2004 United States presidential election in Texas
← 2000 November 2, 2004 2008 →
Turnout56.57% (of registered voters) Increase
46.11% (of voting age population)[1]
 
Nominee George W. Bush John Kerry
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Massachusetts
Running mate Dick Cheney John Edwards
Electoral vote 34 0
Popular vote 4,526,917 2,832,704
Percentage 61.09% 38.22%
President before election

George W. Bush
Republican

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George W. Bush
Republican

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The 2004 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. State voters chose 34 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Texas was won by incumbent Republican President George W. Bush by a margin of 22.87%. Prior to the election, all 12 major U.S. news organizations expected Texas to vote for Bush, considering it to be a safe red state.

Texas has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1976, and has been a Republican stronghold since the 1980s. A former governor of the state, Bush’s performance stands as a high water mark for Republican presidential candidates in Texas, and remains the last time that a Republican has won more than 60% of the state’s vote, or that a Democrat has won less than 40%. Bush is the last Republican to win any of the following counties in a presidential election: Bexar, Cameron, Culberson, Dallas, and Harris. The 1,067,968 ballots cast in Harris County also marked the first time that any Texas county would cast more than one million votes. However, this is also the last election where Harris County would vote to the left of any of the top 5 most populous counties in the state, with the exception of Tarrant County. Harris County in this election voted to the left of Bexar by approximately only 0.2% of the votes. This is also the last election where the Republican candidate would win Tarrant County with at least 60% of the vote. Starting from 2008, Republicans would win Tarrant county with less than 60% of the vote, and in 2020 Joe Biden would eventually win Tarrant County.

Bush, who made historic gains with Latino voters in 2004,[2] drew even with Kerry among Texan Latinos, winning 49% to Kerry's 50%.[3] As of 2020, this election is the closest a Republican has come to carrying the Latino vote in Texas.

This is the last presidential election in which a Republican candidate has gotten over 60% of the vote due to the increasing Democratic shift in many of the urban counties Bush carried in this election. All of these counties would swing hard towards Barack Obama in 2008.

Primaries

Campaign

Predictions

There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.[4]

Source Ranking
D.C. Political Report Solid R
Cook Political Report Solid R
Research 2000 Solid R
Zogby International Likely R
Washington Post Likely R
Washington Dispatch Likely R
Washington Times Solid R
The New York Times Solid R
CNN Likely R
Newsweek Solid R
Associated Press Solid R
Rasmussen Reports Likely R

Polling

Bush won every single pre-election poll, and won each with at least 55% of the vote and a double-digit margin of victory. The final three polls averaged Bush leading 59% to 37%.[5]

Fundraising

Bush raised $23,776,943.[6] Kerry raised $5,554,831.[7]

Advertising and visits

Neither campaign advertised or visited this state during the fall election.[8][9]

Analysis

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Texas, located in the South, has become a consistently Republican state at all levels. Economically and racially diverse, Texas includes a huge swath of the Bible Belt where many voters, especially those in rural Texas, identify as born-again or evangelical Christians and therefore tend to vote Republican due to the party's opposition to abortion. Although once part of the Solid South, the last time Texas voted for a Democratic presidential nominee was Jimmy Carter in 1976. George Bush achieved his party's best result in Texas since Ronald Reagan's second landslide in 1984.

President Bush carried 236 of the state's 254 counties, improving on his performance from 2000. East Texas, historically the most Democratic region in the state, solidified its support for the Republican Party with only Jefferson County, home to Beaumont, voting for John Kerry. South Texas, while still voting heavily for Senator Kerry, swung towards Bush as well.

Despite Bush's increased margin in the state compared to 2000, Kerry made major inroads in the state's suburban areas, especially in Metro Houston, the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, and the Austin area. Kerry narrowed Bush's 2000 margins in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Fort Bend, Harris, Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties. Out of those, however, only Travis County, home to Austin, flipped into the Democratic column, in part due to the city's strong liberal leanings and opposition to the Iraq War. Bush had won a plurality in the county in 2000 in part due to the Green Party's Ralph Nader winning 11% of the County's vote. Although Bush carried Dallas County by a narrow margin of 50% to Kerry's 49%, the city of Dallas proper voted heavily for Kerry, giving him 57% of the vote.

