2004 United States presidential election in Nebraska

Summary

The 2004 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. However, this state is one of the two states of the U.S. that, starting in the 2004 election, instead of giving all of its electors to the winner based on its statewide results, just two of them vote based on the statewide results, and the others vote based on their individual congressional district results.

2004 United States presidential election in Nebraska

← 2000 November 2, 2004 2008 →
Turnout67.1% (of registered voters)
60.0% (of voting age population)
 
Nominee George W. Bush John Kerry
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Texas Massachusetts
Running mate Dick Cheney John Edwards
Electoral vote 5 0
Popular vote 512,814 254,328
Percentage 65.90% 32.68%

County Results

President before election

George W. Bush
Republican

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

Nebraska, a rural Great Plains state, is a Republican and conservative stronghold. Voters here gave an overwhelming victory to George W. Bush, who received more than twice the number of votes of his challenger, John F. Kerry. Bush who carried the state in 2000 increased his margin of victory, from 29% (2000) to 33% in 2004. Bush carried every congressional district, and every county except substantially Native American Thurston County which Kerry won by a narrow 2.43 percent margin.

With 65.9% of the popular vote, Nebraska would prove to be Bush's fourth strongest state in the 2004 election after Utah, Wyoming and Idaho.[1] This is the last time anyone won Nebraska with more than 60% of the vote.

Predictions edit

There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.[2]

Source Ranking
D.C. Political Report Solid R
Associated Press Solid R
CNN Likely R
Cook Political Report Solid R
Newsweek Solid R
New York Times Solid R
Rasmussen Reports Likely R
Research 2000 Solid R
Washington Post Likely R
Washington Times Solid R
Zogby International Likely R
Washington Dispatch Likely R

Results edit

Presidential Candidate Running Mate Party Electoral Vote (EV) Popular Vote (PV)[3]
George W. Bush of Texas Richard Cheney of Wyoming Republican 5 512,814 65.90%
John Kerry of Massachusetts John Edwards of North Carolina Democrat 0 254,328 32.68%
Ralph Nader of Connecticut Peter Camejo of California By Petition 0 5,698 0.73%
Michael Badnarik of Texas Richard Campagna of Iowa Libertarian 0 2,041 0.26%
Michael Peroutka of Maryland Chuck Baldwin of Florida Nebraska 0 1,314 0.17%
David Cobb of Texas Pat LaMarche of Maine Green 0 978 0.13%
Write-ins 0 931 0.12%
Róger Calero of New Jersey Arrin Hawkins of New York By Petition 0 82 0.01%

By congressional district edit

Bush won all three congressional districts.[4]

district Bush Kerry Representative
1st 63% 36% Doug Bereuter
Jeff Fortenberry
2nd 60% 38% Lee Terry
3rd 75% 24% Tom Osborne

