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The 1904 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Alabama was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate 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 52.72%.

Due to the widespread disenfranchisement of African-Americans during the Jim Crow era, only 13 African-Americans in all of Sumter County voted in the 1904 Presidential election, all thirteen of whom voted for Theodore Roosevelt and all thirteen of whom would be prevented from voting in the next several presidential elections.[1]

With 73.37% of the popular vote, Alabama would prove to be Parker's fourth strongest state after South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana.[2]

Results

1904 United States presidential election in Alabama[3]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Alton B. Parker 79,857 73.37% 11
Republican Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) 22,472 20.65% 0
Watson Populist[4] Thomas E. Watson 5,051 4.64% 0
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 853 0.78% 0
Swallow Populist[4] Silas C. Swallow 612 0.56% 0
Totals 108,845 100.00% 11
Voter turnout

Results by county

County Alton B. Parker
Democratic
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican
Thomas E. Watson[5]
Watson Populist
Eugene V. Debs[5]
Socialist
Silas C. Swallow[5]
Swallow Populist
Margin Total votes cast[6]
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Autauga 733 89.83% 73 8.95% 9 1.10% 0 0.00% 1 0.12% 660 80.88% 816
Baldwin 454 73.94% 126 20.52% 9 1.47% 24 3.91% 1 0.16% 328 53.42% 614
Barbour 1,356 94.04% 49 3.40% 29 2.01% 0 0.00% 8 0.55% 1,307 90.64% 1,442
Bibb 1,085 83.08% 155 11.87% 48 3.68% 13 1.00% 5 0.38% 930 71.21% 1,306
Blount 1,383 57.01% 910 37.51% 117 4.82% 3 0.12% 13 0.54% 473 19.50% 2,426
Bullock 726 99.73% 0 0.00% 2 0.27% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 724[a] 99.45% 728
Butler 805 84.29% 83 8.69% 63 6.60% 0 0.00% 4 0.42% 722 75.60% 955
Calhoun 1,556 80.50% 287 14.85% 57 2.95% 7 0.36% 26 1.35% 1,269 65.65% 1,933
Chambers 1,421 90.80% 74 4.73% 59 3.77% 1 0.06% 10 0.64% 1,347 86.07% 1,565
Cherokee 905 53.49% 502 29.67% 232 13.71% 38 2.25% 15 0.89% 403 23.82% 1,692
Chilton 738 44.54% 648 39.11% 257 15.51% 8 0.48% 6 0.36% 90 5.43% 1,657
Choctaw 558 88.57% 45 7.14% 22 3.49% 1 0.16% 4 0.63% 513 81.43% 630
Clarke 1,131 91.50% 79 6.39% 9 0.73% 4 0.32% 13 1.05% 1,052 85.11% 1,236
Clay 1,345 56.54% 990 41.61% 44 1.85% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 355 14.92% 2,379
Cleburne 701 60.85% 414 35.94% 33 2.86% 1 0.09% 3 0.26% 287 24.91% 1,152
Coffee 1,106 64.34% 226 13.15% 380 22.11% 0 0.00% 7 0.41% 726[a] 42.23% 1,719
Colbert 936 80.55% 203 17.47% 3 0.26% 15 1.29% 5 0.43% 733 63.08% 1,162
Conecuh 739 85.43% 106 12.25% 18 2.08% 1 0.12% 1 0.12% 633 73.18% 865
Coosa 933 61.26% 472 30.99% 106 6.96% 5 0.33% 7 0.46% 461 30.27% 1,523
Covington 907 67.99% 310 23.24% 110 8.25% 1 0.07% 6 0.45% 597 44.75% 1,334
Crenshaw 1,077 79.25% 180 13.25% 93 6.84% 5 0.37% 4 0.29% 897 66.00% 1,359
Cullman 1,497 49.60% 1,238 41.02% 240 7.95% 3 0.10% 40 1.33% 259 8.58% 3,018
Dale 997 69.92% 345 24.19% 73 5.12% 0 0.00% 11 0.77% 652 45.72% 1,426
Dallas 1,472 96.65% 36 2.36% 4 0.26% 11 0.72% 0 0.00% 1,436 94.29% 1,523
DeKalb 1,716 55.91% 1,237 40.31% 100 3.26% 6 0.20% 10 0.33% 479 15.61% 3,069
Elmore 1,226 86.64% 151 10.67% 35 2.47% 0 0.00% 3 0.21% 1,075 75.97% 1,415
Escambia 627 87.20% 83 11.54% 3 0.42% 2 0.28% 4 0.56% 544 75.66% 719
Etowah 1,431 56.88% 823 32.71% 230 9.14% 10 0.40% 22 0.87% 608 24.17% 2,516
Fayette 712 46.87% 599 39.43% 177 11.65% 12 0.79% 19 1.25% 113 7.44% 1,519
Franklin 767 50.90% 668 44.33% 65 4.31% 7 0.46% 0 0.00% 99 6.57% 1,507
