1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
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Nominee Theodore Roosevelt Alton B. Parker
Party Republican Democratic
Alliance - Independence
Home state New York New York
Running mate Charles W. Fairbanks Henry G. Davis
Electoral vote 34 0
Popular vote 840,949 337,998
Percentage 68.00% 27.33%
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The 1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 34 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Pennsylvania overwhelmingly 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 Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 40.67%. His record is the best presidential performance in Pennsylvania since the Era of Good Feelings, when nearly unopposed Democratic-Republicans often carried the state by landslide margins.[1] and Parker carried just 6 rural counties largely populated either by Pennsylvania German voters historically opposed to the Civil War and to the pietism of the Republican Party,[2] or by Appalachian mountaineers sympathetic to the South in that war. Roosevelt was the first ever Republican victor in the historically Democratic counties of Northampton and Sullivan in the anti-Yankee northeast and German Lutheran York in the Appalachian south.[3]

Results

1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[4]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) 840,949 68.00% 34
Democratic/Independence Party[a] Alton B. Parker 337,998 27.33% 0
Prohibition Silas C. Swallow 33,717 2.73% 0
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 21,863 1.77% 0
Socialist Labor Charles Hunter Corregan 2,211 0.18% 0
Totals 1,236,738 100.00% 34

Results by county

County Theodore Roosevelt
Republican 		Alton Brooks Parker
Democratic 		Silas Comfort Swallow[5]
Prohibition 		Eugene Victor Debs[5]
Socialist 		Charles Hunter Corregan[5]
Socialist Labor 		Margin Total votes cast[6]
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Adams 4,017 50.65% 3,812 48.06% 79 1.00% 16 0.20% 7 0.09% 205 2.58% 7,931
Allegheny 90,594 76.51% 21,541 18.19% 2,216 1.87% 3,438 2.90% 616 0.52% 69,053 58.32% 118,405
Armstrong 5,798 67.94% 2,270 26.60% 346 4.05% 112 1.31% 8 0.09% 3,528 41.34% 8,534
Beaver 7,122 68.88% 2,342 22.65% 407 3.94% 438 4.24% 31 0.30% 4,780 46.23% 10,340
Bedford 5,364 61.16% 3,042 34.68% 191 2.18% 173 1.97% 1 0.01% 2,322 26.47% 8,771
Berks 15,539 46.28% 16,357 48.71% 336 1.00% 1,313 3.91% 34 0.10% -818 -2.44% 33,579
Blair 12,482 73.46% 3,675 21.63% 681 4.01% 130 0.77% 24 0.14% 8,807 51.83% 16,992
Bradford 8,303 69.23% 2,862 23.86% 741 6.18% 79 0.66% 8 0.07% 5,441 45.37% 11,993
Bucks 9,572 57.73% 6,719 40.52% 175 1.06% 89 0.54% 26 0.16% 2,853 17.21% 16,581
Butler 6,596 63.43% 3,187 30.65% 511 4.91% 87 0.84% 18 0.17% 3,409 32.78% 10,399
