1916 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1916 United States presidential election in Indiana
Flag of Indiana (1903-1917).png
  1912 November 7, 1916 1920  
  Governor Charles Evans Hughes (cropped).jpg Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg
Nominee Charles Evans Hughes Woodrow Wilson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York New Jersey
Running mate Charles W. Fairbanks Thomas R. Marshall
Electoral vote150
Popular vote341,005334,063
Percentage47.44%46.47%

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County Results

President before election

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

The 1916 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Ever since the Civil War, partisan alliances in Indiana had been related to history of White settlement, with most of Southern Indiana and German-settled counties voting strongly Democratic, opposed to Yankee-settled Northern Indiana which voted Republican. [1] Between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Third Party System, elections in the state were always very close; although the state become more Republican when William Jennings Bryan’s free silver policy drove conservative Democrats to the Republican party for the following two decades. [2] However, only Alton B. Parker would lose the state by more than five percentage points as its strong Southern leanings meant its Democratic counties remained very loyal. [3]

After being won by Woodrow Wilson and running mate Thomas R. Marshall over divided Republican opposition in 1912, Indiana would be won by the Republican nominee, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York, and his running mate Senator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Hughes and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, incumbent Democratic President Wilson and Vice President Marshall by a narrow margin of 0.97 percentage points.

Indiana was the home state of Marshall, and alongside Wilson's loss in New Jersey, this election, along with 1968, is the only time a winning presidential and vice presidential candidate lost both of their home states.

This was the first time since 1876 that Indiana voted for the losing candidate, and the first since 1836 that a Democrat won without the state. The election marked the beginning of a trend in which the state was more Republican than the nation as a whole. Before 1916, all but one winning Democrat as well as one losing Democrat had carried the state. Beginning with 1916, the Democratic party has won 14 elections as of 2022, and in only four of these elections did it carry Indiana. Furthermore, three of those four victories were in landslide elections with double-digit margins: 1932, 1936, and 1964.

Results

1916 United States presidential election in Indiana [4]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Charles Evans Hughes 341,00547.44%15
Democratic Woodrow Wilson (incumbent)334,06346.47%0
Socialist Allan L. Benson 21,8553.04%0
Prohibition Frank Hanly 16,3682.28%0
Progressive No candidate3,9980.54%0
Socialist Labor Arthur E. Reimer 1,6590.23%0
Totals718,848100.00%15

