1916 United States presidential election in Georgia

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1916 United States presidential election in Georgia
Flag of the State of Georgia (1906-1920).svg
  1912 November 7, 1916 (1916-11-07) 1920  
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg 3x4.svg Governor Charles Evans Hughes (cropped).jpg
Nominee Woodrow Wilson No candidate Charles Evans Hughes
Party Democratic Progressive Republican
Home state New Jersey N/A New York
Running mate Thomas R. Marshall John M. Parker Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral vote1400
Popular vote127,75420,69211,294
Percentage79.51%12.88%7.03%

Georgia Presidential Election Results 1916.svg
County Results

President before election

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

The 1916 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties, [1] and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club. [2]

Results

1916 United States presidential election in Georgia [3]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Woodrow Wilson (incumbent)127,75479.51%14
Progressive No candidate20,69212.88%0
Republican Charles E. Hughes 11,2947.03%0
Socialist Allan Benson 941 [lower-alpha 1] 0.59%0

Results by county

CountyThomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
Charles Evans Hughes
Republican
No candidate
Progressive
Margin [lower-alpha 2] Total votes cast [4]
#%#%#%#%
Appling 41371.95%447.67%11720.38%29651.57%574
Bacon 28786.19%4613.81%00.00%241 [lower-alpha 3] 72.37%333
Baker 43582.23%00.00%9417.77%34164.46%529
Baldwin 57984.40%659.48%426.12%514 [lower-alpha 3] 74.93%686
Banks 98980.21%12610.22%1189.57%863 [lower-alpha 3] 69.99%1,233
Barrow 71274.01%14815.38%10210.60%564 [lower-alpha 3] 58.63%962
Bartow 1,32576.02%925.28%32618.70%99957.31%1,743
Ben Hill 62781.53%81.04%13417.43%49364.11%769
Berrien 2,10296.29%321.47%492.24%2,05394.04%2,183
Bibb 2,04888.77%2018.71%582.51%1,847 [lower-alpha 3] 80.06%2,307
Bleckley 36294.76%61.57%143.66%34891.10%382
Brooks 96988.33%1039.39%252.28%866 [lower-alpha 3] 78.94%1,097
Bryan 29591.90%175.30%92.80%278 [lower-alpha 3] 86.60%321
Bulloch 1,41092.40%291.90%875.70%1,32386.70%1,526
Burke 67395.33%192.69%141.98%654 [lower-alpha 3] 92.63%706
Butts 59588.28%527.72%274.01%543 [lower-alpha 3] 80.56%674
Calhoun 26596.01%93.26%20.72%256 [lower-alpha 3] 92.75%276
Camden 25196.91%41.54%41.54%247 [lower-alpha 3] 95.37%259
Campbell 50878.03%7711.83%6610.14%431 [lower-alpha 3] 66.21%651
Candler 44294.04%00.00%285.96%41488.09%470
Carroll 1,62175.33%1185.48%41319.19%1,20856.13%2,152
Catoosa 62472.06%323.70%21024.25%41447.81%866
Charlton 16972.84%5222.41%114.74%117 [lower-alpha 3] 50.43%232
Chatham 3,79779.42%3687.70%61612.88%3,18166.53%4,781
Chattahoochee 15694.55%53.03%42.42%151 [lower-alpha 3] 91.52%165
Chattooga 1,00679.46%201.58%24018.96%76660.51%1,266
Cherokee 85553.17%29218.16%46128.67%39424.50%1,608
Clarke 1,03687.80%1139.58%312.63%923 [lower-alpha 3] 78.22%1,180
Clay 22592.21%93.69%104.10%21588.11%244
Clayton 51786.89%30.50%7512.61%44274.29%595
Clinch 37485.98%5312.18%81.84%321 [lower-alpha 3] 73.79%435
Cobb 1,75075.40%1375.90%43418.70%1,31656.70%2,321
Coffee 2,09193.35%1205.36%291.29%1,971 [lower-alpha 3] 87.99%2,240
Colquitt 1,30585.35%533.47%17111.18%1,13474.17%1,529
Columbia 52195.60%61.10%183.30%50392.29%545
Coweta 1,17991.40%856.59%262.02%1,094 [lower-alpha 3] 84.81%1,290
