Who won Colorado in the 1904 presidential election?

Parker (Democratic) carried Colorado in 1904, winning its 5 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Colorado have in 1904?

Colorado cast 5 electoral votes in the 1904 presidential election.

Did Colorado vote for the national winner in 1904?

No. Colorado backed Parker, while Theodore Roosevelt won the presidency nationally.

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1904

Colorado: Parker carries 5 EV.

Colorado cast its 5 electoral votes for Parker (Democratic). National winner: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) — Colorado voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Colorado, 1904

In 1904, Colorado awarded its 5 electoral votes to Parker of the Democratic party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Colorado among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Colorado backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1896. It stood apart from its neighbors: Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, and Utah went the other way that year. Across the 37 presidential elections Colorado has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (19 times). The vote fell within the Progressive Era — Trust-busting, suffrage, and World War I.

In the national count, Theodore Roosevelt took 336 of the 476 electoral votes, against Alton B. Parker's 140. Theodore Roosevelt led the national popular vote with 56.42% of the ballots cast.

The 1904 national map

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