainstream in the ensuring 1900 election, as pre-statehood Republican Party hostility to the dominant LDS church gradually disappeared after the outlawing of polygyny in 1890. [1]

In between Utah’s second and third presidential elections, newly elected but unseated senator and Mormon apostle Reed Smoot went much further towards reversing the nineteenth-century hostility of the Republican Party to the Latter Day Saints. At a time when most traditional Protestant congressmen were opposed to Smoot being seated because religious influence was feared, [2] Mormon prophet and LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith said explicitly that members of the LDS Church should in political matters obey their consciences. Smoot – although a Republican – had been targeted by both major parties in the two years between his election by the Utah Legislature in 1902 and the 1904 presidential campaign, but he corresponded consistently with incumbent president Roosevelt. [3]

Smoot’s work was one factor allowing Roosevelt to sweep twenty-six of Utah’s twenty-seven contemporary counties and carry the state by 28.55 percentage points, which even in the largest landslide since the beginning of widespread popular voting for presidential electors made Utah 9.73 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large. Another was that Parker himself was hostile to Mormon polygamy, [4] still another was the popularity in the West of Roosevelt’s conservation and trust-busting policies. [5]

Roosevelt’s percentage of the popular vote and margin would be bettered by no Republican in Utah until Dwight D. Eisenhower’s re-election in 1956. [6]

Results

1904 United States presidential election in Utah [7]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Republican Theodore Roosevelt of New York (incumbent) Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana 62,45261.41%3100.00%
Democratic Alton Brooks Parker of New York Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia 33,41332.86%00.00%
Socialist Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana Benjamin Hanford of New York 5,7675.67%00.00%
Write-ins [lower-alpha 2] 570.06%00.00%
Total101,632100.00%3100.00%

Results by county

CountyTheodore Roosevelt
Republican
Alton Brooks Parker
Democratic
Eugene Victor Debs
Socialist
MarginTotal votes cast [8]
# %# %# %# %
Beaver 86958.17%59339.69%322.14%27618.48%1,494
Box Elder 2,40066.76%1,15132.02%441.22%1,24934.74%3,595
Cache 4,00856.89%2,94841.85%891.26%1,06015.04%7,045
Carbon 1,22465.38%50827.14%1407.48%71638.24%1,872
Davis 1,65756.42%1,25542.73%250.85%40213.69%2,937
Emery 90556.67%58336.51%1096.83%32220.16%1,597
Garfield 67970.14%25226.03%373.82%42744.11%968
Grand 26257.21%16536.03%316.77%9721.18%458
Iron 74158.72%44235.02%796.26%29923.70%1,262
Juab 1,49348.32%1,20639.03%39112.65%2879.29%3,090
Kane 39979.64%10220.36%00.00%29759.28%501
Millard 1,00159.23%68340.41%60.36%31818.82%1,690
Morgan 49257.28%31536.67%526.05%17720.61%859
Piute 35848.12%22830.65%15821.24%13017.47%744
Rich 43964.65%24035.35%00.00%19929.30%679
Salt Lake 20,66565.10%8,38926.43%2,6918.48%12,27638.67%31,745
San Juan 13578.49%3620.93%10.58%9957.56%172
Sanpete 3,82966.65%1,74130.30%1753.05%2,08836.35%5,745
Sevier 1,72559.10%93031.86%2649.04%79527.24%2,919
Summit 2,23257.87%1,35835.21%2676.92%87422.66%3,857
Tooele 1,28963.44%63931.45%1045.12%65031.99%2,032
Uintah 75350.40%63042.17%1117.43%1238.23%1,494
Utah 6,49059.15%4,24338.67%2392.18%2,24720.48%10,972
Wasatch 1,04260.79%65638.27%160.93%38622.52%1,714
Washington 71848.38%76151.28%50.34%-43-2.90%1,484
Wayne 31053.26%25143.13%213.61%5910.13%582
Weber 6,33762.59%3,10830.70%6806.72%3,22931.89%10,125
Totals62,45261.41%33,41332.86%5,7675.67%29,03928.55%101,632

See also

Notes

  1. Robinson‘s The Presidential Vote has a figure of 62,446 votes, but the county votes sum to 62,452
  2. These write-in votes not tabulated by counties but given as a state-wide totals.

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