The 2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 2, 2004, as part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for

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and

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. Prior to the election, Washington DC was considered to be a jurisdiction Kerry would win or safely blue. As expected, The

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voted by an extremely large margin in favor of the Democratic candidate John F. Kerry. John F. Kerry won DC by a margin of victory of 79.84% over the incumbent

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, more than any state. At the time, this was also the largest Democratic margin of victory over a

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candidate in the history of the district, but has since been surpassed by all presidential elections since. The greatest victory margin of these subsequent years was in

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. Such victory margins may perhaps be attributed to the fact that D.C. only encompasses an urban core area (and those are generally very liberal in nature). A recent San Francisco study based on the 2004 presidential election exit polls, ranked Washington, D.C. as the 4th most liberal city in the country. This information supports the fact that the District of Columbia has never voted for a Republican since the ratification of the 23rd Amendment. As of

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, this marks the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee would receive less than 90% of the vote in the District of Columbia.

Primaries

2004 District of Columbia Democratic primary The District of Columbia held a primary on January 13, 2004 and caucuses on February 14, 2004 during the 2004 Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2004 Democratic presidential primary season. Delegates were only allocated in the February 14 ca ...

Campaign

Predictions

There were 12 news organizations that made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/members/2004/Pred2.htm#NW

Results

By ward

Electors

Technically the voters of D.C. cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. D.C. is allocated 3 electors. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 3 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 3 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a

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. The electors of each state and the

met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols. The following were the members of the Electoral College from D.C. All were pledged to and voted for John Kerry and John Edwards. # Linda W. Cropp # Jack Evans # Arrington L. Dixon

References

External links

Results on D.C. Government site
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