Georgia presidential election results 2004

George W. Bush carried Georgia by 16.60 points (548,105 votes), winning 15 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 15
Votes counted: 3,301,875
GA result: R+16.6
Compared with the nation: 14.2 pts more Republican
Swing since 2000: 4.9 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
George W. Bush	Republican	1,914,254	58.00%	15
John Kerry	Democratic	1,366,149	41.40%	—
Total votes		3,301,875

Sources: 2004

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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	John Kerry	George W. Bush	Others	Total	Margin
Appling	1,848	4,494	27	6,369	41.5
Atkinson	799	1,666	5	2,470	35.1
Bacon	930	2,853	7	3,790	50.7
Baker	936	821	7	1,764	6.5
Baldwin	6,775	7,709	63	14,547	6.4
Banks	1,149	4,410	31	5,590	58.3
Barrow	4,095	13,520	112	17,727	53.2
Bartow	7,741	22,311	180	30,232	48.2
Ben Hill	2,180	3,331	25	5,536	20.8
Berrien	1,638	3,917	37	5,592	40.8
Bibb	29,322	28,107	258	57,687	2.1
Bleckley	1,281	3,167	19	4,467	42.2
Brantley	1,258	4,333	27	5,618	54.7
Brooks	2,193	2,912	8	5,113	14.1
Bryan	2,590	7,363	30	9,983	47.8
Bulloch	6,840	12,252	79	19,171	28.2
Burke	4,213	4,232	34	8,479	0.2
Butts	2,572	5,119	43	7,734	32.9
Calhoun	1,119	890	10	2,019	11.3
Camden	4,637	9,488	50	14,175	34.2
Candler	1,096	2,048	7	3,151	30.2
Carroll	10,224	24,837	217	35,278	41.4
Catoosa	5,807	16,406	91	22,304	47.5
Charlton	1,064	2,311	12	3,387	36.8
Chatham	45,630	45,484	401	91,515	0.2
Chattahoochee	773	905	10	1,688	7.8
Chattooga	2,809	4,992	46	7,847	27.8
Cherokee	14,824	58,238	525	73,587	59.0
Clarke	21,718	15,052	465	37,235	17.9
Clay	798	509	2	1,309	22.1
Clayton	56,113	23,106	327	79,546	41.5
Clinch	750	1,501	14	2,265	33.2
Cobb	103,955	173,467	2,051	279,473	24.9
Coffee	3,979	8,306	42	12,327	35.1
Colquitt	3,378	8,296	56	11,730	41.9
Columbia	11,442	35,549	153	47,144	51.1
Cook	1,733	3,065	18	4,816	27.7
Coweta	10,647	31,682	216	42,545	49.4
Crawford	1,552	2,830	20	4,402	29.0
Crisp	2,357	3,865	28	6,250	24.1
Dade	1,823	4,368	39	6,230	40.9
Dawson	1,407	6,649	57	8,113	64.6
DeKalb	200,787	73,570	1,782	276,139	46.1
Decatur	3,577	5,348	26	8,951	19.8
Dodge	2,384	4,584	27	6,995	31.5
Dooly	1,973	1,853	18	3,844	3.1
Dougherty	19,805	13,711	131	33,647	18.1
Douglas	15,997	25,846	222	42,065	23.4
Early	1,701	2,495	17	4,213	18.8
Echols	231	757	3	991	53.1
Effingham	3,613	12,503	51	16,167	55.0
Elbert	2,984	4,626	46	7,656	21.4
Emanuel	2,774	4,666	28	7,468	25.3
Evans	1,213	2,291	10	3,514	30.7
Fannin	2,727	6,862	61	9,650	42.8
Fayette	14,887	37,346	295	52,528	42.8
Floyd	10,038	21,400	187	31,625	35.9
Forsyth	9,201	47,267	358	56,826	67.0
Franklin	2,245	5,218	39	7,502	39.6
Fulton	199,436	134,372	2,216	336,024	19.4
Gilmer	2,510	7,414	74	9,998	49.0
Glascock	250	1,016	3	1,269	60.4
Glynn	8,962	18,608	122	27,692	34.8
Gordon	4,028	11,671	76	15,775	48.5
Grady	3,092	5,068	31	8,191	24.1
Greene	2,774	4,069	29	6,872	18.8
Gwinnett	81,708	160,445	1,764	243,917	32.3
Habersham	2,750	10,434	61	13,245	58.0
Hall	10,514	38,883	299	49,696	57.1
Hancock	2,715	822	13	3,550	53.3
Haralson	2,434	7,703	56	10,193	51.7
Harris	3,400	8,878	53	12,331	44.4
Hart	3,479	5,500	42	9,021	22.4
Heard	1,148	2,788	19	3,955	41.5
Henry	21,096	42,759	298	64,153	33.8
Houston	15,054	29,862	237	45,153	32.8
Irwin	1,051	2,347	16	3,414	38.0
Jackson	3,468	12,611	91	16,170	56.5
Jasper	1,558	3,157	25	4,740	33.7
