2004 United States Senate election in Idaho

Summary

The 2004 United States Senate election in Idaho took place on November 2, 2004 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Mike Crapo ran for re-election and won a second term in office in a landslide after no one filed for the Democratic Party nomination. Democrat Scott McClure conducted a write-in campaign but only received 4,136 votes, or about 1% of those cast.

2004 United States Senate election in Idaho

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Nominee Mike Crapo
Party Republican
Popular vote 499,796
Percentage 99.18%

County results
Crapo:      ≥90%      100%

U.S. senator before election

Mike Crapo
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Mike Crapo
Republican

Republican primary edit

Candidates edit

Results edit

Republican Party primary results[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mike Crapo (incumbent) 118,286 100.00%
Total votes 118,286 100.00%

General election edit

Candidates edit

On ballot
Write-in
  • Scott F. McClure (D), Army veteran

Predictions edit

Source Ranking As of
Sabato's Crystal Ball[2] Safe R November 1, 2004

Results edit

 
Support for Scott McClure
Map legend
  •   ≥4%
  •   2–3%
  •   1–2%
  •   <1%
  •   No votes

Crapo won every county with over 90% of the vote. His weakest performance by far was in Democratic-leaning Latah County, where he got 95.6% of the vote to McClure's 4.4%.

United States Senate election in Idaho, 2004[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Mike Crapo (incumbent) 499,796 99.18% +29.64%
Democratic Scott McClure (write-in) 4,136 0.82% N/A
Majority 495,660 98.36% +57.22%
Total votes 503,932 100.0% +24.96%
Republican hold

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "2004 Primary Results statewide". Archived from the original on July 12, 2011. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  2. ^ "The Final Predictions". Sabato's Crystal Ball. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  3. ^ "Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives".