2004 United States presidential election in Texas

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2004 United States presidential election in Texas

November 2, 2004
Turnout	56.57% (of registered voters) 46.11% (of voting age population)
Nominee George W. Bush John Kerry Party Republican Democratic Home state Texas Massachusetts Running mate Dick Cheney John Edwards Electoral vote 34 0 Popular vote 4,526,917 2,832,704 Percentage 61.09% 38.22%
County Results Bush   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   >90% Kerry   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%
President before election George W. Bush Republican Elected President George W. Bush Republican

The 2004 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. State voters chose 34 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Texas was won by incumbent Republican President George W. Bush by a margin of 22.87%. Prior to the election, all 12 major U.S. news organizations expected Texas to vote for Bush, considering it to be a safe red state.

Texas has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1976, and has been a Republican stronghold since the 1980s. A former governor of the state, Bush’s performance stands as a high water mark for Republican presidential candidates in Texas, and remains the last time that a Republican has won more than 60% of the state’s vote, or that a Democrat has won less than 40%. Bush is the last Republican to win any of the following counties in a presidential election: Bexar, Cameron, Culberson, Dallas, and Harris. The 1,067,968 ballots cast in Harris County also marked the first time that any Texas county would cast more than one million votes. However, this is also the last election where Harris County would vote to the left of any of the top 5 most populous counties in the state, with the exception of Tarrant County. Harris county in this election voted to the left of Bexar by approximately only 0.2% of the votes. This is also the last election where the Republican candidate would win Tarrant County with at least 60% of the vote. Starting from 2008, Republicans would win Tarrant county with less than 60% of the vote, and in 2020 Joe Biden would eventually win Tarrant County.

Bush, who made historic gains with Latino voters in 2004, drew even with Kerry among Texas Latinos, winning 49% to Kerry's 50%. As of 2022, this election is the closest a Republican has come to carrying the Latino vote in Texas.

This is the last presidential election in which Texas voted to the right of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, or Louisiana. This is also the only time since 1984 in which a Republican candidate has gotten over 60% of the vote due to the increasing Democratic shift in many of the urban counties Bush carried in this election. All of these counties would swing hard towards Barack Obama in 2008.

Primaries

• 2004 Texas Democratic presidential primary
• 2004 Texas Republican presidential primary

Campaign

Predictions

There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.

1. D.C. Political Report: Solid Republican
2. Associated Press: Solid Bush
3. CNN: Bush
4. Cook Political Report: Solid Republican
5. Newsweek: Solid Bush
6. New York Times: Solid Bush
7. Rasmussen Reports: Bush
8. Research 2000: Solid Bush
9. Washington Post: Bush
10. Washington Times: Solid Bush
11. Zogby International: Bush
12. Washington Dispatch: Bush

Polling

Bush won every single pre-election poll, and won each with at least 55% of the vote and a double-digit margin of victory. The final three polls averaged Bush leading 59% to 37%.

Fundraising

Bush raised $23,776,943. Kerry raised $5,554,831.

Advertising and visits

Neither campaign advertised or visited this state during the fall election.

Analysis

Texas, located in the South, has become a consistently Republican state at all levels. Economically and racially diverse, Texas includes a huge swath of the Bible Belt where many voters, especially those in rural Texas, identify as born-again or evangelical Christians and therefore tend to vote Republican due to the party's opposition to abortion. Although once part of the Solid South, the last time Texas voted for a Democratic presidential nominee was Jimmy Carter in 1976. George Bush achieved his party's best result in Texas since Ronald Reagan's second landslide in 1984.

President Bush carried 236 of the state's 254 counties, improving on his performance from 2000. East Texas, historically the most Democratic region in the state, solidified its support for the Republican Party with only Jefferson County, home to Beaumont, voting for John Kerry. South Texas, while still voting heavily for Senator Kerry, swung towards Bush as well.

Despite Bush's increased margin in the state compared to 2000, Kerry made major inroads in the state's suburban areas, especially in Metro Houston, the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, and the Austin area. Kerry narrowed Bush's 2000 margins in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Fort Bend, Harris, Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties. Out of those, however, only Travis County, home to Austin, flipped into the Democratic column, in part due to the city's strong liberal leanings and opposition to the Iraq War. Bush had won a plurality in the county in 2000 in part due to the Green Party's Ralph Nader winning 11% of the County's vote. Although Bush carried Dallas County by a narrow margin of 50% to Kerry's 49%, the city of Dallas proper voted heavily for Kerry, giving him 57% of the vote.

