Summary
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.
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 County Results
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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 "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 12.76 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 2020 presidential election[update], this election is the last time Wyoming has voted more Democratic than the nation at-large.
Results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) | 28,316 | 54.62% | |
| Republican | Charles Evans Hughes | 21,698 | 41.86% | |
| Socialist | Allan Benson | 1,453 | 2.80% | |
| Prohibition | James Hanly | 373 | 0.72% | |
| Total votes | 51,840 | 100.00% | ||
Results by county edit
| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
Charles Evans Hughes Republican |
Allan Louis Benson Socialist |
James Franklin Hanly Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast[7] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Albany | 1,571 | 52.45% | 1,313 | 43.84% | 73 | 3.71% | 38 | 1.27% | 258 | 8.61% | 2,995 |
| Big Horn | 1,493 | 53.92% | 1,239 | 44.75% | 29 | 1.34% | 8 | 0.29% | 254 | 9.17% | 2,769 |
| Campbell | 690 | 59.48% | 448 | 38.62% | 12 | 1.90% | 10 | 0.86% | 242 | 20.86% | 1,160 |
| Carbon | 1,661 | 54.58% | 1,217 | 39.99% | 155 | 5.42% | 10 | 0.33% | 444 | 14.59% | 3,043 |
| Converse | 879 | 52.32% | 766 | 45.60% | 20 | 2.08% | 15 | 0.89% | 113 | 6.72% | 1,680 |
| Crook | 1,181 | 56.59% | 846 | 40.54% | 51 | 2.87% | 9 | 0.43% | 335 | 16.05% | 2,087 |
| Fremont | 1,752 | 53.89% | 1,407 | 43.28% | 75 | 2.83% | 17 | 0.52% | 345 | 10.61% | 3,251 |
| Goshen | 1,096 | 56.61% | 770 | 39.77% | 49 | 3.62% | 21 | 1.08% | 326 | 16.84% | 1,936 |
| Hot Springs | 760 | 54.25% | 523 | 37.33% | 95 | 8.42% | 23 | 1.64% | 237 | 16.92% | 1,401 |
| Johnson | 812 | 49.03% | 814 | 49.15% | 28 | 1.81% | 2 | 0.12% | -2 | -0.12% | 1,656 |
| Laramie | 2,759 | 51.86% | 2,428 | 45.64% | 78 | 2.50% | 55 | 1.03% | 331 | 6.22% | 5,320 |
| Lincoln | 2,378 | 60.11% | 1,426 | 36.05% | 142 | 3.84% | 10 | 0.25% | 952 | 24.06% | 3,956 |
| Natrona | 1,377 | 59.17% | 912 | 39.19% | 30 | 1.63% | 8 | 0.34% | 465 | 19.98% | 2,327 |
| Niobrara | 599 | 51.28% | 533 | 45.63% | 14 | 3.08% | 22 | 1.88% | 66 | 5.65% | 1,168 |
| Park | 1,146 | 49.21% | 1,092 | 46.89% | 69 | 3.91% | 22 | 0.94% | 54 | 2.32% | 2,329 |
| Platte | 1,276 | 58.08% | 806 | 36.69% | 62 | 5.23% | 53 | 2.41% | 470 | 21.39% | 2,197 |
| Sheridan | 2,906 | 57.57% | 1,914 | 37.92% | 205 | 4.52% | 23 | 0.46% | 992 | 19.65% | 5,048 |
| Sweetwater | 1,496 | 50.90% | 1,287 | 43.79% | 152 | 5.31% | 4 | 0.14% | 209 | 7.11% | 2,939 |
| Uinta | 1,295 | 59.57% | 822 | 37.81% | 51 | 2.62% | 6 | 0.28% | 473 | 21.76% | 2,174 |
| Washakie | 455 | 55.62% | 344 | 42.05% | 16 | 2.32% | 3 | 0.37% | 111 | 13.57% | 818 |
| Weston | 734 | 46.28% | 791 | 49.87% | 47 | 3.85% | 14 | 0.88% | -57 | -3.59% | 1,586 |
| Totals | 28,316 | 54.62% | 21,698 | 41.86% | 1,453 | 2.80% | 373 | 0.72% | 6,618 | 12.76% | 51,840 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1912 Presidential General Election Data – National by State: Sorted by Vote Percentage for Taft
- ^ a b Sarasohn, David; 'The Election of 1916: Realigning the Rockies', Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 1980), pp. 285-305
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Wyoming
- ^ Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 342-343
- ^ "1916 Presidential Election Results – Wyoming".
- ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 377-379 ISBN 9780804716963