Indiana presidential election results 2004

George W. Bush carried Indiana by 20.68 points (510,427 votes), winning 11 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 11
Votes counted: 2,468,002
IN result: R+20.7
Compared with the nation: 18.3 pts more Republican
Swing since 2000: 5.1 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
George W. Bush	Republican	1,479,438	59.90%	11
John Kerry	Democratic	969,011	39.30%	—
Total votes		2,468,002

Sources: 2004

County resultsMIT Election Lab

Download CSV

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
Open the dataset

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

County	John Kerry	George W. Bush	Others	Total	Margin
Adams	3,512	9,734	94	13,340	46.6
Allen	46,710	82,013	886	129,609	27.2
Bartholomew	9,191	19,093	231	28,515	34.7
Benton	1,135	2,797	60	3,992	41.6
Blackford	1,903	3,447	30	5,380	28.7
Boone	5,636	17,055	207	22,898	49.9
Brown	2,730	4,512	88	7,330	24.3
Carroll	2,689	5,868	81	8,638	36.8
Cass	4,315	9,480	136	13,931	37.1
Clark	17,648	24,495	194	42,337	16.2
Clay	3,333	7,361	89	10,783	37.4
Clinton	3,335	8,471	71	11,877	43.2
Crawford	1,932	2,609	33	4,574	14.8
Daviess	2,573	7,936	90	10,599	50.6
DeKalb	4,810	10,468	125	15,403	36.7
Dearborn	6,596	14,231	142	20,969	36.4
Decatur	2,621	7,499	79	10,199	47.8
Delaware	20,436	27,064	439	47,939	13.8
Dubois	5,210	11,726	130	17,066	38.2
Elkhart	17,966	42,967	447	61,380	40.7
Fayette	3,626	5,761	81	9,468	22.5
Floyd	13,857	19,877	156	33,890	17.8
Fountain	2,477	5,260	67	7,804	35.7
Franklin	2,925	6,977	90	9,992	40.6
Fulton	2,607	6,027	69	8,703	39.3
Gibson	5,378	9,133	103	14,614	25.7
Grant	8,509	18,769	182	27,460	37.4
Greene	4,606	8,609	137	13,352	30.0
Hamilton	26,388	77,887	631	104,906	49.1
Hancock	6,912	20,771	184	27,867	49.7
Harrison	6,171	11,015	124	17,310	28.0
Hendricks	13,548	38,430	324	52,302	47.6
Henry	7,176	13,137	191	20,504	29.1
Howard	12,998	23,714	309	37,021	28.9
Huntington	3,877	11,617	133	15,627	49.5
Jackson	5,092	11,083	134	16,309	36.7
Jasper	3,678	8,056	110	11,844	37.0
Jay	2,740	5,427	65	8,232	32.6
Jefferson	5,117	7,763	91	12,971	20.4
Jennings	3,538	6,864	115	10,517	31.6
Johnson	13,109	37,765	381	51,255	48.1
Knox	5,649	9,990	107	15,746	27.6
Kosciusko	5,977	22,136	247	28,360	57.0
LaGrange	2,523	6,430	50	9,003	43.4
LaPorte	21,114	20,916	576	42,606	0.5
Lake	114,743	71,903	1,376	188,022	22.8
Lawrence	5,346	12,207	145	17,698	38.8
Madison	21,882	32,526	447	54,855	19.4
Marion	162,249	156,072	2,517	320,838	1.9
Marshall	5,593	12,074	147	17,814	36.4
Martin	1,522	3,414	60	4,996	37.9
Miami	3,886	9,600	142	13,628	41.9
Monroe	26,965	22,834	668	50,467	8.2
Montgomery	3,536	10,901	111	14,548	50.6
Morgan	6,650	19,197	182	26,029	48.2
Newton	2,032	3,757	59	5,848	29.5
Noble	4,703	10,859	117	15,679	39.3
Ohio	1,139	1,796	23	2,958	22.2
Orange	2,885	5,683	84	8,652	32.3
Owen	2,536	5,000	68	7,604	32.4
Parke	2,362	4,550	59	6,971	31.4
Perry	4,131	4,137	47	8,315	0.1
Pike	2,418	3,745	49	6,212	21.4
Porter	29,388	34,794	691	64,873	8.3
Posey	4,085	7,833	68	11,986	31.3
Pulaski	1,750	3,797	67	5,614	36.5
Putnam	4,103	8,908	125	13,136	36.6
Randolph	3,812	7,172	108	11,092	30.3
Ripley	3,510	8,224	100	11,834	39.8
Rush	2,000	5,363	58	7,421	45.3
Scott	3,822	4,793	62	8,677	11.2
Shelby	4,519	11,397	111	16,027	42.9
Spencer	3,920	5,934	70	9,924	20.3
St. Joseph	52,637	55,254	728	108,619	2.4
Starke	3,987	4,846	104	8,937	9.6
Steuben	4,345	8,433	127	12,905	31.7
Sullivan	3,341	4,999	54	8,394	19.8
Switzerland	1,479	2,161	31	3,671	18.6
Tippecanoe	20,818	30,897	645	52,360	19.2
Tipton	2,203	5,628	61	7,892	43.4
Union	1,045	2,266	33	3,344	36.5
Vanderburgh	28,767	41,463	424	70,654	18.0
Vermillion	3,424	3,536	57	7,017	1.6
Vigo	18,426	20,988	330	39,744	6.4
Wabash	3,920	9,607	75	13,602	41.8
Warren	1,356	2,565	39	3,960	30.5
Warrick	8,980	16,930	115	26,025	30.5
Washington	3,879	6,915	86	10,880	27.9
Wayne	10,775	16,586	296	27,657	21.0
Wells	3,112	9,168	74	12,354	49.0
White	3,277	6,974	115	10,366	35.7
Whitley	3,880	9,512	89	13,481	41.8

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).

Indiana in every election · 2004 primaries · 2004 Senate race · All states in 2004 · Report an error

Questions and answers

Who won Indiana in 2004?

George W. Bush won Indiana by 20.68 percentage points (510,427 votes).

How many electoral votes did Indiana have in 2004?

Indiana cast 11 electoral votes in 2004.

How many people voted for president in Indiana in 2004?

2,468,002 votes were counted for president.

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

George W. Bush 88, John Kerry 4 (out of 92 counties with results).

How did Indiana change from 2000 to 2004?

The margin moved 5.1 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 15.6 points to Republican by 20.7 points.

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