Texas presidential election results 2004

George W. Bush carried Texas by 22.86 points (1,694,213 votes), winning 34 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 34
Votes counted: 7,410,765
TX result: R+22.9
Compared with the nation: 20.5 pts more Republican
Swing since 2000: 1.6 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
George W. Bush	Republican	4,526,917	61.10%	34
John Kerry	Democratic	2,832,704	38.20%	—
Total votes		7,410,765

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
Anderson	4,678	11,525	98	16,301	42.0
Andrews	677	3,837	22	4,536	69.7
Angelina	9,302	18,932	130	28,364	34.0
Aransas	2,640	6,569	59	9,268	42.4
Archer	878	3,556	17	4,451	60.2
Armstrong	170	830	4	1,004	65.7
Atascosa	4,421	7,635	60	12,116	26.5
Austin	2,582	8,072	48	10,702	51.3
Bailey	525	1,882	5	2,412	56.3
Bandera	1,738	6,933	70	8,741	59.4
Bastrop	9,794	13,290	357	23,441	14.9
Baylor	467	1,169	4	1,640	42.8
Bee	4,045	5,428	45	9,518	14.5
Bell	27,165	52,135	424	79,724	31.3
Bexar	210,976	260,698	3,640	475,314	10.5
Blanco	1,267	3,277	40	4,584	43.8
Borden	55	303	1	359	69.1
Bosque	1,815	5,737	34	7,586	51.7
Bowie	11,880	21,791	89	33,760	29.4
Brazoria	28,904	63,662	682	93,248	37.3
Brazos	16,128	37,594	587	54,309	39.5
Brewster	1,729	1,980	51	3,760	6.7
Briscoe	191	620	0	811	52.9
Brooks	1,823	845	6	2,674	36.6
Brown	2,523	11,640	90	14,253	64.0
Burleson	2,276	4,405	40	6,721	31.7
Burnet	4,147	11,456	139	15,742	46.4
Caldwell	5,052	6,436	99	11,587	11.9
Calhoun	2,561	4,348	20	6,929	25.8
Callahan	1,073	4,542	39	5,654	61.4
Cameron	33,998	34,801	357	69,156	1.2
Camp	1,778	2,638	23	4,439	19.4
Carson	485	2,450	9	2,944	66.7
Cass	4,630	7,383	36	12,049	22.8
Castro	631	1,794	5	2,430	47.9
Chambers	2,953	8,618	78	11,649	48.6
Cherokee	4,439	11,329	71	15,839	43.5
Childress	511	1,629	4	2,144	52.1
Clay	1,299	3,971	18	5,288	50.5
Cochran	249	856	5	1,110	54.7
Coke	266	1,338	6	1,610	66.6
Coleman	778	3,035	13	3,826	59.0
Collin	68,935	174,435	1,784	245,154	43.0
Collingsworth	346	1,051	1	1,398	50.4
Colorado	2,161	5,488	41	7,690	43.3
Comal	9,153	31,574	316	41,043	54.6
Comanche	1,431	3,813	24	5,268	45.2
Concho	270	911	12	1,193	53.7
Cooke	3,142	11,908	57	15,107	58.0
Coryell	5,122	12,421	82	17,625	41.4
Cottle	214	549	5	768	43.6
Crane	254	1,314	6	1,574	67.3
Crockett	473	1,248	7	1,728	44.8
Crosby	622	1,647	6	2,275	45.1
Culberson	375	407	6	788	4.1
Dallam	305	1,473	4	1,782	65.5
Dallas	336,641	346,246	4,822	687,709	1.4
Dawson	1,114	3,419	12	4,545	50.7
Deaf Smith	1,133	4,139	19	5,291	56.8
Delta	627	1,447	8	2,082	39.4
Denton	59,346	140,891	1,173	201,410	40.5
Dewitt	1,610	5,100	22	6,732	51.8
Dickens	245	815	3	1,063	53.6
Dimmit	2,365	1,188	13	3,566	33.0
Donley	349	1,429	6	1,784	60.5
Duval	2,916	1,160	15	4,091	42.9
Eastland	1,582	5,249	26	6,857	53.5
Ector	8,579	27,502	229	36,310	52.1
Edwards	217	745	1	963	54.8
El Paso	95,142	73,261	1,170	169,573	12.9
Ellis	11,640	34,602	202	46,444	49.4
Erath	2,710	9,506	65	12,281	55.3
Falls	2,427	3,454	21	5,902	17.4
Fannin	4,001	7,893	66	11,960	32.5
Fayette	2,803	7,527	67	10,397	45.4
Fisher	758	1,161	4	1,923	21.0
Floyd	545	2,032	7	2,584	57.5
Foard	235	347	5	587	19.1
Fort Bend	68,722	93,625	822	163,169	15.3
Franklin	1,011	3,185	21	4,217	51.6
Freestone	2,070	5,057	34	7,161	41.7
