1904 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 8, 1904
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A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the incumbent president Theodore Roosevelt and the senior U.S. senator from Indiana Charles W. Fairbanks defeated the Democratic ticket of the chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker and the former U.S. senator from West Virginia Henry G. Davis. Roosevelt defeated Parker in the national election with 336 electoral votes.[1]
General election
Results
Indiana chose 15 electors on a statewide general ticket. State law required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group.[2] This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.[3] The following table quotes the official returns published by the secretary of state of Indiana, which list the votes for the first elector on each ticket.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Theodore Roosevelt Charles W. Fairbanks |
368,289 | 53.98 | 3.38 | |
| Democratic | Alton B. Parker Henry G. Davis |
274,356 | 40.22 | 6.42 | |
| Prohibition | Silas C. Swallow George Washington Carroll |
23,496 | 3.44 | 1.37 | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs Ben Hanford |
12,013 | 1.76 | 1.40 | |
| Populist | Thomas E. Watson Thomas Tibbles |
2,444 | 0.36 | 0.14 | |
| Socialist Labor | Charles Hunter Corregan William W. Cox |
1,598 | 0.23 | 0.13 | |
| Total votes | 682,196 | 100.00 | |||
Results by county
| County | Theodore Roosevelt Republican |
Alton B. Parker Democratic |
Silas C. Swallow Prohibition |
Eugene V. Debs Socialist |
Others | Margin | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Adams | 1,967 | 37.92% | 2,973 | 57.32% | 223 | 4.30% | 9 | 0.17% | 15 | 0.29% | -1,006 | -19.39% | 5,187 |
| Allen | 10,261 | 50.38% | 9,250 | 45.42% | 276 | 1.36% | 470 | 2.31% | 110 | 0.54% | 1,011 | 4.96% | 20,367 |
| Bartholomew | 3,510 | 51.60% | 3,038 | 44.66% | 138 | 2.03% | 98 | 1.44% | 18 | 0.26% | 472 | 6.94% | 6,802 |
| Benton | 2,098 | 56.60% | 1,470 | 39.65% | 132 | 3.56% | 1 | 0.03% | 6 | 0.16% | 628 | 16.94% | 3,707 |
| Blackford | 2,521 | 51.39% | 2,058 | 41.95% | 260 | 5.30% | 37 | 0.75% | 30 | 0.61% | 463 | 9.44% | 4,906 |
| Boone | 3,633 | 50.20% | 3,263 | 45.09% | 227 | 3.14% | 19 | 0.26% | 95 | 1.31% | 370 | 5.11% | 7,237 |
| Brown | 760 | 37.36% | 1,157 | 56.88% | 93 | 4.57% | 7 | 0.34% | 17 | 0.84% | -397 | -19.52% | 2,034 |
| Carroll | 2,671 | 49.96% | 2,420 | 45.27% | 220 | 4.12% | 14 | 0.26% | 21 | 0.39% | 251 | 4.70% | 5,346 |
