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.
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County Results
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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]
1916 United States presidential election in Georgia[3] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) | 127,754 | 79.51% | 14 | |
Progressive | No candidate | 20,692 | 12.88% | 0 | |
Republican | Charles E. Hughes | 11,294 | 7.03% | 0 | |
Socialist | Allan Benson | 941[a] | 0.59% | 0 |
County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
Charles Evans Hughes Republican |
No candidate Progressive |
Margin[b] | Total votes cast[4] | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Appling | 413 | 71.95% | 44 | 7.67% | 117 | 20.38% | 296 | 51.57% | 574 |
Bacon | 287 | 86.19% | 46 | 13.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 241[c] | 72.37% | 333 |
Baker | 435 | 82.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 94 | 17.77% | 341 | 64.46% | 529 |
Baldwin | 579 | 84.40% | 65 | 9.48% | 42 | 6.12% | 514[c] | 74.93% | 686 |
Banks | 989 | 80.21% | 126 | 10.22% | 118 | 9.57% | 863[c] | 69.99% | 1,233 |
Barrow | 712 | 74.01% | 148 | 15.38% | 102 | 10.60% | 564[c] | 58.63% | 962 |
Bartow | 1,325 | 76.02% | 92 | 5.28% | 326 | 18.70% | 999 | 57.31% | 1,743 |
Ben Hill | 627 | 81.53% | 8 | 1.04% | 134 | 17.43% | 493 | 64.11% | 769 |
Berrien | 2,102 | 96.29% | 32 | 1.47% | 49 | 2.24% | 2,053 | 94.04% | 2,183 |
Bibb | 2,048 | 88.77% | 201 | 8.71% | 58 | 2.51% | 1,847[c] | 80.06% | 2,307 |
Bleckley | 362 | 94.76% | 6 | 1.57% | 14 | 3.66% | 348 | 91.10% | 382 |
Brooks | 969 | 88.33% | 103 | 9.39% | 25 | 2.28% | 866[c] | 78.94% | 1,097 |
Bryan | 295 | 91.90% | 17 | 5.30% | 9 | 2.80% | 278[c] | 86.60% | 321 |
Bulloch | 1,410 | 92.40% | 29 | 1.90% | 87 | 5.70% | 1,323 | 86.70% | 1,526 |
Burke | 673 | 95.33% | 19 | 2.69% | 14 | 1.98% | 654[c] | 92.63% | 706 |
Butts | 595 | 88.28% | 52 | 7.72% | 27 | 4.01% | 543[c] | 80.56% | 674 |
Calhoun | 265 | 96.01% | 9 | 3.26% | 2 | 0.72% | 256[c] | 92.75% | 276 |
Camden | 251 | 96.91% | 4 | 1.54% | 4 | 1.54% | 247[c] | 95.37% | 259 |
Campbell | 508 | 78.03% | 77 | 11.83% | 66 | 10.14% | 431[c] | 66.21% | 651 |
Candler | 442 | 94.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 28 | 5.96% | 414 | 88.09% | 470 |
Carroll | 1,621 | 75.33% | 118 | 5.48% | 413 | 19.19% | 1,208 | 56.13% | 2,152 |
Catoosa | 624 | 72.06% | 32 | 3.70% | 210 | 24.25% | 414 | 47.81% | 866 |