Results

2004 United States presidential election in Texas[10][11]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Party George W. Bush (incumbent) 4,526,917 61.09% 34
Democratic John Kerry 2,832,704 38.22% 0
Libertarian Michael Badnarik 38,787 0.52% 0
Write-in Ralph Nader 9,159 0.12% 0
Write-in Michael Peroutka 1,636 0.02% 0
Write-in David Cobb 1,014 0.01% 0
Write-in Andrew J. Falk 219 0.00% 0
Write-in John Joseph Kennedy 126 0.00% 0
Write-in Walt Brown 111 0.00% 0
Write-in Deborah Elaine Allen 92 0.00% 0
Totals 7,410,765 100.00% 34
Voter turnout (voting age population) 46.7%

By county

County George W. Bush
Republican 		John Kerry
Democratic 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total
# % # % # % # %
Anderson 11,525 70.70% 4,678 28.70% 98 0.60% 6,847 42.00% 16,301
Andrews 3,837 84.59% 677 14.93% 22 0.49% 3,160 69.66% 4,536
Angelina 18,932 66.75% 9,302 32.80% 130 0.46% 9,630 33.95% 28,364
Aransas 6,569 70.88% 2,640 28.49% 59 0.63% 3,929 42.39% 9,268
Archer 3,556 79.89% 878 19.73% 17 0.38% 2,678 60.16% 4,451
Armstrong 830 82.67% 170 16.93% 98 0.60% 660 65.74% 1,004
Atascosa 7,635 63.02% 4,421 36.49% 60 0.49% 3,214 26.53% 12,116
Austin 8,072 75.43% 2,582 24.13% 48 0.45% 5,490 51.30% 10,702
Bailey 1,882 78.03% 525 21.77% 5 0.21% 1,357 56.26% 2,412
Bandera 6,933 79.32% 1,738 19.88% 70 0.80% 5,195 59.44% 8,741
Bastrop 13,290 56.70% 9,794 41.78% 357 1.52% 3,496 14.92% 23,441
Baylor 1,169 71.28% 467 28.48% 4 0.24% 702 42.80% 1,640
Bee 5,428 57.03% 4,045 42.50% 45 0.48% 1,383 14.53% 9,518
Bell 52,135 65.39% 27,165 34.07% 424 0.53% 24,970 31.32% 79,724
Bexar 260,698 54.85% 210,976 44.39% 3,640 0.76% 49,722 10.46% 475,314
Blanco 3,277 71.49% 1,267 27.64% 40 0.87% 2,010 43.85% 4,584
Borden 303 84.40% 55 15.32% 1 0.28% 248 69.08% 359
Bosque 5,737 75.63% 1,815 23.93% 34 0.45% 3,922 51.70% 7,586
Bowie 21,791 64.55% 11,880 35.19% 89 0.26% 9,911 29.36% 33,760
Brazoria 63,662 68.27% 28,904 31.00% 682 0.74% 34,758 37.27% 93,248
Brazos 37,594 69.22% 16,128 29.70% 587 1.08% 21,466 39.52% 54,309
Brewster 1,980 52.66% 1,729 45.98% 51 1.36% 251 6.68% 3,760
Briscoe 620 76.45% 191 23.55% 0 0.00% 429 52.90% 811
Brooks 845 31.60% 1,823 68.18% 6 0.22% -978 -36.58% 2,674
Brown 11,640 81.67% 2,523 17.70% 90 0.63% 9,117 63.97% 14,253
Burleson 4,405 65.54% 2,276 33.86% 40 0.59% 2,129 31.68% 6,721
Burnet 11,456 72.77% 4,147 26.34% 139 0.89% 7,309 46.43% 15,742
Caldwell 6,436 55.55% 5,052 43.60% 99 0.85% 1,384 11.95% 11,587
Calhoun 4,348 62.75% 2,561 36.96% 20 0.29% 1,787 25.79% 6,929
Callahan 4,542 80.33% 1,073 18.98% 39 0.69% 3,469 61.35% 5,654
Cameron 34,801 50.32% 33,998 49.16% 357 0.52% 803 1.16% 69,156
Camp 2,638 59.43% 1,778 40.05% 23 0.52% 860 19.38% 4,439