Cambria 13,109 61.78% 7,232 34.08% 646 3.04% 180 0.85% 53 0.25% 5,877 27.70% 21,220
Cameron 1,228 73.75% 404 24.26% 27 1.62% 3 0.18% 3 0.18% 824 49.49% 1,665
Carbon 4,505 53.93% 2,998 35.89% 148 1.77% 691 8.27% 11 0.13% 1,507 18.04% 8,353
Centre 5,291 55.18% 4,015 41.87% 272 2.84% 6 0.06% 5 0.05% 1,276 13.31% 9,589
Chester 14,200 73.90% 4,342 22.60% 528 2.75% 138 0.72% 7 0.04% 9,858 51.30% 19,215
Clarion 2,978 50.95% 2,466 42.19% 374 6.40% 22 0.38% 5 0.09% 512 8.76% 5,845
Clearfield 9,541 64.12% 4,291 28.84% 821 5.52% 188 1.26% 38 0.26% 5,250 35.28% 14,879
Clinton 3,535 61.36% 1,941 33.69% 177 3.07% 102 1.77% 6 0.10% 1,594 27.67% 5,761
Columbia 3,635 44.08% 4,196 50.89% 348 4.22% 56 0.68% 11 0.13% -561 -6.80% 8,246
Crawford 7,450 59.03% 3,645 28.88% 995 7.88% 504 3.99% 26 0.21% 3,805 30.15% 12,620
Cumberland 7,138 56.74% 5,038 40.05% 367 2.92% 31 0.25% 6 0.05% 2,100 16.69% 12,580
Dauphin 16,508 72.61% 5,040 22.17% 910 4.00% 266 1.17% 10 0.04% 11,468 50.44% 22,734
Delaware 15,032 78.15% 3,586 18.64% 391 2.03% 207 1.08% 20 0.10% 11,446 59.50% 19,236
Elk 3,820 55.25% 2,857 41.32% 183 2.65% 50 0.72% 4 0.06% 963 13.93% 6,914
Erie 11,951 62.84% 5,119 26.92% 1,152 6.06% 729 3.83% 67 0.35% 6,832 35.92% 19,018
Fayette 11,486 57.23% 6,792 33.84% 1,556 7.75% 214 1.07% 23 0.11% 4,694 23.39% 20,071
Forest 1,328 68.14% 411 21.09% 195 10.01% 14 0.72% 1 0.05% 917 47.05% 1,949
Franklin 7,062 61.76% 4,114 35.98% 233 2.04% 22 0.19% 4 0.03% 2,948 25.78% 11,435
Fulton 1,100 48.48% 1,137 50.11% 30 1.32% 1 0.04% 1 0.04% -37 -1.63% 2,269
Greene 2,442 41.32% 3,198 54.11% 232 3.93% 34 0.58% 4 0.07% -756 -12.79% 5,910
Huntingdon 4,587 73.11% 1,324 21.10% 335 5.34% 24 0.38% 4 0.06% 3,263 52.01% 6,274
Indiana 6,878 77.25% 1,558 17.50% 354 3.98% 109 1.22% 5 0.06% 5,320 59.75% 8,904
Jefferson 5,860 69.09% 2,095 24.70% 463 5.46% 51 0.60% 13 0.15% 3,765 44.39% 8,482
Juniata 1,985 60.28% 1,202 36.50% 99 3.01% 5 0.15% 2 0.06% 783 23.78% 3,293
Lackawanna 19,923 64.54% 10,068 32.62% 529 1.71% 272 0.88% 75 0.24% 9,855 31.93% 30,867
Lancaster 26,083 76.54% 7,092 20.81% 570 1.67% 313 0.92% 19 0.06% 18,991 55.73% 34,077
Lawrence 7,634 66.35% 1,894 16.46% 862 7.49% 1,090 9.47% 26 0.23% 5,740 49.89% 11,506
Lebanon 6,938 70.19% 2,449 24.78% 439 4.44% 54 0.55% 4 0.04% 4,489 45.42% 9,884
Lehigh 11,826 52.89% 10,138 45.34% 188 0.84% 177 0.79% 29 0.13% 1,688 7.55% 22,358
Luzerne 27,809 64.83% 13,518 31.51% 485 1.13% 983 2.29% 100 0.23% 14,291 33.32% 42,895
Lycoming 8,928 52.89% 6,424 38.06% 865 5.12% 647 3.83% 15 0.09% 2,504 14.84% 16,879
McKean 5,719 67.48% 1,636 19.30% 763 9.00% 329 3.88% 28 0.33% 4,083 48.18% 8,475
Mercer 8,574 60.67% 3,845 27.21% 958 6.78% 736 5.21% 20 0.14% 4,729 33.46% 14,133
Mifflin 3,054 66.10% 1,378 29.83% 170 3.68% 11 0.24% 7 0.15% 1,676 36.28% 4,620
Monroe 1,446 34.46% 2,587 61.65% 150 3.57% 10 0.24% 3 0.07% -1,141 -27.19% 4,196