Results

2004 United States presidential election in Texas
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican Party	George W. Bush (incumbent)	4,526,917	61.09%	34
	Democratic	John Kerry	2,832,704	38.22%	0
	Libertarian	Michael Badnarik	38,787	0.52%	0
	Write-in	Ralph Nader	9,159	0.12%	0
	Write-in	Michael Peroutka	1,636	0.02%	0
	Write-in	David Cobb	1,014	0.01%	0
	Write-in	Andrew J. Falk	219	0.00%	0
	Write-in	John Joseph Kennedy	126	0.00%	0
	Write-in	Walt Brown	111	0.00%	0
	Write-in	Deborah Elaine Allen	92	0.00%	0
Totals			7,410,765	100.00%	34
Voter turnout (voting age population)					46.7%

By county

County	Bush%	Bush#	Kerry%	Kerry#	Others%	Others#	Total
Anderson	70.7%	11,525	28.7%	4,678	0.6%	98	16,301
Andrews	84.6%	3,837	14.9%	677	0.5%	22	4,536
Angelina	66.7%	18,932	32.8%	9,302	0.5%	130	28,364
Aransas	70.9%	6,569	28.5%	2,640	0.6%	59	9,268
Archer	79.9%	3,556	19.7%	878	0.4%	17	4,451
Armstrong	82.7%	830	16.9%	170	0.4%	4	1,004
Atascosa	63.0%	7,635	36.5%	4,421	0.5%	60	12,116
Austin	75.4%	8,072	24.1%	2,582	0.4%	48	10,702
Bailey	78.0%	1,882	21.8%	525	0.2%	5	2,412
Bandera	79.3%	6,933	19.9%	1,738	0.8%	70	8,741
Bastrop	56.7%	13,290	41.8%	9,794	1.5%	357	23,441
Baylor	71.3%	1,169	28.5%	467	0.2%	4	1,640
Bee	57.0%	5,428	42.5%	4,045	0.5%	45	9,518
Bell	65.4%	52,135	34.1%	27,165	0.5%	424	79,724
Bexar	54.8%	260,698	44.4%	210,976	0.8%	3,640	475,314
Blanco	71.5%	3,277	27.6%	1,267	0.9%	40	4,584
Borden	84.4%	303	15.3%	55	0.3%	1	359
Bosque	75.6%	5,737	23.9%	1,815	0.4%	34	7,586
Bowie	64.5%	21,791	35.2%	11,880	0.3%	89	33,760
Brazoria	68.3%	63,662	31.0%	28,904	0.7%	682	93,248
Brazos	69.2%	37,594	29.7%	16,128	1.1%	587	54,309
Brewster	52.7%	1,980	46.0%	1,729	1.4%	51	3,760
Briscoe	76.4%	620	23.6%	191	0.0%	0	811
Brooks	31.6%	845	68.2%	1,823	0.2%	6	2,674
Brown	81.7%	11,640	17.7%	2,523	0.6%	90	14,253
Burleson	65.5%	4,405	33.9%	2,276	0.6%	40	6,721
Burnet	72.8%	11,456	26.3%	4,147	0.9%	139	15,742
Caldwell	55.5%	6,436	43.6%	5,052	0.9%	99	11,587
Calhoun	62.8%	4,348	37.0%	2,561	0.3%	20	6,929
Callahan	80.3%	4,542	19.0%	1,073	0.7%	39	5,654
Cameron	50.3%	34,801	49.2%	33,998	0.5%	357	69,156
Camp	59.4%	2,638	40.1%	1,778	0.5%	23	4,439
Carson	83.2%	2,450	16.5%	485	0.3%	9	2,944
Cass	61.3%	7,383	38.4%	4,630	0.3%	36	12,049
Castro	73.8%	1,794	26.0%	631	0.2%	5	2,430
Chambers	74.0%	8,618	25.3%	2,953	0.7%	78	11,649
Cherokee	71.5%	11,329	28.0%	4,439	0.4%	71	15,839
Childress	76.0%	1,629	23.8%	511	0.2%	4	2,144
Clay	75.1%	3,971	24.6%	1,299	0.3%	18	5,288
