The 1904 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. New Jersey voters chose 12 electors to the United States Electoral College, Electoral College, which selected the President of the United States, president and Vice President of the United States, vice president.
New Jersey was won by the Republican Party (United States), Republican nominees, incumbent President of the United States, President Theodore Roosevelt of New York (state), New York and his running mate incumbent Vice President of the United States, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Roosevelt and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominees, New York Court of Appeals, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker of New York (state), New York and his running mate United States Senate, Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, Henry G. Davis of West Virginia Also in the running was the Socialist Party of America, Socialist Party candidate, Eugene V. Debs, who ran with Ben Hanford.
Roosevelt carried New Jersey with 56.68% of the vote to Parker's 38.05%, a victory margin of 18.63%.
Eugene Debs came in a distant third, with 2.22%.
Like much of the Northeastern United States, Northeast, New Jersey in the early decades of the 20th century was a staunchly Republican state, having not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1892 United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1892. While winning a landslide victory nationwide, Roosevelt easily held New Jersey in the Republican column in 1904.
On the county level map, Roosevelt carried 17 of the state's 21 counties, breaking 60% of the vote in 7 counties. Parker's most significant win was urban Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County, which he won along with the 3 rural counties in western North Jersey, Warren County, New Jersey, Warren, Sussex County, New Jersey, Sussex, and Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Hunterdon, which had long been non-Yankee Democratic enclaves in the otherwise Republican Northeast.
[Kevin Phillips (political commentator), Phillips, Kevin P.; ''The Emerging Republican Majority'', pp. 121-134 ]
Amidst Roosevelt's nationwide landslide, New Jersey's election result in 1904 made the state less than 1% more Democratic than the national average. Roosevelt's victory in New Jersey was underwhelming in part because of Alton Parker's popularity in the New York City area, his victory in New York City spilling over to allow him to win heavily populated urban Hudson County, New Jersey just across the Hudson River, which is part of the New York City metro area.
Results
Results by county
See also
* Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
* United States presidential elections in New Jersey
References
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1904 United States presidential election by state, New Jersey
United States presidential elections in New Jersey, 1904
1904 New Jersey elections