Montgomery 18,833 62.58% 10,420 34.62% 346 1.15% 455 1.51% 42 0.14% 8,413 27.95% 30,096
Montour 1,518 51.37% 1,358 45.96% 74 2.50% 4 0.14% 1 0.03% 160 5.41% 2,955
Northampton 11,039 51.21% 9,914 45.99% 412 1.91% 173 0.80% 19 0.09% 1,125 5.22% 21,557
Northumberland 11,219 62.41% 5,936 33.02% 388 2.16% 404 2.25% 30 0.17% 5,283 29.39% 17,977
Perry 3,433 60.72% 2,094 37.04% 118 2.09% 6 0.11% 3 0.05% 1,339 23.68% 5,654
Philadelphia 227,709 80.85% 48,784 17.32% 1,521 0.54% 3,254 1.16% 386 0.14% 178,925 63.53% 281,654
Pike 592 37.59% 942 59.81% 24 1.52% 11 0.70% 6 0.38% -350 -22.22% 1,575
Potter 3,976 70.15% 1,074 18.95% 384 6.77% 226 3.99% 8 0.14% 2,902 51.20% 5,668
Schuylkill 21,046 65.10% 10,115 31.29% 310 0.96% 805 2.49% 52 0.16% 10,931 33.81% 32,328
Snyder 2,538 71.55% 972 27.40% 34 0.96% 3 0.08% 0 0.00% 1,566 44.15% 3,547
Somerset 6,772 72.37% 1,686 18.02% 448 4.79% 420 4.49% 32 0.34% 5,086 54.35% 9,358
Sullivan 1,429 52.04% 1,188 43.26% 117 4.26% 12 0.44% 0 0.00% 241 8.78% 2,746
Susquehanna 4,988 61.20% 2,573 31.57% 481 5.90% 91 1.12% 17 0.21% 2,415 29.63% 8,150
Tioga 7,410 79.32% 1,541 16.50% 329 3.52% 57 0.61% 5 0.05% 5,869 62.82% 9,342
Union 2,548 69.26% 1,034 28.11% 92 2.50% 3 0.08% 2 0.05% 1,514 41.15% 3,679
Venango 5,892 57.33% 1,747 17.00% 2,105 20.48% 509 4.95% 25 0.24% 3,787[b] 36.85% 10,278
Warren 4,737 68.57% 1,222 17.69% 830 12.02% 97 1.40% 22 0.32% 3,515 50.88% 6,908
Washington 11,530 66.01% 4,886 27.97% 728 4.17% 289 1.65% 34 0.19% 6,644 38.04% 17,467
Wayne 3,386 56.85% 2,097 35.21% 426 7.15% 40 0.67% 7 0.12% 1,289 21.64% 5,956
Westmoreland 17,239 63.16% 8,007 29.33% 1,408 5.16% 557 2.04% 85 0.31% 9,232 33.82% 27,296
Wyoming 2,308 56.90% 1,575 38.83% 169 4.17% 3 0.07% 1 0.02% 733 18.07% 4,056
York 14,837 51.85% 12,996 45.42% 475 1.66% 300 1.05% 6 0.02% 1,841 6.43% 28,614
Totals 840,949 68.00% 337,998 27.33% 33,717 2.73% 21,863 1.77% 2,211 0.18% 502,951 40.67% 1,236,738

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The Parker vote in Pennsylvania was the fusion of Democratic and Independence votes.
  2. ^ In this county where Swallow ran second ahead of Parker, margin given is Roosevelt vote minus Swallow vote and percentage margin Roosevelt percentage minus Swallow percentage.

References

  1. ^ David Leip. "Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Pennsylvania". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 38 ISBN 0786422173
  3. ^ Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 37, 286-288
  4. ^ David Leip. "1904 Presidential General Election Results – Pennsylvania". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  5. ^ a b c Géoelections; Popular Vote for Eugene V. Debs (1904) (.xlsx file for €15)
  6. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 309-313 ISBN 9780804716963
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