List of candidates in the 2004 United States presidential election

The following are lists of candidates in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Candidates who were not on any state ballots, withdrew from the race, suspended their presidential campaign, or failed to earn their party's nomination are listed separately.

Party nominees

All candidates in the table below were on the ballot in multiple states. Those who were on the ballot in enough states to win a majority in the U.S. Electoral College are marked in bold. Candidates who were on the ballot in no more than one state are listed in the next section.

Presidential candidate	Running mate	Party
Gene Amondson	Leroy Pletten	Prohibition
Michael Badnarik	Richard Campagna	Libertarian
Walt Brown	Mary Alice Herbert	Socialist
George W. Bush (winner)	Richard Cheney	Republican
Róger Calero	Arrin Hawkins	Socialist Workers
David Cobb	Pat LaMarche	Green
Earl F. Dodge	Howard Lydick	Prohibition
John Kerry	John Edwards	Democratic
Ralph Nader	Peter Camejo	Independent, Reform
John Parker	Teresa Gutierrez	Workers World
Michael Peroutka	Chuck Baldwin	Constitution
Bill Van Auken	Jim Lawrence	Socialist Equality

Ballot access

The two major parties in the United States are the Democratic and the Republican parties, which are on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia.

The table below shows which third-party candidates were able to gain ballot access in each state. In some states, these candidates were on the ballot as independents, or on the ballot lines of different parties (for example, in Michigan the Socialist Party USA candidate received the Natural Law Party's ballot line.)

The Socialist Workers Party's official ticket could not be listed on the ballot in some states because Calero and Hawkins were both ineligible to be president, as Calero was not a native-born citizen and Hawkins was too young. In such states the party used their 2000 ticket of James Harris and Margaret Trowe (JH).

The Prohibition Party suffered a schism in 2003. Long-time presidential candidate Earl Dodge was the nominee of one faction, while Gene Amondson was the nominee of the other. Both factions were on the ballot in Colorado, with only Amondson on the ballot in Louisiana.

Candidates who had enough potential electoral votes to win the presidency

	Electoral Votes	Libertarian (Badnarik)	Green (Cobb)	Nader	Constitution (Peroutka)
States	51	49 (50)	25 (43)	35 (48)	34 (42)
Electoral votes (EV)	538	527 (531)	267 (479)	278 (507)	341 (430)
Percent of EV	100%	97.9% (98.7%)	49.6% (89%)	51.7% (94.2%)	63.3% (79.9%)
Alabama	9		(write-in)		(write-in)
Alaska	3				(write-in)
Arizona	10		(write-in)	(write-in)
Arkansas	6
California	55			(write-in)
Colorado	9
Connecticut	7
Delaware	3
Florida	27
Georgia	15		(write-in)	(write-in)	(write-in)
Hawaii	4
Idaho	4		(write-in)	(write-in)
Illinois	21		(write-in)	(write-in)	(write-in)
Indiana	11			(write-in)	(write-in)
Iowa	7
Kansas	6		(write-in)
Kentucky	8
Louisiana	9
Maine	4
Maryland	10
Massachusetts	12			(write-in)
Michigan	17
Minnesota	10
Mississippi	6
Missouri	11			(write-in)
Montana	3
Nebraska	5
Nevada	5
New Hampshire	4	(write-in)	(write-in)		(write-in)
New Jersey	15
New Mexico	5
New York	31		(write-in)
North Carolina	15		(write-in)	(write-in)
North Dakota	3
Ohio	20		(write-in)
Oklahoma	7
Oregon	7			(write-in)
Pennsylvania	21			(write-in)
Rhode Island	4
South Carolina	8
South Dakota	3
Tennessee	11		(write-in)
Texas	34		(write-in)	(write-in)	(write-in)
Utah	5		(write-in)
Vermont	3		(write-in)		(write-in)
Virginia	13		(write-in)	(write-in)
Washington	11
West Virginia	5		(write-in)
Wisconsin	10				(write-in)
Wyoming	3		(write-in)
District of Columbia	3		(write-in)

Other third-party candidates

	Electoral Votes	Prohibition (Amondson)	Socialist (Brown)	Socialist Workers (Calero)	Workers World (Parker)	Socialist Equality (Van Auken)
States	51	2	8 (19)	14 (17)	3 (4)	5 (8)
EV	538	18	98 (218)	151 (247)	18 (73)	52 (93)
Percent of EV	100%	3.3%	18.2% (40.5%)	28% (45.9%)	3.3% (13.6%)	9.6% (17.3%)
Alabama	9
Alaska	3
Arizona	10
Arkansas	6
California	55			(write-in)	(write-in)
Colorado	9	(also Dodge)		(JH)
Connecticut	7
Delaware	3
Florida	27			(JH)
Georgia	15
Hawaii	4
Idaho	4		(write-in)
Illinois	21			(write-in)
Indiana	11		(write-in)
Iowa	7			(JH)
Kansas	6		(write-in)			(write-in)
Kentucky	8		(write-in)
Louisiana	9			(JH)
Maine	4					(write-in)
Maryland	10
Massachusetts	12
Michigan	17
Minnesota	10		(write-in)
Mississippi	6			(JH)
Missouri	11
Montana	3		(write-in)
Nebraska	5
Nevada	5
New Hampshire	4
New Jersey	15
New Mexico	5
New York	31					(write-in)
North Carolina	15		(write-in)
North Dakota	3
Ohio	20			(write-in)
Oklahoma	7
Oregon	7
Pennsylvania	21
Rhode Island	4
South Carolina	8
South Dakota	3
Tennessee	11		(write-in)
Texas	34		(write-in)
Utah	5		(write-in)	(JH)
Vermont	3
Virginia	13		(write-in)
Washington	11			(JH)
West Virginia	5
Wisconsin	10			(JH)
Wyoming	3
District of Columbia	3			(JH)

Other candidates

The tickets below were on the ballot in no more than one state. Those who appeared on a single state's ballot are in bold, all others were write-in candidates. Those without party labels were independents. Some did not have vice-presidential candidates.

