List of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2004

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. All lists are in alphabetical order by Presidential candidate.

Party nominees

Those who were on the ballot in enough states to theoretically win a majority in the U.S. Electoral College are marked in bold. Candidates who are known to have appeared on at least two states' ballots are marked in italic.

Presidential candidate	Party	Running mate
Gene Amondson	Prohibition^[1]	Leroy Pletten
Stanford Andress^[2]	Independent	Irene M. Deasy
Michael Badnarik	Libertarian	Richard Campagna
Walt Brown	Socialist	Mary Alice Herbert
George W. Bush (winner)	Republican	Richard Cheney
Róger Calero	Socialist Workers^[3]	Arrin Hawkins
David Cobb	Green	Pat LaMarche
Earl F. Dodge^[2]	Prohibition^[1]	Howard Lydick
Thomas Harens^[4]	Christian Freedom	Jennifer Ryan
James Harris	Socialist Workers^[3]	Margaret Trowe
Charles Jay^[5]	Personal Choice	Marilyn Chambers
John Kerry	Democratic	John Edwards
Ralph Nader	Independent, Reform	Peter Camejo
John Parker	Workers World	Teresa Gutierrez
Leonard Peltier^[6]	Peace & Freedom	Janice Jordan
Michael Peroutka	Constitution	Chuck Baldwin
Bill Van Auken	Socialist Equality	Jim Lawrence

Notes

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ ^a ^b On ballot in Colorado.
^ ^a ^b The Socialist Workers Party ran in two different slates. Their official slate of Calero/Hawkins were ineligible to be President, so in some states the party attempted to use their 2000 slate of Harris/Trowe.
^ On ballot in Minnesota
^ On ballot in Utah.
^ On ballot in California.

Primary and convention candidates

Blake Ashby (Republican)
Katherine Bateman (Democratic)
Sheila Bilyeu (Green)
Dick Bosa (Republican)
Carol Moseley Braun (Democratic)
Harry Braun (Democratic)
John Buchanan (Republican)
Michael Callis (Republican)
Peter Camejo (Green)
Willie Carter (Democratic)
Jeanne Chebib (Democratic)
Eric Chester (Socialist)
Wesley Clark (Democratic)
Randy Crow (Democratic)
Howard Dean (Democratic)
Jeffrey Diket (Libertarian)
Gerry Dokka (Democratic)
Don Doumakes (Socialist)
John Edwards (Democratic)
John A. Estrada (Democratic)
Richard Gephardt (Democratic)
Mildred Glover (Democratic)
Paul Glover (Green)
George Gostigian (Republican)
Bob Graham (Democratic)
Robert Haines (Republican)
Vincent Hamm (Democratic)
Mark Harnes (Republican)
Mildred Howard (Republican)
Caroline Killeen (Democratic)
Dennis Kucinich (Democratic)
Lyndon LaRouche (Democratic)
Tom Laughlin (Republican)
Randy Lee (Democratic)
Joe Lieberman (Democratic)
Robert Linnell (Democratic)
Bill McGaughey (Democratic)
Kent Mesplay (Green)
Carol Miller (Green)
Gary Nolan (Libertarian)
Cornelius O'Connor (Republican)
Edward O'Donnell (Democratic)
Fern Penna (Democratic)
Rubén Pérez (Libertarian)
John Rigazio (Republican)
Aaron Russo (Libertarian)
Lorna Salzman (Green)
Al Sharpton (Democratic)
Vermin Supreme (Democratic)
Leonard Talbow (Democratic)
Jim Taylor. (Republican)
Florence Walker (Democratic)
Lisa Weltman (Socialist)
Lucian Wojciechowski (Democratic)
Bill Wyatt (Republican)

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).

	EV	Lib.	Green	Const.	Nader	Soc. Wk.	Soc.	Others
States	51	49	28	36	35	14	8
Electoral Votes	538	527	286	357	278	151	98
Percent of Voters	100%	98.3%	54.3%	66.5%	50.3%	29.7%	20.1%
Alabama	9
Alaska	3
Arizona	10
Arkansas	6
California	55
Colorado	9							Proh., Soc. Eq.
Connecticut	7
Delaware	3
Florida	27
Georgia	15
Hawaii	4
Idaho	4
Illinois	21
Indiana	11
Iowa	7							Socialist Equality
Kansas	6
Kentucky	8
Louisiana	9							Prohibition
Maine	4
Maryland	10
Massachusetts	12
Michigan	17
Minnesota	10							Socialist Equality
Mississippi	6
Missouri	11
Montana	3
Nebraska	5
Nevada	5
New Hampshire	4
New Jersey	15							Socialist Equality
New Mexico	5
New York	31
North Carolina	15
North Dakota	3
Ohio	20
Oklahoma	7
Oregon	7
Pennsylvania	21
Rhode Island	4							Workers World
South Carolina	8
South Dakota	3
Tennessee	11
Texas	34
Utah	5
Vermont	3							Workers World
Virginia	13
Washington	11							Soc. Eq., Wks. Wld.
West Virginia	5
Wisconsin	10
Wyoming	3
District of Columbia	3

External links

2004 United States Presidential Election
Candidates	George W. Bush · John Kerry · Ralph Nader · Full list
General articles	Election timeline · Detailed results · Democratic primaries · Republican Convention · Democratic Convention · Effects in Canada
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Other 2004 elections	House · Senate · Gubernatorial

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