2004 United States presidential election in Illinois

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2004 United States presidential election in Illinois
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  2000 November 2, 2004 2008  
Turnout70.3% (of registered voters)
56.0% (of voting age population)
  John F. Kerry.jpg George-W-Bush.jpeg
Nominee John Kerry George W. Bush
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Massachusetts Texas
Running mate John Edwards Dick Cheney
Electoral vote210
Popular vote2,891,5502,345,946
Percentage54.82%44.48%

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Illinois Presidential Election Results by Congressional district 2004.svg

President before election

George W. Bush
Republican

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

The 2004 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 21 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Illinois was won by Democratic nominee John Kerry by a 10.3% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 12 news organizations considered this a state Kerry would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state. A reliable blue state that no Republican has won since Bush's father George H. W. Bush in 1988, Illinois voted for Democratic Senator John Kerry in 2004 with almost 55% of the vote.

Kerry's victory in Illinois was due to carrying seventy percent of the vote in the Chicago area's Cook County, where about 43% of Illinois' population resides. Excluding Cook County, President George W. Bush would have won the state 54.6% (1,749,203 votes) to 45.3% (1,452,265 votes). President Bush was victorious in Chicago's collar counties, although the results in those counties were narrower than his victories downstate.

As of the 2024 presidential election, this was the last presidential election in which a Democrat failed to carry any of Chicago's collar counties. [1] This is the first election in which the Republican nominee has won the national popular vote without carrying Illinois. It also marks the only occurrence in which Illinois has voted for the losing candidate in two consecutive presidential elections (after it had voted against Bush in 2000). Bush was the first Republican to ever win two terms without ever carrying the state.

Primaries

The primaries and general elections coincided with those for Senate and Congress, as well as those for state offices.

Turnout

For the state-run primaries (Democratic and Republican), turnout was 25.23%, with 1,801,090 votes cast. [2] [3] For the general election, turnout was 70.33%, with 5,274,322 votes cast. [2] [3]

Democratic

The 2004 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on March 16 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 2004 presidential election.

By the time of the Illinois primary, Kerry was seen as having all but formally secured the nomination.

2004 Illinois Democratic presidential primary [3] [4]
CandidateVotes%Delegates
John Kerry 873,23071.72155
John Edwards (withdrawn)131,96610.841
Carol Moseley Braun (withdrawn)53,2494.370
Howard Dean (withdrawn)47,3433.890
Al Sharpton (withdrawn)36,1232.970
Dennis Kucinich 28,0832.310
Joe Lieberman (withdrawn)24,3542.000
Wesley Clark (withdrawn)19,3041.590
Lyndon LaRouche 3,8630.320
Total1,217,515100%156

Republican

2004 Illinois Republican presidential primary
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  2000 March 16, 2004 (2004-03-16) 2008  

73 Republican National Convention delegates (60 pledged, 13 unpledged)
Pledged delegates directly-elected in vote separate from statewide presidential preference vote
  George-W-Bush.jpeg
Candidate George W. Bush
Home state Texas
Delegate count60
Popular vote583,575
Percentage100%

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  George W. Bush

The 2004 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on March 16, 2004, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 2004 presidential election.

Incumbent president George W. Bush won the primary. Bush was running for reelection without a major opponents, and with no opponents on the ballot in Illinois.

Illinois assigned 60 directly elected delegates (the state had another 13 delegates that were not directly elected by voters). [5] The Illinois primary was a so-called "Loophole" primary. This meant that the statewide presidential preference vote was a "beauty contest", from which no delegates would be assigned. Instead, the delegates were assigned by separate direct-votes on delegate candidates (whose proclaimed presidential preferences were listed beside their names on the ballot). [5] These delegates were noted voted on at-large by a state vote, but rather by congressional district votes. [5] The number of delegates each congressional district would be able to elect had been decided based upon the strength of that district's vote for the Republican nominee (Bush) in the previous 2000 election. [5] This meant that four delegates each were elected from Illinois's 6th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th, and 19th congressional districts, three delegates each were elected from Illinois's 12th and 17th congressional districts, and two delegates each were elected from Illinois's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 9th congressional districts [5]