Frio	1,931	1,991	8	3,930	1.5
Gaines	608	3,540	16	4,164	70.4
Galveston	43,919	61,290	772	105,981	16.4
Garza	326	1,480	6	1,812	63.7
Gillespie	2,104	9,297	152	11,553	62.3
Glasscock	44	488	1	533	83.3
Goliad	1,219	2,267	15	3,501	29.9
Gonzales	1,709	4,291	22	6,022	42.9
Gray	1,289	7,260	23	8,572	69.7
Grayson	13,452	30,777	194	44,423	39.0
Gregg	12,306	29,939	153	42,398	41.6
Grimes	2,713	5,263	54	8,030	31.8
Guadalupe	10,290	28,208	254	38,752	46.2
Hale	2,078	8,025	51	10,154	58.6
Hall	413	860	4	1,277	35.0
Hamilton	845	2,856	29	3,730	53.9
Hansford	240	1,903	4	2,147	77.5
Hardeman	480	1,214	8	1,702	43.1
Hardin	5,608	15,030	72	20,710	45.5
Harris	475,865	584,723	7,380	1,067,968	10.2
Harrison	9,642	16,473	108	26,223	26.0
Hartley	315	1,736	8	2,059	69.0
Haskell	867	1,539	10	2,416	27.8
Hays	20,110	27,021	692	47,823	14.5
Hemphill	257	1,380	6	1,643	68.4
Henderson	8,505	20,210	134	28,849	40.6
Hidalgo	62,369	50,931	383	113,683	10.1
Hill	3,751	9,225	77	13,053	41.9
Hockley	1,385	6,160	32	7,577	63.0
Hood	4,865	16,280	148	21,293	53.6
Hopkins	3,443	8,582	37	12,062	42.6
Houston	2,921	5,848	37	8,806	33.2
Howard	2,663	7,480	58	10,201	47.2
Hudspeth	302	577	7	886	31.0
Hunt	7,971	20,065	158	28,194	42.9
Hutchinson	1,503	7,839	27	9,369	67.6
Irion	141	684	3	828	65.6
Jack	643	2,470	13	3,126	58.4
Jackson	1,296	3,766	15	5,077	48.7
Jasper	4,471	8,347	55	12,873	30.1
Jeff Davis	378	764	25	1,167	33.1
Jefferson	47,066	44,423	377	91,866	2.9
Jim Hogg	1,344	712	9	2,065	30.6
Jim Wells	6,824	5,817	50	12,691	7.9
Johnson	12,325	34,818	279	47,422	47.4
Jones	1,658	4,254	19	5,931	43.8
Karnes	1,543	3,114	16	4,673	33.6
Kaufman	8,947	21,304	115	30,366	40.7
Kendall	2,532	11,434	106	14,072	63.3
Kenedy	85	82	2	169	1.8
Kent	138	382	2	522	46.7
Kerr	4,557	16,538	151	21,246	56.4
Kimble	324	1,482	10	1,816	63.8
King	18	137	1	156	76.3
Kinney	542	1,051	7	1,600	31.8
Kleberg	4,550	5,366	57	9,973	8.2
Knox	464	1,081	7	1,552	39.8
La Salle	1,229	989	12	2,230	10.8
Lamar	5,338	12,054	78	17,470	38.4
Lamb	857	3,410	4	4,271	59.8
Lampasas	1,593	5,422	10	7,025	54.5
Lavaca	2,152	5,974	51	8,177	46.7
Lee	1,899	4,160	29	6,088	37.1
Leon	1,754	5,023	22	6,799	48.1
Liberty	6,780	14,821	90	21,691	37.1
Limestone	2,752	5,028	38	7,818	29.1
Lipscomb	184	1,147	6	1,337	72.0
Live Oak	1,036	3,147	18	4,201	50.2
Llano	2,257	7,241	65	9,563	52.1
Loving	12	65	3	80	66.3
Lubbock	22,472	70,135	544	93,151	51.2
Lynn	490	1,776	5	2,271	56.6
Madison	1,235	2,837	29	4,101	39.1
Marion	1,884	2,441	23	4,348	12.8
Martin	288	1,514	5	1,807	67.8
Mason	459	1,600	18	2,077	54.9
Matagorda	4,355	8,119	47	12,521	30.1
Maverick	5,948	4,025	61	10,034	19.2
McCulloch	745	2,465	10	3,220	53.4
McLennan	26,760	52,090	404	79,254	32.0
McMullen	95	467	2	564	66.0
Medina	4,322	10,389	115	14,826	40.9
Menard	331	761	11	1,103	39.0
Midland	8,005	36,585	244	44,834	63.7
Milam	3,445	5,291	47	8,783	21.0
Mills	416	1,794	21	2,231	61.8
Mitchell	639	1,912	7	2,558	49.8
Montague	1,946	5,910	41	7,897	50.2
Montgomery	28,628	104,654	706	133,988	56.7
Moore	1,009	4,601	18	5,628	63.8
Morris	2,437	2,818	23	5,278	7.2
Motley	113	564	7	684	65.9
Nacogdoches	7,152	14,160	154	21,466	32.6
Navarro	5,259	10,715	60	16,034	34.0
Newton	2,513	3,159	28	5,700	11.3
Nolan	1,541	3,722	26	5,289	41.2
Nueces	44,439	59,359	762	104,560	14.3