Cochran	77.1%	856	22.4%	249	0.5%	5	1,110
Coke	83.1%	1,338	16.5%	266	0.4%	6	1,610
Coleman	79.3%	3,035	20.3%	778	0.3%	13	3,826
Collin	71.2%	174,435	28.1%	68,935	0.7%	1,784	245,154
Collingsworth	75.2%	1,051	24.7%	346	0.1%	1	1,398
Colorado	71.4%	5,488	28.1%	2,161	0.5%	41	7,690
Comal	76.9%	31,574	22.3%	9,153	0.8%	316	41,043
Comanche	72.4%	3,813	27.2%	1,431	0.5%	24	5,268
Concho	76.4%	911	22.6%	270	1.0%	12	1,193
Cooke	78.8%	11,908	20.8%	3,142	0.4%	57	15,107
Coryell	70.5%	12,421	29.1%	5,122	0.5%	82	17,625
Cottle	71.5%	549	27.9%	214	0.7%	5	768
Crane	83.5%	1,314	16.1%	254	0.4%	6	1,574
Crockett	72.2%	1,248	27.4%	473	0.4%	7	1,728
Crosby	72.4%	1,647	27.3%	622	0.3%	6	2,275
Culberson	51.6%	407	47.6%	375	0.8%	6	788
Dallam	82.7%	1,473	17.1%	305	0.2%	4	1,782
Dallas	50.3%	346,246	49.0%	336,641	0.7%	4,822	687,709
Dawson	75.2%	3,419	24.5%	1,114	0.3%	12	4,545
Deaf Smith	78.2%	4,139	21.4%	1,133	0.4%	19	5,291
Delta	69.5%	1,447	30.1%	627	0.4%	8	2,082
Denton	70.0%	140,891	29.5%	59,346	0.6%	1,173	201,410
DeWitt	75.8%	5,100	23.9%	1,610	0.3%	22	6,732
Dickens	76.7%	815	23.0%	245	0.3%	3	1,063
Dimmit	33.3%	1,188	66.3%	2,365	0.4%	13	3,566
Donley	80.1%	1,429	19.6%	349	0.3%	6	1,784
Duval	28.4%	1,160	71.3%	2,916	0.4%	15	4,091
Eastland	76.5%	5,249	23.1%	1,582	0.4%	26	6,857
Ector	75.7%	27,502	23.6%	8,579	0.6%	229	36,310
Edwards	77.4%	745	22.5%	217	0.1%	1	963
Ellis	74.5%	34,602	25.1%	11,640	0.4%	202	46,444
El Paso	43.2%	73,261	56.1%	95,142	0.7%	1,170	169,573
Erath	77.4%	9,506	22.1%	2,710	0.5%	65	12,281
Falls	58.5%	3,454	41.1%	2,427	0.4%	21	5,902
Fannin	66.0%	7,893	33.5%	4,001	0.6%	66	11,960
Fayette	72.4%	7,527	27.0%	2,803	0.6%	67	10,397
Fisher	60.4%	1,161	39.4%	758	0.2%	4	1,923
Floyd	78.6%	2,032	21.1%	545	0.3%	7	2,584
Foard	59.1%	347	40.0%	235	0.9%	5	587
Fort Bend	57.4%	93,625	42.1%	68,722	0.5%	822	163,169
Franklin	75.5%	3,185	24.0%	1,011	0.5%	21	4,217
Freestone	70.6%	5,057	28.9%	2,070	0.5%	34	7,161
Frio	50.7%	1,991	49.1%	1,931	0.2%	8	3,930
Gaines	85.0%	3,540	14.6%	608	0.4%	16	4,164
Galveston	57.8%	61,290	41.4%	43,919	0.7%	772	105,981
Garza	81.7%	1,480	18.0%	326	0.3%	6	1,812
Gillespie	80.5%	9,297	18.2%	2,104	1.3%	152	11,553
Glasscock	91.6%	488	8.3%	44	0.2%	1	533
Goliad	64.8%	2,267	34.8%	1,219	0.4%	15	3,501
Gonzales	71.3%	4,291	28.4%	1,709	0.4%	22	6,022
Gray	84.7%	7,260	15.0%	1,289	0.3%	23	8,572
Grayson	69.3%	30,777	30.3%	13,452	0.4%	194	44,423
Gregg	70.6%	29,939	29.0%	12,306	0.4%	153	42,398
Grimes	65.5%	5,263	33.8%	2,713	0.7%	54	8,030