Carson 2,450 83.22% 485 16.47% 9 0.30% 1,965 66.75% 2,944
Cass 7,383 61.27% 4,630 38.43% 36 0.30% 2,753 22.84% 12,049
Castro 1,794 73.83% 631 25.97% 5 0.21% 1,163 47.86% 2,430
Chambers 8,618 73.98% 2,953 25.35% 78 0.67% 5,665 48.63% 11,649
Cherokee 11,329 71.53% 4,439 28.03% 71 0.45% 6,890 43.50% 15,839
Childress 1,629 75.98% 511 23.83% 4 0.19% 1,118 52.15% 2,144
Clay 3,971 75.09% 1,299 24.57% 18 0.34% 2,672 50.52% 5,288
Cochran 856 77.12% 249 22.43% 5 0.45% 607 54.69% 1,110
Coke 1,338 83.11% 266 16.52% 6 0.37% 1,072 66.59% 1,610
Coleman 3,035 79.33% 778 20.33% 13 0.34% 2,257 59.00% 3,826
Collin 174,435 71.15% 68,935 28.12% 1,784 0.73% 105,500 43.03% 245,154
Collingsworth 1,051 75.18% 346 24.75% 1 0.07% 705 50.43% 1,398
Colorado 5,488 71.37% 2,161 28.10% 41 0.54% 3,327 43.27% 7,690
Comal 31,574 76.93% 9,153 22.30% 316 0.77% 22,421 54.63% 41,043
Comanche 3,813 72.38% 1,431 27.16% 24 0.46% 2,382 45.22% 5,268
Concho 911 76.36% 270 22.63% 12 1.01% 641 53.73% 1,193
Cooke 11,908 78.82% 3,142 20.80% 57 0.37% 8,766 58.02% 15,107
Coryell 12,421 70.47% 5,122 29.06% 82 0.46% 7,299 41.41% 17,625
Cottle 549 71.48% 214 27.86% 5 0.65% 335 43.62% 768
Crane 1,314 83.48% 254 16.14% 6 0.38% 1,060 67.34% 1,574
Crockett 1,248 72.22% 473 27.37% 7 0.41% 775 44.85% 1,728
Crosby 1,647 72.40% 622 27.34% 6 0.26% 1,025 45.06% 2,275
Culberson 407 51.65% 375 47.59% 6 0.76% 32 4.06% 788
Dallam 1,473 82.66% 305 17.12% 4 0.22% 1,168 65.54% 1,782
Dallas 346,246 50.35% 336,641 48.95% 4,822 0.70% 9,605 1.40% 687,709
Dawson 3,419 75.23% 1,114 24.51% 12 0.26% 2,305 50.72% 4,545
Deaf Smith 4,139 78.23% 1,133 21.41% 19 0.36% 3,006 56.82% 5,291
Delta 1,447 69.50% 627 30.12% 8 0.39% 820 39.38% 2,082
Denton 140,891 69.95% 59,346 29.47% 1,173 0.58% 81,545 40.48% 201,410
DeWitt 5,100 75.76% 1,610 23.92% 22 0.33% 3,490 51.84% 6,732
Dickens 815 76.67% 245 23.05% 3 0.28% 570 53.62% 1,063
Dimmit 1,188 33.31% 2,365 66.32% 13 0.36% -1,177 -33.01% 3,566
Donley 1,429 80.10% 349 19.56% 6 0.34% 1,080 60.54% 1,784
Duval 1,160 28.35% 2,916 71.28% 15 0.37% -1,756 -42.93% 4,091
Eastland 5,249 76.55% 1,582 23.07% 26 0.38% 3,667 53.48% 6,857
Ector 27,502 75.74% 8,579 23.63% 229 0.63% 18,923 52.11% 36,310
Edwards 745 77.36% 217 22.53% 1 0.10% 528 54.83% 963
Ellis 34,602 74.50% 11,640 25.06% 202 0.43% 22,962 49.44% 46,444
El Paso 73,261 43.20% 95,142 56.11% 1,170 0.69% -21,881 -12.91% 169,573
Erath 9,506 77.40% 2,710 22.07% 65 0.53% 6,796 55.33% 12,281
Falls 3,454 58.52% 2,427 41.12% 21 0.36% 1,027 17.40% 5,902
Fannin 7,893 65.99% 4,001 33.45% 66 0.56% 3,892 32.54% 11,960
Fayette 7,527 72.40% 2,803 26.96% 67 0.64% 4,724 45.44% 10,397
Fisher 1,161 60.37% 758 39.42% 4 0.21% 403 20.95% 1,923
Floyd 2,032 78.64% 545 21.09% 7 0.27% 1,487 57.55% 2,584
