1916 United States presidential election in Washington (state)

1916 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
Wilson 40-50% 50-60%	Hughes 40-50% 50-60%
President before election; Woodrow Wilson ; Democratic	Elected President; Woodrow Wilson ; Democratic

Last updated February 16, 2024

The 1916 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election in which all contemporary 48 states participated. Voters chose seven electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting Democratic incumbents Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall, against Republican challengers Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes and his running mate, former Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks.

Washington had been a one-party Republican bastion for twenty years before this election.^[1] Democratic representation in the Washington legislature would during this period at times be countable on one hand,^[2] and neither Alton B. Parker nor William Jennings Bryan in his third presidential run carried even one county in the state. Republican primaries had taken over as the chief mode of political competition when introduced in the late 1900s.^[3]

However, a powerful "peace vote" in the Western states^[4] due to opposition to participation in World War I, and the transfer of a considerable part of the substantial vote for Eugene Debs from the previous election to Wilson owing to such Progressive reforms as the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments ^[5] allowed Woodrow Wilson to carry Washington by a 4.25 percentage point margin. In doing this, Wilson was the first ever Democratic victor in the Western Washington Puget Sound counties of Island, San Juan and Kitsap,^[6] and the only Democrat between 1904 and 1924 to carry any Washington county in a two-way presidential race.

Results

Presidential Candidate	Running Mate	Party	Electoral Vote (EV)	Popular Vote (PV)^[7]
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey	Thomas R. Marshall	Democratic	7	183,388	48.13%
Charles Evans Hughes	Charles W. Fairbanks	Republican	0	167,208	43.89%
Allan L. Benson	George Ross Kirkpatrick	Socialist	0	22,800	5.98%
James Hanly	Ira Landrith	Prohibition	0	6,868	1.80%
Arthur E. Reimer	Caleb Harrison	Socialist Labor	0	730	0.19%