By county edit

County[5] George W. Bush
Republican
John Kerry
Democratic
Ralph Nader
By Petition
Michael Badarnik
Libertarian
Michael Peroutka
Nebraska
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # % # % # %
Adams 9,233 69.49% 3,791 28.53% 132 0.99% 37 0.28% 48 0.36% 45 0.34% 5,442 40.96% 13,286
Antelope 2,761 80.64% 613 17.90% 27 0.79% 11 0.32% 7 0.20% 5 0.15% 2,148 62.73% 3,424
Arthur 240 90.23% 24 9.02% 2 0.75% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 216 81.20% 266
Banner 379 86.73% 56 12.81% 1 0.23% 1 0.23% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 323 73.91% 437
Blaine 301 88.79% 38 11.21% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 263 77.58% 339
Boone 2,309 79.76% 546 18.86% 20 0.69% 6 0.21% 10 0.35% 4 0.14% 1,763 60.90% 2,895
Box Butte 3,396 65.92% 1,657 32.16% 55 1.07% 11 0.21% 19 0.37% 14 0.28% 1,739 33.76% 5,152
Boyd 911 79.36% 228 19.86% 5 0.44% 3 0.26% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 683 59.49% 1,148
Brown 1,426 82.29% 268 15.46% 13 0.75% 4 0.23% 19 1.10% 3 0.18% 1,158 66.83% 1,733
Buffalo 14,222 76.43% 4,100 22.03% 154 0.83% 57 0.31% 35 0.19% 40 0.21% 10,122 54.40% 18,608
Burt 2,349 64.04% 1,272 34.68% 23 0.63% 9 0.25% 6 0.16% 9 0.25% 1,077 29.36% 3,668
Butler 3,016 72.36% 1,068 25.62% 53 1.27% 6 0.14% 15 0.36% 10 0.24% 1,948 46.74% 4,168
Cass 7,763 67.33% 3,619 31.39% 80 0.69% 27 0.23% 11 0.10% 29 0.25% 4,144 35.94% 11,529
Cedar 3,387 74.67% 1,083 23.88% 43 0.95% 7 0.15% 11 0.24% 5 0.11% 2,304 50.79% 4,536
Chase 1,652 83.73% 302 15.31% 7 0.35% 8 0.41% 2 0.10% 2 0.10% 1,350 68.42% 1,973
Cherry 2,509 82.48% 483 15.88% 28 0.92% 9 0.30% 12 0.39% 1 0.03% 2,026 66.60% 3,042
Cheyenne 3,791 79.88% 893 18.82% 32 0.67% 10 0.21% 13 0.27% 7 0.15% 2,898 61.06% 4,746
Clay 2,543 76.21% 743 22.27% 31 0.93% 6 0.18% 8 0.24% 6 0.18% 1,800 53.94% 3,337
Colfax 2,589 71.26% 990 27.25% 40 1.10% 3 0.08% 6 0.17% 5 0.14% 1,599 44.01% 3,633
Cuming 3,330 76.57% 966 22.21% 29 0.67% 6 0.14% 6 0.14% 12 0.28% 2,364 54.36% 4,349
Custer 4,518 80.51% 1,040 18.53% 24 0.43% 14 0.25% 11 0.20% 5 0.09% 3,478 61.97% 5,612
Dakota 3,526 53.30% 3,027 45.76% 31 0.47% 9 0.14% 12 0.18% 10 0.16% 499 7.54% 6,615
Dawes 2,809 70.33% 1,119 28.02% 38 0.95% 10 0.25% 7 0.18% 11 0.28% 1,690 42.31% 3,994
Dawson 6,149 77.29% 1,728 21.72% 45 0.57% 20 0.25% 10 0.13% 4 0.05% 4,421 55.57% 7,956
Deuel 820 77.87% 222 21.08% 5 0.47% 3 0.28% 2 0.19% 1 0.09% 598 56.79% 1,053
Dixon 2,028 67.40% 938 31.17% 22 0.73% 7 0.23% 7 0.23% 7 0.23% 1,090 36.22% 3,009
Dodge 10,716 66.26% 5,250 32.46% 116 0.72% 46 0.28% 24 0.15% 20 0.12% 5,466 33.80% 16,172
Douglas 120,813 58.34% 83,330 40.24% 1,462 0.71% 641 0.31% 253 0.12% 572 0.28% 37,483 18.10% 207,071
Dundy 858 81.48% 186 17.66% 4 0.38% 4 0.38% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 672 63.82% 1,053
Fillmore 2,314 72.47% 828 25.93% 27 0.85% 9 0.28% 9 0.28% 6 0.19% 1,486 46.54% 3,193
Franklin 1,277 74.50% 412 24.04% 11 0.64% 6 0.35% 5 0.29% 3 0.18% 865 50.47% 1,714