A. J. Albritton (American Republican Party—Mississippi)
Sterling Allan (Providential Party—Utah)
Stanford E. "Andy" Andress/Irene M. Deasy (Colorado)
Lawson M. Bone (Tennessee)
Kenneth M. Bonnell (Mississippi)
Robert A. Boyle II (Maryland)
Harry Braun (Arizona)
Theodis "Ted" Brown Sr. (Missouri)
Michael Massa/Ned Stanley (Chaminade Party-Missouri)
Fred Cook (Georgia)
Eric J. Davis (Michigan)
Robert DiGiulio (Children's Party—Vermont)
Bob Dorn (Washington)
Lonnie D. Frank (California)
Ronald "John Galt Jr." Gascon (Pennsylvania)
Jack Grimes (United Fascist Union—Pennsylvania)
Michael Halpin (New York)
Thomas Harens/Jennifer Ryan (Christian Freedom Party—Minnesota)
Larry D. Hines (Texas)
Georgia Hough (Georgia)
Charles Jay/Marilyn Chambers (Personal Choice—Utah)
Keith Judd (Massachusetts)
Darren E. Karr (Party X—Oregon)
Samuel Keegan (Rhode Island)
John Joseph Kennedy (Georgia)
Tom Laughlin
Joseph Martyniuk Jr. (Illinois)
David Mevis (Mississippi)
Muadin (E-Democratic Party—Massachusetts)
Leonard Peltier/Janice Jordan (Peace and Freedom—California)
Jeffrey Peters (We the People Party—New Hampshire)
Andrew M. Rotramel (Texas)
Joseph "Average Joe" Schriner (Ohio)
Dennis P. Slatton (United America Party—North Carolina)
Dan Snow (Texas)
Brian B. Springfield (Virginia)
Diane Templin (American Party—California)
Lawrence Rey Topham (Utah)
Lemuel Tucker (Michigan)
Da Vid (Light Party—California)
Tom Wells (Family Values Party—Florida)
A. J. Wildman (Virginia)

Although Guam has no votes in the Electoral College, they have held a straw poll for their presidential preferences since 1980. In 2004, the results were Bush 21,490 (64.1%), Kerry 11,781 (35.1%), Nader 196 (0.58%) and Badnarik 67 (0.2%).^[1]

Primary and convention candidates

References

^ "2004 Presidential Vote". Ballot-Access.org. 2004-12-12. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
^ Talk of the Nation interview with guests Harry Braun and Vijay Vaitheeswaran (November 21, 2003). "New Energy Policy". NPR.
^ Joel Achenbach (January 13, 2004). "A Show of Hands". The Washington Post. ...turned out to be a ballot with easy-on, easy-off access. Essentially anyone could join the fun. Among those running is Harry Braun (no relation to [Carol Moseby Braun] the former senator), the only candidate whose slogan is "Making America Energy Independent & Pollution-Free with Windship Hydrogen Production Systems." "I'm talking about making the hydrogen from water," Braun said in a phone interview Sunday. "President Bush wants to make it from coal and nuclear power. That's not clean hydrogen, that's filthy hydrogen, and that's nonrenewable hydrogen." The Braun plan is to build "windships," which he describes as 500 to 1,000 feet tall, with the "hull" anchored under the sea just off the coast. A large mast would hold wind turbines. A crew, below water, would run the machinery to convert ocean water to liquid hydrogen. Each windship would cost $10 million. How many of these enormous windships would Braun need? "About a million," he said. The project would cost $6 trillion total, in his estimation. ...
^ hosted by The New Hampshire Political Library (January 8, 2004). "Lesser-Known Presidential Candidates' Forum". C-SPAN. Fifteen presidential and two vice presidential candidates spoke...

External links

[guam-1] "2004 Presidential Vote". Ballot-Access.org. 2004-12-12. Retrieved 2008-09-17.

[2] Talk of the Nation interview with guests Harry Braun and Vijay Vaitheeswaran (November 21, 2003). "New Energy Policy". NPR.

[3] Joel Achenbach (January 13, 2004). "A Show of Hands". The Washington Post. ...turned out to be a ballot with easy-on, easy-off access. Essentially anyone could join the fun. Among those running is Harry Braun (no relation to [Carol Moseby Braun] the former senator), the only candidate whose slogan is "Making America Energy Independent & Pollution-Free with Windship Hydrogen Production Systems." "I'm talking about making the hydrogen from water," Braun said in a phone interview Sunday. "President Bush wants to make it from coal and nuclear power. That's not clean hydrogen, that's filthy hydrogen, and that's nonrenewable hydrogen." The Braun plan is to build "windships," which he describes as 500 to 1,000 feet tall, with the "hull" anchored under the sea just off the coast. A large mast would hold wind turbines. A crew, below water, would run the machinery to convert ocean water to liquid hydrogen. Each windship would cost $10 million. How many of these enormous windships would Braun need? "About a million," he said. The project would cost $6 trillion total, in his estimation. ...

[4] sted by The New Hampshire Political Library (January 8, 2004). "Lesser-Known Presidential Candidates' Forum". C-SPAN. Fifteen presidential and two vice presidential candidates spoke...

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Party nominees

Ballot access

Primary and convention candidates

See also

References

External links