1904 United States presidential election in Georgia

none June 2025 September 2023 1904 United States presidential election 1904 United States presidential election in Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) 1902 presidential Popular no 1900 United States presidential election in Georgia 1900 1904 11 8 1908 United States presidential election in Georgia 1908 x160px AltonBParker.png Alton Parker Democratic Party (United States) New York Henry G. Davis 13 83,466 63.72% Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros (cropped 3x4).jpg Theodore Roosevelt Republican Party (United States) New York Charles W. Fairbanks 0 24,004 18.33% Tom E Watson.jpg Thomas E. Watson Populist Party (United States) Georgia Thomas Tibbles 0 22,635 17.28% 1904 United States presidential election in Georgia results map by county.svg 250px County results Parker #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Roosevelt #ffccd0 30–40% #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% Watson #d7ffc6 30–40% #c6e9af 40–50% #aade87 50–60% #8dd35f 60–70% President Theodore Roosevelt Republican Party (United States) Elected President Theodore Roosevelt Republican Party (United States) The 1904 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen, doing so in the early 1870s.Mickey, Robert W.; Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972, p. 76 1400838789 This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155 022611435X However, politics after the first demobilization by a cumulative poll tax was chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly the Populist Party, gained support amongst poor whites and the remaining black voters in opposition to the planter elite.Mickey, Robert W.; ‘The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944-1948’; Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 22 (Fall 2008), pp. 143-182. The fact that Georgia had already substantially reduced its poor white and black electorate two decades ago, alongside pressure from urban elites in Atlanta, and the decline of isolationism due to the success of the Spanish–American War,Coleman, Kenneth; Georgia History in Outline, p. 85 0820304670 meant the Populist movement substantially faded in the late 1890s.Perman, Michael; Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908; p. 274 0807860255 However, Populism would revive in 1904 when it became clear a conservative would be nominated by the Democratic Party,Woodward, Comer Vann; Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (1963), p. 357 whilst Watson did not find it difficult to get a somewhat demoralized party's nomination over William V. Allen. Georgia was won by 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. They defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Parker won the state by a landslide margin of 45.39%. Populist candidate and Georgia native Thomas E. Watson would campaign in the state in August, but as Georgia had not voted Republican even during Reconstruction neither major party candidate visited the state. Watson would collapse from his campaigning at the end of September,See ‘The Fireman and Elks’; Passaic Daily News, September 30, 1904, p. 4 No polls were taken until October 29, by which time the state was naturally viewed as certain for Parker.