1904 United States elections

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1904 United States elections
1902          1903          1904          1905          1906
Presidential election year
Election dayNovember 8
Incumbent presidentTheodore Roosevelt (Republican)
Next Congress59th
Presidential election
Partisan controlRepublican hold
Popular vote marginRepublican +18.8%
Electoral vote
Theodore Roosevelt (R)336
Alton Parker (D)140
1904 United States presidential election in California1904 United States presidential election in Oregon1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)1904 United States presidential election in Idaho1904 United States presidential election in Nevada1904 United States presidential election in Utah1904 United States presidential election in Montana1904 United States presidential election in Wyoming1904 United States presidential election in Colorado1904 United States presidential election in North Dakota1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota1904 United States presidential election in Nebraska1904 United States presidential election in Kansas1904 United States presidential election in Texas1904 United States presidential election in Minnesota1904 United States presidential election in Iowa1904 United States presidential election in Missouri1904 United States presidential election in Arkansas1904 United States presidential election in Louisiana1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin1904 United States presidential election in Illinois1904 United States presidential election in Michigan1904 United States presidential election in Indiana1904 United States presidential election in Ohio1904 United States presidential election in Kentucky1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee1904 United States presidential election in Mississippi1904 United States presidential election in Alabama1904 United States presidential election in Georgia1904 United States presidential election in Florida1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina1904 United States presidential election in North Carolina1904 United States presidential election in Virginia1904 United States presidential election in West Virginia1904 United States presidential election in Maryland1904 United States presidential election in Delaware1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey1904 United States presidential election in New York1904 United States presidential election in Connecticut1904 United States presidential election in Rhode Island1904 United States presidential election in Maryland1904 United States presidential election in Vermont1904 United States presidential election in New Hampshire1904 United States presidential election in Maine1904 United States presidential election in Massachusetts1904 United States presidential election in Maryland1904 United States presidential election in Delaware1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey1904 United States presidential election in Connecticut1904 United States presidential election in Rhode Island1904 United States presidential election in Massachusetts1904 United States presidential election in Vermont1904 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
1904 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Roosevelt, blue denotes states won by Parker. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate.
Senate elections
Overall controlRepublican hold
Seats contested30 of 90 seats[1]
Net seat changeDemocratic -1[2]
House elections
Overall controlRepublican hold
Seats contestedAll 386 voting members
Net seat changeRepublican +45[2]
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested33
Net seat changeDemocratic +2
1904 Rhode Island gubernatorial election1904 Illinois gubernatorial election1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election1904 Iowa gubernatorial election1904 Arkansas gubernatorial election1904 Kansas gubernatorial election1904 Texas gubernatorial election1904 Florida gubernatorial election1904 Massachusetts gubernatorial election1904 Michigan gubernatorial election1904 Nebraska gubernatorial election1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election1904 Minnesota gubernatorial election1904 Maine gubernatorial election1904 Colorado gubernatorial election1904 Tennessee gubernatorial election1904 Connecticut gubernatorial election1904 Idaho gubernatorial election1904 Georgia gubernatorial election1904 New York gubernatorial election1904 South Carolina gubernatorial election1904 Wyoming gubernatorial special election1904 Delaware gubernatorial election1904 Indiana gubernatorial election1904 Missouri gubernatorial election1904 Montana gubernatorial election1904 New Hampshire gubernatorial election1904 North Carolina gubernatorial election1904 North Dakota gubernatorial election1904 Utah gubernatorial election1904 Vermont gubernatorial election1904 Washington gubernatorial election1904 West Virginia gubernatorial election
1904 gubernatorial election results

  Democratic gain   Democratic hold

  Republican gain   Republican hold

The 1904 United States elections elected the members of the 59th United States Congress. It occurred during the Fourth Party System. Republicans maintained control of the presidency and both houses of Congress. For the first time since the 1828 election, no third party or independent won a seat in Congress.

In the presidential election, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated Democratic judge Alton Parker from New York.[3] Parker, a conservative Bourbon Democrat, won the Democratic nomination on the first ballot, as former President Grover Cleveland and former presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan both declined to run. Roosevelt dominated both the popular vote and the electoral college, carrying every state outside the South. Roosevelt, who succeeded William McKinley after the latter was assassinated in 1901, became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency and later win election to the presidency in his own right. The election also saw Florida hold the first presidential primary, although Florida delegates were not bound by the results of the primary.[4]

Republicans won major gains in the House, boosting their majority.[5]

In the Senate, the Republicans picked up one seat, and maintained a commanding majority.[6]

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  1. ^ Not counting special elections
  2. ^ a b Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account.
  3. ^ "1904 Presidential Election". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  4. ^ Farrington, Brendan (31 January 2012). "Florida Primary Election 2012: State Broke Rules Again To Hold Early Contest". Huffington Post. AP. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  6. ^ "Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present". United States Senate. Retrieved 25 June 2014.