Ten of the remaining delegates not directly elected by congressional district were selected at the Illinois Republican Party Convention, and were unpledged delegates. [5] The other three would be unplugged ex-officio delegates, roles filled by the states National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Illinois's Republican Party. [5]

2004 Illinois Republican presidential primary [5] [3]
CandidateVotesPercentageDelegates
George W. Bush (incumbent)583,575100%60
Totals583,575100%60

Campaign

Predictions

There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day. [6]

SourceRanking
D.C. Political ReportSolid D
Associated Press Solid D
CNN Likely D
Cook Political Report Solid D
Newsweek Solid D
New York Times Solid D
Rasmussen Reports Likely D
Research 2000 Solid D
Washington Post Likely D
Washington Times Solid D
Zogby International Likely D
Washington DispatchLikely D

Polling

Kerry won every single pre-election poll. Out of the 12 polls taken, Kerry won 9 of them with 52% or higher. The final 3 polls averaged Kerry leading 54% to Bush with 41%. [7]

Fundraising

Bush raised $6,892,187. [8] Kerry raised $7,100,400. [9]

Advertising and visits

Neither campaign advertised or visited this state during the fall election season because it was expected not to be competitive and Kerry had a solid lead in the state. [10] [11]

Analysis

Illinois has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 1992 on, each time by a double-digit margin. Prior to 1992, Illinois was considered a swing state with perhaps a slight Republican lean; until 2000, no Republican had won the White House without carrying Illinois, and it voted Republican in every election from 1952 to 1988 except 1960 and 1964, even voting against Jimmy Carter in his winning 1976 campaign. The blue trend in the "Land of Lincoln" in presidential elections can be largely attributed to the dramatic expansion of the Democratic margin in Cook County, which contains the city of Chicago and its inner suburbs and makes up about 41.2% of the state's population. [12] While Democrats routinely won Cook County following the New Deal realignment except in some Republican landslide years (1952, 1956, 1972), until 1996, they did not themselves crack 60% in the county except in their own landslides of 1936 and 1964. In 1992, however, Clinton got 58.2% of the vote in Cook County, approaching 60% and a higher vote share than any nominee had received in the county since 1964, despite the election having three major participants. In 1996, Clinton got 66.8% of the vote, blowing past Franklin Roosevelt's and Lyndon Johnson's vote shares in 1936 and 1964, respectively, and Gore only improved on this in 2000. In 2004, John Kerry became the first nominee of any party to crack 70% in Cook County since Warren G. Harding in 1920, and the Democrat has never been below 70% in the county since.

In addition, the historically Republican "collar counties" outside Chicago began trending less strongly Republican in the Clinton years, and this continued into the Bush years. In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat to crack 40% in the largest collar county, DuPage County, since 1964, and Gore slightly improved on Clinton's vote share in 2000, holding Bush to a 13.3% margin in a county Ford had carried by 40.5% in 1976 and George H. W. Bush, by 39.4% in 1988. In 2004, John Kerry improved on Gore's vote share in DuPage County by 2.9%, holding Bush to a single-digit margin of 9.6%--the smallest Republican margin of victory in the county since 1892 (apart from the 1912 election, when the Republican Party was divided and DuPage County voted for Theodore Roosevelt).

Outside the Chicago area, Kerry performed well in the traditionally Democratic region of Metro East, as well as in Champaign County, a moderately populated historically Republican county that has voted Democratic in every election from 1992 on. Bush had done well in most of rural Illinois in 2000, and deepened his support there in 2004. However, given the developments in massively-populated Cook and DuPage Counties, this was not enough to materially influence the result.