| Cass | 5,282 | 52.09% | 4,357 | 42.96% | 389 | 3.84% | 52 | 0.51% | 61 | 0.60% | 925 | 9.12% | 10,141 |
| Clark | 3,644 | 48.79% | 3,587 | 48.03% | 85 | 1.14% | 133 | 1.78% | 19 | 0.25% | 57 | 0.76% | 7,468 |
| Clay | 4,005 | 48.01% | 3,565 | 42.74% | 225 | 2.70% | 432 | 5.18% | 115 | 1.38% | 440 | 5.27% | 8,342 |
| Clinton | 4,053 | 53.10% | 3,112 | 40.77% | 338 | 4.43% | 56 | 0.73% | 74 | 0.97% | 941 | 12.33% | 7,633 |
| Crawford | 1,470 | 45.99% | 1,509 | 47.22% | 200 | 6.26% | 6 | 0.19% | 11 | 0.34% | -39 | -1.22% | 3,196 |
| Daviess | 3,682 | 52.97% | 2,802 | 40.31% | 169 | 2.43% | 148 | 2.13% | 150 | 2.16% | 880 | 12.66% | 6,951 |
| De Kalb | 3,416 | 49.97% | 2,827 | 41.35% | 343 | 5.02% | 154 | 2.25% | 96 | 1.40% | 589 | 8.62% | 6,836 |
| Dearborn | 2,588 | 42.99% | 3,264 | 54.22% | 101 | 1.68% | 62 | 1.03% | 5 | 0.08% | -676 | -11.23% | 6,020 |
| Decatur | 3,178 | 55.48% | 2,341 | 40.87% | 153 | 2.67% | 41 | 0.72% | 15 | 0.26% | 837 | 14.61% | 5,728 |
| Delaware | 8,522 | 63.36% | 3,673 | 27.31% | 784 | 5.83% | 362 | 2.69% | 109 | 0.81% | 4,849 | 36.05% | 13,450 |
| Dubois | 1,413 | 30.77% | 3,119 | 67.92% | 47 | 1.02% | 5 | 0.11% | 8 | 0.17% | -1,706 | -37.15% | 4,592 |
| Elkhart | 6,548 | 55.32% | 4,023 | 33.99% | 721 | 6.09% | 472 | 3.99% | 73 | 0.62% | 2,525 | 21.33% | 11,837 |
| Fayette | 2,414 | 58.01% | 1,487 | 35.74% | 141 | 3.39% | 107 | 2.57% | 12 | 0.29% | 927 | 22.28% | 4,161 |
| Floyd | 3,666 | 49.10% | 3,421 | 45.81% | 108 | 1.45% | 235 | 3.15% | 37 | 0.50% | 245 | 3.28% | 7,467 |
| Fountain | 3,060 | 52.08% | 2,560 | 43.57% | 183 | 3.11% | 14 | 0.24% | 59 | 1.00% | 500 | 8.51% | 5,876 |
| Franklin | 1,757 | 40.36% | 2,501 | 57.45% | 87 | 2.00% | 3 | 0.07% | 5 | 0.11% | -744 | -17.09% | 4,353 |
| Fulton | 2,394 | 50.02% | 2,182 | 45.59% | 184 | 3.84% | 17 | 0.36% | 9 | 0.19% | 212 | 4.43% | 4,786 |
| Gibson | 3,871 | 51.27% | 3,221 | 42.66% | 331 | 4.38% | 91 | 1.21% | 36 | 0.48% | 650 | 8.61% | 7,550 |
| Grant | 9,550 | 58.27% | 4,668 | 28.48% | 1,760 | 10.74% | 281 | 1.71% | 129 | 0.79% | 4,882 | 29.79% | 16,388 |
| Greene | 4,698 | 53.13% | 3,559 | 40.25% | 118 | 1.33% | 377 | 4.26% | 91 | 1.03% | 1,139 | 12.88% | 8,843 |
| Hamilton | 4,832 | 63.50% | 2,469 | 32.44% | 267 | 3.51% | 16 | 0.21% | 26 | 0.34% | 2,363 | 31.05% | 7,610 |
| Hancock | 2,633 | 46.39% | 2,806 | 49.44% | 212 | 3.74% | 7 | 0.12% | 18 | 0.32% | -173 | -3.05% | 5,676 |
