1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election South Dakota presidential no 1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election 1902 1906 South Dakota gubernatorial election 1906 November 8, 1904 150x150px File:Samuel H. Elrod 001.jpg Samuel H. Elrod Republican Party (United States) 68,561 68.29% 3x4.svg Louis N. Crill Democratic Party (United States) 24,772 24.68% 250px 1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election results map by county.svg County resultsElrod: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90%No Vote: #cccccc Governor of South Dakota Charles N. Herreid Republican Party (United States) Samuel H. Elrod Republican Party (United States) The 1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican Governor Charles N. Herreid declined to run for re-election to a third term. Clark County State's Attorney Samuel H. Elrod won the Republican nomination to run as Herreid's successor, and he faced Democratic nominee Louis N. Crill, the former president of the state Senate, and former U.S. Congressman Freeman Knowles, the Socialist nominee. For the first time since 1894, the Democratic and Populist Parties nominated separate candidates. Ultimately, the split in the two parties did not prove dispositive; Elrod defeated Crill and the other candidates in a landslide. Republican convention In the lead-up to the Republican convention, speculation swirled around several names:April 4, 1904 Results of Conventions: Crawford, Elrod and McDougall all Get Delegations Argus Leader Sioux Falls, S.D. 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/229209853/ June 11, 2021 Secretary of State O. C. Berg, former Attorney General Coe I. Crawford, State Senator J. E. McDougall,https://sdlegislature.gov/Historical/Legislator/Profile/114 John Edmund McDougall Historical Listing South Dakota Legislature Legislative Research Council June 11, 2021 Clark County State's Attorney Samuel H. Elrod, and State Representative H. P. Packard of Spink County.https://sdlegislature.gov/Historical/Legislator/Profile/1067 Harlan P. Packard Historical Listing South Dakota Legislature Legislative Research Council June 11, 2021 At the convention, however, Elrod emerged as the consensus pick and the other candidates ceased their campaigns. Nonetheless, Crawford was nominated by his supporters and the contest continued; Elrod ended up defeating Crawford, receiving 778 votes to Crawford's 226.May 5, 1904 Elrod the Choice of South Dakota: Got Over Two Thirds of the Votes of the 1014 Delegates to the Republican State Convention Yesterday Argus Leader Sioux Falls, S.D. 1, 3 https://www.newspapers.com/image/229211002/ June 11, 2021 Democratic conventions At the Democratic convention, former State Senate President Louis N. Crill was nominated by acclamation, receiving his party's nomination. This time, however, the Democratic Party did not fuse with the Populist Party, with the parties nominating separate candidates.Lindell Terrence J. 1982 South Dakota Populism M.A. University of Nebraska–Lincoln 149–502 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=opentheses June 11, 2021 General election Results 1904 South Dakota gubernatorial electionNelson Nelson Heinrich Chad W. 2005 Chapter 8: Elections Legislative Manual: South Dakota, 2005 http://sdsdl-montage.auto-graphics.com/#/item-details/entities_1092?from=search-results Pierre, S.D. 618 Republican Party (United States) Samuel H. Elrod 68,561 68.29% +3.56% Democratic Party (United States) Louis N. Crill 24,772 24.68% -4.06% Socialist Party (United States) Freeman Knowles 3,028 3.02% -0.50% Prohibition Party (United States) W. J. Edgar 2,916 2.90% -0.11% People's Party (United States) R. C. Warne 1,114 1.11% — 43,789 43.62% +7.62% 100,391 100.00% Republican Party (United States) Democratic Party (United States) References South Dakota 1904 Gubernatorial Category:November 1904 in the United States