1916 United States presidential election in North Carolina

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1916 United States presidential election in North Carolina
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  1912 November 7, 1916 1920  

All 12 North Carolina votes to the Electoral College
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg Governor Charles Evans Hughes (cropped).jpg
Nominee Woodrow Wilson Charles Evans Hughes
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New Jersey New York
Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral vote120
Popular vote168,383120,890
Percentage58.10%41.71%

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County Results

President before election

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

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

Contents

Like all former Confederate states, North Carolina would during its “Redemption” develop a politics based upon Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party. Unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party possessed sufficient historic Unionist white support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in general elections even after blacks lost the right to vote. [1] A rapid move following disenfranchisement to a completely “lily-white” state GOP also helped maintain Republican support amongst the state’s voters. [2] Like Tennessee and Oklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewide White primaries, although certain counties did use the White primary. [3] Although with disfranchisement of blacks the state introduced a poll tax, it was less severe than any other former Confederate state. [4]

Since the tail end of the 1900s, proposals to reform what was recognized as an inefficient and regressive tax system [5] had become the major issue in North Carolina, [6] especially after the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified. [5]

Neither candidate campaigned in the state, which had voted Democratic at every election since 1876. At no point was there any serious question of Wilson carrying the state. [7] On election day projections were for a majority for Wilson of between forty-five thousand and fifty thousand, [8] which closely approximated the final result. Nonetheless, North Carolina was one of only three states where Wilson failed to improve upon his 1912 percentage, and indeed his 16.39 point win was three points smaller than conservative Democrat Alton B. Parker managed in 1904. Hughes, in fact, was the first Republican to ever carry Carteret and Clay Counties, suggesting latent opposition to Wilson in the Outer Banks and Appalachia. [9]

Results

Presidential Candidate Running Mate PartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall Democratic 12 [10] 168,38358.10%
Charles Evans Hughes Charles W. Fairbanks Republican 0120,89041.71%
Allan L. Benson George Kirkpatrick Socialist 05090.18%
Frank Hanly Ira Landrith Prohibition 0530.02%

