2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia

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2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia

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Nominee John Kerry George W. Bush Party Democratic Republican Home state Massachusetts Texas Running mate John Edwards Dick Cheney Electoral vote 3 0 Popular vote 202,970 21,256 Percentage 89.18% 9.34%

Ward Results Kerry   70-80%   80-90%   90-100% The 2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 2, 2004, as part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Prior to the election, Washington DC was considered to be a jurisdiction Kerry would win or safely blue. As expected, The District of Columbia voted by an extremely large margin in favor of the Democratic candidate John F. Kerry. John F. Kerry won DC by a margin of victory of 79.84% over the incumbent George W. Bush, more than any state. At the time, this was also the largest Democratic margin of victory over a Republican candidate in the history of the district, but has since been surpassed by all presidential elections since. The greatest victory margin of these subsequent years was in 2016. Such victory margins may perhaps be attributed to the fact that D.C. only encompasses an urban core area (and those are generally very liberal in nature). A recent San Francisco study based on the 2004 presidential election exit polls, ranked Washington, D.C. as the 4th most liberal city in the country. [1] This information supports the fact that the District of Columbia has never voted for a Republican since the ratification of the 23rd Amendment. As of 2020, this marks the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee would receive less than 90% of the vote in the District of Columbia. Primaries 2004 District of Columbia Democratic primary Campaign Predictions There were 12 news organizations that made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day. [2] Source Ranking D.C. Political Report Solid 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 Dispatch Likely D Results 2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic John Kerry John Edwards 202,970 89.18% 3 Republican George W. Bush Dick Cheney 21,256 9.34% 0 Independent Ralph Nader Peter Camejo 1,485 0.65% 0 Green David Cobb Pat LaMarche 737 0.32% 0 Libertarian Michael Badnarik Richard Campagna 502 0.22% 0 Others Others Others 636 0.28% 0 Totals 227,586 100.00% 3 Voter turnout  ??? — By ward Ward John F. Kerry George W. Bush Ralph Nader David Cobb Michael Badnarik Harris Ward 1 90.92% 23,727 6.71% 1,751 0.99% 258 0.73% 191 0.33% 85 0.10% 26 Ward 2 82.99% 20,691 14.89% 3,713 0.95% 238 0.36% 104 0.42% 90 0.04% 11 Ward 3 78.79% 28,358 19.32% 6,953 0.84% 304 0.29% 139 0.39% 103 0.04% 16 Ward 4 92.37% 30,341 6.56% 2,156 0.48% 159 0.26% 87 0.09% 30 0.05% 17 Ward 5 93.73% 27,348 5.21% 1,520 0.49% 143 0.31% 90 0.07% 21 0.06% 17 Ward 6 86.87% 25,654 11.31% 3,339 0.74% 220 0.37% 110 0.36% 105 0.06% 17 Ward 7 95.58% 25,914 3.71% 1,006 0.35% 94 0.14% 38 0.03% 9 0.05% 14 Ward 8 96.08% 19,872 3.33% 689 0.29% 59 0.12% 25 0.04% 9 0.05% 11 Electors Main article: List of 2004 United States presidential electors Technically the voters of D.C. cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. D.C. is allocated 3 electors. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 3 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 3 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 D.C. All were pledged to and voted for John Kerry and John Edwards. Linda W. Cropp Jack Evans Arrington L. Dixon See also United States presidential elections in the District of Columbia References "Voting Research". Voting Research. Retrieved 8 October 2014. http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/members/2004/Pred2.htm#NW [ permanent dead link ] External links Results on D.C. Government site 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.