As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which DeKalb County, DuPage County, Kane County, Lake County, Will County, and Winnebago County voted for a Republican presidential candidate. [1]

Results

2004 United States presidential election in Illinois [3]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic John Kerry 2,891,55054.82%21
Republican George W. Bush (incumbent)2,345,94644.48%0
Libertarian Michael Badnarik 32,4420.62%0
Independent Write-ins 4,3840.08%0
Totals5,274,322100.00%21
Voter turnout (Voting age population)56.0%

Results by county

CountyJohn Kerry
Democratic
George W. Bush
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Adams 10,51133.39%20,83466.19%1320.42%-10,323-32.80%31,477
Alexander 2,01652.05%1,83147.28%260.67%1854.78%3,873
Bond 3,22843.81%4,06855.20%730.99%-840-11.40%7,369
Boone 8,28642.40%11,13256.97%1230.63%-2,846-14.56%19,541
Brown 89534.62%1,67964.95%110.43%-784-30.33%2,585
Bureau 7,96144.47%9,82254.87%1190.66%-1,861-10.40%17,902
Calhoun 1,36750.52%1,31748.67%220.81%501.85%2,706
Carroll 3,53743.48%4,53455.73%640.79%-997-12.26%8,135
Cass 2,49243.72%3,16355.49%450.79%-671-11.77%5,700
Champaign 41,52450.37%39,89648.40%1,0141.23%1,6281.97%82,434
Christian 6,11240.03%9,04459.24%1110.73%-2,932-19.20%15,267
Clark 2,87735.93%5,08263.47%480.60%-2,205-27.54%8,007
Clay 2,10132.06%4,41667.38%370.56%-2,315-35.32%6,554
Clinton 6,79739.68%10,21959.65%1150.67%-3,422-19.98%17,131
Coles 9,56641.99%13,01557.13%1990.87%-3,449-15.14%22,780
Cook 1,439,72470.25%597,40529.15%12,3050.60%842,31941.10%2,049,434
Crawford 3,19434.23%6,08365.18%550.59%-2,889-30.96%9,332
Cumberland 1,86234.38%3,49764.57%571.05%-1,635-30.19%5,416
DeKalb 19,26347.25%21,09551.74%4101.01%-1,832-4.49%40,768
DeWitt 2,83636.37%4,92063.09%420.54%-2,084-26.72%7,798
Douglas 2,76732.40%5,70266.77%710.83%-2,935-34.37%8,540
DuPage 180,09744.75%218,90254.39%3,4470.86%-38,805-9.64%402,446
Edgar 3,09336.69%5,25862.38%780.93%-2,165-25.69%8,429
Edwards 93027.65%2,41271.70%220.65%-1,482-44.05%3,364
Effingham 4,38826.96%11,77472.33%1160.71%-7,386-45.37%16,278
Fayette 3,57137.40%5,88061.58%981.03%-2,309-24.18%9,549
Ford 1,91229.51%4,51169.62%560.86%-2,599-40.11%6,479
Franklin 8,81645.56%10,38853.68%1480.76%-1,572-8.12%19,352
Fulton 9,08053.30%7,81845.89%1370.80%1,2627.41%17,035
Gallatin 1,57348.78%1,61950.20%331.02%-46-1.43%3,225
Greene 2,45740.49%3,55958.65%520.86%-1,102-18.16%6,068
Grundy 8,46342.68%11,19856.47%1700.86%-2,735-13.79%19,831
Hamilton 1,81440.19%2,65358.77%471.04%-839-18.59%4,514
Hancock 3,97540.16%5,83758.97%870.88%-1,862-18.81%9,899
Hardin 92337.87%1,50161.59%130.53%-578-23.72%2,437
Henderson 2,26954.64%1,85744.71%270.65%4129.92%4,153
Henry 11,87747.05%13,21252.34%1520.60%-1,335-5.29%25,241
Iroquois 3,83227.70%9,91471.66%890.64%-6,082-43.96%13,835
Jackson 14,30055.37%11,19043.33%3361.30%3,11012.04%25,826
Jasper 1,78133.38%3,52966.14%260.49%-1,748-32.76%5,336
Jefferson 6,71339.61%10,16059.95%750.44%-3,447-20.34%16,948
Jersey 4,59745.35%5,43553.62%1051.04%-838-8.27%10,137
Jo Daviess 5,31145.85%6,17453.30%990.85%-863-7.45%11,584
Johnson 1,81330.91%3,99768.15%550.94%-2,184-37.24%5,865
Kane 73,81344.12%92,06555.03%1,4190.85%-18,252-10.91%167,297
Kankakee 20,00344.42%24,73954.93%2940.65%-4,736-10.52%45,036
Kendall 12,49738.42%19,77660.80%2540.78%-7,279-22.38%32,527