Charlton | 169 | 72.84% | 52 | 22.41% | 11 | 4.74% | 117[c] | 50.43% | 232 |
Chatham | 3,797 | 79.42% | 368 | 7.70% | 616 | 12.88% | 3,181 | 66.53% | 4,781 |
Chattahoochee | 156 | 94.55% | 5 | 3.03% | 4 | 2.42% | 151[c] | 91.52% | 165 |
Chattooga | 1,006 | 79.46% | 20 | 1.58% | 240 | 18.96% | 766 | 60.51% | 1,266 |
Cherokee | 855 | 53.17% | 292 | 18.16% | 461 | 28.67% | 394 | 24.50% | 1,608 |
Clarke | 1,036 | 87.80% | 113 | 9.58% | 31 | 2.63% | 923[c] | 78.22% | 1,180 |
Clay | 225 | 92.21% | 9 | 3.69% | 10 | 4.10% | 215 | 88.11% | 244 |
Clayton | 517 | 86.89% | 3 | 0.50% | 75 | 12.61% | 442 | 74.29% | 595 |
Clinch | 374 | 85.98% | 53 | 12.18% | 8 | 1.84% | 321[c] | 73.79% | 435 |
Cobb | 1,750 | 75.40% | 137 | 5.90% | 434 | 18.70% | 1,316 | 56.70% | 2,321 |
Coffee | 2,091 | 93.35% | 120 | 5.36% | 29 | 1.29% | 1,971[c] | 87.99% | 2,240 |
Colquitt | 1,305 | 85.35% | 53 | 3.47% | 171 | 11.18% | 1,134 | 74.17% | 1,529 |
Columbia | 521 | 95.60% | 6 | 1.10% | 18 | 3.30% | 503 | 92.29% | 545 |
Coweta | 1,179 | 91.40% | 85 | 6.59% | 26 | 2.02% | 1,094[c] | 84.81% | 1,290 |
Crawford | 411 | 98.56% | 2 | 0.48% | 4 | 0.96% | 407 | 97.60% | 417 |
Crisp | 577 | 84.73% | 4 | 0.59% | 100 | 14.68% | 477 | 70.04% | 681 |
Dade | 616 | 88.89% | 25 | 3.61% | 52 | 7.50% | 564 | 81.39% | 693 |
Dawson | 440 | 59.30% | 273 | 36.79% | 29 | 3.91% | 167[c] | 22.51% | 742 |
Decatur | 1,147 | 88.37% | 35 | 2.70% | 116 | 8.94% | 1,031 | 79.43% | 1,298 |
DeKalb | 1,690 | 88.99% | 12 | 0.63% | 197 | 10.37% | 1,493 | 78.62% | 1,899 |
Dodge | 788 | 88.84% | 64 | 7.22% | 35 | 3.95% | 724[c] | 81.62% | 887 |
Dooly | 737 | 95.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 31 | 4.04% | 706 | 91.93% | 768 |
Dougherty | 836 | 93.93% | 37 | 4.16% | 17 | 1.91% | 799[c] | 89.78% | 890 |
Douglas | 416 | 74.95% | 61 | 10.99% | 78 | 14.05% | 338 | 60.90% | 555 |
Early | 442 | 97.14% | 4 | 0.88% | 9 | 1.98% | 433 | 95.16% | 455 |
Echols | 173 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 173 | 100.00% | 173 |
Effingham | 450 | 86.21% | 8 | 1.53% | 64 | 12.26% | 386 | 73.95% | 522 |
Elbert | 1,756 | 90.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 183 | 9.44% | 1,573 | 81.12% | 1,939 |
Emanuel | 1,500 | 83.61% | 28 | 1.56% | 266 | 14.83% | 1,234 | 68.78% | 1,794 |
Evans | 334 | 78.40% | 34 | 7.98% | 58 | 13.62% | 276 | 64.79% | 426 |
Fannin | 720 | 39.58% | 166 | 9.13% | 933 | 51.29% | -213 | -11.71% | 1,819 |
Fayette | 494 | 83.87% | 25 | 4.24% | 70 | 11.88% | 424 | 71.99% | 589 |
Floyd | 2,137 | 83.05% | 50 | 1.94% | 386 | 15.00% | 1,751 | 68.05% | 2,573 |