| Harrison | 2,544 | 48.09% | 2,530 | 47.83% | 151 | 2.85% | 44 | 0.83% | 21 | 0.40% | 14 | 0.26% | 5,290 |
| Hendricks | 3,434 | 58.82% | 2,164 | 37.07% | 215 | 3.68% | 5 | 0.09% | 20 | 0.34% | 1,270 | 21.75% | 5,838 |
| Henry | 4,391 | 59.99% | 2,482 | 33.91% | 403 | 5.51% | 17 | 0.23% | 26 | 0.36% | 1,909 | 26.08% | 7,319 |
| Howard | 5,014 | 61.18% | 2,098 | 25.60% | 808 | 9.86% | 211 | 2.57% | 65 | 0.79% | 2,916 | 35.58% | 8,196 |
| Huntington | 4,385 | 52.52% | 3,290 | 39.41% | 435 | 5.21% | 207 | 2.48% | 32 | 0.38% | 1,095 | 13.12% | 8,349 |
| Jackson | 2,775 | 42.94% | 3,467 | 53.65% | 187 | 2.89% | 15 | 0.23% | 18 | 0.28% | -692 | -10.71% | 6,462 |
| Jasper | 2,137 | 58.58% | 1,341 | 36.76% | 151 | 4.14% | 4 | 0.11% | 15 | 0.41% | 796 | 21.82% | 3,648 |
| Jay | 3,612 | 51.78% | 2,702 | 38.74% | 622 | 8.92% | 9 | 0.13% | 30 | 0.43% | 910 | 13.05% | 6,975 |
| Jefferson | 3,195 | 53.20% | 2,542 | 42.32% | 200 | 3.33% | 50 | 0.83% | 19 | 0.32% | 653 | 10.87% | 6,006 |
| Jennings | 2,139 | 54.26% | 1,688 | 42.82% | 93 | 2.36% | 5 | 0.13% | 17 | 0.43% | 451 | 11.44% | 3,942 |
| Johnson | 2,574 | 44.44% | 2,882 | 49.76% | 300 | 5.18% | 10 | 0.17% | 26 | 0.45% | -308 | -5.32% | 5,792 |
| Knox | 4,278 | 47.94% | 4,093 | 45.87% | 265 | 2.97% | 200 | 2.24% | 87 | 0.98% | 185 | 2.07% | 8,923 |
| Kosciusko | 4,550 | 57.88% | 2,913 | 37.06% | 348 | 4.43% | 15 | 0.19% | 35 | 0.45% | 1,637 | 20.82% | 7,861 |
| La Porte | 5,952 | 55.68% | 4,472 | 41.84% | 136 | 1.27% | 89 | 0.83% | 40 | 0.37% | 1,480 | 13.85% | 10,689 |
| Lagrange | 2,461 | 64.61% | 1,100 | 28.88% | 224 | 5.88% | 13 | 0.34% | 11 | 0.29% | 1,361 | 35.73% | 3,809 |
| Lake | 6,429 | 64.11% | 2,933 | 29.25% | 115 | 1.15% | 386 | 3.85% | 165 | 1.65% | 3,496 | 34.86% | 10,028 |
| Lawrence | 3,924 | 57.93% | 2,672 | 39.44% | 97 | 1.43% | 58 | 0.86% | 23 | 0.34% | 1,252 | 18.48% | 6,774 |
| Madison | 9,697 | 53.65% | 6,681 | 36.96% | 805 | 4.45% | 822 | 4.55% | 69 | 0.38% | 3,016 | 16.69% | 18,074 |
| Marion | 35,103 | 58.54% | 22,336 | 37.25% | 1,061 | 1.77% | 1,067 | 1.78% | 396 | 0.66% | 12,767 | 21.29% | 59,963 |
| Marshall | 3,001 | 48.39% | 2,878 | 46.40% | 230 | 3.71% | 32 | 0.52% | 61 | 0.98% | 123 | 1.98% | 6,202 |
| Martin | 1,809 | 52.21% | 1,574 | 45.43% | 55 | 1.59% | 9 | 0.26% | 18 | 0.52% | 235 | 6.78% | 3,465 |
| Miami | 4,124 | 49.53% | 3,605 | 43.29% | 388 | 4.66% | 157 | 1.89% | 53 | 0.64% | 519 | 6.23% | 8,327 |
| Monroe | 3,042 | 55.81% | 2,286 | 41.94% | 98 | 1.80% | 6 | 0.11% | 19 | 0.35% | 756 | 13.87% | 5,451 |