Guadalupe	72.8%	28,208	26.6%	10,290	0.7%	254	38,752
Hale	79.0%	8,025	20.5%	2,078	0.5%	51	10,154
Hall	67.3%	860	32.3%	413	0.3%	4	1,277
Hamilton	76.6%	2,856	22.7%	845	0.8%	29	3,730
Hansford	88.6%	1,903	11.2%	240	0.2%	4	2,147
Hardeman	71.3%	1,214	28.2%	480	0.5%	8	1,702
Hardin	72.6%	15,030	27.1%	5,608	0.3%	72	20,710
Harris	54.8%	584,723	44.6%	475,865	0.7%	7,380	1,067,968
Harrison	62.8%	16,473	36.8%	9,642	0.4%	108	26,223
Hartley	84.3%	1,736	15.3%	315	0.4%	8	2,059
Haskell	63.7%	1,539	35.9%	867	0.4%	10	2,416
Hays	56.5%	27,021	42.1%	20,110	1.4%	692	47,823
Hemphill	84.0%	1,380	15.6%	257	0.4%	6	1,643
Henderson	70.1%	20,210	29.5%	8,505	0.5%	134	28,849
Hidalgo	44.8%	50,931	54.9%	62,369	0.3%	383	113,683
Hill	70.7%	9,225	28.7%	3,751	0.6%	77	13,053
Hockley	81.3%	6,160	18.3%	1,385	0.4%	32	7,577
Hood	76.5%	16,280	22.8%	4,865	0.7%	148	21,293
Hopkins	71.1%	8,582	28.5%	3,443	0.3%	37	12,062
Houston	66.4%	5,848	33.2%	2,921	0.4%	37	8,806
Howard	73.3%	7,480	26.1%	2,663	0.6%	58	10,201
Hudspeth	65.1%	577	34.1%	302	0.8%	7	886
Hunt	71.2%	20,065	28.3%	7,971	0.6%	158	28,194
Hutchinson	83.7%	7,839	16.0%	1,503	0.3%	27	9,369
Irion	82.6%	684	17.0%	141	0.4%	3	828
Jack	79.0%	2,470	20.6%	643	0.4%	13	3,126
Jackson	74.2%	3,766	25.5%	1,296	0.3%	15	5,077
Jasper	64.8%	8,347	34.7%	4,471	0.4%	55	12,873
Jeff Davis	65.5%	764	32.4%	378	2.1%	25	1,167
Jefferson	48.4%	44,423	51.2%	47,066	0.4%	377	91,866
Jim Hogg	34.5%	712	65.1%	1,344	0.4%	9	2,065
Jim Wells	45.8%	5,817	53.8%	6,824	0.4%	50	12,691
Johnson	73.4%	34,818	26.0%	12,325	0.6%	279	47,422
Jones	71.7%	4,254	28.0%	1,658	0.3%	19	5,931
Karnes	66.6%	3,114	33.0%	1,543	0.3%	16	4,673
Kaufman	70.2%	21,304	29.5%	8,947	0.4%	115	30,366
Kendall	81.3%	11,434	18.0%	2,532	0.8%	106	14,072
Kenedy	48.5%	82	50.3%	85	1.2%	2	169
Kent	73.2%	382	26.4%	138	0.4%	2	522
Kerr	77.8%	16,538	21.4%	4,557	0.7%	151	21,246
Kimble	81.6%	1,482	17.8%	324	0.6%	10	1,816
King	87.8%	137	11.5%	18	0.6%	1	156
Kinney	65.7%	1,051	33.9%	542	0.4%	7	1,600
Kleberg	53.8%	5,366	45.6%	4,550	0.6%	57	9,973
Knox	69.7%	1,081	29.9%	464	0.5%	7	1,552
Lamar	69.0%	12,054	30.6%	5,338	0.4%	78	17,470
Lamb	79.8%	3,410	20.1%	857	0.1%	4	4,271
Lampasas	77.2%	5,422	22.7%	1,593	0.1%	10	7,025
La Salle	44.3%	989	55.1%	1,229	0.5%	12	2,230
Lavaca	73.1%	5,974	26.3%	2,152	0.6%	51	8,177
Lee	68.3%	4,160	31.2%	1,899	0.5%	29	6,088
Leon	73.9%	5,023	25.8%	1,754	0.3%	22	6,799
Liberty	68.3%	14,821	31.3%	6,780	0.4%	90	21,691
Limestone	64.3%	5,028	35.2%	2,752	0.5%	38	7,818
