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The result in Ohio would decide the winner, although the results in New Mexico and Iowa were also undetermined. Bush led in Ohio, but the state was still counting provisional ballots. In the afternoon of the day after the election, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell announced that there were roughly 135,000 provisional ballots remaining ...
The 2004 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 20 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ohio was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by a 2.11%
The 4th district also gave Bush a narrow margin, giving him 51% of the vote. The now obsolete 5th district in the western part of the state was home to Iowa's most Republican areas, having elected Steve King to Congress in 2002; it gave Bush a landslide 21-point margin. In terms of counties carried, both candidates flipped counties.
Bush became the first president since Ronald Reagan in 1980 to see his party gain seats in both Houses of Congress during a presidential election year. Republicans would not win another trifecta until 2016. Future President Barack Obama was elected to the United States Senate in Illinois, and he was elected president in the next presidential ...
George Herbert Walker Bush served as the 41st president of the United States (1989–1993), the 43rd vice president (1981–1989), the 11th director of central intelligence (1976–1977), and as a United States representative from Texas (1967–1971).
He became the fourth sitting vice president to be elected president and the first to do so since Martin Van Buren in 1836 and the first person to succeed a president from his own party via election since Herbert Hoover in 1929. [101] [g] In the concurrent congressional elections, Democrats retained control of both houses of Congress. [155]
This is the electoral history of George W. Bush. George W. Bush served as the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009) and as the 46th governor of Texas (1995–2000). 1978 congressional election
Note: The national popular vote (from 18 of 24 states, the other six had electors chosen by the state legislature) was Jackson 41.36%, Adams 30.92%, Clay 12.99% and Crawford 11.21%. After none of the candidates had a majority on the electoral college, Adams won the contingent election in the House of Representatives.