‘Forecasts of Presidential Election’; Montgomery Advertiser, October 29, 1904, pp. 13-14 Parker would eventually win Georgia with over five-eighths of the vote, although he declined by about three percent from William Jennings Bryan's performance four years previously. Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and Watson ran a very close race for second, with the President edging the Populist for this position. Watson's 17.28% of the vote in Georgia was the largest percentage the Populists won in a state during the 1904 presidential election.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1904&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1904 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 Results 1904 United States presidential election in GeorgiaDave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; 1904 Presidential General Election Results – GeorgiaPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Alton B. Parker 83,466 63.72% 13 Republican Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) 24,004 18.33% 0 People's Thomas E. Watson 22,635 17.28% 0 Prohibition Silas C. Swallow 685 0.52% 0 Socialist Eugene V. Debs 196 0.15% 0 Results by county CountyAlton Brooks ParkerGéoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1904.htm Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1904DemocraticTheodore RooseveltRepublicanThomas Edward WatsonPopulistVarious candidatesOther partiesMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#%#% Appling 554 62.04% 237 26.54% 96 10.75% 6 0.67% 317 35.50% 893 Baker 511 94.45% 8 1.48% 22 4.07% 0 0.00% 489"WatsondRoosevelt In this county where Roosevelt ran behind both Parker and Watson, margin given is Parker vote minsu Watson vote and percentage margin Parker percentage minus Watson percentage. 90.39% 541 Baldwin 494 81.65% 15 2.48% 92 15.21% 4 0.66% 402"WatsondRoosevelt 66.45% 605 Banks 474 44.30% 199 18.60% 388 36.26% 9 0.84% 86"WatsondRoosevelt 8.04% 1,070 Bartow 791 59.25% 406 30.41% 126 9.44% 12 0.90% 385 28.84% 1,335 Berrien 889 81.34% 68 6.22% 122 11.16% 14 1.28% 767"WatsondRoosevelt 70.17% 1,093 Bibb 2,117 88.47% 236 9.86% 21 0.88% 19 0.79% 1,881 78.60% 2,393 Brooks 429 69.98% 102 16.64% 81 13.21% 1 0.16% 327 53.34% 613 Bryan 259 56.80% 125 27.41% 71 15.57% 1 0.22% 134 29.39% 456 Bulloch 596 71.55% 54 6.48% 171 20.53% 12 1.44% 425"WatsondRoosevelt 51.02% 833 Burke 657 87.02% 52 6.89% 42 5.56% 4 0.53% 605 80.13% 755 Butts 531 72.64% 80 10.94% 116 15.87% 4 0.55% 415"WatsondRoosevelt 56.77% 731 Calhoun 345 87.56% 19 4.82% 30 7.61% 0 0.00% 315"WatsondRoosevelt 79.95% 394 Camden 380 54.76% 312 44.96% 2 0.29% 0 0.00% 68 9.80% 694 Campbell 308 54.32% 40 7.05% 210 37.04% 9 1.59% 98"WatsondRoosevelt 