Foard 347 59.11% 235 40.03% 5 0.85% 112 19.08% 587
Fort Bend 93,625 57.38% 68,722 42.12% 822 0.50% 24,903 15.26% 163,169
Franklin 3,185 75.53% 1,011 23.97% 21 0.50% 2,174 51.56% 4,217
Freestone 5,057 70.62% 2,070 28.91% 34 0.48% 2,987 41.71% 7,161
Frio 1,991 50.66% 1,931 49.13% 8 0.20% 60 1.53% 3,930
Gaines 3,540 85.01% 608 14.60% 16 0.38% 2,932 70.41% 4,164
Galveston 61,290 57.83% 43,919 41.44% 772 0.73% 17,371 16.39% 105,981
Garza 1,480 81.68% 326 17.99% 6 0.34% 1,154 63.69% 1,812
Gillespie 9,297 80.47% 2,104 18.21% 152 1.32% 7,193 62.26% 11,553
Glasscock 488 91.56% 44 8.26% 1 0.19% 444 83.30% 533
Goliad 2,267 64.75% 1,219 34.82% 15 0.42% 1,048 29.93% 3,501
Gonzales 4,291 71.26% 1,709 28.38% 22 0.37% 2,582 42.88% 6,022
Gray 7,260 84.69% 1,289 15.04% 23 0.27% 5,971 69.65% 8,572
Grayson 30,777 69.28% 13,452 30.28% 194 0.44% 17,325 39.00% 44,423
Gregg 29,939 70.61% 12,306 29.02% 153 0.36% 17,633 41.59% 42,398
Grimes 5,263 65.54% 2,713 33.79% 54 0.67% 2,550 31.75% 8,030
Guadalupe 28,208 72.79% 10,290 26.55% 254 0.65% 17,918 46.24% 38,752
Hale 8,025 79.03% 2,078 20.46% 51 0.51% 5,947 58.57% 10,154
Hall 860 67.35% 413 32.34% 4 0.31% 447 35.01% 1,277
Hamilton 2,856 76.57% 845 22.65% 29 0.78% 2,011 53.92% 3,730
Hansford 1,903 88.64% 240 11.18% 4 0.19% 1,663 77.46% 2,147
Hardeman 1,214 71.33% 480 28.20% 8 0.47% 734 43.13% 1,702
Hardin 15,030 72.57% 5,608 27.08% 72 0.35% 9,422 45.49% 20,710
Harris 584,723 54.75% 475,865 44.56% 7,380 0.69% 108,858 10.19% 1,067,968
Harrison 16,473 62.82% 9,642 36.77% 108 0.41% 6,831 26.05% 26,223
Hartley 1,736 84.31% 315 15.30% 8 0.39% 1,421 69.01% 2,059
Haskell 1,539 63.70% 867 35.89% 10 0.41% 672 27.81% 2,416
Hays 27,021 56.50% 20,110 42.05% 692 1.45% 6,911 14.45% 47,823
Hemphill 1,380 83.99% 257 15.64% 6 0.36% 1,123 68.35% 1,643
Henderson 20,210 70.05% 8,505 29.48% 134 0.46% 11,705 40.57% 28,849
Hidalgo 50,931 44.80% 62,369 54.86% 383 0.34% -11,438 -10.06% 113,683
Hill 9,225 70.67% 3,751 28.74% 77 0.59% 5,474 41.93% 13,053
Hockley 6,160 81.30% 1,385 18.28% 32 0.42% 4,775 63.02% 7,577
Hood 16,280 76.46% 4,865 22.85% 148 0.69% 11,415 53.61% 21,293
Hopkins 8,582 71.15% 3,443 28.54% 37 0.31% 5,139 42.61% 12,062
Houston 5,848 66.41% 2,921 33.17% 37 0.42% 2,927 33.24% 8,806
Howard 7,480 73.33% 2,663 26.11% 58 0.57% 4,817 47.22% 10,201
Hudspeth 577 65.12% 302 34.09% 7 0.79% 275 31.03% 886
Hunt 20,065 71.17% 7,971 28.27% 158 0.56% 12,094 42.90% 28,194
Hutchinson 7,839 83.67% 1,503 16.04% 27 0.29% 6,336 67.63% 9,369
Irion 684 82.61% 141 17.03% 3 0.36% 543 65.58% 828
Jack 2,470 79.01% 643 20.57% 13 0.42% 1,827 58.44% 3,126
Jackson 3,766 74.18% 1,296 25.53% 15 0.30% 2,470 48.65% 5,077
Jasper 8,347 64.84% 4,471 34.73% 55 0.43% 3,876 30.11% 12,873
Jeff Davis 764 65.47% 378 32.39% 25 2.14% 386 33.08% 1,167
