2004 Republican Party presidential primaries

From January 19 to June 8, 2004, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 2004 United States presidential election. Incumbent President George W. Bush was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2004 Republican National Convention held from August 30 to September 2, 2004, in New York City.

2004 Republican Party presidential primaries

January 19 to June 8, 2004

 
Candidate George W. Bush Uncommitted Bill Wyatt
Home state Texas California[1]
Delegate count 2,590 0[lower-alpha 1] 0
Contests won 49 0 0
Popular vote 7,853,863[2] 91,926[3] 10,937[4]
Percentage 98.1% 1.2% 0.1%

Republican presidential primary, 2004
  George W. Bush
  No votes/information available

Previous Republican nominee

George W. Bush

Republican nominee

George W. Bush

Primary race overview

Incumbent President George W. Bush announced in mid-2003 that he would campaign for re-election; he faced no major challengers. He then went on, throughout early 2004, to win every nomination contest, including a sweep of Super Tuesday, beating back the vacuum of challengers and maintaining the recent tradition of an easy primary for incumbent Presidents (the last time an incumbent was seriously challenged in a presidential primary contest was when Senator Ted Kennedy challenged Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination in 1980). Bush managed to raise US$130 million in 2003 alone, and expected to set a national primary fund-raising record of $200 million by the time of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.

Several states and territories canceled their respective Republican primaries altogether, citing Bush being the only candidate to qualify on their respective ballot, including Connecticut,[5] Florida,[6] Mississippi,[7] New York,[8] Puerto Rico,[9] and South Dakota.[10]

Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, an opponent of the war in Iraq, Bush's tax cuts, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and much of Bush's social agenda, considered challenging Bush in the New Hampshire primary in the fall of 2003. He decided not to run, after the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003.[11] He would later change his party affiliation to Democratic and run in that party's 2016 presidential primaries.[12][13]

Candidates

Nominee

Candidate Most recent office Home state Campaign

Withdrawal date

Popular

vote

Contests won Running mate
George W. Bush President of the United States
(2001–2009)

Texas

(CampaignPositions)
Secured nomination: March 10, 2004
7,853,863
(98.01%)
49 Dick Cheney

On the ballot in two or more primaries

  • William Tsangares[14] ran for president under the pseudonym "Bill Wyatt." The then-43-year-old T-shirt maker left the Democratic Party to become a Republican after Democrats voted for the war in Iraq, an action he saw as a betrayal. Tsangares traveled 12,000 miles and spent an estimated $20,000 on his presidential campaign. He managed to get on the ballot in New Hampshire, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, and even the Democratic Primary ballot in Arizona. He finished tenth in the New Hampshire primary with 0.23% of the vote (153 votes), placed second in Missouri, where he received 1,268 votes (1.03%). However, a minor upset occurred on Mini-Tuesday when Tsangares won just over 10% of the vote in Oklahoma and 4% in Louisiana. He also received 233 votes (0.10%) in the Arizona Democratic primary.
  • Blake Ashby, a Republican entrepreneur frustrated with the explosion of debt under President Bush, ran as a protest candidate in the Republican primaries. On the ballot in New Hampshire and Missouri, he spent approximately $20,000 on his campaign, visiting New Hampshire and campaigning in his home state of Missouri and participated in the C-Span Minor Candidates Forum [15] He finished seventh in New Hampshire with 264 votes [16] and third in Missouri with 981 votes.


Candidatehome statetotal votes %
Uncommitted
91,9261.1%
(others)various49,2810.8%
Bill WyattCalifornia10,8470%
Blake AshbyMissouri1.1450%

On the ballot in one primary

All but one of the following were on the ballot only in the state of New Hampshire.

Declined to be candidates

CandidateHome statetotal votes %
Richard BosaNew Hampshire8411.2%
John BuchananGeorgia8361.2%
John RigazioNew Hampshire8031.2%
Robert HainesNew Hampshire5790.9%
Michael CallisNew Hampshire3880.6%
Millie HowardOhio2390.4%
Tom LaughlinCalifornia1540.2%
Jim Taylor1240.2%
Mark "Dick" Harnes870.1%
Cornelius E. O'Connor,770.1%
George Gostigian,520.1%
Jack FellureWest Virginia14[17]0

Results

There were 2,509 total delegates to the 2004 Republican National Convention, of which 650 were so-called "superdelegates" who were not bound by any particular state's primary or caucus votes and could change their votes at any time. A candidate needs 1,255 delegates to become the nominee. Except for the Northern Mariana Islands and Midway Atoll, all states, territories, and other inhabited areas of the United States offer delegates to the 2004 Republican National Convention.