| Montgomery | 4,647 | 53.10% | 3,747 | 42.82% | 297 | 3.39% | 19 | 0.22% | 41 | 0.47% | 900 | 10.28% | 8,751 |
| Morgan | 3,119 | 54.12% | 2,428 | 42.13% | 166 | 2.88% | 37 | 0.64% | 13 | 0.23% | 691 | 11.99% | 5,763 |
| Newton | 1,803 | 62.22% | 951 | 32.82% | 123 | 4.24% | 8 | 0.28% | 13 | 0.45% | 852 | 29.40% | 2,898 |
| Noble | 3,683 | 55.57% | 2,785 | 42.02% | 127 | 1.92% | 15 | 0.23% | 18 | 0.27% | 898 | 13.55% | 6,628 |
| Ohio | 662 | 51.48% | 584 | 45.41% | 34 | 2.64% | 6 | 0.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 78 | 6.07% | 1,286 |
| Orange | 2,458 | 55.25% | 1,888 | 42.44% | 80 | 1.80% | 19 | 0.43% | 4 | 0.09% | 570 | 12.81% | 4,449 |
| Owen | 1,721 | 46.26% | 1,841 | 49.49% | 95 | 2.55% | 35 | 0.94% | 28 | 0.75% | -120 | -3.23% | 3,720 |
| Parke | 3,468 | 55.49% | 2,176 | 34.82% | 464 | 7.42% | 115 | 1.84% | 27 | 0.43% | 1,292 | 20.67% | 6,250 |
| Perry | 2,105 | 48.89% | 2,142 | 49.74% | 29 | 0.67% | 23 | 0.53% | 7 | 0.16% | -37 | -0.86% | 4,306 |
| Pike | 2,596 | 51.81% | 2,224 | 44.38% | 113 | 2.26% | 57 | 1.14% | 21 | 0.42% | 372 | 7.42% | 5,011 |
| Porter | 3,162 | 66.39% | 1,437 | 30.17% | 72 | 1.51% | 70 | 1.47% | 22 | 0.46% | 1,725 | 36.22% | 4,763 |
| Posey | 2,419 | 44.32% | 2,825 | 51.76% | 124 | 2.27% | 57 | 1.04% | 33 | 0.60% | -406 | -7.44% | 5,458 |
| Pulaski | 1,729 | 48.61% | 1,648 | 46.33% | 155 | 4.36% | 10 | 0.28% | 15 | 0.42% | 81 | 2.28% | 3,557 |
| Putnam | 2,586 | 44.36% | 3,005 | 51.54% | 176 | 3.02% | 27 | 0.46% | 36 | 0.62% | -419 | -7.19% | 5,830 |
| Randolph | 5,139 | 67.49% | 1,924 | 25.27% | 495 | 6.50% | 34 | 0.45% | 23 | 0.30% | 3,215 | 42.22% | 7,615 |
| Ripley | 2,850 | 52.29% | 2,457 | 45.08% | 78 | 1.43% | 52 | 0.95% | 13 | 0.24% | 393 | 7.21% | 5,450 |
| Rush | 3,082 | 54.12% | 2,363 | 41.49% | 225 | 3.95% | 10 | 0.18% | 15 | 0.26% | 719 | 12.63% | 5,695 |
| Scott | 953 | 44.85% | 1,090 | 51.29% | 68 | 3.20% | 3 | 0.14% | 11 | 0.52% | -137 | -6.45% | 2,125 |
| Shelby | 3,660 | 48.21% | 3,550 | 46.76% | 294 | 3.87% | 22 | 0.29% | 66 | 0.87% | 110 | 1.45% | 7,592 |
| Spencer | 3,017 | 53.57% | 2,495 | 44.30% | 85 | 1.51% | 26 | 0.46% | 9 | 0.16% | 522 | 9.27% | 5,632 |
| St. Joseph | 11,166 | 62.54% | 5,967 | 33.42% | 311 | 1.74% | 318 | 1.78% | 92 | 0.52% | 5,199 | 29.12% | 17,854 |
| Starke | 1,523 | 54.47% | 1,134 | 40.56% | 46 | 1.65% | 87 | 3.11% | 6 | 0.21% | 389 | 13.91% | 2,796 |
| Steuben | 2,864 | 66.59% | 1,260 | 29.30% | 150 | 3.49% | 12 | 0.28% | 15 | 0.35% | 1,604 | 37.29% | 4,301 |
