Who won Kentucky in the 1904 presidential election?

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

How many electoral votes did Kentucky have in 1904?

Kentucky cast 13 electoral votes in the 1904 presidential election.

Did Kentucky vote for the national winner in 1904?

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

Progressive EraKY · 13 EV

1904

Kentucky: Parker carries 13 EV.

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

Reading the 1904 result in Kentucky

Kentucky 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 Kentucky among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 11th consecutive election in which Kentucky backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1864. The region divided — Virginia, Tennessee, and Missouri joined Kentucky for the Democratic ticket, while Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Illinois did not. Across the 59 presidential elections Kentucky has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (28 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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