Ochiltree	251	2,922	4	3,177	84.1
Oldham	108	733	2	843	74.1
Orange	11,476	20,292	140	31,908	27.6
Palo Pinto	2,816	7,137	61	10,014	43.1
Panola	2,958	7,021	28	10,007	40.6
Parker	8,966	31,795	196	40,957	55.7
Parmer	389	2,375	9	2,773	71.6
Pecos	1,242	3,167	19	4,428	43.5
Polk	6,964	13,778	104	20,846	32.7
Potter	7,489	21,401	166	29,056	47.9
Presidio	1,159	715	16	1,890	23.5
Rains	1,213	2,998	18	4,229	42.2
Randall	7,849	40,520	218	48,587	67.2
Reagan	184	956	3	1,143	67.5
Real	325	1,314	6	1,645	60.1
Red River	2,097	3,379	14	5,490	23.4
Reeves	1,600	1,777	18	3,395	5.2
Refugio	1,232	2,212	11	3,455	28.4
Roberts	46	461	0	507	81.9
Robertson	2,979	3,792	24	6,795	12.0
Rockwall	5,320	20,120	141	25,581	57.9
Runnels	792	3,239	18	4,049	60.4
Rusk	4,899	13,390	55	18,344	46.3
Sabine	1,476	3,138	25	4,639	35.8
San Augustine	1,506	2,235	16	3,757	19.4
San Jacinto	2,688	5,394	43	8,125	33.3
San Patricio	7,764	13,474	82	21,320	26.8
San Saba	529	1,894	8	2,431	56.1
Schleicher	312	1,012	5	1,329	52.7
Scurry	981	4,576	15	5,572	64.5
Shackelford	229	1,292	6	1,527	69.6
Shelby	2,951	6,295	33	9,279	36.0
Sherman	124	942	0	1,066	76.7
Smith	19,970	53,392	302	73,664	45.4
Somervell	831	2,701	19	3,551	52.7
Starr	7,199	2,552	30	9,781	47.5
Stephens	703	2,803	13	3,519	59.7
Sterling	71	544	0	615	76.9
Stonewall	250	499	3	752	33.1
Sutton	280	1,173	0	1,453	61.5
Swisher	626	1,487	7	2,120	40.6
Tarrant	207,286	349,462	3,393	560,141	25.4
Taylor	10,648	37,197	254	48,099	55.2
Terrell	159	306	4	469	31.3
Terry	794	3,166	10	3,970	59.7
Throckmorton	202	656	5	863	52.6
Titus	3,173	5,709	25	8,907	28.5
Tom Green	9,007	28,185	225	37,417	51.3
Travis	197,235	147,885	6,993	352,113	14.0
Trinity	2,204	3,985	24	6,213	28.7
Tyler	2,659	5,043	43	7,745	30.8
Upshur	4,225	10,232	69	14,526	41.4
Upton	185	1,009	3	1,197	68.8
Uvalde	3,298	5,148	37	8,483	21.8
Val Verde	4,757	6,968	70	11,795	18.7
Van Zandt	4,822	14,976	58	19,856	51.1
Victoria	8,553	20,875	174	29,602	41.6
Walker	5,977	11,710	135	17,822	32.2
Waller	6,145	7,679	57	13,881	11.1
Ward	901	2,856	11	3,768	51.9
Washington	3,389	9,597	77	13,063	47.5
Webb	23,654	17,753	149	41,556	14.2
Wharton	4,702	9,288	49	14,039	32.7
Wheeler	420	1,960	14	2,394	64.3
Wichita	12,819	32,472	254	45,545	43.2
Wilbarger	1,284	3,685	21	4,990	48.1
Willacy	2,734	2,209	19	4,962	10.6
Williamson	43,117	83,284	1,797	128,198	31.3
Wilson	4,409	10,400	76	14,885	40.2
Winkler	391	1,604	7	2,002	60.6
Wise	4,783	15,177	71	20,031	51.9
Wood	4,034	12,831	64	16,929	52.0
Yoakum	376	2,228	9	2,613	70.9
Young	1,511	5,874	24	7,409	58.9
Zapata	1,662	1,228	8	2,898	15.0
Zavala	2,332	777	9	3,118	49.9

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 Texas in 2004?

George W. Bush won Texas by 22.86 percentage points (1,694,213 votes).

How many electoral votes did Texas have in 2004?

Texas cast 34 electoral votes in 2004.

How many people voted for president in Texas in 2004?

7,410,765 votes were counted for president.

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

George W. Bush 236, John Kerry 18 (out of 254 counties with results).

How did Texas change from 2000 to 2004?

The margin moved 1.6 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 21.3 points to Republican by 22.9 points.

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