1916 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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1916 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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Nominee Woodrow Wilson Charles Evans Hughes Party Democratic Republican Home state New Jersey New York Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Charles W. Fairbanks Electoral vote 3 0 Popular vote 28,376 21,698 Percentage 54.67% 41.80%

County Results Wilson   40–50%   50–60%   60–70% Hughes   40–50%

President before election Woodrow Wilson Democratic Elected President Woodrow Wilson Democratic

The 1916 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

In 1912, Wyoming had been the eighth-best state for embattled Republican nominee William Howard Taft. ^[1] However, in contrast to the East where supporters of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive "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. ^[2] Another factor helping President Woodrow Wilson was a powerful "peace vote" in the Western states ^[3] due to opposition to participation in World War I, and a third was that a considerable part of the substantial vote for Eugene Debs from the previous election was turned over to Wilson owing to such Progressive reforms as the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments. ^[2]

Consequently, Wilson was able not merely to hold Wyoming from 1912, but to increase his margin by over ten percentage points to carry the state by 12.87 percent. This is the third best Democratic performance in the history of presidential elections in Wyoming, behind Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide wins in 1932 and 1936. ^[4] Wilson became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the counties of Carbon, Converse, Lincoln, Natrona, Niobrara, and Washakie. ^[5] As of the 2024 presidential election ^[update] , this election is the last time Wyoming has voted more Democratic than the nation at-large.

Results

General Election Results ^[6]

Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
	Democratic Party	Woodrow Wilson	John L. Jordan	28,376
	Democratic Party	Woodrow Wilson	James P. Smith	28,062
	Democratic Party	Woodrow Wilson	Alfred M. Brock	27,990
	Republican Party	Charles Evans Hughes	John L. Baird	21,698
	Republican Party	Charles Evans Hughes	W. E. Chpalin	21,433
	Republican Party	Charles Evans Hughes	Jacob A. Delfelder	21,198
	Socialist Party	Allan Benson	Matilda Hautamaki	1,459
	Socialist Party	Allan Benson	Joseph Dunning	1,434
	Socialist Party	Allan Benson	W. S. Oeland	1,424
	Prohibition Party	James Hanly	C. J. Sawyer	373
	Prohibition Party	James Hanly	Ella Watson	364
	Prohibition Party	James Hanly	Luther J. Wood	354
Votes cast [a]				51,906

Results by county

County [6]	Woodrow Wilson Democrat		Charles Evans Hughes Republican		Allan Benson Socialist		James Hanly Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast [b]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Albany	1,571	52.45%	1,313	43.84%	73	2.44%	38	1.27%	258	8.61%	2,995
Big Horn	1,493	53.92%	1,239	44.75%	29	1.05%	8	0.29%	254	9.17%	2,769
Campbell	690	59.48%	448	38.62%	12	1.03%	10	0.86%	242	20.86%	1,160
Carbon	1,661	54.58%	1,217	39.99%	155	5.09%	10	0.33%	444	14.59%	3,043
Converse	879	52.32%	766	45.60%	20	1.19%	15	0.89%	113	6.73%	1,680
Crook	1,181	56.59%	846	40.54%	51	2.44%	9	0.43%	335	16.05%	2,087
Fremont	1,752	53.89%	1,407	43.28%	75	2.31%	17	0.52%	345	10.61%	3,251
Goshen	1,096	56.61%	770	39.77%	49	2.53%	21	1.08%	326	16.84%	1,936
Hot Springs	760	54.25%	523	37.33%	95	6.78%	23	1.64%	237	16.92%	1,401
Johnson	812	49.03%	814	49.15%	28	1.69%	2	0.12%	-2	-0.12%	1,656
Laramie	2,759	51.80%	2,428	45.59%	84	1.58%	55	1.03%	331	6.21%	5,326
Lincoln	2,378	60.11%	1,426	36.05%	142	3.59%	10	0.25%	952	24.06%	3,956
Natrona	1,377	59.17%	912	39.19%	30	1.29%	8	0.34%	465	19.98%	2,327
Niobrara	599	51.28%	533	45.63%	14	1.20%	22	1.88%	66	5.65%	1,168
Park	1,181	49.96%	1,092	46.19%	69	2.92%	22	0.93%	89	3.76%	2,364
Platte	1,302	58.54%	806	36.24%	63	2.83%	53	2.38%	496	22.30%	2,224
Sheridan	2,906	57.57%	1,914	37.92%	205	4.06%	23	0.46%	992	19.65%	5,048
Sweetwater	1,496	50.90%	1,287	43.79%	152	5.17%	4	0.14%	209	7.11%	2,939
Uinta	1,295	59.57%	822	37.81%	51	2.35%	6	0.28%	473	21.76%	2,174
Washakie	455	55.62%	344	42.05%	16	1.96%	3	0.37%	111	13.57%	818
Weston	733	46.28%	791	49.94%	46	2.90%	14	0.88%	-58	-3.66%	1,584
Totals	28,376	54.67%	21,698	41.80%	1,459	2.81%	373	0.72%	6,678	12.87%	51,906

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Big Horn
• Carbon
• Converse
• Lincoln
• Natrona
• Niobrara
• Uinta
• Washakie

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Johnson
• Weston

See also

• United States presidential elections in Wyoming

Notes

1. Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket
2. Based on highest elector on each ticket

References

1. Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1912 Presidential General Election Data – National by State: Sorted by Vote Percentage for Taft
2. Sarasohn, David (1980). "The Election of 1916: Realigning the Rockies" . The Western Historical Quarterly. 11 (3): 285–305. doi:10.2307/967564. ISSN   0043-3810. JSTOR   967564 . Retrieved July 26, 2024.
3. Menendez, Albert J. (2005). The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-2217-3 . Retrieved July 26, 2024.
4. Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Wyoming
5. Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 342-343
6. Trenholm, Virginia Cole, ed. (1974). "Election Statistics". Wyoming Blue Book Volume II (PDF). Cheyenne, Wyoming: Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department. p. 590. Retrieved October 18, 2024.