Alabama presidential election results 2004

George W. Bush carried Alabama by 25.62 points (482,461 votes), winning 9 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 9
Votes counted: 1,883,449
AL result: R+25.6
Compared with the nation: 23.2 pts more Republican
Swing since 2000: 10.7 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
George W. Bush	Republican	1,176,394	62.50%	9
John Kerry	Democratic	693,933	36.80%	—
Total votes		1,883,449

Sources: 2004

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County	John Kerry	George W. Bush	Others	Total	Margin
Autauga	4,758	15,196	127	20,081	52.0
Baldwin	15,599	52,971	750	69,320	53.9
Barbour	4,832	5,899	46	10,777	9.9
Bibb	2,089	5,472	39	7,600	44.5
Blount	3,938	17,386	180	21,504	62.5
Bullock	3,210	1,494	13	4,717	36.4
Butler	3,413	4,979	24	8,416	18.6
Calhoun	15,083	29,814	352	45,249	32.6
Chambers	5,347	7,622	63	13,032	17.5
Cherokee	3,040	5,923	86	9,049	31.9
Chilton	3,778	12,829	86	16,693	54.2
Choctaw	3,303	3,897	27	7,227	8.2
Clarke	4,627	6,730	37	11,394	18.5
Clay	1,893	4,624	59	6,576	41.5
Cleburne	1,391	4,370	37	5,798	51.4
Coffee	4,480	13,019	117	17,616	48.5
Colbert	10,598	13,188	149	23,935	10.8
Conecuh	2,719	3,271	31	6,021	9.2
Coosa	2,055	2,905	41	5,001	17.0
Covington	3,423	11,119	85	14,627	52.6
Crenshaw	1,698	3,777	25	5,500	37.8
Cullman	8,045	26,818	328	35,191	53.3
Dale	4,484	13,621	126	18,231	50.1
Dallas	11,175	7,335	63	18,573	20.7
DeKalb	7,092	16,904	139	24,135	40.7
Elmore	6,471	22,056	153	28,680	54.3
Escambia	3,814	8,513	68	12,395	37.9
Etowah	15,328	26,999	353	42,680	27.3
Fayette	2,408	5,534	60	8,002	39.1
Franklin	4,514	7,690	65	12,269	25.9
Geneva	2,113	8,342	65	10,520	59.2
Greene	3,764	958	26	4,748	59.1
Hale	4,631	3,281	33	7,945	17.0
Henry	2,452	4,881	28	7,361	33.0
Houston	9,144	26,874	183	36,201	49.0
Jackson	8,635	11,534	152	20,321	14.3
Jefferson	132,286	158,680	2,001	292,967	9.0
Lamar	1,956	4,894	35	6,885	42.7
Lauderdale	14,628	22,161	318	37,107	20.3
Lawrence	6,155	7,730	116	14,001	11.2
Lee	16,227	27,972	411	44,610	26.3
Limestone	9,126	19,702	245	29,073	36.4
Lowndes	4,233	1,786	2	6,021	40.6
Macon	7,800	1,570	37	9,407	66.2
Madison	52,644	77,173	1,245	131,062	18.7
Marengo	5,037	5,255	30	10,322	2.1
Marion	3,808	8,983	84	12,875	40.2
Marshall	8,452	22,783	256	31,491	45.5
Mobile	63,732	92,014	1,025	156,771	18.0
Monroe	3,666	5,831	37	9,534	22.7
Montgomery	45,160	44,097	393	89,650	1.2
Morgan	14,131	32,477	399	47,007	39.0
Perry	3,767	1,738	18	5,523	36.7
Pickens	3,915	5,170	47	9,132	13.7
Pike	4,334	7,483	66	11,883	26.5
Randolph	2,817	6,127	57	9,001	36.8
Russell	8,375	8,337	97	16,809	0.2
Shelby	14,850	63,435	621	78,906	61.6
St. Clair	5,456	23,500	205	29,161	61.9
Sumter	4,527	1,880	26	6,433	41.1
Talladega	11,374	18,331	193	29,898	23.3
Tallapoosa	5,451	12,392	109	17,952	38.7
Tuscaloosa	26,447	42,877	506	69,830	23.5
Walker	9,016	19,167	184	28,367	35.8
Washington	3,145	5,060	42	8,247	23.2
Wilcox	3,838	1,834	10	5,682	35.3
Winston	2,236	8,130	57	10,423	56.5

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Alabama in 2004?

George W. Bush won Alabama by 25.62 percentage points (482,461 votes).

How many electoral votes did Alabama have in 2004?

Alabama cast 9 electoral votes in 2004.

How many people voted for president in Alabama in 2004?

1,883,449 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Alabama in 2004?

George W. Bush 56, John Kerry 11 (out of 67 counties with results).

How did Alabama change from 2000 to 2004?

The margin moved 10.7 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 14.9 points to Republican by 25.6 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data