Forsyth | 1,146 | 74.03% | 166 | 10.72% | 236 | 15.25% | 910 | 58.79% | 1,548 |
Franklin | 1,540 | 86.03% | 44 | 2.46% | 206 | 11.51% | 1,334 | 74.53% | 1,790 |
Fulton | 8,945 | 79.19% | 1,311 | 11.61% | 1,040 | 9.21% | 7,634[c] | 67.58% | 11,296 |
Gilmer | 742 | 47.56% | 258 | 16.54% | 560 | 35.90% | 182 | 11.67% | 1,560 |
Glascock | 126 | 43.45% | 8 | 2.76% | 156 | 53.79% | -30 | -10.34% | 290 |
Glynn | 477 | 85.48% | 45 | 8.06% | 36 | 6.45% | 432[c] | 77.42% | 558 |
Gordon | 1,010 | 70.04% | 190 | 13.18% | 242 | 16.78% | 768 | 53.26% | 1,442 |
Grady | 675 | 84.59% | 39 | 4.89% | 84 | 10.53% | 591 | 74.06% | 798 |
Greene | 676 | 76.64% | 53 | 6.01% | 153 | 17.35% | 523 | 59.30% | 882 |
Gwinnett | 1,528 | 75.64% | 222 | 10.99% | 270 | 13.37% | 1,258 | 62.28% | 2,020 |
Habersham | 1,032 | 69.45% | 48 | 3.23% | 406 | 27.32% | 626 | 42.13% | 1,486 |
Hall | 1,662 | 76.59% | 141 | 6.50% | 367 | 16.91% | 1,295 | 59.68% | 2,170 |
Hancock | 562 | 91.53% | 30 | 4.89% | 22 | 3.58% | 532[c] | 86.64% | 614 |
Haralson | 837 | 47.75% | 137 | 7.82% | 779 | 44.44% | 58 | 3.31% | 1,753 |
Harris | 550 | 91.06% | 23 | 3.81% | 31 | 5.13% | 519 | 85.93% | 604 |
Hart | 750 | 74.33% | 22 | 2.18% | 237 | 23.49% | 513 | 50.84% | 1,009 |
Heard | 439 | 85.74% | 11 | 2.15% | 62 | 12.11% | 377 | 73.63% | 512 |
Henry | 868 | 83.86% | 78 | 7.54% | 89 | 8.60% | 779 | 75.27% | 1,035 |
Houston | 806 | 92.64% | 52 | 5.98% | 12 | 1.38% | 754[c] | 86.67% | 870 |
Irwin | 503 | 90.14% | 31 | 5.56% | 24 | 4.30% | 472[c] | 84.59% | 558 |
Jackson | 1,185 | 87.26% | 71 | 5.23% | 102 | 7.51% | 1,083 | 79.75% | 1,358 |
Jasper | 537 | 96.41% | 14 | 2.51% | 6 | 1.08% | 523[c] | 93.90% | 557 |
Jeff Davis | 299 | 81.03% | 14 | 3.79% | 56 | 15.18% | 243 | 65.85% | 369 |
Jefferson | 588 | 73.87% | 63 | 7.91% | 145 | 18.22% | 443 | 55.65% | 796 |
Jenkins | 402 | 93.71% | 7 | 1.63% | 20 | 4.66% | 382 | 89.04% | 429 |
Johnson | 715 | 80.79% | 20 | 2.26% | 150 | 16.95% | 565 | 63.84% | 885 |
Jones | 398 | 92.34% | 27 | 6.26% | 6 | 1.39% | 371[c] | 86.08% | 431 |
Laurens | 1,269 | 85.98% | 64 | 4.34% | 143 | 9.69% | 1,126 | 76.29% | 1,476 |
Lee | 316 | 97.83% | 3 | 0.93% | 4 | 1.24% | 312 | 96.59% | 323 |
Liberty | 245 | 65.51% | 26 | 6.95% | 103 | 27.54% | 142 | 37.97% | 374 |
Lincoln | 333 | 84.52% | 5 | 1.27% | 56 | 14.21% | 277 | 70.30% | 394 |
Lowndes | 1,870 | 92.67% | 60 | 2.97% | 88 | 4.36% | 1,782 | 88.31% | 2,018 |
Lumpkin | 455 | 66.81% | 55 | 8.08% | 171 | 25.11% | 284 | 41.70% | 681 |
Macon | 440 | 78.85% | 21 | 3.76% | 97 | 17.38% | 343 | 61.47% | 558 |
Madison | 1,241 | 86.12% | 19 | 1.32% | 181 | 12.56% | 1,060 | 73.56% | 1,441 |
Marion | 330 | 70.51% | 42 | 8.97% | 96 | 20.51% | 234 | 50.00% | 468 |
McDuffie | 466 | 77.54% | 70 | 11.65% | 65 | 10.82% | 396[c] | 65.89% | 601 |
McIntosh | 114 | 82.61% | 20 | 14.49% | 4 | 2.90% | 94[c] | 68.12% | 138 |
Meriwether | 1,118 | 89.44% | 36 | 2.88% | 96 | 7.68% | 1,022 | 81.76% | 1,250 |
Miller | 464 | 95.47% | 15 | 3.09% | 7 | 1.44% | 449[c] | 92.39% | 486 |
Milton | 462 | 81.77% | 11 | 1.95% | 92 | 16.28% | 370 | 65.49% | 565 |
Mitchell | 921 | 87.05% | 41 | 3.88% | 96 | 9.07% | 825 | 77.98% | 1,058 |
Monroe | 721 | 86.04% | 52 | 6.21% | 65 | 7.76% | 656 | 78.28% | 838 |
Montgomery | 1,002 | 92.01% | 21 | 1.93% | 66 | 6.06% | 936 | 85.95% | 1,089 |
Morgan | 643 | 84.61% | 59 | 7.76% | 58 | 7.63% | 584[c] | 76.84% | 760 |
Murray | 1,162 | 72.67% | 301 | 18.82% | 136 | 8.51% | 861[c] | 53.85% | 1,599 |
Muscogee | 1,833 | 92.25% | 110 | 5.54% | 44 | 2.21% | 1,723[c] | 86.71% | 1,987 |
Newton | 943 | 86.99% | 102 | 9.41% | 39 | 3.60% | 841[c] | 77.58% | 1,084 |
Oconee | 497 | 74.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 166 | 25.04% | 331 | 49.92% | 663 |
Oglethorpe | 657 | 91.63% | 18 | 2.51% | 42 | 5.86% | 615 | 85.77% | 717 |
Paulding | 670 | 45.80% | 10 | 0.68% | 783 | 53.52% | -113 | -7.72% | 1,463 |
Pickens | 497 | 39.41% | 420 | 33.31% | 344 | 27.28% | 77[c] | 6.11% | 1,261 |
Pierce | 489 | 81.64% | 85 | 14.19% | 25 | 4.17% | 404[c] | 67.45% | 599 |
Pike | 766 | 81.75% | 65 | 6.94% | 106 | 11.31% | 660 | 70.44% | 937 |
Polk | 1,172 | 62.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 713 | 37.82% | 459 | 24.35% | 1,885 |
Pulaski | 383 | 91.41% | 13 | 3.10% | 23 | 5.49% | 360 | 85.92% | 419 |
Putnam | 462 | 98.30% | 8 | 1.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 454[c] | 96.60% | 470 |
Quitman | 125 | 88.03% | 2 | 1.41% | 15 | 10.56% | 110 | 77.46% | 142 |
Rabun | 633 | 70.26% | 87 | 9.66% | 181 | 20.09% | 452 | 50.17% | 901 |
Randolph | 645 | 90.72% | 43 | 6.05% | 23 | 3.23% | 602[c] | 84.67% | 711 |
Richmond | 2,708 | 78.04% | 238 | 6.86% | 524 | 15.10% | 2,184 | 62.94% | 3,470 |
Rockdale | 490 | 79.16% | 73 | 11.79% | 56 | 9.05% | 417[c] | 67.37% | 619 |
Schley | 222 | 85.71% | 2 | 0.77% | 35 | 13.51% | 187 | 72.20% | 259 |
Screven | 625 | 82.35% | 36 | 4.74% | 98 | 12.91% | 527 | 69.43% | 759 |
Spalding | 835 | 81.23% | 41 | 3.99% | 152 | 14.79% | 683 | 66.44% | 1,028 |
