Who won Georgia in the 1904 presidential election?

Parker (Democratic) carried Georgia in 1904, winning its 13 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Georgia have in 1904?

Georgia cast 13 electoral votes in the 1904 presidential election.

Did Georgia vote for the national winner in 1904?

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

Progressive EraGA · 13 EV

1904

Georgia: Parker carries 13 EV.

Georgia cast its 13 electoral votes for Parker (Democratic). National winner: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) — Georgia voted against the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1904 result in Georgia

Georgia backed Parker (Democratic) in the 1904 presidential election, casting 13 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Georgia among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 10th consecutive election in which Georgia backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1868. Georgia did not move alone — neighboring Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina broke the same way in 1904. Across the 59 presidential elections Georgia has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (34 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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