A presidential election was held in North Carolina on November 8 and 9, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election. The Democratic-Republican Party's ticket of incumbent president Thomas Jefferson and former New York governor George Clinton defeated the Federalist Party's ticket in the state's 14 electoral districts.

Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over the de facto Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Although a clandestine gathering of Federalist members of Congress had nominated Pinckney in February, the Federalist electors were formally unpledged. In two districts, Federalists won the popular vote on Election Day, but the exclusion of votes from Martin and Montgomery counties gave both districts to Jefferson. The narrow margin in the former Federalist stronghold of Fayetteville, North Carolina, indicated the party's decline in the state.

General election Summary North Carolina chose 14 electors from as many single-member districts. Complete returns are available for the 8th and 10th electoral districts; returns from the remaining districts are either incomplete or missing. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect the members of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a block. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential nominee, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. The following table calculates the sum of all votes for electors pledged to Jefferson and for unpledged Federalist electors to give an approximate sense of the statewide popular vote.

Results by district + District Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % North Carolina–1 1 1 — North Carolina–2 1 1 — North Carolina–3 1 481 100.00 1 — — 481 100.00 481 North Carolina–4 1 1 — North Carolina–5 1 1 — North Carolina–6 1 1 — North Carolina–7 1 1 — North Carolina–8 1 1,511 70.94 1 619 29.06 — 892 41.88 2,130 North Carolina–9 1 1 — North Carolina–10 1 489 47.75 1 535 52.24 — -46 -4.49 1,024 North Carolina–11 1 1 — North Carolina–12 1 1 — North Carolina–13 1 1 — North Carolina–14 1 97 98.98 1 1 1.02 — 96 97.96 98 TOTAL 14 2,578 69.06 14 1,155 30.94 0 1,423 38.12 3,733

District 1 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Felix Walker, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 2 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Peter Forney, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 3 Returns from Stokes and Surry counties appear to be lost. Joseph Williams, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 4 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Montfort Stokes, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 5 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Solomon Graves, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 6 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Joseph Taylor, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 7 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Joseph J. Alston, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 8 Two Democratic-Republicans, one Federalist pledged to Jefferson, and one unpledged Federalist ran in this single-member district. The Federalist unpledged elector, John Culpepper, received the most votes on Election Day based on votes from Montgomery County.

The votes from Montgomery County were excluded from the official returns, flipping the district. Robert Cochran, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 9 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Lemuel Sawyer, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 10 John B. Hunter, a Federalist, received the most votes on Election Day based on votes from Martin County.

The votes from Martin County were excluded from the official returns, flipping the district. James Jones, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 11 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Reading Blount, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 12 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Bryan Whitfield, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 13 Returns from this district appear to be lost. Samuel Ashe, a Democratic-Republican, was elected.

District 14 Returns from Halifax, Nash, and Warren counties appear to be lost. Gideon Alston, a Democratic-Republican, received the most votes on Election Day based on votes from Franklin County.

The votes from Franklin County were excluded from the official returns. The exclusion did not change the result in the district, and Alston was elected.

Results by county + County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % Anson 8 284 49.13 294 50.86 -10 -1.73 578 Ashe 3 93 100.00 — 93 100.00 93 Beaufort 11 Bertie 10 195 89.45 23 10.55 172 78.90 218 Bladen 13 Brunswick 13 Buncombe 1 Burke 1 Cabarrus 4 Camden 9 Carteret 12 Caswell 5 Chatham 7 Chowan 9 Craven 12 Cumberland 8 524 90.34 56 9.66 468 80.68 580 Currituck 9 Duplin 13 Edgecombe 11 Franklin 14 97 98.98 1 1.02 96 97.96 98 Gates 9 Granville 6 Greene 12 Guilford 5 Halifax 14 Hertford 10 58 98.30 1 1.69 57 96.61 59 Hyde 11 Iredell 2 Johnston 6 Jones 12 Lenoir 12 Lincoln 2 Martin 10 8 1.54 510 98.46 -502 -98.43 518 Mecklenburg 2 Montgomery 8 189 54.47 158 45.53 31 8.94 347 Moore 7 Nash 14 New Hanover 13 Northampton 10 128 99.22 1 0.78 127 98.45 129 Onslow 13 Orange 7 Pasquotank 9 Perquimans 9 Person 5 Pitt 11 Randolph 4 Richmond 8 173 64.31 96 35.69 77 28.62 269 Robeson 8 341 95.79 15 4.21 326 91.57 356 Rockingham 5 Rowan 4 Rutherford 1 Sampson 13 Stokes 3 Surry 3 Tyrrell 11 Wake 6 Warren 14 Washington 11 Wayne 12 Wilkes 3 388 100.00 — 388 100.00 388 TOTAL 2,578 69.06 1,155 30.94 1,423 38.12 3,733

See also United States presidential elections in North Carolina

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