Results by county

1916 United States presidential election in Indiana by county
CountyCharles Evans Hughes
Republican
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
Allan Louis Benson
Socialist
James Franklin Hanly
Prohibition
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast [5]
#%#%#%#%#%#%
Adams 1,79636.83%2,87558.96%230.47%1713.51%110.23%-1,079-22.13%4,876
Allen 10,16946.03%9,47042.87%1,0034.54%4211.91%1,0274.65%6993.16%22,090
Bartholomew 3,28747.08%3,44149.29%660.95%1452.08%420.60%-154-2.21%6,981
Benton 1,87254.17%1,50243.46%230.67%531.53%60.17%37010.71%3,456
Blackford 1,59543.04%1,86750.38%1052.83%1263.40%130.35%-272-7.34%3,706
Boone 3,33346.97%3,51349.51%821.16%1251.76%430.61%-180-2.54%7,096
Brown 50631.72%1,04665.58%100.63%311.94%20.13%-540-33.86%1,595
Carroll 2,46849.09%2,40147.75%340.68%1182.35%70.14%671.33%5,028
Cass 4,87947.08%5,14049.60%1211.17%2001.93%230.22%-261-2.52%10,363
Clark 3,17346.15%3,57251.95%731.06%430.63%150.22%-399-5.80%6,876
Clay 3,10242.82%3,43547.42%5627.76%1191.64%260.36%-333-4.60%7,244
Clinton 3,63847.76%3,66248.07%1191.56%1842.42%150.20%-24-0.32%7,618
Crawford 1,20141.05%1,50851.54%581.98%1525.19%70.24%-307-10.49%2,926
Daviess 3,19147.56%3,14346.84%2103.13%1281.91%380.57%480.72%6,710
Dearborn 2,31842.18%3,01054.78%621.13%971.77%80.15%-692-12.59%5,495
Decatur 2,71751.39%2,37444.90%691.31%1092.06%180.34%3436.49%5,287
DeKalb 2,89843.53%3,37250.65%1362.04%2323.49%190.29%-474-7.12%6,657
Delaware 6,91950.24%5,94643.18%4323.14%4072.96%670.49%9737.07%13,771
Dubois 1,49232.07%3,07266.02%190.41%551.18%150.32%-1,580-33.96%4,653
Elkhart 5,85045.21%5,72344.22%7085.47%6034.66%570.44%1270.98%12,941
Fayette 2,36051.51%2,07445.26%581.27%641.40%260.57%2866.24%4,582
Floyd 3,20043.99%3,85052.92%1401.92%680.93%170.23%-650-8.93%7,275
Fountain 2,63448.36%2,43744.74%1302.39%881.62%1582.90%1973.62%5,447
Franklin 1,49537.24%2,42660.42%80.20%731.82%130.32%-931-23.19%4,015
Fulton 2,32548.72%2,23146.75%330.69%631.32%1202.51%941.97%4,772
Gibson 3,57645.84%3,76548.26%2012.58%2262.90%330.42%-189-2.42%7,801
Grant 6,05943.38%5,82741.72%1,0197.30%9807.02%820.59%2321.66%13,967
Greene 3,87843.33%3,99044.59%8339.31%1992.22%490.55%-112-1.25%8,949
Hamilton 3,95154.78%2,79938.81%721.00%3625.02%280.39%1,15215.97%7,212
Hancock 2,13841.56%2,77954.02%470.91%1663.23%140.27%-641-12.46%5,144
Harrison 2,08644.97%2,37351.15%641.38%982.11%180.39%-287-6.19%4,639
Hendricks 3,04653.13%2,45342.79%881.53%1182.06%280.49%59310.34%5,733
Henry 4,38650.01%3,56040.59%2653.02%3784.31%1822.08%8269.42%8,771
Howard 4,77747.38%3,93439.02%8408.33%4564.52%750.74%8438.36%10,082
Huntington 3,76145.73%3,83346.60%1491.81%4505.47%320.39%-72-0.88%8,225
Jackson 2,42240.65%3,31255.59%741.24%1392.33%110.18%-890-14.94%5,958
Jasper 1,99556.50%1,48842.14%100.28%330.93%50.14%50714.36%3,531
Jay 3,07546.49%3,07046.41%1091.65%3485.26%130.20%50.08%6,615
Jefferson 2,67549.76%2,51846.84%561.04%1132.10%140.26%1572.92%5,376
Jennings 1,79150.01%1,68647.08%340.95%601.68%100.28%1052.93%3,581
Johnson 2,42842.32%3,10854.17%530.92%1071.87%410.71%-680-11.85%5,737
Knox 4,80542.28%5,38047.34%9238.12%1421.25%1141.00%-575-5.06%11,364
Kosciusko 4,02551.18%3,44743.83%1341.70%2322.95%270.34%5787.35%7,865
LaGrange 1,95854.09%1,51241.77%431.19%932.57%140.39%44612.32%3,620
Lake 13,26255.00%9,94641.25%6512.70%1080.45%1440.60%3,31613.75%24,111