Knox 13,40354.25%11,11144.97%1940.79%2,2929.28%24,708
Lake 134,35248.80%139,08150.52%1,8620.68%-4,729-1.72%275,295
LaSalle 24,26347.83%26,10151.45%3650.72%-1,838-3.62%50,729
Lawrence 2,51837.42%4,16261.85%490.73%-1,644-24.43%6,729
Lee 6,41640.41%9,30758.62%1530.96%-2,891-18.21%15,876
Livingston 5,63235.11%10,31664.32%910.57%-4,684-29.20%16,039
Logan 4,27331.73%9,11267.66%820.61%-4,839-35.93%13,467
Macon 23,34145.11%28,11854.34%2870.55%-4,777-9.23%51,746
Macoupin 11,19349.12%11,41350.09%1790.79%-220-0.97%22,785
Madison 63,39951.26%59,38448.02%8950.72%4,0153.25%123,678
Marion 7,69444.67%9,41354.65%1170.68%-1,719-9.98%17,224
Marshall 2,80642.62%3,73456.71%440.67%-928-14.09%6,584
Mason 3,21544.76%3,90754.39%610.85%-692-9.63%7,183
Massac 2,80537.78%4,57861.66%410.55%-1,773-23.88%7,424
McDonough 7,11947.69%7,65651.28%1541.03%-537-3.60%14,929
McHenry 50,33039.34%76,41259.72%1,2060.94%-26,082-20.38%127,948
McLean 29,87741.72%41,27657.63%4670.65%-11,399-15.92%71,620
Menard 2,13732.51%4,40867.05%290.44%-2,271-34.55%6,574
Mercer 4,51250.28%4,40549.09%570.64%1071.19%8,974
Monroe 6,78841.47%9,46857.84%1140.70%-2,680-16.37%16,370
Montgomery 5,97946.24%6,85152.99%1000.77%-872-6.74%12,930
Morgan 5,65037.22%9,39261.87%1380.91%-3,742-24.65%15,180
Moultrie 2,38836.93%4,02862.30%500.77%-1,640-25.36%6,466
Ogle 9,01837.43%14,91861.92%1550.64%-5,900-24.49%24,091
Peoria 41,12149.68%41,05149.60%5990.72%700.08%82,771
Perry 4,77045.76%5,58953.61%660.63%-819-7.86%10,425
Piatt 3,12436.38%5,39262.80%700.82%-2,268-26.42%8,586
Pike 2,84935.70%5,03263.06%991.24%-2,183-27.36%7,980
Pope 91837.68%1,50061.58%180.74%-582-23.89%2,436
Pulaski 1,37244.14%1,72055.34%160.51%-348-11.20%3,108
Putnam 1,70450.84%1,62348.42%250.75%812.42%3,352
Randolph 6,77145.27%8,07654.00%1090.73%-1,305-8.73%14,956
Richland 2,52932.64%5,15366.50%670.86%-2,624-33.86%7,749
Rock Island 39,88056.99%29,66342.39%4290.61%10,21714.60%69,972
Saline 4,69739.76%7,05759.73%600.51%-2,360-19.98%11,814
Sangamon 38,63040.50%55,90458.61%8410.88%-17,274-18.11%95,375
Schuyler 1,59439.54%2,40359.61%340.84%-809-20.07%4,031
Scott 92735.17%1,69664.34%130.49%-769-29.17%2,636
Shelby 3,74435.40%6,75363.85%800.76%-3,009-28.45%10,577
St. Clair 62,41055.14%50,20344.35%5760.51%12,20710.78%113,189
Stark 1,18938.84%1,84160.14%311.01%-652-21.30%3,061
Stephenson 8,91341.81%12,21257.28%1950.91%-3,299-15.47%21,320
Tazewell 25,81441.41%36,05857.84%4660.75%-10,244-16.43%62,338
Union 3,73540.96%5,33358.48%510.56%-1,598-17.52%9,119
Vermilion 14,72643.68%18,73155.56%2570.76%-4,005-11.88%33,714
Wabash 1,75229.17%4,21270.13%420.70%-2,460-40.96%6,006
Warren 3,93846.56%4,47452.90%450.53%-536-6.34%8,457
Washington 2,98636.85%5,07262.59%460.57%-2,086-25.74%8,104
Wayne 2,13925.81%6,10273.63%460.56%-3,963-47.82%8,287
White 3,07137.00%5,18062.40%500.60%-2,109-25.41%8,301
Whiteside 13,72351.07%12,95948.22%1910.71%7642.84%26,873
Will 117,17246.94%130,72852.37%1,7090.68%-13,556-5.43%249,609
Williamson 11,68539.00%18,08660.37%1890.63%-6,401-21.37%29,960
Winnebago 59,74049.20%60,78250.06%9030.74%-1,042-0.86%121,425
Woodford 6,00531.94%12,69867.54%990.53%-6,693-35.60%18,802
Totals2,891,55054.82%2,345,94644.48%36,8260.70%545,60410.34%5,274,322
County Flips:
Democratic
Hold
Republican
Hold
Gain from Democratic Illinois County Flips 2004.svg
County Flips:

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

By congressional district

Kerry won 10 of the 19 congressional districts, including one that elected a Republican. [13]

DistrictKerryBushRepresentative
1st 83%17% Bobby Rush
2nd 84%16% Jesse Jackson Jr.
3rd 59%41% Bill Lipinski
Dan Lipinski
4th 79%21% Luis Gutierrez
5th 67%33% Rahm Emanuel
6th 47%53% Henry Hyde
7th 83%17% Danny K. Davis
8th 44%56% Phil Crane
Melissa Bean
9th 68%32% Jan Schakowsky
10th 53%47% Mark Kirk
11th 46%53% Jerry Weller
12th 52%48% Jerry Costello
13th 45%55% Judy Biggert
14th 44%55% Dennis Hastert
15th 41%59% Timothy V. Johnson
16th 44%55% Donald Manzullo
17th 51%48% Lane Evans
18th 42%58% Ray LaHood
19th 39%61% John Shimkus

Electors

Technically the voters of Illinois cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Illinois is allocated 21 electors because it has 19 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 21 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 21 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from Illinois. All were pledged to and voted for Kerry and Edwards: [14]

  1. Constance A. Howard
  2. Carrie Austin
  3. Shirley R. Madigan
  4. Tony Munoz
  5. James DeLeo
  6. Joan Brennan
  7. Vera Davis
  8. Linda Pasternak
  9. William Marovitz
  10. Dan Pierce
  11. Debbie Halvorson
  12. Molly McKenzie
  13. Beth Ann May
  14. Mary Lou Kearns
  15. Lynn Foster
  16. John Nelson
  17. Mary Boland
  18. Shirley McCombs
  19. Jerry Sinclair
  20. Barbara Flynn Currie
  21. John Daley

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2016 United States presidential election in Iowa</span>

The 2016 United States presidential election in Iowa was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Iowa voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and his running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against the Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Iowa has six electoral votes in the Electoral College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2016 United States presidential election in Illinois</span>

The 2016 United States presidential election in Illinois was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Illinois voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Illinois had 20 votes in the Electoral College.

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