Who won Tennessee in the 1904 presidential election?

Parker (Democratic) carried Tennessee in 1904, winning its 12 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Tennessee have in 1904?

Tennessee cast 12 electoral votes in the 1904 presidential election.

Did Tennessee vote for the national winner in 1904?

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

Progressive EraTN · 12 EV

1904

Tennessee: Parker carries 12 EV.

Tennessee cast its 12 electoral votes for Parker (Democratic). National winner: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) — Tennessee voted against the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1904 result in Tennessee

Tennessee backed Parker (Democratic) in the 1904 presidential election, casting 12 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Tennessee among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 9th consecutive election in which Tennessee backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1872. Tennessee did not move alone — neighboring Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri broke the same way in 1904. Across the 57 presidential elections Tennessee has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (24 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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