| Sullivan | 3,076 | 42.17% | 3,641 | 49.91% | 314 | 4.30% | 200 | 2.74% | 64 | 0.88% | -565 | -7.75% | 7,295 |
| Switzerland | 1,461 | 47.48% | 1,554 | 50.50% | 46 | 1.49% | 11 | 0.36% | 5 | 0.16% | -93 | -3.02% | 3,077 |
| Tippecanoe | 6,581 | 59.83% | 4,031 | 36.65% | 261 | 2.37% | 86 | 0.78% | 41 | 0.37% | 2,550 | 23.18% | 11,000 |
| Tipton | 2,654 | 50.75% | 2,279 | 43.58% | 233 | 4.46% | 13 | 0.25% | 51 | 0.98% | 375 | 7.17% | 5,230 |
| Union | 1,156 | 57.51% | 758 | 37.71% | 86 | 4.28% | 3 | 0.15% | 7 | 0.35% | 398 | 19.80% | 2,010 |
| Vanderburgh | 8,624 | 51.65% | 5,885 | 35.25% | 268 | 1.61% | 1,780 | 10.66% | 139 | 0.83% | 2,739 | 16.41% | 16,696 |
| Vermillion | 2,724 | 59.39% | 1,437 | 31.33% | 238 | 5.19% | 141 | 3.07% | 47 | 1.02% | 1,287 | 28.06% | 4,587 |
| Vigo | 10,327 | 56.33% | 6,625 | 36.14% | 349 | 1.90% | 814 | 4.44% | 217 | 1.18% | 3,702 | 20.19% | 18,332 |
| Wabash | 4,516 | 59.44% | 2,381 | 31.34% | 453 | 5.96% | 207 | 2.72% | 40 | 0.53% | 2,135 | 28.10% | 7,597 |
| Warren | 2,208 | 66.77% | 964 | 29.15% | 113 | 3.42% | 2 | 0.06% | 20 | 0.60% | 1,244 | 37.62% | 3,307 |
| Warrick | 2,796 | 50.49% | 2,485 | 44.87% | 116 | 2.09% | 130 | 2.35% | 11 | 0.20% | 311 | 5.62% | 5,538 |
| Washington | 2,094 | 45.35% | 2,364 | 51.20% | 132 | 2.86% | 7 | 0.15% | 20 | 0.43% | -270 | -5.85% | 4,617 |
| Wayne | 7,390 | 66.32% | 3,116 | 27.96% | 320 | 2.87% | 280 | 2.51% | 37 | 0.33% | 4,274 | 38.36% | 11,143 |
| Wells | 2,565 | 40.74% | 3,127 | 49.67% | 490 | 7.78% | 74 | 1.18% | 40 | 0.64% | -562 | -8.93% | 6,296 |
| White | 2,679 | 53.02% | 2,096 | 41.48% | 228 | 4.51% | 31 | 0.61% | 19 | 0.38% | 583 | 11.54% | 5,053 |
| Whitley | 2,359 | 48.99% | 2,281 | 47.37% | 140 | 2.91% | 15 | 0.31% | 20 | 0.42% | 78 | 1.62% | 4,815 |
| TOTAL | 368,289 | 53.98% | 274,356 | 40.22% | 23,496 | 3.44% | 12,013 | 1.76% | 4,042 | 0.59% | 93,933 | 13.76% | 682,196 |
See also
Notes
- ^ The official returns show 274,345 for the leading Democratic elector, but the tabulated county results add up to 274,356.
References
- ^ Petersen 1963, p. 70.
- ^ Indiana 1904, p. 80.
- ^ Petersen 1963, pp. vii.
- ^ a b c Storms 1904, pp. 332–33.
Bibliography
- Indiana (1904). Election Law of Indiana [...]. Indianapolis: State Board of Election Commissioners.
- Petersen, Svend (1963). A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. LCCN 62-21786.
- Storms, Daniel E. (1904). Biennial Report of Daniel E. Storms, Secretary of State of the State of Indiana [...]. Indianapolis.