Frontier 1,160 79.07% 275 18.75% 14 0.95% 8 0.55% 6 0.41% 4 0.27% 885 60.33% 1,467
Furnas 1,950 79.04% 492 19.94% 16 0.65% 3 0.12% 4 0.16% 2 0.08% 1,458 59.10% 2,467
Gage 6,575 63.32% 3,655 35.20% 82 0.79% 28 0.27% 21 0.20% 23 0.22% 2,920 28.12% 10,384
Garden 970 81.99% 201 16.99% 9 0.76% 2 0.17% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 769 65.00% 1,183
Garfield 806 79.25% 196 19.27% 12 1.18% 1 0.10% 1 0.10% 1 0.10% 610 59.98% 1,017
Gosper 890 79.54% 222 19.84% 5 0.45% 1 0.09% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 668 59.70% 1,119
Grant 352 88.89% 41 10.35% 2 0.51% 1 0.25% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 311 78.54% 396
Greeley 865 69.31% 361 28.93% 15 1.20% 1 0.08% 6 0.48% 0 0.00% 504 40.38% 1,248
Hall 14,592 68.98% 6,228 29.44% 197 0.93% 41 0.19% 42 0.20% 54 0.26% 8,364 39.54% 21,154
Hamilton 3,785 77.78% 1,012 20.80% 50 1.03% 4 0.08% 10 0.21% 5 0.10% 2,773 56.99% 4,866
Harlan 1,467 77.33% 398 20.98% 22 1.16% 2 0.11% 7 0.37% 1 0.05% 1,069 56.35% 1,897
Hayes 524 87.63% 66 11.04% 2 0.33% 1 0.17% 1 0.17% 4 0.67% 458 76.59% 598
Hitchcock 1,171 78.80% 296 19.92% 9 0.61% 2 0.13% 8 0.54% 0 0.00% 875 58.88% 1,486
Holt 4,217 81.50% 894 17.28% 28 0.54% 10 0.19% 19 0.37% 6 0.12% 3,323 64.22% 5,174
Hooker 392 85.03% 64 13.88% 2 0.43% 1 0.22% 2 0.43% 0 0.00% 328 71.15% 461
Howard 2,020 67.81% 900 30.21% 34 1.14% 10 0.34% 8 0.27% 7 0.23% 1,120 37.60% 2,979
Jefferson 2,600 64.82% 1,352 33.71% 29 0.72% 13 0.32% 6 0.15% 11 0.27% 1,248 31.11% 4,011
Johnson 1,470 61.40% 885 36.97% 25 1.04% 4 0.17% 2 0.08% 8 0.33% 585 24.44% 2,394
Kearney 2,621 77.57% 707 20.92% 27 0.80% 9 0.27% 4 0.12% 11 0.33% 1,914 56.64% 3,379
Keith 3,356 81.12% 743 17.96% 24 0.58% 2 0.05% 9 0.22% 3 0.07% 2,613 63.16% 4,137
Keya Paha 442 80.51% 98 17.85% 5 0.91% 2 0.36% 1 0.18% 1 0.18% 344 62.66% 549
Kimball 1,491 79.44% 366 19.50% 7 0.37% 3 0.16% 6 0.32% 4 0.21% 1,125 59.94% 1,877
Knox 3,062 72.68% 1,086 25.78% 38 0.90% 5 0.12% 16 0.38% 6 0.14% 1,976 46.90% 4,213
Lancaster 69,764 56.03% 52,747 42.36% 1,010 0.81% 324 0.26% 151 0.12% 513 0.41% 17,017 13.67% 124,509
Lincoln 11,056 68.25% 4,905 30.28% 123 0.76% 38 0.23% 36 0.22% 41 0.25% 6,151 37.97% 16,199
Logan 357 83.22% 67 15.62% 3 0.70% 1 0.23% 1 0.23% 0 0.00% 290 67.60% 429
Loup 314 81.35% 68 17.62% 3 0.78% 1 0.26% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 246 63.73% 386
Madison 10,981 77.94% 2,934 20.82% 94 0.67% 26 0.18% 25 0.18% 29 0.21% 8,047 57.12% 14,089
McPherson 259 83.01% 49 15.71% 1 0.32% 3 0.96% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 210 67.30% 312
Merrick 2,771 75.77% 833 22.78% 30 0.82% 5 0.14% 10 0.27% 8 0.22% 1,938 52.99% 3,657
Morrill 1,755 76.54% 495 21.59% 20 0.87% 10 0.44% 7 0.31% 6 0.26% 1,260 54.95% 2,293
Nance 1,237 71.46% 459 26.52% 19 1.10% 3 0.17% 9 0.52% 4 0.23% 778 44.95% 1,731
Nemaha 2,595 69.85% 1,066 28.69% 30 0.81% 10 0.27% 5 0.13% 9 0.24% 1,529 41.16% 3,715
Nuckolls 1,884 76.24% 541 21.89% 23 0.93% 7 0.28% 9 0.36% 7 0.28% 1,343 54.35% 2,471