Results by county

1916 United States presidential election in North Carolina by county [11]
County Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
Charles Evans Hughes
Republican
Allan Louis Benson
Socialist
James Franklin Hanly
Prohibition
Margin
%#%#%#%#%#
Northampton 97.12%1,5182.88%450.00%00.00%094.24%1,473
Edgecombe 92.69%2,0286.17%1351.10%240.05%186.52%1,893
Bertie 92.64%1,4617.36%1160.00%00.00%085.29%1,345
Currituck 91.48%9458.42%870.00%00.10%183.06%858
Halifax 88.51%2,31211.45%2990.04%10.00%077.07%2,013
Hoke 87.64%78012.36%1100.00%00.00%075.28%670
Scotland 87.26%93812.74%1370.00%00.00%074.51%801
Anson 87.18%2,04612.82%3010.00%00.00%074.35%1,745
Chowan 86.89%61012.96%910.00%00.14%173.93%519
Warren 84.28%1,21715.72%2270.00%00.00%068.56%990
Martin 83.97%1,47216.03%2810.00%00.00%067.94%1,191
Franklin 83.86%2,05716.14%3960.00%00.00%067.71%1,661
New Hanover 82.72%2,35517.28%4920.00%00.00%065.44%1,863
Hertford 82.31%97717.61%2090.00%00.08%164.70%768
Pasquotank 81.28%1,17718.65%2700.00%00.07%162.64%907
Camden 80.70%36818.86%860.00%00.44%261.84%282
Pitt 79.79%2,83920.21%7190.00%00.00%059.58%2,120
Union 79.04%2,66220.84%7020.12%40.00%058.19%1,960
Greene 78.38%1,06621.62%2940.00%00.00%056.76%772
Mecklenburg 78.11%4,50821.78%1,2570.10%60.00%056.33%3,251
Craven 76.66%1,78023.34%5420.00%00.00%053.32%1,238
Jones 75.34%71224.66%2330.00%00.00%050.69%479
Hyde 74.73%84024.64%2770.36%40.27%350.09%563
Wilson 73.76%2,05226.24%7300.00%00.00%047.52%1,322
Gates 72.78%82627.22%3090.00%00.00%045.55%517
Granville 72.55%1,71327.45%6480.00%00.00%045.11%1,065
Nash 72.15%2,18927.22%8260.63%190.00%044.92%1,363
Vance 72.22%1,45127.78%5580.00%00.00%044.45%893
Caswell 71.52%84928.48%3380.00%00.00%043.05%511
Lenoir 71.35%1,66628.57%6670.09%20.00%042.78%999
Pender 70.80%97029.20%4000.00%00.00%041.61%570
Richmond 70.49%1,55329.51%6500.00%00.00%040.99%903
Perquimans 69.06%64530.84%2880.00%00.11%138.22%357
Robeson 66.57%2,89433.43%1,4530.00%00.00%033.15%1,441
Bladen 65.95%1,26134.05%6510.00%00.00%031.90%610
Wake 65.23%4,62734.70%2,4610.07%50.00%030.54%2,166
Cleveland 64.87%2,76435.13%1,4970.00%00.00%029.73%1,267
Lee 64.78%1,05435.22%5730.00%00.00%029.56%481
Wayne 64.40%2,62535.48%1,4460.07%30.05%228.93%1,179
Cumberland 61.83%1,97138.17%1,2170.00%00.00%023.65%754
Columbus 61.72%2,14338.22%1,3270.00%00.06%223.50%816
Iredell 61.67%3,33538.33%2,0730.00%00.00%023.34%1,262
Haywood 61.21%2,40338.79%1,5230.00%00.00%022.41%880
Beaufort 60.55%1,95739.42%1,2740.00%00.03%121.13%683
Onslow 60.27%1,19739.53%7850.00%00.20%420.75%412
Pamlico 56.57%71041.99%5271.43%180.00%014.58%183
Durham 57.28%2,46342.72%1,8370.00%00.00%014.56%626
Washington 57.26%65142.74%4860.00%00.00%014.51%165
Rowan 56.82%3,05343.18%2,3200.00%00.00%013.64%733
Rutherford 56.65%2,44543.35%1,8710.00%00.00%013.30%574
Dare 56.42%47043.58%3630.00%00.00%012.85%107
Moore 55.57%1,33743.52%1,0470.91%220.00%012.05%290
Guilford 55.41%4,61644.06%3,6700.53%440.00%011.36%946
Harnett 55.29%1,99244.49%1,6030.22%80.00%010.80%389
Alleghany 55.39%79644.61%6410.00%00.00%010.79%155
Chatham 54.83%1,83944.75%1,5010.42%140.00%010.08%338
Johnston 54.83%3,46845.17%2,8570.00%00.00%09.66%611
Duplin 54.43%1,82445.57%1,5270.00%00.00%08.86%297
Gaston 54.18%3,01945.62%2,5420.00%00.20%118.56%477
Rockingham 54.20%2,31645.80%1,9570.00%00.00%08.40%359
Yancey 54.06%1,27345.94%1,0820.00%00.00%08.11%191
Forsyth 51.84%4,11545.16%3,5853.00%2380.00%06.68%530
Lincoln 52.47%1,52147.22%1,3690.28%80.03%15.24%152
Buncombe 52.48%4,22947.52%3,8300.00%00.00%04.95%399
Burke 52.37%1,62147.63%1,4740.00%00.00%04.75%147
Stanly 51.97%2,11047.81%1,9410.12%50.10%44.16%169
Alamance 52.03%2,47647.87%2,2780.11%50.00%04.16%198
Macon 51.74%1,14648.26%1,0690.00%00.00%03.48%77
Orange 51.51%1,23048.49%1,1580.00%00.00%03.02%72
Tyrrell 51.49%41648.51%3920.00%00.00%02.97%24
McDowell 51.08%1,27448.84%1,2180.00%00.08%22.25%56
Caldwell 50.98%1,72549.02%1,6590.00%00.00%01.95%66
Person 50.96%95349.04%9170.00%00.00%01.93%36
Graham 50.85%47649.15%4600.00%00.00%01.71%16
Montgomery 50.54%1,22249.46%1,1960.00%00.00%01.08%26
Jackson 50.35%1,30649.65%1,2880.00%00.00%00.69%18
Cherokee 50.00%1,36250.00%1,3620.00%00.00%00.00%0
Catawba 49.34%2,56950.39%2,6240.08%40.19%10-1.06%-55
Ashe 49.47%1,89850.53%1,9390.00%00.00%0-1.07%-41
Transylvania 49.40%82150.60%8410.00%00.00%0-1.20%-20
Davidson 48.74%2,67551.04%2,8010.22%120.00%0-2.30%-126
Carteret 48.32%1,16551.68%1,2460.00%00.00%0-3.36%-81
Randolph 47.52%2,74752.43%3,0310.00%00.05%3-4.91%-284
Polk 47.48%67952.45%7500.07%10.00%0-4.97%-71
Cabarrus 47.10%2,08052.40%2,3140.50%220.00%0-5.30%-234
Clay 46.89%40053.11%4530.00%00.00%0-6.21%-53
Stokes 45.58%1,56953.81%1,8520.61%210.00%0-8.22%-283
Watauga 45.77%1,14154.23%1,3520.00%00.00%0-8.46%-211
Brunswick 45.00%81054.94%9890.06%10.00%0-9.94%-179
Alexander 44.56%95455.44%1,1870.00%00.00%0-10.88%-233
Swain 42.36%82957.64%1,1280.00%00.00%0-15.28%-299
Davie 42.11%91057.61%1,2450.28%60.00%0-15.50%-335
Surry 40.43%2,02959.33%2,9770.24%120.00%0-18.89%-948
Henderson 39.38%1,16660.62%1,7950.00%00.00%0-21.24%-629
Yadkin 33.81%87966.19%1,7210.00%00.00%0-32.38%-842
Sampson 33.42%1,36966.58%2,7270.00%00.00%0-33.15%-1,358
Madison 33.09%97266.91%1,9650.00%00.00%0-33.81%-993
Wilkes 31.99%1,63268.01%3,4700.00%00.00%0-36.03%-1,838
Mitchell 26.25%46273.75%1,2980.00%00.00%0-47.50%-836
Avery 23.68%36076.18%1,1580.00%00.13%2-52.50%-798

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