1916 United States presidential election in Utah

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1916 United States presidential election in Utah
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  1912 November 7, 1916 1920  
  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 vote40
Popular vote84,14554,137
Percentage58.78%37.82%

Utah Presidential Election Results 1916.svg
County Results
Wilson
  50–60%
  60–70%

The 1916 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 7, 1916. All contemporary forty-eight states were part of the 1916 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was the first election featuring as a distinct voting unit Duchesne County, which had been split from Wasatch County in 1915.

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In the preceding 1912 presidential election, Utah had been one of only two states (the other being strongly Republican Vermont) to give a plurality to incumbent President William Howard Taft. However, in contrast to the East where supporters of Theodore Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Party rapidly returned to the Republicans, in the Mountain States many if not most of these supporters turned to the Democratic Party not only in presidential elections, but also in state and federal legislative ones. [1] Another factor helping Wilson was a powerful "peace vote" in the Western states [2] due to opposition to participation in World War I, and a third was that a considerable part of the substantial vote for Socialist candidate Eugene Debs from the previous election was turned over to Wilson owing to such progressive reforms as the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments. [1] A fourth factor was that Taft had support from the Mormon hierarchy that commanded the loyalty of most of Utah's population – which caused Utah to remain largely loyal to him amidst the GOP split – but the LDS Church did not maintain support with Hughes. [1]

The combined result was that Wilson was able to make Utah his second-strongest victory outside of the "Solid South" – in a state that four years previously had given him his seventh-lowest popular vote proportion. [3] Utah was his eleventh-best state overall and voted 17.83 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large. Wilson swept every county in the state, including rock-ribbed Republican Kane County, which had been Taft's third-strongest county nationwide in 1912, [4] which has never otherwise supported a Democrat for president, [2] and where otherwise only William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 have as Democrats received so much as one-third of the vote. This is the only time a Democrat swept every county in the state.

Results

1916 United States presidential election in Utah [5]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Woodrow Wilson (incumbent)84,14558.78%4
Republican Charles Evans Hughes 54,13737.82%0
Socialist Allan L. Benson 4,4603.12%0
Prohibition Frank Hanly 1490.10%0
Socialist Labor Arthur E. Reimer 1440.10%0
Progressive Party No candidate1110.08%0
Totals143,146100.00%4

Results by county

CountyThomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
Charles Evans Hughes
Republican
Allan Louis Benson [6]
Socialist
Various candidates [6]
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast [7]
# %# %# %# %# %
Beaver 1,29158.84%84238.38%612.78%00.00%44920.46%2,194
Box Elder 2,95754.68%2,41644.67%340.65%10.02%54110.01%5,408
Cache 5,30558.03%3,75641.09%750.89%60.07%1,54916.94%9,142
Carbon 1,47850.43%1,30144.39%1475.19%50.17%1776.04%2,931
Davis 2,13156.08%1,64143.18%220.74%60.16%49012.90%3,800
Duchesne 1,44356.61%68726.95%41016.44%90.35%75629.66%2,549
Emery 1,40658.68%89637.40%883.92%60.25%51021.28%2,396
Garfield 84361.26%51637.50%161.24%10.07%32723.76%1,376
Grand 30656.77%21339.52%193.71%10.19%9317.25%539
Iron 1,15656.09%82540.03%763.88%40.19%33116.06%2,061
Juab 2,22161.30%1,24834.45%1514.25%30.08%97326.85%3,623
Kane 32950.85%30446.99%142.16%00.00%253.86%647
Millard 1,80456.23%1,29340.31%943.46%170.53%51115.92%3,208
Morgan 48450.63%46448.54%80.84%00.00%202.09%956
Piute 41756.20%26936.25%557.55%10.13%14819.95%742
Rich 45458.28%32541.72%00.00%00.00%12916.56%779
Salt Lake 30,70761.18%17,59335.05%1,7783.76%1110.22%13,11426.13%50,189
San Juan 44866.27%21331.51%152.22%00.00%23534.76%676
Sanpete 3,38252.34%2,91845.16%782.51%841.30%4647.18%6,462
Sevier 2,05253.44%1,72044.79%671.77%10.03%3328.65%3,840
Summit 1,49550.92%1,19540.70%2408.38%70.24%30010.22%2,936
Tooele 1,52855.20%1,12440.61%1134.19%30.11%40414.59%2,768
Uintah 1,45964.10%71231.28%944.61%110.48%74732.82%2,276
Utah 8,23559.30%5,20137.45%4103.25%410.30%3,03421.85%13,887
Wasatch 88551.57%81747.61%140.82%00.00%683.96%1,716
Washington 1,39766.40%70333.41%40.19%00.00%69432.99%2,104
Wayne 39362.68%22535.89%91.44%00.00%16826.79%627
Weber 8,13961.14%4,72035.45%3683.41%860.65%3,41925.69%13,313
Totals84,14558.78%54,13737.82%4,4603.12%4040.28%30,00820.96%143,145

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  6. 1 2 Utah State Elections Office; Abstract of the Returns of an Election Held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 7th, A.D. 1916
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