United States presidential election in Kansas, 2004
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County Results
Kerry—60-70%
Kerry—50-60%
Bush—50-60%
Bush—60-70%
Bush—70-80%
Bush—80-90%
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The 2004 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 2, 2004 throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia, which was part of the 2004 presidential election. Voters chose 6 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.
Kansas was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by a 25.4% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 12 news organizations considered this a state Bush would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. On election day, it trended Republican from the 2000 election by a swing margin of almost 5%. He won every single congressional district and county, excluding just 2: Wyandotte County and Douglas County.
There were 12 news organizations who made state by state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.
Bush won every single pre-election poll, and won each by a double digit margin of victory and with at least 56% of the vote. The final 3 polls averaged Bush leading 58% to 37% for Kerry and 3% for Nader.
Bush raised $980,035. Kerry raised $387,484.
Neither presidential candidate advertised or visited this state. However, John Edwards visited the city of Lawrence in Douglas County briefly.
Kansas has always been a Republican stronghold at the presidential level, voting for GOP nominees in all but seven elections since statehood. The last Democratic presidential nominee to carry the Sunflower State was Lyndon B. Johnson in his landslide election in 1964. A combination of rural counties embedded with deep pockets of evangelical Christianity/social conservatism and moderate, fiscally conservative residents in Johnson County, Kansas nearly always votes Republican.
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