Lipscomb	85.8%	1,147	13.8%	184	0.4%	6	1,337
Live Oak	74.9%	3,147	24.7%	1,036	0.4%	18	4,201
Llano	75.7%	7,241	23.6%	2,257	0.7%	65	9,563
Loving	81.3%	65	15.0%	12	3.8%	3	80
Lubbock	75.3%	70,135	24.1%	22,472	0.6%	544	93,151
Lynn	78.2%	1,776	21.6%	490	0.2%	5	2,271
McCulloch	76.6%	2,465	23.1%	745	0.3%	10	3,220
McLennan	65.7%	52,090	33.8%	26,760	0.5%	404	79,254
McMullen	82.8%	467	16.8%	95	0.4%	2	564
Madison	69.2%	2,837	30.1%	1,235	0.7%	29	4,101
Marion	56.1%	2,441	43.3%	1,884	0.5%	23	4,348
Martin	83.8%	1,514	15.9%	288	0.3%	5	1,807
Mason	77.0%	1,600	22.1%	459	0.9%	18	2,077
Matagorda	64.8%	8,119	34.8%	4,355	0.4%	47	12,521
Maverick	40.1%	4,025	59.3%	5,948	0.6%	61	10,034
Medina	70.1%	10,389	29.2%	4,322	0.8%	115	14,826
Menard	69.0%	761	30.0%	331	1.0%	11	1,103
Midland	81.6%	36,585	17.9%	8,005	0.5%	244	44,834
Milam	60.2%	5,291	39.2%	3,445	0.5%	47	8,783
Mills	80.4%	1,794	18.6%	416	0.9%	21	2,231
Mitchell	74.7%	1,912	25.0%	639	0.3%	7	2,558
Montague	74.8%	5,910	24.6%	1,946	0.5%	41	7,897
Montgomery	78.1%	104,654	21.4%	28,628	0.5%	706	133,988
Moore	81.8%	4,601	17.9%	1,009	0.3%	18	5,628
Morris	53.4%	2,818	46.2%	2,437	0.4%	23	5,278
Motley	82.5%	564	16.5%	113	1.0%	7	684
Nacogdoches	66.0%	14,160	33.3%	7,152	0.7%	154	21,466
Navarro	66.8%	10,715	32.8%	5,259	0.4%	60	16,034
Newton	55.4%	3,159	44.1%	2,513	0.5%	28	5,700
Nolan	70.4%	3,722	29.1%	1,541	0.5%	26	5,289
Nueces	56.8%	59,359	42.5%	44,439	0.7%	762	104,560
Ochiltree	92.0%	2,922	7.9%	251	0.1%	4	3,177
Oldham	87.0%	733	12.8%	108	0.2%	2	843
Orange	63.6%	20,292	36.0%	11,476	0.4%	140	31,908
Palo Pinto	71.3%	7,137	28.1%	2,816	0.6%	61	10,014
Panola	70.2%	7,021	29.6%	2,958	0.3%	28	10,007
Parker	77.6%	31,795	21.9%	8,966	0.5%	196	40,957
Parmer	85.6%	2,375	14.0%	389	0.3%	9	2,773
Pecos	71.5%	3,167	28.0%	1,242	0.4%	19	4,428
Polk	66.1%	13,778	33.4%	6,964	0.5%	104	20,846
Potter	73.7%	21,401	25.8%	7,489	0.6%	166	29,056
Presidio	37.8%	715	61.3%	1,159	0.8%	16	1,890
Rains	70.9%	2,998	28.7%	1,213	0.4%	18	4,229
Randall	83.4%	40,520	16.2%	7,849	0.4%	218	48,587
Reagan	83.6%	956	16.1%	184	0.3%	3	1,143
Real	79.9%	1,314	19.8%	325	0.4%	6	1,645
Red River	61.5%	3,379	38.2%	2,097	0.3%	14	5,490
Reeves	52.3%	1,777	47.1%	1,600	0.5%	18	3,395
Refugio	64.0%	2,212	35.7%	1,232	0.3%	11	3,455
Roberts	90.9%	461	9.1%	46	0.0%	0	507
Robertson	55.8%	3,792	43.8%	2,979	0.4%	24	6,795
Rockwall	78.7%	20,120	20.8%	5,320	0.6%	141	25,581
Runnels	80.0%	3,239	19.6%	792	0.4%	18	4,049
Rusk	73.0%	13,390	26.7%	4,899	0.3%	55	18,344
