2000 vs 2004 State by State Vote Count

[Ragnorak]

	2000			2004			Difference
State	Bush	Gore	Nader	Bush	Kerry	Nader	Bush	Kerry	Nader
Alabama	941,173	692,611	18,323	1,174,278	691,830	6,777	233,105	(781)	(11,546)
Alaska	167,398	79,004	28,747	151,498	85,819	3,884	(15,900)	6,815	(24,863)
Arizona	781,652	685,341	45,645	879,202	705,986		97,550	20,645	(45,645)
Arkansas	472,940	422,768	13,421	564,180	458,233	5,976	91,240	35,465	(7,445)
California	4,567,429	5,861,203	418,707	4,403,495	5,427,055		(163,934)	(434,148)	(418,707)
Colorado	883,748	738,227	91,434	1,011,378	883,021	11,269	127,630	144,794	(80,165)
Connecticut	561,094	816,015	64,452	686,923	847,666	12,708	125,829	31,651	(51,744)
Delaware	137,288	180,068	8,307	164,807	191,870	2,050	27,519	11,802	(6,257)
DC	18,073	171,923	10,576	19,007	183,876	1,318	934	11,953	(9,258)
Florida	2,912,790	2,912,253	97,488	3,836,217	3,459,299	32,036	923,427	547,046	(65,452)
Georgia	1,419,720	1,116,230	134,322	1,804,657	1,258,705		384,937	142,475	(134,322)
Hawaii	137,845	205,286	21,623	191,576	228,592		53,731	23,306	(21,623)
Idaho	336,937	138,637	122,922	408,227	180,900		71,290	42,263	(122,922)
Illinois	2,019,421	2,589,026	103,759	2,313,415	2,826,757		293,994	237,731	(103,759)
Indiana	1,245,836	901,980	185,312	1,473,334	960,248		227,498	58,268	(185,312)
Iowa	634,373	638,517	29,374	745,713	732,479	5,811	111,340	93,962	(23,563)
Kansas	622,332	399,276	36,086	711,083	416,905	8,955	88,751	17,629	(27,131)
Kentucky	872,492	638,898	23,192	1,061,608	706,503	8,779	189,116	67,605	(14,413)
Louisiana	927,871	792,344	20,473	1,101,710	818,211	7,015	173,839	25,867	(13,458)
Maine	286,616	319,951	37,127	302,486	356,037	7,371	15,870	36,086	(29,756)
Maryland	813,797	1,145,782	53,768	936,505	1,209,827	10,573	122,708	64,045	(43,195)
Massachusetts	878,502	1,616,487	173,564	1,067,169	1,793,920		188,667	177,433	(173,564)
Michigan	1,953,139	2,170,418	84,165	2,306,259	2,471,402	23,914	353,120	300,984	(60,251)
Minnesota	1,109,659	1,168,266	126,696	1,345,168	1,443,564	18,537	235,509	275,298	(108,159)
Mississippi	572,844	404,614	8,122	657,920	435,584	2,995	85,076	30,970	(5,127)
Missouri	1,189,924	1,111,138	38,515	1,452,715	1,253,879		262,791	142,741	(38,515)
Montana	240,178	137,126	24,437	260,463	168,707	6,030	20,285	31,581	(18,407)
Nebraska	433,862	231,780	24,540	485,837	233,970	5,287	51,975	2,190	(19,253)
Nevada	301,575	279,978	15,008	414,939	393,372	4,785	113,364	113,394	(10,223)
New Hampshire	273,559	266,348	22,198	330,848	340,019	4,447	57,289	73,671	(17,751)
New Jersey	1,284,173	1,788,850	94,554	1,587,494	1,799,320	18,614	303,321	10,470	(75,940)
New Mexico	286,417	286,783	21,251	363,369	351,070	3,822	76,952	64,287	(17,429)
New York	2,403,374	4,107,697	244,030	2,774,079	3,956,285	102,858	370,705	(151,412)	(141,172)
North Carolina	1,631,163	1,257,692		1,906,867	1,468,277		275,704	210,585	0
North Dakota	174,852	95,284	9,486	195,998	110,662	3,741	21,146	15,378	(5,745)
Ohio	2,351,209	2,186,190	117,857	2,796,147	2,659,664		444,938	473,474	(117,857)
Oklahoma	744,337	474,276		959,655	504,077		215,318	29,801	0
Oregon	713,577	720,342	77,357	773,401	851,552		59,824	131,210	(77,357)
Pennsylvania	2,281,127	2,485,967	103,392	2,748,900	2,870,358		467,773	384,391	(103,392)
Rhode Island	130,555	249,508	25,052	161,345	247,071	3,976	30,790	(2,437)	(21,076)
South Carolina	785,937	565,561	20,200	920,321	647,998	5,410	134,384	82,437	(14,790)
South Dakota	190,700	118,804		232,545	149,225	4,317	41,845	30,421	4,317
Tennessee	1,061,949	981,720	19,781	1,381,237	1,032,789	8,832	319,288	51,069	(10,949)
Texas	3,799,639	2,433,746	137,994	4,495,797	2,816,501		696,158	382,755	(137,994)
Utah	515,096	203,053	35,850	600,564	224,848	10,742	85,468	21,795	(25,108)
Vermont	119,775	149,022	20,374	120,710	183,621	4,426	935	34,599	(15,948)
Virginia	1,437,490	1,217,290	59,398	1,662,439	1,396,233		224,949	178,943	(59,398)
Washington	1,108,864	1,247,652	103,002	877,796	997,204	13,883	(231,068)	(250,448)	(89,119)
West Virginia	336,475	295,497	10,680	418,151	321,641	3,951	81,676	26,144	(6,729)
Wisconsin	1,237,279	1,242,987	94,070	1,477,122	1,488,935	16,324	239,843	245,948	(77,746)
Wyoming	147,947	60,481	46,252	167,130	70,620	2,734	19,183	10,139	(43,518)
Total	50,456,002	50,999,897	527,401	58,883,684	55,312,187	36,892	8,427,682	4,312,290	(2,928,736)

