Who won Texas in the 1904 presidential election?

Parker (Democratic) carried Texas in 1904, winning its 18 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Texas have in 1904?

Texas cast 18 electoral votes in the 1904 presidential election.

Did Texas vote for the national winner in 1904?

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

Progressive EraTX · 18 EV

1904

Texas: Parker carries 18 EV.

Texas cast its 18 electoral votes for Parker (Democratic). National winner: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) — Texas voted against the national winner this cycle.

Texas in 1904

The 1904 contest saw Texas line up behind Parker, delivering 18 electoral votes to the Democratic ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Texas among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 9th consecutive election in which Texas backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1872. Texas did not move alone — neighboring Arkansas and Louisiana broke the same way in 1904. Across the 44 presidential elections Texas 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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