California Democratic primary, 2004

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The California Democratic primary, 2004 was held on March 2, 2004, the same day as the Republican primary. Senator John Kerry overwhelmingly won the primary over rivals Senator John Edwards, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and Reverend Al Sharpton. The primary was open to both registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters. 440 delegates were at stake, with 370 tied to the March primary.

[edit] Results

Key:

Withdrew
prior to contest

California Democratic presidential primary, 2004^[1]
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	National delegates
John Kerry	2,002,539	64.44%	288
John Edwards	614,441	19.77%	82
Dennis Kucinich	144,954	4.66%	0
Howard Dean	130,892	4.21%	0
Al Sharpton	59,326	1.91%	0
Joe Lieberman	52,780	1.70%	0
Wesley Clark	51,084	1.64%	0
Carol Moseley Braun	24,501	0.79%	0
Dick Gephardt	19,139	0.62%	0
Lyndon LaRouche	7,953	0.26%	0
Katarina Dunmar (write-in)	6	0.00%	0
James Alexander-Pace (write-in)	4	0.00%	0
John Nigro, Jr. (write-in)	4	0.00%	0
David Giacomuzzi (write-in)	3	0.00%	0
Fern Penna (write-in)	3	0.00%	0
Totals	3,107,629	100.00%	370