A county result
Mahoning County, presidential election of 2004
Mahoning County
62.58%John Kerry (D), the most votes132,731Votes counted for president68.90%Ballots cast per registered voter
What this is
Mahoning County counted 132,731 votes for president across 3 candidates in 2004. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.
The count, as certified
Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Kerry | Democratic | 83,069 | 62.58% |
| George W. Bush | Republican | 48,712 | 36.70% |
| Other | Other | 950 | 0.72% |
| Ballots cast, all offices | — | 134,289 | 68.90% of registered voters |
This year in context
Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.
- Ohio that year
- Ohio went to George W. Bush (Republican) with 50.81%, a 2.1-point margin over John Kerry. The country elected George W. Bush.
- Against the state
- Mahoning County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+25.9 against Ohio's R+2.1: 28.0 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 86th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 2000
- From 2000 to 2004 the county's lean moved 0.7 points toward the Democrats, from D+25.2 to D+25.9.
- Matched
- Mahoning County parted from Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.
Every field this record holds
The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.
- Ballots cast
- 134,289
- Turnout
- 68.90%
- Registered voters
- 194,903
Where this appears
The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.
Sources
Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.
- County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2024 (V20) · MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL), Harvard Dataverse · 2004-11-02 · accessed 2026-09-17
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