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.
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
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)
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]
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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. ...