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1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina

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1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina

← 1900 November 8, 1904 1908 →
 
Nominee Alton B. Parker Theodore Roosevelt
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Henry G. Davis Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 52,563 2,554
Percentage 95.36% 4.62%

County Results
Parker
  50-60%
  80-90%
  90-100%


President before election

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

Elected President

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

The 1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

South Carolina voted for the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker, over the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt. Parker won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 90.74 percentage points. Parker indeed won Hampton, Fairfield and Georgetown Counties unanimously due to the nearly complete disfranchisement of the black majority that was the Republican Party's sole support in the state.[1]

With 95.36% of the popular vote, South Carolina would be Parker's strongest victory in terms of percentage of the popular vote.[2] South Carolina was one of 11 states where Democrats did better than they did in 1900, alongside Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Alabama, Texas, and Virginia. Parker became the first presidential candidate to sweep every county in South Carolina.

Results

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1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina[3]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Alton Brooks Parker of New York Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia 52,563 95.36% 9 100.00%
Republican Theodore Roosevelt of New York (incumbent) Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana 2,554 4.62% 0 0.00%
Populist Thomas Edward Watson of Georgia Thomas Tibbles of Nebraska 1 0.00% 0 0.00%
Total 55,118 100.00% 9 100.00%

Results by county

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County Alton Brooks Parker
Democratic
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican
Margin Total votes cast[4]
# % # % # %
Abbeville 665 96.94% 21 3.06% 644 93.88% 686
Aiken 1,672 97.95% 35 2.05% 1,637 95.90% 1,707
Anderson 1,952 96.73% 66 3.27% 1,886 93.46% 2,018
Bamberg 868 97.42% 23 2.58% 845 94.84% 891
Barnwell 1,401 97.56% 35 2.44% 1,366 95.13% 1,436
Beaufort 415 56.54% 319 43.46% 96 13.08% 734
Berkeley 665 85.26% 115 14.74% 550 70.51% 780
Charleston 1,754 89.99% 195 10.01% 1,559 79.99% 1,949
Cherokee 1,507 97.98% 31 2.02% 1,476 95.97% 1,538
Chester 954 99.17% 8 0.83% 946 98.34% 962
Chesterfield 1,158 98.97% 12 1.03% 1,146 97.95% 1,170
Clarendon 1,170 93.15% 86 6.85% 1,084 86.31% 1,256
Colleton 1,421 91.56% 131 8.44% 1,290 83.12% 1,552
Darlington 1,464 97.21% 42 2.79% 1,422 94.42% 1,506
Dorchester 706 91.10% 69 8.90% 637 82.19% 775
Edgefield 967 99.49% 5 0.51% 962 98.97% 972
Fairfield 723 100.00% 0 0.00% 723 100.00% 723
Florence 1,406 97.84% 31 2.16% 1,375 95.69% 1,437
Georgetown 728 100.00% 0 0.00% 728 100.00% 728
Greenville 2,489 97.42% 66 2.58% 2,423 94.83% 2,555
Greenwood 1,332 99.92% 1 0.08% 1,331 99.85% 1,333
Hampton 1,079 100.00% 0 0.00% 1,079 100.00% 1,079
Horry 980 96.08% 40 3.92% 940 92.16% 1,020
Kershaw 850 97.14% 25 2.86% 825 94.29% 875
Lancaster 1,504 95.61% 69 4.39% 1,435 91.23% 1,573
Laurens 1,777 97.26% 50 2.74% 1,727 94.53% 1,827
Lee 1,128 98.86% 13 1.14% 1,115 97.72% 1,141
Lexington 2,403 97.56% 60 2.44% 2,343 95.13% 2,463
Marion 1,507 96.85% 49 3.15% 1,458 93.70% 1,556
Marlboro 755 98.18% 14 1.82% 741 96.36% 769
Newberry 1,364 97.64% 33 2.36% 1,331 95.28% 1,397
Oconee 720 92.07% 62 7.93% 658 84.14% 782
Orangeburg 2,941 92.51% 238 7.49% 2,703 85.03% 3,179
Pickens 914 99.35% 6 0.65% 908 98.70% 920
Richland 1,220 90.91% 122 9.09% 1,098 81.82% 1,342
Saluda 938 99.26% 7 0.74% 931 98.52% 945
Spartanburg 2,621 96.89% 84 3.11% 2,537 93.79% 2,705
Sumter 919 87.03% 137 12.97% 782 74.05% 1,056
Union 1,593 96.49% 58 3.51% 1,535 92.97% 1,651
Williamsburg 1,476 88.76% 187 11.24% 1,289 77.51% 1,663
York 1,198 97.96% 25 2.04% 1,173 95.91% 1,223
Totals 53,304 95.40% 2,570 4.60% 50,734 90.80% 55,874

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Phillips, Kevin P. (1969). The Emerging Republican Majority. Princeton University Press. pp. 208, 210. ISBN 9780691163246.
  2. ^ "1904 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "1904 Presidential General Election Results – South Carolina". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  4. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene (1947). The Presidential Vote 1896-1932. pp. 314–317. ISBN 9780804716963.