Results by county

County	Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic		Charles Evans Hughes Republican		Allan Louis Benson Socialist		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast^[8]
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast^[8]
Adams	1,294	48.41%	1,237	46.28%	112	4.19%	30	1.12%	57	2.13%	2,673
Asotin	1,136	48.59%	1,004	42.94%	117	5.00%	81	3.46%	132	5.65%	2,338
Benton	1,351	42.03%	1,460	45.43%	342	10.64%	61	1.90%	-109	-3.39%	3,214
Chelan	2,747	43.46%	3,011	47.63%	405	6.41%	158	2.50%	-264	-4.18%	6,321
Clallam	1,339	41.06%	1,475	45.23%	418	12.82%	29	0.89%	-136	-4.17%	3,261
Clark	3,728	41.28%	4,419	48.93%	677	7.50%	208	2.30%	-691	-7.65%	9,032
Columbia	1,164	47.57%	1,148	46.91%	108	4.41%	27	1.10%	16	0.65%	2,447
Cowlitz	1,282	33.44%	2,113	55.11%	378	9.86%	61	1.59%	-831	-21.67%	3,834
Douglas	1,916	59.52%	1,125	34.95%	148	4.60%	30	0.93%	791	24.57%	3,219
Ferry	913	52.99%	581	33.72%	221	12.83%	8	0.46%	332	19.27%	1,723
Franklin	1,110	57.93%	671	35.02%	109	5.69%	26	1.36%	439	22.91%	1,916
Garfield	728	45.02%	845	52.26%	32	1.98%	12	0.74%	-117	-7.24%	1,617
Grant	1,563	51.58%	1,205	39.77%	221	7.29%	41	1.35%	358	11.82%	3,030
Grays Harbor	4,992	44.04%	5,024	44.32%	1,209	10.67%	111	0.98%	-32	-0.28%	11,336
Island	855	46.34%	804	43.58%	170	9.21%	16	0.87%	51	2.76%	1,845
Jefferson	861	40.77%	1,094	51.80%	134	6.34%	23	1.09%	-233	-11.03%	2,112
King	52,362	54.71%	38,959	40.71%	3,193	3.34%	1,194	1.25%	13,403	14.00%	95,708
Kitsap	3,479	49.89%	2,638	37.83%	751	10.77%	106	1.52%	841	12.06%	6,974
Kittitas	2,609	49.40%	2,310	43.74%	262	4.96%	100	1.89%	299	5.66%	5,281
Klickitat	1,478	45.35%	1,570	48.17%	186	5.71%	25	0.77%	-92	-2.82%	3,259
Lewis	4,318	40.73%	5,186	48.92%	845	7.97%	252	2.38%	-868	-8.19%	10,601
Lincoln	2,827	51.67%	2,356	43.06%	221	4.04%	67	1.22%	471	8.61%	5,471
Mason	779	45.19%	764	44.32%	162	9.40%	19	1.10%	15	0.87%	1,724
Okanogan	2,924	54.82%	1,896	35.55%	474	8.89%	40	0.75%	1,028	19.27%	5,334
Pacific	1,537	34.02%	2,688	59.50%	257	5.69%	36	0.80%	-1,151	-25.48%	4,518
Pend Oreille	1,080	50.94%	916	43.21%	111	5.24%	13	0.61%	164	7.74%	2,120
Pierce	18,940	48.85%	16,780	43.28%	1,894	4.89%	1,156	2.98%	2,160	5.57%	38,770
San Juan	669	47.96%	591	42.37%	122	8.75%	13	0.93%	78	5.59%	1,395
Skagit	4,936	47.88%	4,142	40.17%	951	9.22%	281	2.73%	794	7.70%	10,310
Skamania	451	46.07%	489	49.95%	34	3.47%	5	0.51%	-38	-3.88%	979
Snohomish	8,390	41.52%	8,625	42.68%	2,543	12.58%	649	3.21%	-235	-1.16%	20,207
Spokane	21,339	49.49%	19,503	45.23%	1,321	3.06%	957	2.22%	1,836	4.26%	43,120
Stevens	3,184	47.84%	2,684	40.32%	678	10.19%	110	1.65%	500	7.51%	6,656
Thurston	2,658	39.39%	3,223	47.76%	624	9.25%	243	3.60%	-565	-8.37%	6,748
Wahkiakum	340	36.13%	490	52.07%	103	10.95%	8	0.85%	-150	-15.94%	941
Walla Walla	4,456	48.29%	4,429	48.00%	218	2.36%	124	1.34%	27	0.29%	9,227
Whatcom	5,629	35.53%	7,632	48.18%	2,075	13.10%	506	3.19%	-2,003	-12.64%	15,842
Whitman	5,888	52.33%	4,933	43.84%	239	2.12%	191	1.70%	955	8.49%	11,251
Yakima	6,136	41.91%	7,188	49.10%	735	5.02%	581	3.97%	-1,052	-7.19%	14,640
Totals	183,388	48.13%	167,208	43.89%	22,800	5.98%	7,598	1.99%	16,180	4.25%	380,994

Notes

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References

↑ Burnham, Walter Dean; ‘The System of 1896’, in Kleppner, Paul (editor), The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 176-179 ISBN 0313213798
↑ Schattschneider, Elmer Eric; The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America, pp. 76-84 ISBN 0030133661
↑ Murray, Keith; ‘Issues and Personalities of Pacific Northwest Politics, 1889-1950’, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3 (July 1950), pp. 213-233
↑ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 ISBN 0786422173
↑ Sarasohn, David; 'The Election of 1916: Realigning the Rockies', Western Historical Quarterly , Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 1980), pp. 285-305
↑ Menendez, The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, p. 332
↑ "1916 Presidential General Election Results – Washington". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
↑ Washington Secretary of State Elections; Abstract of Votes Polled in the State of Washington at the General Election Held November 7, 1916

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[1] Burnham, Walter Dean; ‘The System of 1896’, in Kleppner, Paul (editor), The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 176-179 ISBN 0313213798

[2] Schattschneider, Elmer Eric; The Semisovereign People: A Realist's View of Democracy in America, pp. 76-84 ISBN 0030133661

[Issues-3] Murray, Keith; ‘Issues and Personalities of Pacific Northwest Politics, 1889-1950’, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3 (July 1950), pp. 213-233

[Geography-4] Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 ISBN 0786422173

[Election-5] Sarasohn, David; 'The Election of 1916: Realigning the Rockies', Western Historical Quarterly , Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 1980), pp. 285-305

[6] Menendez, The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, p. 332

[Leip-7] "1916 Presidential General Election Results – Washington". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

[8] Washington Secretary of State Elections; Abstract of Votes Polled in the State of Washington at the General Election Held November 7, 1916

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