The 1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
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South Dakota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. They defeated the Democratic nominees, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker and his running mate, former US Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 49.42%.
Roosevelt's win in South Dakota was the first time any presidential candidate swept every county in the state, which has only occurred once since, with Dwight D. Eisenhower's win in 1952.
With 71.09% of the popular vote, South Dakota would be Roosevelt's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont and South Dakota's neighboring states North Dakota and Minnesota.[1] As of 2024, this is the best performance by any candidate in the state.
Results
edit| 1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Theodore Roosevelt (incumbent) | 72,083 | 71.09% | 4 | |
| Democratic | Alton B. Parker | 21,969 | 21.67% | 0 | |
| Social Democratic | Eugene V. Debs | 3,138 | 3.09% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Silas C. Swallow | 2,965 | 2.92% | 0 | |
| Populist | Thomas E. Watson | 1,240 | 1.22% | 0 | |
| Totals | 101,395 | 100.00% | 4 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
Results by county
edit| County[3] | Theodore Roosevelt Republican | Alton Brooks Parker Democratic | Eugene Victor Debs[4] Socialist | Silas Comfort Swallow[4] Prohibition | Thomas Edward Watson[4] People’s | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Aurora | 652 | 58.79% | 407 | 36.70% | 11 | 0.99% | 38 | 3.43% | 1 | 0.09% | 245 | 22.09% | 1,109 |
| Beadle | 1,818 | 73.78% | 493 | 20.01% | 60 | 2.44% | 57 | 2.31% | 36 | 1.46% | 1,325 | 53.77% | 2,464 |
| Bon Homme | 1,547 | 62.30% | 886 | 35.68% | 18 | 0.72% | 25 | 1.01% | 7 | 0.28% | 661 | 26.62% | 2,483 |
| Brookings | 2,220 | 76.18% | 353 | 12.11% | 62 | 2.13% | 252 | 8.65% | 27 | 0.93% | 1,867 | 64.07% | 2,914 |
| Brown | 2,737 | 66.32% | 988 | 23.94% | 252 | 6.11% | 130 | 3.15% | 20 | 0.48% | 1,749 | 42.38% | 4,127 |
| Brule | 693 | 51.60% | 608 | 45.27% | 18 | 1.34% | 5 | 0.37% | 19 | 1.41% | 85 | 6.33% | 1,343 |
| Buffalo | 118 | 60.51% | 43 | 22.05% | 25 | 12.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 9 | 4.62% | 75 | 38.46% | 195 |
| Butte | 793 | 67.32% | 330 | 28.01% | 48 | 4.07% | 1 | 0.08% | 6 | 0.51% | 463 | 39.30% | 1,178 |
| Campbell | 685 | 83.03% | 120 | 14.55% | 2 | 0.24% | 18 | 2.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 565 | 68.48% | 825 |
| Charles Mix | 1,765 | 64.84% | 823 | 30.24% | 92 | 3.38% | 30 | 1.10% | 12 | 0.44% | 942 | 34.61% | 2,722 |
| Clark | 1,409 | 73.85% | 276 | 14.47% | 101 | 5.29% | 102 | 5.35% | 20 | 1.05% | 1,133 | 59.38% | 1,908 |
| Clay | 1,723 | 77.40% | 361 | 16.22% | 77 | 3.46% | 39 | 1.75% | 26 | 1.17% | 1,362 | 61.19% | 2,226 |
| Codington | 1,741 | 72.18% | 582 | 24.13% | 25 | 1.04% | 55 | 2.28% | 9 | 0.37% | 1,159 | 48.05% | 2,412 |
| Custer | 536 | 65.53% | 228 | 27.87% | 27 | 3.30% | 2 | 0.24% | 25 | 3.06% | 308 | 37.65% | 818 |
| Davison | 1,626 | 68.84% | 506 | 21.42% | 14 | 0.59% | 106 | 4.49% | 110 | 4.66% | 1,120 | 47.42% | 2,362 |
| Day | 2,077 | 73.50% | 383 | 13.55% | 63 | 2.23% | 287 | 10.16% | 16 | 0.57% | 1,694 | 59.94% | 2,826 |
| Deuel | 1,348 | 80.33% | 279 | 16.63% | 7 | 0.42% | 36 | 2.15% | 8 | 0.48% | 1,069 | 63.71% | 1,678 |
| Douglas | 859 | 61.89% | 499 | 35.95% | 9 | 0.65% | 11 | 0.79% | 10 | 0.72% | 360 | 25.94% | 1,388 |
| Edmunds | 786 | 65.88% | 353 | 29.59% | 16 | 1.34% | 31 | 2.60% | 7 | 0.59% | 433 | 36.30% | 1,193 |
| Fall River | 777 | 71.22% | 248 | 22.73% | 40 | 3.67% | 21 | 1.92% | 5 | 0.46% | 529 | 48.49% | 1,091 |
| Faulk | 727 | 75.41% | 165 | 17.12% | 11 | 1.14% | 57 | 5.91% | 4 | 0.41% | 562 | 58.30% | 964 |
| Grant | 1,454 | 77.05% | 309 | 16.38% | 20 | 1.06% | 81 | 4.29% | 23 | 1.22% | 1,145 | 60.68% | 1,887 |