Jeff Davis	1,277	3,549	18	4,844	46.9
Jefferson	3,447	3,066	22	6,535	5.8
Jenkins	1,494	1,898	11	3,403	11.9
Johnson	1,263	2,279	11	3,553	28.6
Jones	3,855	6,939	51	10,845	28.4
Lamar	2,432	4,027	35	6,494	24.6
Lanier	931	1,641	12	2,584	27.5
Laurens	6,281	10,883	73	17,237	26.7
Lee	2,182	8,201	30	10,413	57.8
Liberty	6,619	6,131	50	12,800	3.8
Lincoln	1,337	2,309	11	3,657	26.6
Long	1,033	1,994	9	3,036	31.7
Lowndes	12,516	18,981	125	31,622	20.4
Lumpkin	2,091	6,690	74	8,855	51.9
Macon	2,906	1,851	20	4,777	22.1
Madison	2,527	7,254	52	9,833	48.1
Marion	1,275	1,670	7	2,952	13.4
McDuffie	2,899	4,846	28	7,773	25.0
McIntosh	2,523	2,837	18	5,378	5.8
Meriwether	3,709	4,402	36	8,147	8.5
Miller	736	1,694	11	2,441	39.2
Mitchell	3,360	3,885	22	7,267	7.2
Monroe	3,216	6,522	45	9,783	33.8
Montgomery	1,007	2,150	11	3,168	36.1
Morgan	2,304	4,902	36	7,242	35.9
Murray	2,899	7,745	45	10,689	45.3
Muscogee	32,867	30,850	231	63,948	3.2
Newton	10,939	18,095	132	29,166	24.5
Oconee	3,789	10,276	105	14,170	45.8
Oglethorpe	1,899	3,688	41	5,628	31.8
Paulding	9,420	30,843	204	40,467	52.9
Peach	3,961	4,554	30	8,545	6.9
Pickens	2,444	8,115	68	10,627	53.4
Pierce	1,234	4,680	9	5,923	58.2
Pike	1,506	5,193	42	6,741	54.7
Polk	3,868	8,467	60	12,395	37.1
Pulaski	1,294	2,202	15	3,511	25.9
Putnam	2,880	5,188	39	8,107	28.5
Quitman	543	409	13	965	13.9
Rabun	1,918	4,650	57	6,625	41.2
Randolph	1,612	1,418	17	3,047	6.4
Richmond	39,262	29,764	256	69,282	13.7
Rockdale	12,136	18,856	164	31,156	21.6
Schley	464	1,063	3	1,530	39.2
Screven	2,534	3,360	29	5,923	13.9
Seminole	1,278	1,977	19	3,274	21.4
Spalding	7,460	13,461	86	21,007	28.6
Stephens	2,714	6,904	42	9,660	43.4
Stewart	1,220	797	14	2,031	20.8
Sumter	5,562	5,688	37	11,287	1.1
Talbot	1,830	1,103	10	2,943	24.7
Taliaferro	612	335	4	951	29.1
Tattnall	1,787	4,657	19	6,463	44.4
Taylor	1,458	1,912	11	3,381	13.4
Telfair	1,590	2,171	14	3,775	15.4
Terrell	1,951	1,859	14	3,824	2.4
Thomas	5,997	9,659	49	15,705	23.3
Tift	3,864	8,619	37	12,520	38.0
Toombs	2,567	6,196	50	8,813	41.2
Towns	1,430	3,823	24	5,277	45.3
Treutlen	1,052	1,691	13	2,756	23.2
Troup	7,630	14,183	99	21,912	29.9
Turner	1,135	1,815	10	2,960	23.0
Twiggs	2,220	2,112	33	4,365	2.5
Union	2,327	6,847	51	9,225	49.0
Upson	3,424	6,634	28	10,086	31.8
Walker	5,986	15,340	127	21,453	43.6
Walton	5,887	21,594	143	27,624	56.9
Ware	3,449	7,790	42	11,281	38.5
Warren	1,360	1,121	8	2,489	9.6
Washington	3,733	4,081	33	7,847	4.4
Wayne	2,683	6,819	40	9,542	43.3
Webster	515	485	4	1,004	3.0
Wheeler	847	1,192	10	2,049	16.8
White	2,016	7,403	64	9,483	56.8
Whitfield	6,933	19,297	126	26,356	46.9
Wilcox	902	1,705	6	2,613	30.7
Wilkes	2,028	2,490	25	4,543	10.2
Wilkinson	2,235	2,261	18	4,514	0.6
Worth	2,219	5,105	24	7,348	39.3

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 Georgia in 2004?

George W. Bush won Georgia by 16.60 percentage points (548,105 votes).

How many electoral votes did Georgia have in 2004?

Georgia cast 15 electoral votes in 2004.

How many people voted for president in Georgia in 2004?

3,301,875 votes were counted for president.

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

George W. Bush 133, John Kerry 26 (out of 159 counties with results).

How did Georgia change from 2000 to 2004?

The margin moved 4.9 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 11.7 points to Republican by 16.6 points.

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