2004 United States presidential election
Results
Source (Electoral and Popular Vote): Federal Elections Commission Electoral and Popular Vote SummaryVoting age population: 215,664,000 Percent of voting age population casting a vote for president: 56.70% One faithless elector from Minnesota cast an electoral vote for John Edwards (written as John Ewards) for president.

2004 United States presidential election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: Source (Electoral and Popular Vote): Federal Elections Commission Electoral and Popular Vote SummaryVoting age population: 215,664,000 Percent of voting age population casting a vote for president: 56.70% One faithless elector from Minnesota cast an electoral vote for John Edwards (written as John Ewards) for president.

Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote	Electoral vote	Running mate

Count	Percentage	Vice-presidential candidate

George Walker Bush	Republican	Texas	62,040,610	50.73%	286	Richard Bruce Cheney	Wyoming	286

John Forbes Kerry	Democratic	Massachusetts	59,028,444	48.27%	251	John Reid Edwards	North Carolina	251

John Edwards(a)	Democratic	North Carolina	1	John Reid Edwards	North Carolina	1

Ralph Nader	Independent	Connecticut	465,650	0.38%	0	Peter Camejo	California	0

Michael Badnarik	Libertarian	Texas	397,265	0.32%	0	Richard Campagna	Iowa	0

Michael Peroutka	Constitution	Maryland	143,630	0.12%	0	Chuck Baldwin	Florida	0

David Cobb	Green	Texas	119,859	0.10%	0	Pat LaMarche	Maine	0

Leonard Peltier	Peace and Freedom	Pennsylvania	27,607	0.02%	0	Janice Jordan	California	0

Walt Brown	Socialist	Oregon	10,837	0.01%	0	Mary Alice Herbert	Vermont	0

Róger Calero(b)	Socialist Workers	New York	3,689	0.01%	0	Arrin Hawkins(b)	Minnesota	0

Thomas Harens	Christian Freedom	Minnesota	2,387	0.002%	0	Jennifer Ryan	Minnesota	0

Other	50,652	0.04%	—	Other	—

Total	122,295,345	100%	538	538

Needed to win	270	270

Sentence(s)

Bush received 62,040,610 popular votes compared to Kerry's 59,028,444.

final_sentence: Bush received 62,040,610 popular votes compared to Kerry's 59,028,444.