Crawford 41198.56%20.48%40.96%40797.60%417
Crisp 57784.73%40.59%10014.68%47770.04%681
Dade 61688.89%253.61%527.50%56481.39%693
Dawson 44059.30%27336.79%293.91%167 [lower-alpha 3] 22.51%742
Decatur 1,14788.37%352.70%1168.94%1,03179.43%1,298
DeKalb 1,69088.99%120.63%19710.37%1,49378.62%1,899
Dodge 78888.84%647.22%353.95%724 [lower-alpha 3] 81.62%887
Dooly 73795.96%00.00%314.04%70691.93%768
Dougherty 83693.93%374.16%171.91%799 [lower-alpha 3] 89.78%890
Douglas 41674.95%6110.99%7814.05%33860.90%555
Early 44297.14%40.88%91.98%43395.16%455
Echols 173100.00%00.00%00.00%173100.00%173
Effingham 45086.21%81.53%6412.26%38673.95%522
Elbert 1,75690.56%00.00%1839.44%1,57381.12%1,939
Emanuel 1,50083.61%281.56%26614.83%1,23468.78%1,794
Evans 33478.40%347.98%5813.62%27664.79%426
Fannin 72039.58%1669.13%93351.29%-213-11.71%1,819
Fayette 49483.87%254.24%7011.88%42471.99%589
Floyd 2,13783.05%501.94%38615.00%1,75168.05%2,573
Forsyth 1,14674.03%16610.72%23615.25%91058.79%1,548
Franklin 1,54086.03%442.46%20611.51%1,33474.53%1,790
Fulton 8,94579.19%1,31111.61%1,0409.21%7,634 [lower-alpha 3] 67.58%11,296
Gilmer 74247.56%25816.54%56035.90%18211.67%1,560
Glascock 12643.45%82.76%15653.79%-30-10.34%290
Glynn 47785.48%458.06%366.45%432 [lower-alpha 3] 77.42%558
Gordon 1,01070.04%19013.18%24216.78%76853.26%1,442
Grady 67584.59%394.89%8410.53%59174.06%798
Greene 67676.64%536.01%15317.35%52359.30%882
Gwinnett 1,52875.64%22210.99%27013.37%1,25862.28%2,020
Habersham 1,03269.45%483.23%40627.32%62642.13%1,486
Hall 1,66276.59%1416.50%36716.91%1,29559.68%2,170
Hancock 56291.53%304.89%223.58%532 [lower-alpha 3] 86.64%614
Haralson 83747.75%1377.82%77944.44%583.31%1,753
Harris 55091.06%233.81%315.13%51985.93%604
Hart 75074.33%222.18%23723.49%51350.84%1,009
Heard 43985.74%112.15%6212.11%37773.63%512
Henry 86883.86%787.54%898.60%77975.27%1,035
Houston 80692.64%525.98%121.38%754 [lower-alpha 3] 86.67%870
Irwin 50390.14%315.56%244.30%472 [lower-alpha 3] 84.59%558
Jackson 1,18587.26%715.23%1027.51%1,08379.75%1,358
Jasper 53796.41%142.51%61.08%523 [lower-alpha 3] 93.90%557
Jeff Davis 29981.03%143.79%5615.18%24365.85%369
Jefferson 58873.87%637.91%14518.22%44355.65%796
Jenkins 40293.71%71.63%204.66%38289.04%429
Johnson 71580.79%202.26%15016.95%56563.84%885
Jones 39892.34%276.26%61.39%371 [lower-alpha 3] 86.08%431
Laurens 1,26985.98%644.34%1439.69%1,12676.29%1,476
Lee 31697.83%30.93%41.24%31296.59%323
Liberty 24565.51%266.95%10327.54%14237.97%374
Lincoln 33384.52%51.27%5614.21%27770.30%394
Lowndes 1,87092.67%602.97%884.36%1,78288.31%2,018
Lumpkin 45566.81%558.08%17125.11%28441.70%681
Macon 44078.85%213.76%9717.38%34361.47%558
Madison 1,24186.12%191.32%18112.56%1,06073.56%1,441
Marion 33070.51%428.97%9620.51%23450.00%468
McDuffie 46677.54%7011.65%6510.82%396 [lower-alpha 3] 65.89%601
McIntosh 11482.61%2014.49%42.90%94 [lower-alpha 3] 68.12%138
Meriwether 1,11889.44%362.88%967.68%1,02281.76%1,250
Miller 46495.47%153.09%71.44%449 [lower-alpha 3] 92.39%486
Milton 46281.77%111.95%9216.28%37065.49%565
Mitchell 92187.05%413.88%969.07%82577.98%1,058
Monroe 72186.04%526.21%657.76%65678.28%838
Montgomery 1,00292.01%211.93%666.06%93685.95%1,089
Morgan 64384.61%597.76%587.63%584 [lower-alpha 3] 76.84%760
Murray 1,16272.67%30118.82%1368.51%861 [lower-alpha 3] 53.85%1,599
Muscogee 1,83392.25%1105.54%442.21%1,723 [lower-alpha 3] 86.71%1,987
Newton 94386.99%1029.41%393.60%841 [lower-alpha 3] 77.58%1,084
Oconee 49774.96%00.00%16625.04%33149.92%663
Oglethorpe 65791.63%182.51%425.86%61585.77%717
Paulding 67045.80%100.68%78353.52%-113-7.72%1,463
Pickens 49739.41%42033.31%34427.28%77 [lower-alpha 3] 6.11%1,261
Pierce 48981.64%8514.19%254.17%404 [lower-alpha 3] 67.45%599
Pike 76681.75%656.94%10611.31%66070.44%937
Polk 1,17262.18%00.00%71337.82%45924.35%1,885
Pulaski 38391.41%133.10%235.49%36085.92%419
Putnam 46298.30%81.70%00.00%454 [lower-alpha 3] 96.60%470
Quitman 12588.03%21.41%1510.56%11077.46%142
Rabun 63370.26%879.66%18120.09%45250.17%901
Randolph 64590.72%436.05%233.23%602 [lower-alpha 3] 84.67%711
Richmond 2,70878.04%2386.86%52415.10%2,18462.94%3,470
Rockdale 49079.16%7311.79%569.05%417 [lower-alpha 3] 67.37%619
Schley 22285.71%20.77%3513.51%18772.20%259
Screven 62582.35%364.74%9812.91%52769.43%759
Spalding 83581.23%413.99%15214.79%68366.44%1,028
Stephens 50086.96%152.61%6010.43%44076.52%575
Stewart 47492.76%234.50%142.74%451 [lower-alpha 3] 88.26%511
Sumter 1,06593.18%383.32%403.50%1,02589.68%1,143
Talbot 51194.28%173.14%142.58%494 [lower-alpha 3] 91.14%542
Taliaferro 25592.39%72.54%145.07%24187.32%276
Tattnall 57469.74%495.95%20024.30%37445.44%823
Taylor 40570.43%579.91%11319.65%29250.78%575
Telfair 77393.47%253.02%293.51%74489.96%827
Terrell 67792.74%405.48%131.78%637 [lower-alpha 3] 87.26%730
Thomas 1,29885.79%422.78%17311.43%1,12574.36%1,513
Tift 1,03482.79%423.36%17313.85%86168.94%1,249
Toombs 42578.13%336.07%8615.81%33962.32%544
Towns 35842.37%48156.92%60.71%-123 [lower-alpha 3] -14.56%845
Troup 1,22781.53%382.52%24015.95%98765.58%1,505
Turner 40055.79%14520.22%17223.99%22831.80%717
Twiggs 36591.25%205.00%153.75%345 [lower-alpha 3] 86.25%400
Union 53250.43%52349.57%00.00%9 [lower-alpha 3] 0.85%1,055
Upson 73472.60%181.78%25925.62%47546.98%1,011
Walker 1,88371.82%43916.74%30011.44%1,444 [lower-alpha 3] 55.07%2,622
Walton 1,30588.24%835.61%916.15%1,21482.08%1,479
Ware 1,06684.74%13310.57%594.69%933 [lower-alpha 3] 74.17%1,258
Warren 29268.22%4710.98%8920.79%20347.43%428
Washington 95484.57%181.60%15613.83%79870.74%1,128
Wayne 46089.49%295.64%254.86%431 [lower-alpha 3] 83.85%514
Webster 24887.63%207.07%155.30%228 [lower-alpha 3] 80.57%283
Wheeler 37283.97%317.00%409.03%33274.94%443
White 63975.62%60.71%20023.67%43951.95%845
Whitfield 1,09360.19%160.88%70738.93%38621.26%1,816
Wilcox 59089.39%121.82%588.79%53280.61%660
Wilkes 78591.92%171.99%526.09%73385.83%854
Wilkinson 37188.54%286.68%204.77%343 [lower-alpha 3] 81.86%419
Worth 69087.45%313.93%688.62%62278.83%789
Totals127,75479.51%11,2947.03%20,69212.88%107,06266.63%160,681

Notes

  1. These Socialist votes were not separated by county and only given as a statewide total. They are included in the totals at the bottom of the county table.
  2. Because the Progressive slate finished second behind Wilson in Georgia as a whole, all margins given are Wilson vote minus Progressive vote and percentage margins Wilson percentage minus Progressive percentage unless stated otherwise for the county in question.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 In this county where the “Progressive” slate did run third behind Wilson and Hughes, margin given is Wilson vote minus Hughes vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Hughes percentage.

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