17.28% 567 Carroll 1,187 54.13% 400 18.24% 585 26.68% 21 0.96% 602"WatsondRoosevelt 27.45% 2,193 Catoosa 281 61.22% 120 26.14% 44 9.59% 14 3.05% 161 35.08% 459 Charlton 207 86.97% 31 13.03% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 176 73.95% 238 Chatham 2,645 87.52% 363 12.01% 6 0.20% 8 0.26% 2,282 75.51% 3,022 Chattahoochee 107 54.87% 62 31.79% 24 12.31% 2 1.03% 45 23.08% 195 Chattooga 472 49.74% 378 39.83% 80 8.43% 19 2.00% 94 9.91% 949 Cherokee 622 50.78% 246 20.08% 342 27.92% 15 1.22% 280"WatsondRoosevelt 22.86% 1,225 Clarke 773 76.61% 118 11.69% 114 11.30% 4 0.40% 655 64.92% 1,009 Clay 270 62.36% 47 10.85% 116 26.79% 0 0.00% 154"WatsondRoosevelt 35.57% 433 Clayton 333 59.25% 59 10.50% 169 30.07% 1 0.18% 164"WatsondRoosevelt 29.18% 562 Clinch 285 63.19% 141 31.26% 23 5.10% 2 0.44% 144 31.93% 451 Cobb 1,171 68.40% 220 12.85% 316 18.46% 5 0.29% 855"WatsondRoosevelt 49.94% 1,712 Coffee 571 63.16% 267 29.54% 64 7.08% 2 0.22% 304 33.63% 904 Colquitt 446 59.23% 62 8.23% 236 31.34% 9 1.20% 210"WatsondRoosevelt 27.89% 753 Columbia 189 56.76% 2 0.60% 138 41.44% 4 1.20% 51"WatsondRoosevelt 15.32% 333 Coweta 1,070 83.27% 160 12.45% 49 3.81% 6 0.47% 910 70.82% 1,285 Crawford 314 85.09% 4 1.08% 48 13.01% 3 0.81% 266"WatsondRoosevelt 72.09% 369 Dade 217 73.06% 37 12.46% 40 13.47% 3 1.01% 177"WatsondRoosevelt 59.60% 297 Dawson 207 37.98% 260 47.71% 67 12.29% 11 2.02% -53 -9.72% 545 De Kalb 759 57.28% 213 16.08% 343 25.89% 10 0.75% 416"WatsondRoosevelt 31.40% 1,325 Decatur 985 75.42% 182 13.94% 130 9.95% 9 0.69% 803 61.49% 1,306 Dodge 688 85.79% 98 12.22% 16 2.00% 0 0.00% 590 73.57% 802 Dooly 986 81.22% 107 8.81% 118 9.72% 3 0.25% 868"WatsondRoosevelt 71.50% 1,214 Dougherty 475 91.35% 45 8.65% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 430 82.69% 520 Douglas 230 35.71% 133 20.65% 278 43.17% 3 0.47% -48"WatsondRoosevelt -7.45% 644 Early 466 66.95% 12 1.72% 214 30.75% 4 0.57% 252"WatsondRoosevelt 36.21% 696 Echols 159 92.98% 12 7.02% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 147 85.96% 171 Effingham 370 74.00% 47 9.40% 54 10.80% 29 5.80% 316"WatsondRoosevelt 63.20% 500 Elbert 877 83.13% 6 0.57% 167 15.83% 5 0.47% 710"WatsondRoosevelt 67.30% 1,055 Emanuel 519 51.74% 94 9.37% 388 38.68% 2 0.20% 131"WatsondRoosevelt 13.06% 1,003 Fannin 456 44.71% 504 49.41% 48 4.71% 12 1.18% -48 -4.71% 1,020 Fayette 260 54.97% 59 12.47% 147 31.08% 7 1.48% 113"WatsondRoosevelt 23.89% 473 Floyd 1,692 71.15% 466 19.60% 192 8.07% 28 1.18% 1,226 51.56% 2,378 Forsyth 455 42.72% 357 33.52% 248 23.29% 5 0.47% 98 9.20% 1,065 Franklin 486 42.11% 207 17.94% 453 39.25% 8 0.69% 33"WatsondRoosevelt 2.86% 1,154 Fulton 5,781 73.66% 1,766 22.50% 240 3.06% 61 0.78% 4,015 51.16% 7,848 Gilmer 550 47.01% 617 52.74% 0 0.00% 3 0.26% -67 -5.73% 1,170 Glascock 117 27.79% 11 2.61% 290 68.88% 3 0.71% -173"WatsondRoosevelt -41.09% 421 Glynn 501 58.67% 316 37.00% 32 3.75% 5 0.59% 185 21.66% 854 Gordon 525 50.10% 323 30.82% 192 18.32% 8 0.76% 202 19.27% 1,048 Greene 451 49.56% 201 22.09% 