Jefferson 44,423 48.36% 47,066 51.23% 377 0.41% -2,643 -2.87% 91,866
Jim Hogg 712 34.48% 1,344 65.08% 9 0.44% -632 -30.60% 2,065
Jim Wells 5,817 45.84% 6,824 53.77% 50 0.40% -1,007 -7.93% 12,691
Johnson 34,818 73.42% 12,325 25.99% 279 0.58% 22,493 47.43% 47,422
Jones 4,254 71.72% 1,658 27.95% 19 0.32% 2,596 43.77% 5,931
Karnes 3,114 66.64% 1,543 33.02% 16 0.35% 1,571 33.62% 4,673
Kaufman 21,304 70.16% 8,947 29.46% 115 0.38% 12,357 40.70% 30,366
Kendall 11,434 81.25% 2,532 17.99% 106 0.75% 8,902 63.26% 14,072
Kenedy 82 48.52% 85 50.30% 2 1.18% -3 -1.78% 169
Kent 382 73.18% 138 26.44% 2 0.38% 244 46.74% 522
Kerr 16,538 77.84% 4,557 21.45% 151 0.71% 11,981 56.39% 21,246
Kimble 1,482 81.61% 324 17.84% 10 0.56% 1,158 63.77% 1,816
King 137 87.82% 18 11.54% 1 0.64% 119 76.28% 156
Kinney 1,051 65.69% 542 33.88% 7 0.44% 509 31.81% 1,600
Kleberg 5,366 53.81% 4,550 45.62% 57 0.57% 816 8.19% 9,973
Knox 1,081 69.65% 464 29.90% 7 0.45% 617 39.75% 1,552
Lamar 12,054 69.00% 5,338 30.56% 78 0.44% 6,716 38.44% 17,470
Lamb 3,410 79.84% 857 20.07% 4 0.09% 2,553 59.77% 4,271
Lampasas 5,422 77.18% 1,593 22.68% 10 0.14% 3,829 54.50% 7,025
La Salle 989 44.35% 1,229 55.11% 12 0.53% -240 -10.76% 2,230
Lavaca 5,974 73.06% 2,152 26.32% 51 0.62% 3,822 46.74% 8,177
Lee 4,160 68.33% 1,899 31.19% 29 0.48% 2,261 37.14% 6,088
Leon 5,023 73.88% 1,754 25.80% 22 0.32% 3,269 48.08% 6,799
Liberty 14,821 68.33% 6,780 31.26% 90 0.41% 8,041 37.07% 21,691
Limestone 5,028 64.31% 2,752 35.20% 38 0.48% 2,276 29.11% 7,818
Lipscomb 1,147 85.79% 184 13.76% 6 0.45% 963 72.03% 1,337
Live Oak 3,147 74.91% 1,036 24.66% 18 0.43% 2,111 50.25% 4,201
Llano 7,241 75.72% 2,257 23.60% 65 0.68% 4,984 52.12% 9,563
Loving 65 81.25% 12 15.00% 3 3.75% 53 66.25% 80
Lubbock 70,135 75.29% 22,472 24.12% 544 0.58% 47,663 51.17% 93,151
Lynn 1,776 78.20% 490 21.58% 5 0.22% 1,286 56.62% 2,271
McCulloch 2,465 76.55% 745 23.14% 10 0.31% 1,720 53.41% 3,220
McLennan 52,090 65.73% 26,760 33.76% 404 0.51% 25,330 31.97% 79,254
McMullen 467 82.80% 95 16.84% 2 0.35% 372 65.96% 564
Madison 2,837 69.18% 1,235 30.11% 29 0.71% 1,602 39.07% 4,101
Marion 2,441 56.14% 1,884 43.33% 23 0.53% 557 12.81% 4,348
Martin 1,514 83.79% 288 15.94% 5 0.28% 1,226 67.85% 1,807
Mason 1,600 77.03% 459 22.10% 18 0.87% 1,141 54.93% 2,077
Matagorda 8,119 64.84% 4,355 34.78% 47 0.37% 3,764 30.06% 12,521
Maverick 4,025 40.11% 5,948 59.28% 61 0.61% -1,923 -19.17% 10,034
Medina 10,389 70.07% 4,322 29.15% 115 0.78% 6,067 40.92% 14,826
Menard 761 68.99% 331 30.01% 11 1.00% 430 38.98% 1,103
Midland 36,585 81.60% 8,005 17.85% 244 0.54% 28,580 63.75% 44,834
Milam 5,291 60.24% 3,445 39.22% 47 0.53% 1,846 21.02% 8,783
Mills 1,794 80.41% 416 18.65% 21 0.94% 1,378 61.76% 2,231
Mitchell 1,912 74.75% 639 24.98% 7 0.27% 1,273 49.77% 2,558
Montague 5,910 74.84% 1,946 24.64% 41 0.52% 3,964 50.20% 7,897
Montgomery 104,654 78.11% 28,628 21.37% 706 0.53% 76,026 56.74% 133,988
Moore 4,601 81.75% 1,009 17.93% 18 0.32% 3,592 63.82% 5,628
Morris 2,818 53.39% 2,437 46.17% 23 0.43% 381 7.22% 5,278
Motley 564 82.46% 113 16.52% 7 1.02% 451 65.94% 684
Nacogdoches 14,160 65.96% 7,152 33.32% 154 0.71% 7,008 32.64% 21,466
Navarro 10,715 66.83% 5,259 32.80% 60 0.37% 5,456 34.03% 16,034
Newton 3,159 55.42% 2,513 44.09% 28 0.50% 646 11.33% 5,700
Nolan 3,722 70.37% 1,541 29.14% 26 0.49% 2,181 41.23% 5,289
Nueces 59,359 56.77% 44,439 42.50% 762 0.73% 14,920 14.27% 104,560
Ochiltree 2,922 91.97% 251 7.90% 4 0.13% 2,671 84.07% 3,177
Oldham 733 86.95% 108 12.81% 2 0.24% 625 74.14% 843
Orange 20,292 63.60% 11,476 35.97% 140 0.44% 8,816 27.63% 31,908
Palo Pinto 7,137 71.27% 2,816 28.12% 61 0.61% 4,321 43.15% 10,014
Panola 7,021 70.16% 2,958 29.56% 28 0.28% 4,063 40.60% 10,007
Parker 31,795 77.63% 8,966 21.89% 196 0.48% 22,829 55.74% 40,957
Parmer 2,375 85.65% 389 14.03% 9 0.32% 1,986 71.62% 2,773
Pecos 3,167 71.52% 1,242 28.05% 19 0.43% 1,925 43.47% 4,428
Polk 13,778 66.09% 6,964 33.41% 104 0.50% 6,814 32.68% 20,846
Potter 21,401 73.65% 7,489 25.77% 166 0.57% 13,912 47.88% 29,056
Presidio 715 37.83% 1,159 61.32% 16 0.85% -444 -23.49% 1,890
Rains 2,998 70.89% 1,213 28.68% 18 0.43% 1,785 42.21% 4,229
Randall 40,520 83.40% 7,849 16.15% 218 0.45% 32,671 67.25% 48,587
Reagan 956 83.64% 184 16.10% 3 0.26% 772 67.54% 1,143
Real 1,314 79.88% 325 19.76% 6 0.36% 989 60.12% 1,645
Red River 3,379 61.55% 2,097 38.20% 14 0.26% 1,282 23.35% 5,490
Reeves 1,777 52.34% 1,600 47.13% 18 0.53% 177 5.21% 3,395
Refugio 2,212 64.02% 1,232 35.66% 11 0.32% 980 28.36% 3,455
Roberts 461 90.93% 46 9.07% 0 0.00% 415 81.86% 507
Robertson 3,792 55.81% 2,979 43.84% 24 0.35% 813 11.97% 6,795
Rockwall 20,120 78.65% 5,320 20.80% 141 0.55% 14,800 57.85% 25,581
Runnels 3,239 80.00% 792 19.56% 18 0.44% 2,447 60.44% 4,049
Rusk 13,390 72.99% 4,899 26.71% 55 0.30% 8,491 46.28% 18,344
Sabine 3,138 67.64% 1,476 31.82% 25 0.54% 1,662 35.82% 4,639
San Augustine 2,235 59.49% 1,506 40.09% 16 0.42% 729 19.40% 3,757
San Jacinto 5,394 66.39% 2,688 33.08% 43 0.53% 2,706 33.31% 8,125
San Patricio 13,474 63.20% 7,764 36.42% 82 0.38% 5,710 26.78% 21,320
San Saba 1,894 77.91% 529 21.76% 8 0.33% 1,365 56.15% 2,431
Schleicher 1,012 76.15% 312 23.48% 5 0.38% 700 52.67% 1,329
Scurry 4,576 82.12% 981 17.61% 15 0.27% 3,595 64.51% 5,572
Shackelford 1,292 84.61% 229 15.00% 6 0.39% 1,063 69.61% 1,527
Shelby 6,295 67.84% 2,951 31.80% 33 0.36% 3,344 36.04% 9,279
Sherman 942 88.37% 124 11.63% 0 0.00% 818 76.74% 1,066
Smith 53,392 72.48% 19,970 27.11% 302 0.41% 33,422 45.37% 73,664
Somervell 2,701 76.06% 831 23.40% 19 0.54% 1,870 52.66% 3,551
Starr 2,552 26.09% 7,199 73.60% 30 0.31% -4,647 -47.51% 9,781
Stephens 2,803 79.65% 703 19.98% 13 0.37% 2,100 59.67% 3,519
Sterling 544 88.46% 71 11.54% 0 0.00% 473 76.92% 615
Stonewall 499 66.36% 250 33.24% 3 0.40% 249 33.12% 752
Sutton 1,173 80.73% 280 19.27% 0 0.00% 893 61.46% 1,453
Swisher 1,487 70.14% 626 29.53% 7 0.33% 861 40.61% 2,120
Tarrant 349,462 62.39% 207,286 37.01% 3,393 0.61% 142,176 25.38% 560,141
Taylor 37,197 77.33% 10,648 22.14% 254 0.53% 26,549 55.19% 48,099
Terrell 306 65.25% 159 33.90% 4 0.85% 147 31.35% 469
Terry 3,166 79.75% 794 20.00% 10 0.25% 2,372 59.75% 3,970
Throckmorton 656 76.01% 202 23.41% 5 0.58% 454 52.60% 863
Titus 5,709 64.10% 3,173 35.62% 25 0.28% 2,536 28.48% 8,907
Tom Green 28,185 75.33% 9,007 24.07% 225 0.61% 19,178 51.26% 37,417
Travis 147,885 42.00% 197,235 56.01% 6,993 1.98% -49,350 -14.01% 352,113
Trinity 3,985 64.14% 2,204 35.47% 24 0.38% 1,781 28.67% 6,213
Tyler 5,043 65.11% 2,659 34.33% 43 0.56% 2,384 30.78% 7,745
Upshur 10,232 70.44% 4,225 29.09% 69 0.47% 6,007 41.35% 14,526
Upton 1,009 84.29% 185 15.46% 3 0.25% 824 68.83% 1,197
Uvalde 5,148 60.69% 3,298 38.88% 37 0.43% 1,850 21.81% 8,483
Val Verde 6,968 59.08% 4,757 40.33% 70 0.60% 2,211 18.75% 11,795
Van Zandt 14,976 75.42% 4,822 24.28% 58 0.29% 10,154 51.14% 19,856
Victoria 20,875 70.52% 8,553 28.89% 174 0.59% 12,322 41.63% 29,602
Walker 11,710 65.71% 5,977 33.54% 135 0.76% 5,733 32.17% 17,822
Waller 7,679 55.32% 6,145 44.27% 57 0.41% 1,534 11.05% 13,881
Ward 2,856 75.80% 901 23.91% 11 0.29% 1,955 51.89% 3,768
Washington 9,597 73.47% 3,389 25.94% 77 0.59% 6,208 47.53% 13,063
Webb 17,753 42.72% 23,654 56.92% 149 0.35% -5,901 -14.20% 41,556
Wharton 9,288 66.16% 4,702 33.49% 49 0.35% 4,586 32.67% 14,039
Wheeler 1,960 81.87% 420 17.54% 14 0.59% 1,540 64.33% 2,394
Wichita 32,472 71.30% 12,819 28.15% 254 0.56% 19,653 43.15% 45,545
Wilbarger 3,685 73.85% 1,284 25.73% 21 0.42% 2,401 48.12% 4,990
Willacy 2,209 44.52% 2,734 55.10% 19 0.38% -525 -10.58% 4,962
Williamson 83,284 64.97% 43,117 33.63% 1,797 1.40% 40,167 31.34% 128,198
Wilson 10,400 69.87% 4,409 29.62% 76 0.51% 5,991 40.25% 14,885
Winkler 1,604 80.12% 391 19.53% 7 0.35% 1,213 60.59% 2,002
Wise 15,177 75.71% 4,783 23.86% 87 0.43% 10,394 51.85% 20,047
Wood 12,831 75.79% 4,034 23.83% 64 0.38% 8,797 51.96% 16,929
Yoakum 2,228 85.27% 376 14.39% 9 0.35% 1,852 70.88% 2,613
Young 5,874 79.28% 1,511 20.39% 24 0.32% 4,363 58.89% 7,409
Zapata 1,228 42.37% 1,662 57.35% 8 0.28% -434 -14.98% 2,898
Zavala 777 24.92% 2,332 74.79% 9 0.29% -1,555 -49.87% 3,118
Totals 4,526,917 61.09% 2,832,704 38.22% 51,144 0.69% 1,694,213 22.87% 7,410,765
County Flips:

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

By congressional district

Bush won 25 of 32 congressional districts, including four held by Democrats.[12]

District Bush Kerry Representative
1st 69% 31% Max Sandlin
Louie Gohmert
2nd 63% 37% Jim Turner
Ted Poe
3rd 67% 33% Sam Johnson
4th 70% 30% Ralph Hall
5th 67% 33% Jeb Hensarling
6th 66% 34% Joe Barton
7th 64% 36% John Culberson
8th 72% 28% Kevin Brady
9th 30% 70% Nick Lampson
Al Green
10th 62% 38% Lloyd Doggett
Michael McCaul
11th 78% 22% Chet Edwards
Mike Conaway
12th 67% 33% Kay Granger
13th 78% 22% Mac Thornberry
14th 67% 33% Ron Paul
15th 51% 49% Rubén Hinojosa
16th 44% 56% Silvestre Reyes
17th 70% 30% Charles Stenholm
Chet Edwards
18th 28% 72% Sheila Jackson Lee
19th 77% 23% Randy Neugebauer
20th 45% 55% Charlie Gonzalez
21st 66% 34% Lamar S. Smith
22nd 64% 36% Tom DeLay
23rd 57% 43% Henry Bonilla
24th 65% 35% Martin Frost
Kenny Marchant
25th 46% 54% Chris Bell
Lloyd Doggett
26th 65% 35% Michael C. Burgess
27th 55% 45% Solomon Ortiz
28th 54% 46% Ciro Rodriguez
Henry Cuellar
29th 44% 56% Gene Green
30th 25% 75% Eddie Bernice Johnson
31st 67% 33% John Carter
32nd 60% 40% Pete Sessions

Electors

Main article: List of 2004 United States presidential electors

Technically the voters of Texas cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Texas is allocated 34 electors because it has 32 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 34 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 34 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 the state. All 34 were pledged to Bush/Cheney:[13][14]

  1. Royce Hayes
  2. Tom Cotter
  3. Jay Pierce
  4. Marjorie Chandler
  5. Lance Lenz
  6. Barbara Grusendorf
  7. Bill Borden
  8. Jim Wiggins
  9. Anna Rice
  10. Jan Galbraith
  11. Sue Brannon
  12. Cheryl Surber
  13. Mike Ussery
  14. Sid Young
  15. Frank Morris
  16. Roger O'Dell
  17. Christopher DeCluitt
  18. Martha Greenlaw
  19. Marcus Anderson
  20. Mike Provost
  21. Bennie Bock
  22. Kathy Haigler
  23. Kim Hesley
  24. Peter Wrench
  25. Morris Woods
  26. Rhealyn Samuelson
  27. Nancy Stevens
  28. Loyce McCarter
  29. Larry Bowles
  30. Dan Mosher
  31. Glenn Warren
  32. Kristina Kiik
  33. Susan Weddington
  34. Charles Burchett

See also

References

  1. ^ "Turnout and Voter Registration Figures (1970-current)".
  2. ^ "Which Latinos Elected Bush in 2004?". America Magazine. June 23, 2008. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  3. ^ "CNN.com Election 2004". www.cnn.com. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  4. ^ Members DC Political Report [permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "2004 Presidential Election Polls. Texas Polls". US Election Atlas.
  6. ^ "George W Bush - $374,659,453 raised, '04 election cycle, Republican Party, President".
  7. ^ "John F Kerry - $345,826,176 raised, '04 election cycle, Democrat Party, President".
  8. ^ "America votes 2004: Campaign ad buys". CNN. Archived from the original on April 22, 2021. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
  9. ^ "America votes 2004: Candidate tracker". CNN. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
  10. ^ "2004 Presidential General Election Results - Texas".
  11. ^ "Federal Elections 2004" (PDF).
  12. ^ "Presidential Results by Congressional District, 2000-2008 – Swing State Project".
  13. ^ "The Electoral College". May 20, 2019.
  14. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 2009. Retrieved November 29, 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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