LaPorte 5,72650.29%5,27646.33%2402.11%830.73%620.54%4503.95%11,387
Lawrence 3,81352.55%3,10842.83%2463.39%660.91%230.32%7059.72%7,256
Madison 7,44941.96%8,10645.66%1,5798.89%4842.73%1340.75%-657-3.70%17,752
Marion 40,69951.50%35,04344.34%2,2242.81%7440.94%3200.40%5,6567.16%79,030
Marshall 2,85544.64%3,22150.36%771.20%2163.38%270.42%-366-5.72%6,396
Martin 1,53448.93%1,54949.41%260.83%220.70%40.13%-15-0.48%3,135
Miami 3,39043.16%3,85449.07%3033.86%2142.72%931.18%-464-5.91%7,854
Monroe 3,03350.31%2,79646.38%580.96%1051.74%370.61%2373.93%6,029
Montgomery 4,30049.36%4,10747.15%1471.69%1061.22%510.59%1932.22%8,711
Morgan 2,86050.06%2,61645.79%1131.98%941.65%300.53%2444.27%5,713
Newton 1,37747.58%1,27844.16%361.24%431.49%1605.53%993.42%2,894
Noble 3,41751.33%3,06946.10%350.53%1301.95%60.09%3485.23%6,657
Ohio 59747.46%63250.24%30.24%251.99%10.08%-35-2.78%1,258
Orange 2,48152.94%2,09144.62%521.11%420.90%200.43%3908.32%4,686
Owen 1,58544.67%1,81251.07%952.68%421.18%140.39%-227-6.40%3,548
Parke 2,59848.52%2,32943.50%2123.96%1843.44%310.58%2695.02%5,354
Perry 1,76245.11%2,08953.48%280.72%150.38%120.31%-327-8.37%3,906
Pike 2,17246.71%2,21247.57%1874.02%591.27%200.43%-40-0.86%4,650
Porter 2,91359.22%1,87138.04%761.55%370.75%220.45%1,04221.18%4,919
Posey 2,29142.97%2,92254.80%260.49%861.61%70.13%-631-11.83%5,332
Pulaski 1,47446.79%1,38744.03%270.86%581.84%2046.48%872.76%3,150
Putnam 2,45343.28%2,96552.31%1322.33%861.52%320.56%-512-9.03%5,668
Randolph 4,05454.31%2,68235.93%1281.71%5257.03%751.00%1,37218.38%7,464
Ripley 2,68649.88%2,54947.34%671.24%671.24%160.30%1372.54%5,385
Rush 2,95051.22%2,56944.60%570.99%1602.78%240.42%3816.61%5,760
St. Joseph 7,96143.02%9,70952.47%240.13%4362.36%3752.03%-1,748-9.45%18,505
Scott 80241.99%1,06855.92%40.21%311.62%50.26%-266-13.93%1,910
Shelby 3,20142.90%3,90052.27%811.09%2423.24%370.50%-699-9.37%7,461
Spencer 2,56050.34%2,33545.92%500.98%1222.40%180.35%2254.42%5,085
Starke 1,55052.21%1,33444.93%441.48%351.18%60.20%2167.28%2,969
Steuben 2,41850.72%1,42729.93%65713.78%2555.35%100.21%99120.79%4,767
Sullivan 2,63035.24%3,88051.99%6678.94%2052.75%811.09%-1,250-16.75%7,463
Switzerland 1,21444.05%1,44652.47%361.31%582.10%20.07%-232-8.42%2,756
Tippecanoe 6,38654.73%4,91842.15%1080.93%2081.78%490.42%1,46812.58%11,669
Tipton 2,16645.32%2,33748.90%621.30%2034.25%110.23%-171-3.58%4,779
Union 99752.95%82643.87%191.01%382.02%30.16%1719.08%1,883
Vanderburgh 9,96647.52%10,02847.81%7173.42%1850.88%770.37%-62-0.30%20,973
Vermillion 2,60743.61%2,34339.19%77112.90%1332.22%1242.07%2644.42%5,978
Vigo 8,93439.71%11,16549.63%1,6777.45%5162.29%2040.91%-2,231-9.92%22,496
Wabash 3,84950.37%3,16841.46%2773.63%2933.83%540.71%6818.91%7,641
Warren 1,82361.67%1,01134.20%451.52%672.27%100.34%81227.47%2,956
Warrick 2,39648.41%2,24445.34%571.15%881.78%1643.31%1523.07%4,949
Washington 1,87142.80%2,41455.23%290.66%481.10%90.21%-543-12.42%4,371
Wayne 6,11251.84%5,00742.46%2952.50%3032.57%740.63%1,1059.37%11,791
Wells 1,94737.26%2,92856.03%561.07%2855.45%100.19%-981-18.77%5,226
White 2,44250.66%2,26246.93%350.73%711.47%100.21%1803.73%4,820
Whitley 2,19144.69%2,51051.19%260.53%1703.47%60.12%-319-6.51%4,903
Totals341,00547.44%334,06346.47%21,8553.04%16,3682.28%5,5570.77%6,9420.97%718,848

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