Geneva 743 48.88% 473 31.12% 288 18.95% 0 0.00% 16 1.05% 270 17.76% 1,520
Greene 477 95.98% 17 3.42% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3 0.60% 460 92.56% 497
Hale 723 96.02% 27 3.59% 3 0.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 696 92.43% 753
Henry 701 76.95% 104 11.42% 105 11.53% 0 0.00% 1 0.11% 596[a] 65.42% 911
Houston 1,248 72.47% 384 22.30% 74 4.30% 0 0.00% 16 0.93% 864 50.17% 1,722
Jackson 1,641 69.62% 666 28.26% 43 1.82% 1 0.04% 6 0.25% 975 41.37% 2,357
Jefferson 6,424 80.08% 1,090 13.59% 54 0.67% 386 4.81% 68 0.85% 5,334 66.49% 8,022
Lamar 848 78.81% 215 19.98% 8 0.74% 2 0.19% 3 0.28% 633 58.83% 1,076
Lauderdale 1,269 79.02% 316 19.68% 4 0.25% 7 0.44% 10 0.62% 953 59.34% 1,606
Lawrence 909 68.14% 410 30.73% 8 0.60% 2 0.15% 5 0.37% 499 37.41% 1,334
Lee 1,348 94.40% 40 2.80% 18 1.26% 19 1.33% 3 0.21% 1,308 91.60% 1,428
Limestone 1,053 83.77% 187 14.88% 13 1.03% 0 0.00% 4 0.32% 866 68.89% 1,257
Lowndes 697 95.22% 32 4.37% 3 0.41% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 665 90.85% 732
Macon 562 90.65% 51 8.23% 7 1.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 511 82.42% 620
Madison 2,119 91.61% 182 7.87% 6 0.26% 1 0.04% 5 0.22% 1,937 83.74% 2,313
Marengo 1,149 94.65% 56 4.61% 9 0.74% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,093 90.03% 1,214
Marion 1,224 65.67% 635 34.07% 4 0.21% 0 0.00% 1 0.05% 589 31.60% 1,864
Marshall 1,336 51.21% 966 37.03% 294 11.27% 6 0.23% 7 0.27% 370 14.18% 2,609
Mobile 3,283 89.33% 325 8.84% 9 0.24% 38 1.03% 20 0.54% 2,958 80.49% 3,675
Monroe 836 93.72% 46 5.16% 8 0.90% 0 0.00% 2 0.22% 790 88.57% 892
Montgomery 2,492 97.53% 50 1.96% 3 0.12% 8 0.31% 2 0.08% 2,442 95.58% 2,555
Morgan 1,437 71.96% 416 20.83% 42 2.10% 70 3.51% 32 1.60% 1,021 51.13% 1,997
Perry 799 85.00% 47 5.00% 0 0.00% 47 5.00% 47 5.00% 752 80.00% 940
Pickens 866 81.54% 105 9.89% 77 7.25% 1 0.09% 13 1.22% 761 71.66% 1,062
Pike 1,544 95.66% 29 1.80% 38 2.35% 1 0.06% 2 0.12% 1,506[a] 93.31% 1,614
Randolph 1,518 66.58% 695 30.48% 60 2.63% 2 0.09% 5 0.22% 823 36.10% 2,280
Russell 558 94.10% 21 3.54% 9 1.52% 4 0.67% 1 0.17% 537 90.56% 593
St. Clair 1,106 45.37% 679 27.85% 614 25.18% 8 0.33% 31 1.27% 427 17.51% 2,438
Shelby 908 46.78% 593 30.55% 425 21.90% 6 0.31% 9 0.46% 315 16.23% 1,941
Sumter 883 97.46% 16 1.77% 0 0.00% 7 0.77% 0 0.00% 867 95.70% 906
Talladega 1,264 80.77% 252 16.10% 36 2.30% 0 0.00% 13 0.83% 1,012 64.66% 1,565
Tallapoosa 1,791 84.08% 234 10.99% 84 3.94% 6 0.28% 15 0.70% 1,557 73.10% 2,130
Tuscaloosa 1,405 88.20% 132 8.29% 25 1.57% 26 1.63% 5 0.31% 1,273 79.91% 1,593
Walker 1,639 60.66% 1,024 37.90% 3 0.11% 22 0.81% 14 0.52% 615 22.76% 2,702
Washington 443 86.69% 54 10.57% 9 1.76% 2 0.39% 3 0.59% 389 76.13% 511
Wilcox 912 98.92% 2 0.22% 5 0.54% 1 0.11% 2 0.22% 907[a] 98.37% 922
Winston 602 42.13% 789 55.21% 36 2.52% 2 0.14% 0 0.00% −187 −13.09% 1,429
Totals 79,797 73.35% 22,472 20.66% 5,051 4.64% 853 0.78% 612 0.56% 57,325 52.70% 108,785

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e In this county where Roosevelt ran third minus Parker and Watson, margin given is Parker vote minus Watson vote and percentage margin Parker percentage minus Watson percentage.

References

  1. ^ Lawrence, Betty. History of Sumter County, Alabama. United States: Mount Barton Publishers, 1995.
  2. ^ "1904 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  3. ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1904 Presidential General Election Results – Alabama
  4. ^ a b Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, p. 379 ISBN 9780804716963
  5. ^ a b c Géoelections; Popular Vote for Eugene V. Debs (1904) (.xlsx file for €15)
  6. ^ Robinson; The Presidential Vote, pp. 133–138.