Sabine	67.6%	3,138	31.8%	1,476	0.5%	25	4,639
San Augustine	59.5%	2,235	40.1%	1,506	0.4%	16	3,757
San Jacinto	66.4%	5,394	33.1%	2,688	0.5%	43	8,125
San Patricio	63.2%	13,474	36.4%	7,764	0.4%	82	21,320
San Saba	77.9%	1,894	21.8%	529	0.3%	8	2,431
Schleicher	76.1%	1,012	23.5%	312	0.4%	5	1,329
Scurry	82.1%	4,576	17.6%	981	0.3%	15	5,572
Shackelford	84.6%	1,292	15.0%	229	0.4%	6	1,527
Shelby	67.8%	6,295	31.8%	2,951	0.4%	33	9,279
Sherman	88.4%	942	11.6%	124	0.0%	0	1,066
Smith	72.5%	53,392	27.1%	19,970	0.4%	302	73,664
Somervell	76.1%	2,701	23.4%	831	0.5%	19	3,551
Starr	26.1%	2,552	73.6%	7,199	0.3%	30	9,781
Stephens	79.7%	2,803	20.0%	703	0.4%	13	3,519
Sterling	88.5%	544	11.5%	71	0.0%	0	615
Stonewall	66.4%	499	33.2%	250	0.4%	3	752
Sutton	80.7%	1,173	19.3%	280	0.0%	0	1,453
Swisher	70.1%	1,487	29.5%	626	0.3%	7	2,120
Tarrant	62.4%	349,462	37.0%	207,286	0.6%	3,393	560,141
Taylor	77.3%	37,197	22.1%	10,648	0.5%	254	48,099
Terrell	65.2%	306	33.9%	159	0.9%	4	469
Terry	79.7%	3,166	20.0%	794	0.3%	10	3,970
Throckmorton	76.0%	656	23.4%	202	0.6%	5	863
Titus	64.1%	5,709	35.6%	3,173	0.3%	25	8,907
Tom Green	75.3%	28,185	24.1%	9,007	0.6%	225	37,417
Travis	42.0%	147,885	56.0%	197,235	2.0%	6,993	352,113
Trinity	64.1%	3,985	35.5%	2,204	0.4%	24	6,213
Tyler	65.1%	5,043	34.3%	2,659	0.6%	43	7,745
Upshur	70.4%	10,232	29.1%	4,225	0.5%	69	14,526
Upton	84.3%	1,009	15.5%	185	0.3%	3	1,197
Uvalde	60.7%	5,148	38.9%	3,298	0.4%	37	8,483
Val Verde	59.1%	6,968	40.3%	4,757	0.6%	70	11,795
Van Zandt	75.4%	14,976	24.3%	4,822	0.3%	58	19,856
Victoria	70.5%	20,875	28.9%	8,553	0.6%	174	29,602
Walker	65.7%	11,710	33.5%	5,977	0.8%	135	17,822
Waller	55.3%	7,679	44.3%	6,145	0.4%	57	13,881
Ward	75.8%	2,856	23.9%	901	0.3%	11	3,768
Washington	73.5%	9,597	25.9%	3,389	0.6%	77	13,063
Webb	42.7%	17,753	56.9%	23,654	0.4%	149	41,556
Wharton	66.2%	9,288	33.5%	4,702	0.3%	49	14,039
Wheeler	81.9%	1,960	17.5%	420	0.6%	14	2,394
Wichita	71.3%	32,472	28.1%	12,819	0.6%	254	45,545
Wilbarger	73.8%	3,685	25.7%	1,284	0.4%	21	4,990
Willacy	44.5%	2,209	55.1%	2,734	0.4%	19	4,962
Williamson	65.0%	83,284	33.6%	43,117	1.4%	1,797	128,198
Wilson	69.9%	10,400	29.6%	4,409	0.5%	76	14,885
Winkler	80.1%	1,604	19.5%	391	0.3%	7	2,002
Wise	75.8%	15,177	23.9%	4,783	0.4%	71	20,031
Wood	75.8%	12,831	23.8%	4,034	0.4%	64	16,929
Yoakum	85.3%	2,228	14.4%	376	0.3%	9	2,613
Young	79.3%	5,874	20.4%	1,511	0.3%	24	7,409
Zapata	42.4%	1,228	57.3%	1,662	0.3%	8	2,898
Zavala	24.9%	777	74.8%	2,332	0.3%	9	3,118