[Ragnorak]

****These are not final vote counts**** especially California

I live in New York and a friend asked me to look up the 2000-2004 election differences for obvious reasons. It turns out Bush got 370,000 more votes than in 2000 and Kerry got 150,000 fewer than Gore. (I know, NY has NO excuse but we have to take hope where we can.) I thought a state by state breakdown would be interesting for people to see. I threw Nader in too for fun.

( ) means a negative number, it's easier on the eyes than minus signs.

Enjoy the sunrise everyone, It's morning in America!!!

[eureka!]

Thanks for the post...

[backhoe]

Bush breaks popular vote records

[soccer_linux_mozilla]

Let's update this after the final numbers are in

[Dr. Frank fan]

The heavy negatives (for *both* Bush and Kerry) in states like CA and WA are presumably due to the high number of absentee/mail votes in those states, which perhaps haven't been included in these totals (I'm guessing?).

[InvisibleChurch]

would you get a final list sometime and then ping me? ... this is a good thing

[rantblogger]

Kerry's Marginal Futility - 2004 Blue State Trend Analysis
http://la4israel.org/wordpress/2004/11/03/2202/

Kerry took New Hampshire from the GOP and lost New Mexico and Iowa.

Let's look closer at the Blue states to see how much more was lost by Kerry, Michael Moore, MoveOn, Democratic Underground and their ilk.

Here are the 2004 Blue states with their 2000 and 2004 margins of victory (rounded numbers):

• Washington - 140,000 DOWN TO 120,000. 14% less blue.
• Oregon - 8,000 UP TO 80,000. MUCH bluer.
• California - 1.3M DOWN TO 1M. MUCH less blue. 300,000 votes less blue.
• Hawaii - 68,000 DOWN TO 37,000. MUCH less blue. HALF as blue.
• Minnesota - 60,000 UP TO 98,000. MUCH bluer.
• Wisconsin - 5,700 UP TO 11,000. A little bluer.
• Illinois - 570,000 DOWN TO 513,000. A little less blue, about 10%.
• Michigan - 220,000 DOWN TO 165,000. LESS blue, about 25%
• DC - 150,000 UP TO 164,000. 10% bluer.
• Delaware - 43,000 DOWN TO 27,000. 37% less blue.
• Maryland - 330,000 DOWN TO 280,000. Less blue. 15% less blue.
• Pennsylvania - 200,000 DOWN TO 122,000. 39% less blue.
• New Jersey - 500,000 DOWN TO 212,000. MUCH less blue.  288,000 votes less blue.  58% less blue.
• New York - 1.7M DOWN TO 1.2M. MUCH less blue. Half a million votes less blue.  29% less blue.
• Connecticutt - 255,000 DOWN TO 160,000. MUCH less blue.  37% less blue.
• Rhode Island - 119,000 DOWN TO 86,000. Less blue. 28% less blue.
• Massachusetts - 750,000 DOWN TO 726,000. Little less blue.
• Vermont - 30,000 UP TO 63,000. MUCH bluer.
• Maine - 33,000 UP TO 55,000. Bluer.

Few blue states got bluer and a lot of the big Electoral College states got MUCH less blue. No big EC state margin got bluer. Just OR, MN, WI, DC, VT and ME got bluer.

Conclusion:  Dubya didn't just win where he won. He mostly won where he lost, too.

Sources for data: 

• http://news.yahoo.com/electionresults
• http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/2000/popular_vote.html

 

[capydick]

Look at New Jersey. Basically the same voters/dead people for Gore and Kerry but - 303K more votes for President Bush. I always thought a rally at Liberty State Park with Manhattan as a back drop would have made for a powerful visual and would have tipped the state in his favor. Oh well - I'm still happy with the results.

[Michael.SF.]

There are some obvious errors in the totals of the Nader votes, but otherwise interesting information.

Especially, California. Nader was not an option here and he received 418,000 votes in 2000. Had the Democrats not kept him off the ballot, who knows how many votes he might have taken away from Kerry, overall.

Those lost Nader votes did not translate into pro Kerry votes, or so it appears.

[Jaded]

mark

[Ragnorak]

I got the totals from http://news.yahoo.com/elections and some states were still in the high 90+% reporting.

I got the 2000 results here:http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html

I'll working on updating it again when we have more final numbers.

[newberger]

This is an oversimplification but if Oregon's highly partisan SOS had let Nader on the ballot and all of his 2000 voters stayed with him then Bush could have won Oregon.

Do the math!