| Gregory | 675 | 67.10% | 282 | 28.03% | 29 | 2.88% | 9 | 0.89% | 11 | 1.09% | 393 | 39.07% | 1,006 |
| Hamlin | 1,197 | 75.76% | 307 | 19.43% | 13 | 0.82% | 56 | 3.54% | 7 | 0.44% | 890 | 56.33% | 1,580 |
| Hand | 943 | 67.50% | 170 | 12.17% | 9 | 0.64% | 37 | 2.65% | 238 | 17.04% | 705[a] | 50.47% | 1,397 |
| Hanson | 745 | 55.76% | 523 | 39.15% | 9 | 0.67% | 51 | 3.82% | 8 | 0.60% | 222 | 16.62% | 1,336 |
| Hughes | 929 | 72.18% | 335 | 26.03% | 12 | 0.93% | 9 | 0.70% | 2 | 0.16% | 594 | 46.15% | 1,287 |
| Hutchinson | 1,752 | 80.33% | 365 | 16.74% | 6 | 0.28% | 53 | 2.43% | 5 | 0.23% | 1,387 | 63.59% | 2,181 |
| Hyde | 443 | 76.91% | 91 | 15.80% | 15 | 2.60% | 25 | 4.34% | 2 | 0.35% | 352 | 61.11% | 576 |
| Jerauld | 586 | 68.86% | 139 | 16.33% | 25 | 2.94% | 67 | 7.87% | 34 | 4.00% | 447 | 52.53% | 851 |
| Kingsbury | 1,896 | 77.67% | 344 | 14.09% | 56 | 2.29% | 112 | 4.59% | 33 | 1.35% | 1,552 | 63.58% | 2,441 |
| Lake | 1,728 | 78.90% | 260 | 11.87% | 94 | 4.29% | 69 | 3.15% | 39 | 1.78% | 1,468 | 67.03% | 2,190 |
| Lawrence | 4,247 | 65.53% | 1,347 | 20.78% | 818 | 12.62% | 32 | 0.49% | 37 | 0.57% | 2,900 | 44.75% | 6,481 |
| Lincoln | 2,471 | 80.49% | 378 | 12.31% | 132 | 4.30% | 69 | 2.25% | 20 | 0.65% | 2,093 | 68.18% | 3,070 |
| Lyman | 986 | 73.53% | 306 | 22.82% | 21 | 1.57% | 13 | 0.97% | 15 | 1.12% | 680 | 50.71% | 1,341 |
| Marshall | 996 | 67.94% | 292 | 19.92% | 61 | 4.16% | 107 | 7.30% | 10 | 0.68% | 704 | 48.02% | 1,466 |
| McCook | 1,284 | 61.58% | 693 | 33.24% | 50 | 2.40% | 50 | 2.40% | 8 | 0.38% | 591 | 28.35% | 2,085 |
| McPherson | 727 | 81.96% | 144 | 16.23% | 5 | 0.56% | 6 | 0.68% | 5 | 0.56% | 583 | 65.73% | 887 |
| Meade | 754 | 65.79% | 268 | 23.39% | 49 | 4.28% | 15 | 1.31% | 60 | 5.24% | 486 | 42.41% | 1,146 |
| Miner | 893 | 61.29% | 475 | 32.60% | 40 | 2.75% | 40 | 2.75% | 9 | 0.62% | 418 | 28.69% | 1,457 |
| Minnehaha | 4,455 | 74.04% | 1,046 | 17.38% | 269 | 4.47% | 190 | 3.16% | 57 | 0.95% | 3,409 | 56.66% | 6,017 |
| Moody | 1,471 | 75.13% | 295 | 15.07% | 39 | 1.99% | 66 | 3.37% | 87 | 4.44% | 1,176 | 60.06% | 1,958 |
| Pennington | 1,126 | 69.00% | 392 | 24.02% | 75 | 4.60% | 11 | 0.67% | 28 | 1.72% | 734 | 44.98% | 1,632 |
| Potter | 525 | 62.80% | 275 | 32.89% | 18 | 2.15% | 10 | 1.20% | 8 | 0.96% | 250 | 29.90% | 836 |
| Roberts | 2,282 | 75.02% | 584 | 19.20% | 61 | 2.01% | 99 | 3.25% | 16 | 0.53% | 1,698 | 55.82% | 3,042 |
| Sanborn | 1,013 | 74.05% | 265 | 19.37% | 15 | 1.10% | 64 | 4.68% | 11 | 0.80% | 748 | 54.68% | 1,368 |
| Spink | 2,127 | 74.53% | 492 | 17.24% | 68 | 2.38% | 140 | 4.91% | 27 | 0.95% | 1,635 | 57.29% | 2,854 |
| Stanley | 547 | 56.74% | 396 | 41.08% | 11 | 1.14% | 10 | 1.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 151 | 15.66% | 964 |
| Sully | 364 | 82.92% | 50 | 11.39% | 15 | 3.42% | 5 | 1.14% | 5 | 1.14% | 314 | 71.53% | 439 |
| Turner | 2,395 | 79.07% | 521 | 17.20% | 23 | 0.76% | 76 | 2.51% | 14 | 0.46% | 1,874 | 61.87% | 3,029 |
| Union | 1,813 | 68.31% | 730 | 27.51% | 39 | 1.47% | 49 | 1.85% | 23 | 0.87% | 1,083 | 40.81% | 2,654 |
| Walworth | 654 | 76.05% | 176 | 20.47% | 17 | 1.98% | 9 | 1.05% | 4 | 0.47% | 478 | 55.58% | 860 |
| Yankton | 1,968 | 69.03% | 788 | 27.64% | 46 | 1.61% | 32 | 1.12% | 17 | 0.60% | 1,180 | 41.39% | 2,851 |
| Totals | 72,083 | 71.09% | 21,969 | 21.67% | 3,138 | 3.09% | 2,965 | 2.92% | 1,240 | 1.22% | 50,114 | 49.42% | 101,395 |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ In this county where Parker ran third behind Roosevelt and Watson, margin given is Roosevelt vote minus Watson vote and percentage margin Roosevelt percentage minus Watson percentage.
References
edit- ^ "1904 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1904 (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ a b c Géoelections; Popular Vote for Eugene V. Debs at the Presidential Election for 1904 (.xlsx file for €15)