| 2004 Canadian federal election: Essex | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Conservative | Jeff Watson | 18,755 | 36.6% | -4.9% | ||||
| Liberal | Susan Whelan | 17,926 | 35.0% | -9.4% | ||||
| New Democratic | David Tremblay | 12,519 | 24.4% | +10.5% | ||||
| Green | Paul Forman | 1,981 | 3.9% | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Robert Cruise | 105 | 0.2% | -0.1% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 51,286 | 100.0% | ||||||
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.