2004 United States Senate election in Missouri

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2004 United States Senate election in Missouri
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  1998 November 2, 2004 2010  
  Kit Bond official portrait cropped.jpg Nancy Farmer (cropped).jpg
Nominee Kit Bond Nancy Farmer
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote1,518,0891,158,261
Percentage56.09%42.80%

2004 United States Senate election in Missouri results map by county.svg
County results

Bond:     50-60%     60-70%     70-80%     80-90%

Contents

Farmer:     50–60%     70–80%

U.S. senator before election

Kit Bond
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Kit Bond
Republican

The 2004 United States Senate election in Missouri was held November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kit Bond won re-election to a fourth term. [1]

Democratic primary

Results

Results

Democratic primary results [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Nancy Farmer 544,830 73.68%
Democratic Charles Berry143,22919.37%
Democratic Ronald Bonar51,3756.95%
Total votes739,434 100.00%

Libertarian primary

Candidates

Results

Libertarian primary results [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Libertarian Kevin Tull 3,916 100.00%
Total votes3,916 100.00%

Republican primary

Candidates

Results

Republican primary results [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Kit Bond (Incumbent) 541,998 88.08%
Republican Mike Steger73,35411.92%
Total votes615,352 100.00%

General election

Candidates

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Sabato's Crystal Ball [3] Safe RNovember 1, 2004

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [lower-alpha 1]
Margin
of error
Kit
Bond (R)
Nancy
Farmer (D)
Other /
Undecided
SurveyUSA October 29–31, 2004690 (LV)± 3.8%57%38%5%

Results

General election results [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Kit Bond (Incumbent) 1,518,089 56.09% +3.42%
Democratic Nancy Farmer1,158,26142.80%-0.97%
Libertarian Kevin Tull19,6480.73%-1.30%
Constitution Don Griffin10,4040.38%
Majority359,82813.30%+4.39%
Turnout 2,706,402
Republican hold Swing

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear

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References

  1. "All results". Archived from the original on March 12, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 "All results". Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  3. "The Final Predictions". Sabato's Crystal Ball. November 2004. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  4. "Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives".