1904 United States presidential election in California explained

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Election Name:	1904 United States presidential election in California
Country:	California
Flag Year:	1846
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1900 United States presidential election in California
Previous Year:	1900
Next Election:	1908 United States presidential election in California
Next Year:	1908
Election Date:	November 8, 1904
Image1:	President Roosevelt - Pach Bros (cropped 3x4).jpg
Nominee1:	Theodore Roosevelt
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:	New York
Running Mate1:	Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral Vote1:	10
Popular Vote1:	205,226
Percentage1:	61.84%
Nominee2:	Alton B. Parker
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Henry G. Davis
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	89,404
Percentage2:	26.94%
Image3:	Debs-Eugene-circa1904.jpg
Nominee3:	Eugene V. Debs
Party3:	Socialist Party of America
Home State3:	Indiana
Running Mate3:	Ben Hanford
Electoral Vote3:	0
Popular Vote3:	29,535
Percentage3:	8.90%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Theodore Roosevelt
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Theodore Roosevelt
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

The 1904 United States presidential election in California took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

California voted for the Republican incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. They defeated the Democratic nominees, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker and his running mate, former US Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. Roosevelt won the state by a wide margin of 34.9%. This was the first election in which a Republican carried Fresno County, Glenn County, Kern County, Lake County, Merced County, Modoc County, San Benito County, Stanislaus County, and Tulare County. Additionally, this was first time since 1872 that a Republican carried El Dorado County and Yolo County.

Results

+ General Election Results^[1]	Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	William S. Wood	205,226
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.	204,856
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Edward Sweeney	204,578
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Charles M. Hammond	204,552
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Francis M. Smith	204,425
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Morris B. Harris	204,250
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Charles J. Walker	204,210
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	William J. Dingee	204,158
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	George H. Pippy	204,157
	Republican Party	Theodore Roosevelt	Richard Melrose	203,779
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	James G. Maguire	89,404
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	John Garber	89,294
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Edward White	89,284
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Frank J. Sullivan	89,235
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	J. Ross Clark	89,223
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Thomas Blair	89,138
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	A. F. Jones	89,118
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	Eugene Germain	88,980
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	J. W. Barneberg	88,870
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Alton B. Parker	W. M. S. Beebe	88,818
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	Joseph Lawrence	29,535
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	J. G. Hurst	29,424
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	H. C. Tuck	29,414
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	L. E. Leonard	29,389
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	Thomas Booth	29,383
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	Oswald Seifert	29,370
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	Carl Bracher	29,366
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	G. S. Brower	29,323
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	W. A. Corey	29,312
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Eugene V. Debs	G. W. Woodbey	29,174
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Charles T. Clark	7,380
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Adams C. Bane	7,369
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Adams C. Bane	7,353
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Joseph E. McComas	7,347
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	John A. B. Wilson	7,347
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	William O. Clark	7,343
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Joel G. Wright	7,335
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Albert H. Southwick	7,334
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	William T. Eddy	7,333
	Prohibition Party	Silas C. Swallow	Joel H. Smith	7,329
	Write-in		Scattering	333
Votes cast				331,878