252 27.69% 6 0.66% 199"WatsondRoosevelt 21.87% 910 Gwinnett 1,219 55.23% 132 5.98% 845 38.29% 11 0.50% 374"WatsondRoosevelt 16.95% 2,207 Habersham 681 59.06% 229 19.86% 225 19.51% 18 1.56% 452 39.20% 1,153 Hall 1,135 57.41% 190 9.61% 635 32.12% 17 0.86% 500"WatsondRoosevelt 25.29% 1,977 Hancock 482 75.08% 31 4.83% 124 19.31% 5 0.78% 358"WatsondRoosevelt 55.76% 642 Haralson 349 29.65% 477 40.53% 336 28.55% 15 1.27% -128 -10.88% 1,177 Harris 689 79.75% 80 9.26% 91 10.53% 4 0.46% 598"WatsondRoosevelt 69.21% 864 Hart 482 59.21% 93 11.43% 233 28.62% 6 0.74% 249"WatsondRoosevelt 30.59% 814 Heard 361 77.80% 9 1.94% 84 18.10% 10 2.16% 277"WatsondRoosevelt 59.70% 464 Henry 464 59.41% 64 8.19% 239 30.60% 14 1.79% 225"WatsondRoosevelt 28.81% 781 Houston 768 88.48% 78 8.99% 19 2.19% 3 0.35% 690 79.49% 868 Irwin 658 59.87% 342 31.12% 82 7.46% 17 1.55% 316 28.75% 1,099 Jackson 964 43.11% 33 1.48% 1,233 55.14% 6 0.27% -269"WatsondRoosevelt -12.03% 2,236 Jasper 613 85.02% 50 6.93% 58 8.04% 0 0.00% 555"WatsondRoosevelt 76.98% 721 Jefferson 379 37.94% 489 48.95% 121 12.11% 10 1.00% -110 -11.01% 999 Johnson 257 38.13% 59 8.75% 355 52.67% 3 0.45% -98"WatsondRoosevelt -14.54% 674 Jones 498 79.68% 89 14.24% 36 5.76% 2 0.32% 409 65.44% 625 Laurens 878 56.87% 390 25.26% 272 17.62% 4 0.26% 488 31.61% 1,544 Lee 285 61.82% 63 13.67% 113 24.51% 0 0.00% 172"WatsondRoosevelt 37.31% 461 Liberty 242 38.54% 245 39.01% 141 22.45% 0 0.00% -3 -0.48% 628 Lincoln 195 54.47% 0 0.00% 163 45.53% 0 0.00% 32"WatsondRoosevelt 8.94% 358 Lowndes 888 72.91% 289 23.73% 34 2.79% 7 0.57% 599 49.18% 1,218 Lumpkin 525 63.18% 253 30.45% 53 6.38% 0 0.00% 272 32.73% 831 Macon 465 63.87% 180 24.73% 82 11.26% 1 0.14% 285 39.15% 728 Madison 733 77.90% 49 5.21% 154 16.37% 5 0.53% 579"WatsondRoosevelt 61.53% 941 Marion 247 54.53% 51 11.26% 154 34.00% 1 0.22% 93"WatsondRoosevelt 20.53% 453 McDuffie 196 40.50% 4 0.83% 283 58.47% 1 0.21% -87"WatsondRoosevelt -17.98% 484 McIntosh 144 42.86% 190 56.55% 2 0.60% 0 0.00% -46 -13.69% 336 Meriwether 765 68.30% 98 8.75% 253 22.59% 4 0.36% 512"WatsondRoosevelt 45.71% 1,120 Miller 174 59.39% 1 0.34% 118 40.27% 0 0.00% 56"WatsondRoosevelt 19.11% 293 Milton 263 58.84% 25 5.59% 158 35.35% 1 0.22% 105"WatsondRoosevelt 23.49% 447 Mitchell 511 63.01% 145 17.88% 155 19.11% 0 0.00% 356"WatsondRoosevelt 43.90% 811 Monroe 462 69.47% 36 5.41% 163 24.51% 4 0.60% 299"WatsondRoosevelt 44.96% 665 Montgomery 593 69.03% 121 14.09% 141 16.41% 4 0.47% 452"WatsondRoosevelt 52.62% 859 Morgan 512 79.50% 67 10.40% 44 6.83% 21 3.26% 445 69.10% 644 Murray 270 43.90% 252 40.98% 86 13.98% 7 1.14% 18 2.93% 615 Muscogee 1,522 88.28% 164 9.51% 6 0.35% 32 1.86% 1,358 78.77% 1,724 Newton 928 68.14% 354 25.99% 73 5.36% 7 0.51% 574 42.14% 1,362 Oconee 198 36.07% 99 18.03% 245 44.63% 7 1.28% -47"WatsondRoosevelt -8.56% 549 Oglethorpe 719 86.11% 5 0.60% 101 12.10% 10 1.20% 618"WatsondRoosevelt 74.01% 835 Paulding 402 32.90% 341 27.91% 479 39.20% 0 0.00% -77"WatsondRoosevelt -6.30% 1,222 Pickens 347 27.80% 810 64.90% 87 