Stephens | 500 | 86.96% | 15 | 2.61% | 60 | 10.43% | 440 | 76.52% | 575 |
Stewart | 474 | 92.76% | 23 | 4.50% | 14 | 2.74% | 451[c] | 88.26% | 511 |
Sumter | 1,065 | 93.18% | 38 | 3.32% | 40 | 3.50% | 1,025 | 89.68% | 1,143 |
Talbot | 511 | 94.28% | 17 | 3.14% | 14 | 2.58% | 494[c] | 91.14% | 542 |
Taliaferro | 255 | 92.39% | 7 | 2.54% | 14 | 5.07% | 241 | 87.32% | 276 |
Tattnall | 574 | 69.74% | 49 | 5.95% | 200 | 24.30% | 374 | 45.44% | 823 |
Taylor | 405 | 70.43% | 57 | 9.91% | 113 | 19.65% | 292 | 50.78% | 575 |
Telfair | 773 | 93.47% | 25 | 3.02% | 29 | 3.51% | 744 | 89.96% | 827 |
Terrell | 677 | 92.74% | 40 | 5.48% | 13 | 1.78% | 637[c] | 87.26% | 730 |
Thomas | 1,298 | 85.79% | 42 | 2.78% | 173 | 11.43% | 1,125 | 74.36% | 1,513 |
Tift | 1,034 | 82.79% | 42 | 3.36% | 173 | 13.85% | 861 | 68.94% | 1,249 |
Toombs | 425 | 78.13% | 33 | 6.07% | 86 | 15.81% | 339 | 62.32% | 544 |
Towns | 358 | 42.37% | 481 | 56.92% | 6 | 0.71% | -123[c] | -14.56% | 845 |
Troup | 1,227 | 81.53% | 38 | 2.52% | 240 | 15.95% | 987 | 65.58% | 1,505 |
Turner | 400 | 55.79% | 145 | 20.22% | 172 | 23.99% | 228 | 31.80% | 717 |
Twiggs | 365 | 91.25% | 20 | 5.00% | 15 | 3.75% | 345[c] | 86.25% | 400 |
Union | 532 | 50.43% | 523 | 49.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 9[c] | 0.85% | 1,055 |
Upson | 734 | 72.60% | 18 | 1.78% | 259 | 25.62% | 475 | 46.98% | 1,011 |
Walker | 1,883 | 71.82% | 439 | 16.74% | 300 | 11.44% | 1,444[c] | 55.07% | 2,622 |
Walton | 1,305 | 88.24% | 83 | 5.61% | 91 | 6.15% | 1,214 | 82.08% | 1,479 |
Ware | 1,066 | 84.74% | 133 | 10.57% | 59 | 4.69% | 933[c] | 74.17% | 1,258 |
Warren | 292 | 68.22% | 47 | 10.98% | 89 | 20.79% | 203 | 47.43% | 428 |
Washington | 954 | 84.57% | 18 | 1.60% | 156 | 13.83% | 798 | 70.74% | 1,128 |
Wayne | 460 | 89.49% | 29 | 5.64% | 25 | 4.86% | 431[c] | 83.85% | 514 |
Webster | 248 | 87.63% | 20 | 7.07% | 15 | 5.30% | 228[c] | 80.57% | 283 |
Wheeler | 372 | 83.97% | 31 | 7.00% | 40 | 9.03% | 332 | 74.94% | 443 |
White | 639 | 75.62% | 6 | 0.71% | 200 | 23.67% | 439 | 51.95% | 845 |
Whitfield | 1,093 | 60.19% | 16 | 0.88% | 707 | 38.93% | 386 | 21.26% | 1,816 |
Wilcox | 590 | 89.39% | 12 | 1.82% | 58 | 8.79% | 532 | 80.61% | 660 |
Wilkes | 785 | 91.92% | 17 | 1.99% | 52 | 6.09% | 733 | 85.83% | 854 |
Wilkinson | 371 | 88.54% | 28 | 6.68% | 20 | 4.77% | 343[c] | 81.86% | 419 |
Worth | 690 | 87.45% | 31 | 3.93% | 68 | 8.62% | 622 | 78.83% | 789 |
Totals | 127,754 | 79.51% | 11,294 | 7.03% | 20,692 | 12.88% | 107,062 | 66.63% | 160,681 |