United States presidential election, 2004, in Alaska

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Alaska once again voted for the Republican presidential nominee in 2004, as it has in every presidential election since statehood except for 1964. The Democratic presidential ticket though did better here in 2004 compared to 2000, narrowing the Republican advantage from around 31 percentage points in 2000 to approximately 25 percentage points in 2004 . John Kerry obtained nearly 36 percent of the vote, approximately 8 percentage points (or 32,021 votes) more then Al Gore's showing of around 28 percent in 2000. In comparison, incumbent President Bush only increased his vote in Alaska by around 2 percent (or 23,491 votes) from nearly 59 percent in 2000 to approximately 61 percent in 2004.

Presidential Candidate	Running Mate	Party	Electoral Vote (EV)	Popular Vote (PV)
John Kerry of Massachusetts	John Edwards of North Carolina	Democrat	0	111,025	35.52%
George W. Bush of Texas	Richard Cheney of Wyoming	Republican	3	190,889	61.07%
Michael Badnarik of Texas	Richard Campagna of Iowa	Libertarian	0	1,675	0.54%
David Cobb of California	Patricia LaMarche of Maine	Green	0	1,058	0.34%
Ralph Nader of Connecticut	Peter Miguel Camejo of California	Reform	0	5,069	1.62%
Michael Peroutka of Maryland	Chuck Baldwin of Florida	Alaska Independence Party	0	2,092	0.67%

Statewide winner in bold. See main article : U.S. presidential election, 2004.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska

	Preceding:	2000 Election
	Subsequent:	Next Presidential election in 2008