Full Presidential Results
Full Congressional Results, or click states on map above for individual state results

With three House seats too close to call (and two in Louisiana being forced to a runoff), Republicans will lead the 109th Congress with a 232-199-1 split in the House and a 55-44-1 in the Senate. Bush won the popular vote with a slim but clear majority (51%-48%), and the electoral vote by a more decisive margin (286-252). (I had predicted a 296-242 result with a similar popular vote; I predicted Bush would barely win Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes, but Kerry took them.)

Voter turnout set a few records. About 120 million, or 60% of eligible voters, voted in this year's election, meaning about 60 million people voted for Bush -- the most votes any candidate has ever received. That percentage turnout is the highest since 1968. At least six southern states -- AL, FL, GA, SC, TN, VA -- and DC set turnout records. Compare to 2000 (105.4 million voters, 54% turnout), 1996 (96.3 million, 49%), and 1992 (104.4 million, 55%).

Florida (27)
  52%-47% Bush

Pennsylvania (21)
  51%-49% Kerry

Ohio (20)
  51%-49% Bush

Michigan (17)
  51%-48% Kerry

Minnesota (10)
  51%-48% Kerry

Wisconsin (10)
  50%-49% Kerry

Iowa (7)
  50%-49% Bush

West Virginia (5)
  56%-43% Bush

Nevada (5)
  51%-48% Bush

New Mexico (5)
  50%-49% Bush

Hawaii (4)
  54%-45% Kerry

New Hampshire (4)
  50%-49% Kerry

Arkansas
  Blanche Lincoln
California
  Barbara Boxer
Colorado
  Ken Salazar
Connecticut
  Christopher Dodd
Hawaii
  Daniel Inouye
Illinois
  Barack Obama
Indiana
  Evan Bayh
Maryland
  Barbara Mikulski
Nevada
  Harry Reid
New York
  Charles Schumer
North Dakota
  Byron Dorgan
Oregon
  Ron Wyden
Vermont
  Pat Leahy
Washington
  Patty Murray
Wisconsin
  Russ Feingold

Alabama
  Richard Shelby
Alaska
  Lisa Murkowski
Arizona
  John McCain
Florida
  Mel Martinez
Georgia
  Johnny Isakson
Iowa
  Charles Grassley
Idaho
  Mike Crapo
Kansas
  Sam Brownback
Kentucky
  Jim Bunning
Louisiana
  David Vitter
Missouri
  Christopher Bond
New Hampshire
  Judd Gregg
North Carolina
  Richard Burr
Ohio
  George Voinovich
Oklahoma
  Tom Coburn
Pennsylvania
  Arlen Specter
South Carolina
  Jim DeMint
South Dakota
  John Thune
Utah
  Robert Bennett

Three of Georgia's Representatives in the 108th Congress left open seats for the 2004 election in favor of running for Zell Miller's open Senate seat. A fourth was ousted by a successful challenge, leaving nine incumbents to be re-elected. The party balance among Georgia's representatives in the House drops from an 8-5 to a 7-6 Republican majority, but Republican Johnny Isakson took over Democrat Zell Miller's Senate seat to offset the Republican loss in the House.

Meanwhile, the party balance in the General Assembly improved considerably for Republicans, who boosted their majorities in both the state Senate and House, to 34-22 and 96-84 respectively. Now the campaigns begin to determine whether current party leadership in each house needs to be reconsidered.

For full complete, statewide results, click the links below:

General: Nov. 4 and Nov. 23 runoff
Primary: July 20 and Aug. 10 runoff

Constitutional Amendment: Marriage

(a) This state shall recognize as marriage only the union of man and woman. Marriages between persons of the same sex are prohibited in this state.

(b) No union between persons of the same sex shall be recognized by this state as entitled to the benefits of marriage. This state shall not give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state or jurisdiction respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other state or jurisdiction. The courts of this state shall have no jurisdiction to grant a divorce or separate maintenance with respect to any such relationship or otherwise to consider or rule on any of the parties' respective rights arising as a result of or in connection with such relationship.

Constitutional Amendment: Courts

The Georgia Constitution already allowed the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to ask the Georgia Supreme Court to answer an unsettled question about state law that could have an important bearing on the outcome of a federal lawsuit. The proposed amendment expands that authority to the federal court judges in Georgia who sit one level below the federal appeals court. (The proposed amendment would allow litigants in US District Courts the opportunity to find the answer to an important state-law question long before their case is appealed to the 11th Circuit.)

I strongly disagree with the marriage amendment. The sole purpose of it is to restrict the rights of others without any moral obligation or justification. It is a tyrannical suggestion aimed simply at forbidding actions that harm no outside parties. I don't see any problem with the second amendment, though I voted against it. Both amendments passed.

This is a close race. Anyone who disbelieves that is either too partisan or delusional to be helped. About 90 electoral votes (Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico) could swing either way, with Bush needing only about 35 of them.