Results by county

County	Theodore Roosevelt Republican		Alton B. Parker Democratic		Eugene V. Debs Socialist		Silas C. Swallow Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%
	Alameda		19,065		70.32%		4,399		16.23%		3,293		12.15%		353		1.30%		14,666		54.10%		27,110
	Alpine		74		89.16%		9		10.84%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		65		78.31%		83
	Amador		1,279		54.45%		915		38.95%		128		5.45%		27		1.15%		364		15.50%		2,349
	Butte		2,799		58.84%		1,574		33.09%		273		5.74%		111		2.33%		1,225		25.75%		4,757
	Calaveras		1,571		58.75%		844		31.56%		244		9.12%		15		0.56%		727		27.19%		2,674
	Colusa		885		46.78%		900		47.57%		92		4.86%		15		0.79%		-15		-0.79%		1,892
	Contra Costa		2,833		62.55%		1,257		27.75%		391		8.63%		48		1.06%		1,576		34.80%		4,529
	Del Norte		429		60.17%		187		26.23%		83		11.64%		14		1.96%		242		33.94%		713
	El Dorado		1,248		54.10%		865		37.49%		174		7.54%		20		0.87%		383		16.60%		2,307
	Fresno		4,929		55.78%		2,815		31.86%		762		8.62%		330		3.73%		2,114		23.92%		8,836
	Glenn		765		50.03%		725		47.42%		24		1.57%		15		0.98%		40		2.62%		1,529
	Humboldt		4,930		73.22%		1,249		18.55%		457		6.79%		97		1.44%		3,681		54.67%		6,733
	Inyo		452		55.73%		231		28.48%		84		10.36%		44		5.43%		221		27.25%		811
	Kern		2,359		51.61%		1,724		37.72%		436		9.54%		52		1.14%		635		13.89%		4,571
	Kings		1,110		58.67%		595		31.45%		121		6.40%		66		3.49%		515		27.22%		1,892
	Lake		641		45.40%		594		42.07%		124		8.78%		53		3.75%		47		3.33%		1,412
	Lassen		573		62.69%		301		32.93%		35		3.83%		5		0.55%		272		29.76%		914
	Los Angeles		32,507		66.50%		10,030		20.52%		4,047		8.28%		2,299		4.70%		22,477		45.98%		48,883
	Madera		784		51.85%		610		40.34%		92		6.08%		26		1.72%		174		11.51%		1,512
	Marin		2,199		70.71%		772		24.82%		127		4.08%		12		0.39%		1,427		45.88%		3,110
	Mariposa		461		42.88%		486		45.21%		121		11.26%		7		0.65%		-25		-2.33%		1,075
	Mendocino		2,904		61.55%		1,489		31.56%		235		4.98%		90		1.91%		1,415		29.99%		4,718
	Merced		972		49.07%		863		43.56%		108		5.45%		38		1.92%		109		5.50%		1,981
	Modoc		559		53.91%		444		42.82%		18		1.74%		16		1.54%		115		11.09%		1,037
	Mono		245		64.64%		82		21.64%		47		12.40%		5		1.32%		163		43.01%		379
	Monterey		2,453		59.17%		1,415		34.13%		167		4.03%		111		2.68%		1,038		25.04%		4,146
	Napa		2,425		63.30%		1,135		29.63%		177		4.62%		94		2.45%		1,290		33.67%		3,831
	Nevada		2,249		58.72%		1,167		30.47%		340		8.88%		74		1.93%		1,082		28.25%		3,830
	Orange		2,665		59.54%		1,034		23.10%		501		11.19%		276		6.17%		1,631		36.44%		4,476
	Placer		2,050		62.61%		1,023		31.25%		153		4.67%		48		1.47%		1,027		31.37%		3,274
	Plumas		707		65.28%		347		32.04%		23		2.12%		6		0.55%		360		33.24%		1,083
	Riverside		2,638		65.23%		678		16.77%		534		13.20%		194		4.80%		1,960		48.47%		4,044
	Sacramento		6,666		65.23%		2,384		23.33%		1,060		10.37%		110		1.08%		4,282		41.90%		10,220
	San Benito		888		54.51%		645		39.59%		34		2.09%		62		3.81%		243		14.92%		1,629
	San Bernardino		3,884		58.23%		1,573		23.58%		796		11.93%		417		6.25%		2,311		34.65%		6,670
	San Diego		4,303		59.52%		1,398		19.34%		1,377		19.05%		152		2.10%		2,905		40.18%		7,230
	San Francisco		39,816		60.86%		18,027		27.55%		7,250		11.08%		334		0.51%		21,789		33.30%		65,427
	San Joaquin		4,498		61.65%		2,293		31.43%		387		5.30%		118		1.62%		2,205		30.22%		7,296
	San Luis Obispo		2,015		54.95%		1,167		31.82%		353		9.63%		132		3.60%		848		23.13%		3,667
	San Mateo		2.146		68.45%		851		27.15%		124		3.96%		14		0.45%		1,295		41.31%		3,135
	Santa Barbara		2,676		62.85%		1,152		27.05%		353		8.29%		77		1.81%		1,524		35.79%		4,258
	Santa Clara		8,274		66.10%		3,100		24.77%		743		5.94%		400		3.20%		5,174		41.34%		12,517
	Santa Cruz		2,626		60.66%		1,105		25.53%		407		9.40%		191		4.41%		1,521		35.14%		4,329
	Shasta		1,891		55.10%		935		27.24%		543		15.82%		63		1.84%		956		27.86%		3,432
	Sierra		791		65.05%		376		30.92%		45		3.70%		4		0.33%		415		34.13%		1,216
	Siskiyou		2,104		59.67%		1,219		34.57%		184		5.22%		19		0.54%		885		25.10%		3,526
	Solano		3,176		61.37%		1,555		30.05%		326		6.30%		118		2.28%		1,621		31.32%		5,175
	Sonoma		5,269		61.64%		2,816		32.94%		345		4.04%		118		1.38%		2,453		28.70%		8,548
	Stanislaus		1,437		52.39%		1,110		40.47%		101		3.68%		95		3.46%		327		11.92%		2,743
	Sutter		872		60.81%		488		34.03%		53		3.70%		21		1.46%		384		26.78%		1,434
	Tehama		1,234		56.32%		720		32.86%		191		8.72%		46		2.10%		514		23.46%		2,191
	Trinity		467		54.11%		308		35.69%		84		9.73%		4		0.46%		159		18.42%		863
	Tulare		2,221		48.61%		1,643		35.96%		574		12.56%		131		2.87%		578		12.65%		4,569
	Tuolumne		1,280		48.76%		1,006		38.32%		296		11.28%		43		1.64%		274		10.44%		2,625
	Ventura		1,995		63.86%		840		26.89%		227		7.27%		62		1.98%		1,155		36.97%		3,124
	Yolo		1,702		51.87%		1,301		39.65%		190		5.79%		88		2.68%		401		12.22%		3,281
	Yuba		1,235		63.37%		633		32.48%		81		4.16%		0		0.00%		602		30.89%		1,949
Total	205,226	61.84%	89,404	26.94%	29,535	8.90%	7,380	2.22%	115,822	34.93%	331,878

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• El Dorado
• Fresno
• Glenn
• Inyo
• Kern
• Lake
• Merced
• Modoc
• San Benito
• San Luis Obispo
• Shasta
• Stanislaus
• Tulare
• Tuolumne
• Yolo

Notes and References

1. Book: California Blue Book or State Roster 1907. Sacramento, California . 419-422 . 14 July 2024.