2004 Republican primaries and caucuses
Blake Ashby Richard Bosa George W. Bush John Buchanan Michael Callis Jack Fellure Robert Haines Millie Howard Tom Laughlin John Rigazio Bill Wyatt
Total Delegates¹ 1608
Superdelegates¹ 168
Jan. 19 Iowa³
(caucus)
100.00%
(32)
Jan. 27 New Hampshire
(primary)
0.39% 1.24% 79.55%
(29)
1.23% 0.57% 0.85% 0.35% 0.23% 1.18% 0.23%
Feb. 3 (Mini Tuesday) Missouri
(primary)
0.80% 95.06%
(57)
1.03%
North Dakota
(caucus)
99.11%
(26)
0.69%
Oklahoma
(primary)
90.00%
(41)
10.00%
South Carolina
(convention)
100.00%
(46)
Feb. 10 District of Columbia
(caucus)
100.00%
(16)
Tennessee
(primary)
95.45%
(39)
Feb. 17 Wisconsin
(primary)
99.25%
(37)
Mar. 2 (Super Tuesday) California
(primary)
100.00%
(170)
Connecticut
(none)
-
(30)
Georgia
(primary)
100.00%
(66)
Maryland
(primary)
100.00%
(36)
Massachusetts
(primary)
91.13%
(41)
Minnesota
(caucus)
100.00%
(38)
New York
(none)
-
(87)
Ohio
(primary)
100.00%
(81)
Rhode Island
(primary)
84.89%
(18)
Vermont
(primary)
100.00%
(15)
Mar. 9 Florida
(primary)
-
(109)
Louisiana
(primary)
96.09%
(41)
3.91%
Mississippi
(primary)
-
(35)
Texas
(primary)
92.49%
(135)
Mar. 16 Illinois
(primary)
100.00%
(60)
Apr. 27 Pennsylvania
(primary)
100.00%
May 4 Indiana
(primary)
100.00%
(27)
May 11 West Virginia
(primary)
100.00%
(26)
May 18 Arkansas
(primary)
97.25%
(32)
Kentucky
(primary)
92.64%
(43)
Oregon
(primary)
94.93%
(28)
May 25 Idaho
(primary)
89.50%
(24)
Jun. 1 Alabama
(primary)
92.83%
(45)
New Mexico
(primary)
100.00%
(21)
South Dakota
(primary)
-
(25)
Jun. 8 New Jersey
(primary)
100.00%
(52)
Color Key: 1st place
  (delegates earned)  
2nd place
  (delegates earned)  
3rd place
  (delegates earned)  
  Withdrawn  

Counties carried

Republican presidential primary, 2004 results by county (exceptions: Minnesota, Maryland, Nebraska & North Dakota – at-large)
  George W. Bush
  No votes/information available

See also

References

  1. "Our Campaigns - Candidate - William J. "Bill" Wyatt".
  2. "State by State Summary 2004 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions".
  3. "Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Jan 27, 2004".
  4. "Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Jan 27, 2004".
  5. "Connecticut Republican Allocation - 2004". The Green Papers. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  6. "Florida Republican Allocation - 2004". The Green Papers. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  7. "Mississippi Republican Allocation - 2004". The Green Papers. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  8. "New York Republican Allocation - 2004". The Green Papers. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  9. "Puerto Rico Republican Allocation - 2004". The Green Papers. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  10. "South Dakota Republican Allocation - 2004". The Green Papers. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  11. Chafee, Lincoln, Against the Tide: How A Compliant Congress Empowered A Reckless President, p.119-120
  12. DelReal, Jose A. (June 3, 2015). "Lincoln Chafee announces long-shot presidential bid". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  13. "Rhode Island's Chafee enters 2016 Democratic contest". Boston Herald. Associated Press. June 3, 2015. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  14. "Our Campaigns - Candidate - William J. "Bill" Wyatt".
  15. "Blake Ashby | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  16. "Republican President of the United States - NHSOS". sos.nh.gov. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  17. "Bush big winner in North Dakota". The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. February 5, 2004. Retrieved June 30, 2015.

Notes

  1. While there were technically 773 delegates that went to the convention unnbound, they presumably cast their support for the president
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