United States Senate election in Idaho, 2004

United States Senate election in Idaho, 2004

November 2, 2004

Nominee Mike Crapo Party Republican Popular vote 499,796 Percentage 99.2%

County results

U.S. senator before election Mike Crapo Republican Elected U.S. Senator Mike Crapo Republican

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. Scott McClure conducted a write-in campaign but only received 4,136 votes, or about 1% of those cast.

Republican primary

Candidates

• Mike Crapo, incumbent U.S. Senator

Results

Republican Party primary results
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mike Crapo (inc.)	118,286	100.00
Total votes			118,286	100.00

General election

Candidates

On ballot

• Mike Crapo (R), incumbent U.S. Senator

Write in

• Scott McClure, Army veteran (Registered Democrat)

Results

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

United States Senate election in Idaho, 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike Crapo (inc.)	499,796	99.18%	+29.64%
	Write-in	Scott McClure	4,136	0.82%
Majority			495,660	98.36%	+57.22%
Turnout			503,932
	Republican hold		Swing