Total popular votes for each candidate as of Thursday, 4 November 2004:
Bush: 58,978,616 (51%) Kerry: 55,384,497 (48%)
Turnout nationwide was 60% of eligible voters, not as large as the 65% turnout in 1960, but the largest turnout in terms of votes cast.
Total electoral votes for each candidate, including “uncalled” Iowa for Bush:
Bush: 286 Kerry: 252
Out of the 31 states Bush won, he got at least 60% in 14 of them. Of the 19 states won by Kerry, only 3 were over 60%.
Conservative Index of States based on percentage of votes for GWB:
- Utah 71%
- Wyoming 69%
- Idaho 68%
- Nebraska 67%
- Oklahoma 66%
- Alabama 63%,
- North Dakota 63%
- Kansas 62%
- Alaska 62%
- Texas 61%
- Mississippi 60%
- Kentucky 60%
- Indiana 60%
- South Dakota 60%
- Georgia 59%
- Montana 59%
- South Carolina 58%
- Tennessee 57%
- Louisiana 57%
- North Carolina 56%
- West Virginia 56%
- Arizona 55%
- Virginia 54%
- Arkansas 54%
- Missouri 53%
- Florida 52%
- Colorado 52%
- Ohio 51%
- New Mexico 50%
- Nevada 50%
- Iowa 50%
- Wisconsin 49%
- New Hampshire 49%
- Pennsylvania 49%
- Michigan 48%
- Minnesota 48%
- Oregon 47%
- New Jersey 46%
- Washington 46%
- Delaware 46%
- Maine 45%
- Hawaii 45%
- Illinois 45%
- California 44%
- Connecticut 44%
- Maryland 43%
- New York 40%
- Vermont 39%
- Rhode Island 39%
- Massachusetts 37%
- D.C. 9%
Other Presidential stats:
Square miles of counties won: Bush 3.28 million Kerry 741,000
Population (2003) of counties won: Bush 150.9 million Kerry 103.6 million
Other Election stats:
In the Senate, the GOP gained 4 seats to hold a 55-44 majority with one Independent. In the House, the GOP gained seats to hold a 233-201 majority with one Independent. Governorships stayed par with a 28-22 majority for Republicans.
President Bush first in 16 years to win popular vote majority.
- With 51%, he is first Presidential candidate since 1988 to win majority of popular vote.
- President Bush increased his vote percentage from 2000 in 45 of 50 states, including 4% increase in John Kerryís home state of Massachusetts.
- In 14 most competitive states (AR, CO, FL, IA, MI, MN, MO, NH, NV, OH, PA, WI, and WV) , President Bush won 51% of vote to John Kerryís 49%, an improvement of 2 points from his 2000 performance in those states.
- He received higher percentage of popular vote than any Democrat since 1964.
President Bush received more votes than any candidate in history.
- President Bush won 59.3 million votes, exceeding the largest previous total, Ronald Reaganís 1984 high of 54.5 million.
- He won 8.7 million more votes (17.5% increase) in 2004 than in 2000, more than doubling the previous incumbentís increase (1992 to 1996).
- He won 11.8 million more votes than Clinton won in 1996.
President Bush first since FDR to lead his party to consecutive gains in House and Senate.
- President Bush is first since 1936 to win reelection while also leading his party to House and Senate gains.
- President Bush also first since 1936 to lead his party to consecutive gains in House and Senate.
- He is first since 1924 to be reelected with House and Senate majorities.
President Bush made historic gains among minority voters and women.
- 44% of Latino voters backed President Bush, up from 35% in 2000 and exceeding the previous record for a GOP candidate, Ronald Reaganís 37% in 1984.
- 11% of African American voters backed the President, up from 9% in 2000.
- 24% of Jewish voters backed the President, up from 19% in 2000.
- 48% of women overall (up from 43%) and 55% of married women (up from 49%) backed President Bush.
Record turnout helped President Bush.
- 2004 marks first time in modern political history that Republican turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year: share of Republican voters increased 2 points to 37%, and 6 million more Republicans voted in 2004 than in 2000.
- Percentage of conservatives in electorate also rose 5 points from 2000, to 34%.
- New voters were not overwhelmingly Democrat: President Bush won 46% among those who had never voted before, up 3 points from 2000.
