2004 United States presidential election in Vermont

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|[[File:Vermont Presidential Election Results 2004.svg|x250px]] |County Results |[[File:Vermont Presidential Election Results 2004 by Municipality.svg|x250px]] |Municipality Results}} Kerry Bush The 2004 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Vermont is the home state of United States presidential candidate and anti-war advocate Howard Dean, its former governor. Vermont voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, over incumbent Republican President George W. Bush of Texas. Kerry received 58.94% of the vote to Bush's 38.80%, a Democratic victory margin of 20.14%.

Kerry also swept 13 of the state's 14 counties, breaking 60% in 6 of them. Kerry's strongest county was Windham County, which he won with 66.43% of the vote to Bush's 31.22%. Only one county voted for Bush, sparsely populated bellwether Essex County in the far northeast of the state, which Bush won with 54.17% of the vote. A state with strong liberal and anti-war tendencies, Vermont registered as the third most Democratic state in the nation in the 2004 election, its results making the state about 23% more Democratic than the nation. It also had the strongest Democratic swing of any state in the nation against Bush compared to the 2000 result. Even as Bush increased his nationwide popular vote support from a 0.52% loss to Al Gore in 2000 to a 2.46% nationwide victory in 2004, Vermont swung 10.20% against Bush, representing the strongest such swing and making the state trend 13.18% Democratic relative to the nation. This portended the future trend of the state toward dominance by the Democratic Party, as Democrat Barack Obama would carry the state in a 67-30 landslide four years later in 2008 and again in 2012.

Kerry, from neighboring Massachusetts, was the first Northern Democrat ever to carry Vermont. The previous three Democratic presidential candidates to carry the state were all from the South (Lyndon B. Johnson was from Texas, Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Al Gore from Tennessee), even though Vermont is a northern state. This was the first time a Republican had won the national popular vote without carrying Vermont (and so far the only time a Republican has done so with a majorly of the popular vote). Bush thus became the first-ever Republican to win the White House without carrying Caledonia, Orange, or Orleans Counties. Bush became the first Republican to ever win two terms (and so far the only Republican candidate to win consecutive presidential elections) without ever carrying the state.

Results

Presidential candidate	Party	Popular vote	Percentage	Electoral vote
**John Kerry**	**Democratic**	**184,067**	**58.94%**	**3**
George W. Bush (incumbent)	Republican	121,180	38.80%	0
Ralph Nader	Independent	4,494	1.44%	0
Michael Badnarik	Libertarian	1,102	0.35%	0
Write ins		957	0.31%	0
John Parker	Liberty Union	265	0.09%	0
Róger Calero	Socialist Workers	244	0.08%	0

Source

By county

County	John Kerry
Democratic	George W. Bush
Republican	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Totals	184,067	58.94%	121,180	38.80%	7,062	2.26%	62,887	20.14%	312,309
	Addison		11,147		60.00%		7,077		38.09%		355		1.91%		4,070		21.91%		18,579
	Bennington		11,069		58.06%		7,616		39.95%		380		1.99%		3,453		18.11%		19,065
	Caledonia		7,106		50.00%		6,765		47.60%		340		2.39%		341		2.40%		14,211
	Chittenden		49,369		63.54%		26,422		34.01%		1,905		2.45%		22,947		29.53%		77,696
	Essex		1,276		43.45%		1,591		54.17%		70		2.38%		-315		-10.72%		2,937
	Franklin		10,598		53.20%		8,936		44.86%		386		1.95%		1,662		8.34%		19,920
	Grand Isle		2,246		55.09%		1,754		43.02%		77		1.89%		492		12.07%		4,077
	Lamoille		7,636		62.69%		4,260		34.97%		285		2.34%		3,376		27.72%		12,181
	Orange		8,159		54.78%		6,421		43.11%		315		2.12%		1,738		11.67%		14,895
	Orleans		6,330		51.71%		5,666		46.28%		246		2.01%		664		5.43%		12,242
	Rutland		15,904		51.34%		14,440		46.62%		631		2.03%		1,464		4.72%		30,975
	Washington		19,177		60.98%		11,461		36.44%		810		2.58%		7,716		24.54%		31,448
	Windham		15,489		66.43%		7,280		31.22%		547		2.35%		8,209		35.21%		23,316
	Windsor		18,561		60.33%		11,491		37.35%		715		2.33%		7,070		22.98%		30,767

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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Caledonia (largest municipality: St. Johnsbury)
• Orange (largest municipality: Randolph)
• Orleans (largest municipality: Derby)

By congressional district

Due to the state's low population, only one congressional district is allocated. This district, called the at-large district because it covers the entire state, is thus equivalent to the statewide election results.

District	Bush	Kerry	Representative		At-large
38.8%	**58.9%**		Bernie Sanders