By congressional district

Bush won 25 of 32 congressional districts, including four held by Democrats.

District	Bush	Kerry	Representative
1st	69%	31%	Max Sandlin
			Louie Gohmert
2nd	63%	37%	Jim Turner
			Ted Poe
3rd	67%	33%	Sam Johnson
4th	70%	30%	Ralph Hall
5th	67%	33%	Jeb Hensarling
6th	66%	34%	Joe Barton
7th	64%	36%	John Culberson
8th	72%	28%	Kevin Brady
9th	30%	70%	Nick Lampson
			Al Green
10th	62%	38%	Lloyd Doggett
			Michael McCaul
11th	78%	22%	Chet Edwards
			Mike Conaway
12th	67%	33%	Kay Granger
13th	78%	22%	Mac Thornberry
14th	67%	33%	Ron Paul
15th	51%	49%	Rubén Hinojosa
16th	44%	56%	Silvestre Reyes
17th	70%	30%	Charles Stenholm
			Chet Edwards
18th	28%	72%	Sheila Jackson Lee
19th	77%	23%	Randy Neugebauer
20th	45%	55%	Charlie Gonzalez
21st	66%	34%	Lamar S. Smith
22nd	64%	36%	Tom DeLay
23rd	57%	43%	Henry Bonilla
24th	65%	35%	Martin Frost
			Kenny Marchant
25th	46%	54%	Chris Bell
			Lloyd Doggett
26th	65%	35%	Michael C. Burgess
27th	55%	45%	Solomon Ortiz
28th	54%	46%	Ciro Rodriguez
			Henry Cuellar
29th	44%	56%	Gene Green
30th	25%	75%	Eddie Bernice Johnson
31st	67%	33%	John Carter
32nd	60%	40%	Pete Sessions

Electors

Main article: List of 2004 United States presidential electors

Technically the voters of Texas cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Texas is allocated 34 electors because it has 32 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 34 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 34 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 faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia 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 the state. All 34 were pledged to Bush/Cheney:

1. Royce Hayes
2. Tom Cotter
3. Jay Pierce
4. Marjorie Chandler
5. Lance Lenz
6. Barbara Grusendorf
7. Bill Borden
8. Jim Wiggins
9. Anna Rice
10. Jan Galbraith
11. Sue Brannon
12. Cheryl Surber
13. Mike Ussery
14. Sid Young
15. Frank Morris
16. Roger O'Dell
17. Christopher DeCluitt
18. Martha Greenlaw
19. Marcus Anderson
20. Mike Provost
21. Bennie Bock
22. Kathy Haigler
23. Kim Hesley
24. Peter Wrench
25. Morris Woods
26. Rhealyn Samuelson
27. Nancy Stevens
28. Loyce McCarter
29. Larry Bowles
30. Dan Mosher
31. Glenn Warren
32. Kristina Kiik
33. Susan Weddington
34. Charles Burchett

See also

• United States presidential elections in Texas
• Presidency of George W. Bush