Otoe 5,018 67.94% 2,275 30.80% 47 0.64% 16 0.22% 11 0.15% 19 0.26% 2,743 37.14% 7,386
Pawnee 986 66.49% 481 32.43% 5 0.34% 3 0.20% 5 0.34% 3 0.20% 505 34.05% 1,483
Perkins 1,285 82.48% 262 16.82% 5 0.32% 4 0.26% 2 0.13% 0 0.00% 1,023 65.66% 1,558
Phelps 3,872 81.64% 830 17.50% 18 0.38% 7 0.15% 10 0.21% 6 0.13% 3,042 64.14% 4,743
Pierce 2,824 83.11% 546 16.07% 14 0.41% 7 0.21% 3 0.09% 4 0.12% 2,278 67.04% 3,398
Platte 11,130 79.57% 2,657 19.00% 107 0.76% 30 0.21% 26 0.19% 37 0.26% 8,473 60.58% 13,987
Polk 2,146 78.69% 549 20.13% 21 0.77% 2 0.07% 8 0.29% 1 0.04% 1,597 58.56% 2,727
Red Willow 4,129 78.53% 1,055 20.06% 40 0.76% 14 0.27% 11 0.21% 9 0.17% 3,074 58.46% 5,258
Richardson 2,924 68.35% 1,297 30.32% 27 0.63% 9 0.21% 12 0.28% 9 0.21% 1,627 38.03% 4,278
Rock 740 83.81% 130 14.72% 8 0.91% 2 0.23% 2 0.23% 1 0.11% 610 69.08% 883
Saline 3,071 55.17% 2,420 43.48% 38 0.68% 10 0.18% 13 0.23% 14 0.25% 651 11.70% 5,566
Sarpy 40,163 68.85% 17,455 29.92% 334 0.57% 200 0.34% 65 0.11% 117 0.20% 22,708 38.93% 58,334
Saunders 6,441 67.88% 2,884 30.39% 84 0.89% 28 0.30% 23 0.24% 29 0.31% 3,557 37.49% 9,489
Scotts Bluff 10,378 72.12% 3,843 26.71% 84 0.58% 30 0.21% 27 0.19% 28 0.19% 6,535 45.41% 14,390
Seward 5,353 70.76% 2,114 27.94% 49 0.65% 11 0.15% 19 0.25% 19 0.25% 3,239 42.82% 7,565
Sheridan 2,136 82.19% 430 16.54% 16 0.62% 11 0.42% 2 0.08% 4 0.15% 1,706 65.64% 2,599
Sherman 1,072 65.25% 541 32.93% 19 1.16% 6 0.37% 4 0.24% 1 0.06% 531 32.32% 1,643
Sioux 677 83.68% 123 15.20% 4 0.49% 4 0.49% 1 0.12% 0 0.00% 554 68.48% 809
Stanton 2,159 78.65% 559 20.36% 14 0.51% 3 0.11% 5 0.18% 5 0.18% 1,600 58.29% 2,745
Thayer 2,075 72.10% 764 26.55% 18 0.63% 5 0.17% 10 0.35% 6 0.21% 1,311 45.55% 2,878
Thomas 378 85.14% 60 13.51% 4 0.90% 1 0.23% 1 0.23% 0 0.00% 318 71.62% 444
Thurston 1,154 48.35% 1,212 50.78% 14 0.59% 2 0.08% 3 0.13% 2 0.08% -58 -2.43% 2,387
Valley 1,801 75.32% 564 23.59% 13 0.54% 3 0.13% 5 0.21% 5 0.21% 1,237 51.74% 2,391
Washington 7,083 71.19% 2,754 27.68% 53 0.53% 38 0.38% 7 0.07% 15 0.15% 4,329 43.51% 9,950
Wayne 2,971 72.73% 1,059 25.92% 24 0.59% 10 0.24% 11 0.27% 10 0.24% 1,912 46.81% 4,085
Webster 1,403 70.08% 557 27.82% 15 0.75% 4 0.20% 7 0.35% 16 0.80% 846 42.26% 2,002
Wheeler 366 80.79% 81 17.88% 5 1.10% 1 0.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 285 62.91% 453
York 5,393 79.34% 1,304 19.18% 48 0.71% 14 0.21% 17 0.25% 21 0.31% 4,089 60.16% 6,797
Totals 512,814 65.90% 254,328 32.68% 5,698 0.73% 2,041 0.26% 1,314 0.17% 1,991 0.26% 258,486 33.22% 778,186
 
County Flips:

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "2004 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". dcpoliticalreport.com. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "2004 Presidential General Election Results – Nebraska". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
  4. ^ "Presidential Results by Congressional District, 2000-2008 – Swing State Project".
  5. ^ "NE US President Race, November 02, 2004". Our Campaigns.