2004 United States Senate election in Iowa

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2004 United States Senate election in Iowa
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  1998 November 2, 2004 2010  
  Chuck Grassley official photo.jpg Arthur Small-2010-08-14 (cropped).jpg
Nominee Chuck Grassley Arthur A. Small
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote1,038,175412,365
Percentage70.18%27.88%

2004 United States Senate election in Iowa results map by county.svg
County results
Grassley:     50-60%     60-70%     70-80%     80-90%     >90%

U.S. senator before election

Chuck Grassley
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Chuck Grassley
Republican

The 2004 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican Chuck Grassley ran for re-election to a fifth term. Grassley and former State Senator Arthur A. Small won the Republican and Democratic primaries, respectively, unopposed, and faced each other in the general election. Though this election coincided with the highly competitive presidential race, Grassley was not considered vulnerable and defeated Small in a landslide, winning more than 70% of the vote and outperforming Republican President George W. Bush by over 20% and almost 300,000 votes in the concurrent presidential race.

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As of 2025, this is the last time a Republican Senate candidate won Johnson County. This is also the last time that the winning U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa carried all 99 counties.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Democratic primary results [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Arthur A. Small 52,318 99.25%
Democratic Write-ins3980.75%
Total votes52,716 100.00%

Republican primary

Candidates

Results

Republican primary results [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Chuck Grassley (Incumbent) 78,819 99.72%
Republican Write-ins2180.28%
Total votes79,037 100.00%

General election

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Sabato's Crystal Ball [2] Safe RNovember 1, 2004

Debate

2004 Iowa United States Senate election debate
No.DateHostModeratorLink Republican Democratic
Key:
 P Participant  A Absent  N Not invited  I Invited  W  Withdrawn
Chuck Grassley Arthur A. Small
1Oct. 22, 2004 Iowa Public Television Dean Borg C-SPAN PP

Results

United States Senate election in Iowa, 2004 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Chuck Grassley (Incumbent) 1,038,175 70.18% +1.77%
Democratic Arthur A. Small 412,36527.88%−2.62%
Libertarian Christy Ann Welty15,2181.03%
Green Daryl A. Northrop11,1210.75%
Socialist Workers Edwin Fruit1,8740.13%−0.14%
Write-ins4750.03%
Majority 625,81042.31%+4.39%
Turnout 1,479,228
Republican hold Swing

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Canvass Summary" (PDF). sos.iowa.gov. June 23, 2004. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
  2. "The Final Predictions". Sabato's Crystal Ball. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  3. "MICROCOMP output file" (PDF). Retrieved October 15, 2019.