United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 2004

By voting for Senator John F. Kerry, Pennsylvania was the only major swing state of three to choose the Democratic challenger (Ohio and Florida, the other two extremely pivotal states, both went for Bush.) This Kerry victory can be attributed to the overwhelmingly Democratic cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. While it should be noted that smaller Kerry-held cities which voted for the Senator by narrow margins assisted him in advancing his margin over President Bush, many political anaylsts underscored the fact that if Philadelphia were excluded, President George W. Bush would have won Pennsylvania by a fairly slim margin, with 2,663,748 versus 2,395,890 for Kerry. Interestingly, though Pennsylvania is closely divided in most elections, it has not voted Republican in a Presidential election since 1988.

Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were the biggest contributors to Kerry's victory in Pennsylvania. However, many liberal Republicans in suburban Philadelphia counties (Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, and somewhat in Chester) voted for Kerry, which may well have been the deciding factor. Kerry also had narrow margins of victory around cities like Allentown, Scranton, Erie, and the traditionally Democratic Pittsburgh suburbs; he also garnered many votes in certain rural areas such as parts of the Poconos and the Laurel Highlands, and in cities like Reading, Johnstown, Harrisburg, and State College. Bush's margins were extremely large in Central Pennsylvania and the sparsely populated Northern Tier, with traditional GOP cities such as Lancaster, Lebanon, York, Altoona, and Williamsport strongly throwing their support behind him. This area, along with rural Western Maryland, was clearly the most conservative in the Northeast.

Presidential Candidate	Running Mate	Party	Electoral Vote (EV)	Popular Vote (PV)
John Kerry of Massachusetts	John Edwards of North Carolina	Democrat	21	2,938,095	50.92%
George W. Bush of Texas	Richard Cheney of Wyoming	Republican	0	2,793,847	48.42%
Michael Badnarik of Texas	Richard Campagna of Iowa	Libertarian	0	21,185	0.37%
Others	-	-	0	16,463	0.29%
Other elections: 2000, 2004, 2008

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

Results by county

County	John Kerry		George Bush		Other
County	Percentage	Count	Percentage	Count	Percentage	Count
Adams	32.6%	13,764	66.9%	28,247	0.5%	217
Allegheny	57.2%	368,912	42.1%	271,925	0.7%	4,632
Armstrong	38.7%	12,025	60.9%	18,925	0.5%	147
Beaver	51.1%	42,146	48.4%	39,916	0.6%	481
Bedford	26.5%	6,016	73.2%	16,606	0.3%	57
Berks	46.4%	76,309	53.0%	87,122	0.6%	1,056
Blair	33.4%	18,105	66.0%	35,751	0.6%	322
Bradford	33.5%	8,590	66.0%	16,942	0.5%	120
Bucks	51.1%	163,438	48.3%	154,469	0.6%	1,909
Butler	35.2%	30,090	64.3%	54,959	0.4%	376
Cambria	48.7%	32,591	50.8%	34,048	0.5%	344
Cameron	33.0%	794	66.5%	1,599	0.5%	13
Carbon	48.8%	12,223	50.0%	12,519	1.2%	301
Centre	47.8%	30,733	51.6%	33,133	0.6%	387
Chester	47.5%	109,708	52.0%	120,036	0.5%	1,079
Clarion	35.2%	6,049	64.4%	11,063	0.4%	72
Clearfield	39.5%	13,518	60.0%	20,533	0.5%	182
Clinton	41.7%	5,823	57.5%	8,035	0.8%	109
Columbia	39.7%	10,679	59.7%	16,052	0.5%	138
Crawford	41.8%	16,013	57.3%	21,965	0.9%	344
Cumberland	35.8%	37,928	63.8%	67,648	0.5%	506
Dauphin	45.6%	55,299	53.9%	65,296	0.5%	613
Delaware	57.1%	162,601	42.3%	120,425	0.5%	1,512
Elk	45.4%	6,602	54.1%	7,872	0.5%	76
Erie	53.9%	67,921	45.6%	57,372	0.5%	605
Fayette	53.2%	29,120	45.8%	25,045	1.0%	542
Forest	38.4%	989	61.1%	1,571	0.5%	13
Franklin	28.3%	16,562	71.4%	41,817	0.3%	190
Fulton	23.5%	1,475	76.1%	4,772	0.4%	24
Greene	49.3%	7,674	50.0%	7,786	0.7%	105
Huntingdon	32.6%	5,879	67.2%	12,126	0.3%	53
Indiana	43.7%	15,831	55.9%	20,254	0.4%	163
Jefferson	31.0%	6,073	68.4%	13,371	0.6%	116
Juniata	28.0%	2,797	71.4%	7,144	0.6%	65
Lackawanna	56.3%	59,573	42.3%	44,766	1.4%	1,480
Lancaster	33.6%	74,328	65.8%	145,591	0.6%	1,359
Lawrence	49.2%	21,387	50.5%	21,938	0.3%	117
Lebanon	32.5%	18,109	66.6%	37,089	0.8%	467
Lehigh	51.0%	73,940	48.4%	70,160	0.7%	991
Luzerne	51.1%	69,573	47.7%	64,953	1.1%	1,502
Lycoming	31.3%	15,681	67.9%	33,961	0.8%	407
McKean	36.1%	6,294	62.8%	10,941	1.1%	191
Mercer	48.2%	24,831	51.0%	26,311	0.8%	422
Mifflin	29.1%	4,889	69.8%	11,726	1.1%	187
Monroe	49.6%	27,967	49.6%	27,971	0.7%	404
Montgomery	55.6%	222,048	44.0%	175,741	0.5%	1,802
Montour	35.0%	2,666	64.3%	4,903	0.7%	55
Northampton	50.1%	63,446	49.0%	62,102	0.9%	1,192
Northumberland	39.3%	14,602	60.0%	22,262	0.7%	270
Perry	27.9%	5,423	71.6%	13,919	0.4%	85
Philadelphia	80.4%	542,205	19.3%	130,099	0.3%	1,765
Pike	40.6%	8,656	58.4%	12,444	0.9%	199
Potter	28.5%	2,268	70.8%	5,640	0.7%	54
Schuylkill	44.8%	29,231	54.6%	35,640	0.6%	398
Snyder	29.0%	4,348	70.5%	10,566	0.5%	69
Somerset	34.9%	12,842	64.7%	23,802	0.4%	134
Sullivan	36.9%	1,213	62.6%	2,056	0.5%	16
Susquehanna	38.6%	7,351	60.8%	11,573	0.6%	116
Tioga	30.9%	5,437	68.4%	12,019	0.7%	115
Union	35.4%	5,700	64.1%	10,334	0.6%	89
Venango	38.1%	9,024	61.2%	14,472	0.7%	163
Warren	41.7%	8,044	57.1%	10,999	1.2%	230
Washington	50.1%	48,225	49.6%	47,673	0.3%	279
Wayne	36.7%	8,060	62.4%	13,713	0.9%	194
Westmoreland	43.5%	77,774	56.0%	100,087	0.5%	835
Wyoming	38.8%	4,982	60.6%	7,782	0.5%	68
York	35.5%	63,701	63.7%	114,270	0.7%	1,298

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