6.97% 4 0.32% -463 -37.10% 1,248 Pierce 354 69.82% 73 14.40% 77 15.19% 3 0.59% 277"WatsondRoosevelt 54.64% 507 Pike 662 68.32% 92 9.49% 214 22.08% 1 0.10% 448"WatsondRoosevelt 46.23% 969 Polk 653 43.07% 689 45.45% 174 11.48% 0 0.00% -36 -2.37% 1,516 Pulaski 605 87.94% 29 4.22% 54 7.85% 0 0.00% 551"WatsondRoosevelt 80.09% 688 Putnam 573 96.63% 3 0.51% 16 2.70% 1 0.17% 557"WatsondRoosevelt 93.93% 593 Quitman 119 69.59% 35 20.47% 17 9.94% 0 0.00% 84 49.12% 171 Rabun 364 74.44% 121 24.74% 4 0.82% 0 0.00% 243 49.69% 489 Randolph 551 78.05% 87 12.32% 68 9.63% 0 0.00% 464 65.72% 706 Richmond 1,816 65.82% 174 6.31% 754 27.33% 15 0.54% 1,062"WatsondRoosevelt 38.49% 2,759 Rockdale 434 62.63% 133 19.19% 124 17.89% 2 0.29% 301 43.43% 693 Schley 243 66.94% 55 15.15% 64 17.63% 1 0.28% 179"WatsondRoosevelt 49.31% 363 Screven 430 64.47% 25 3.75% 210 31.48% 2 0.30% 220"WatsondRoosevelt 32.98% 667 Spalding 905 84.90% 142 13.32% 13 1.22% 6 0.56% 763 71.58% 1,066 Stewart 429 67.67% 155 24.45% 50 7.89% 0 0.00% 274 43.22% 634 Sumter 918 82.04% 159 14.21% 41 3.66% 1 0.09% 759 67.83% 1,119 Talbot 484 82.74% 74 12.65% 26 4.44% 1 0.17% 410 70.09% 585 Taliaferro 377 54.48% 184 26.59% 130 18.79% 1 0.14% 193 27.89% 692 Tattnall 621 54.05% 171 14.88% 350 30.46% 7 0.61% 271"WatsondRoosevelt 23.59% 1,149 Taylor 309 56.80% 63 11.58% 170 31.25% 2 0.37% 139"WatsondRoosevelt 25.55% 544 Telfair 781 92.54% 44 5.21% 14 1.66% 5 0.59% 737 87.32% 844 Terrell 630 81.29% 77 9.94% 67 8.65% 1 0.13% 553 71.35% 775 Thomas 862 53.81% 374 23.35% 357 22.28% 9 0.56% 488 30.46% 1,602 Towns 338 36.34% 417 44.84% 174 18.71% 1 0.11% -79 -8.49% 930 Troup 891 78.23% 20 1.76% 220 19.32% 8 0.70% 671"WatsondRoosevelt 58.91% 1,139 Twiggs 378 88.52% 30 7.03% 19 4.45% 0 0.00% 348 81.50% 427 Union 419 41.69% 466 46.37% 114 11.34% 6 0.60% -47 -4.68% 1,005 Upson 468 56.66% 77 9.32% 280 33.90% 1 0.12% 188"WatsondRoosevelt 22.76% 826 Walker 858 59.42% 512 35.46% 71 4.92% 3 0.21% 346 23.96% 1,444 Walton 877 58.43% 245 16.32% 373 24.85% 6 0.40% 504"WatsondRoosevelt 33.58% 1,501 Ware 635 78.20% 158 19.46% 4 0.49% 15 1.85% 477 58.74% 812 Warren 220 42.15% 75 14.37% 221 42.34% 6 1.15% -1"WatsondRoosevelt -0.19% 522 Washington 976 57.41% 195 11.47% 529 31.12% 0 0.00% 447"WatsondRoosevelt 26.29% 1,700 Wayne 417 73.81% 89 15.75% 54 9.56% 5 0.88% 328 58.05% 565 Webster 165 65.22% 53 20.95% 35 13.83% 0 0.00% 112 44.27% 253 White 297 42.80% 179 25.79% 218 31.41% 0 0.00% 79"WatsondRoosevelt 11.38% 694 Whitfield 569 44.63% 427 33.49% 217 17.02% 62 4.86% 142 11.14% 1,275 Wilcox 501 67.98% 194 26.32% 39 5.29% 3 0.41% 307 41.66% 737 Wilkes 622 74.94% 6 0.72% 198 23.86% 4 0.48% 424"WatsondRoosevelt 51.08% 830 Wilkinson 539 80.69% 37 5.54% 90 13.47% 2 0.30% 449"WatsondRoosevelt 67.22% 668 Worth 529 50.53% 272 25.98% 241 23.02% 5 0.48% 257 24.55% 1,047Totals83,77264.11%23,79418.21%22,22017.01%8810.67%59,97845.90%130,667 See also United States presidential elections in Georgia Notes References 2 Georgia 1904 Category:1904 Georgia (U.S. state) elections