1916 United States presidential election in Nevada
The United States presidential election in the Nevada, 1916 took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Nevada was won by incumbent President of the United States, former Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson, who won the state by a comfortable margin of nearly seventeen points and carried every county in the state except Douglas,[1] a county that since statehood has voted Democratic only for William Jennings Bryan in the "free silver" elections of 1896 and 1900 and for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt landslides of 1932 and 1936.[2] Nevada voted more than 5% more Democratic than the nation as a whole,[3] an anomaly exceeded only by Bryan and Roosevelt in their first two elections each.
Results
| 1916 United States presidential election in Nevada[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) | 17,776 | 53.36% | 3 | |
| Republican | Charles Hughes | 12,127 | 36.40% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Allan Benson | 3,065 | 9.20% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Frank Hanly | 348 | 1.04% | 0 | |
| Totals | 33,316 | 100.0% | 3 | ||
Results by county
| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
Charles Evans Hughes Republican |
Allan Louis Benson[4] Socialist |
James Franklin Hanly[4] Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Churchill | 831 | 53.51% | 531 | 34.19% | 184 | 11.85% | 7 | 0.45% | 300 | 19.32% | 1,553 |
| Clark | 1,115 | 60.17% | 529 | 28.55% | 194 | 10.47% | 15 | 0.81% | 586 | 31.62% | 1,853 |
| Douglas | 301 | 43.50% | 337 | 48.70% | 43 | 6.21% | 11 | 1.59% | -36 | -5.20% | 692 |
| Elko | 2,020 | 60.32% | 1,072 | 32.01% | 225 | 6.72% | 32 | 0.96% | 948 | 28.31% | 3,349 |
| Esmeralda | 1,135 | 49.76% | 709 | 31.08% | 418 | 18.33% | 19 | 0.83% | 426 | 18.68% | 2,281 |
| Eureka | 263 | 50.58% | 239 | 45.96% | 15 | 2.88% | 3 | 0.58% | 24 | 4.62% | 520 |
| Humboldt | 1,681 | 56.03% | 1,004 | 33.47% | 291 | 9.70% | 24 | 0.80% | 677 | 22.56% | 3,000 |
| Lander | 473 | 50.81% | 321 | 34.48% | 130 | 13.96% | 7 | 0.75% | 152 | 16.33% | 931 |
| Lincoln | 634 | 71.16% | 202 | 22.67% | 51 | 5.72% | 4 | 0.45% | 432 | 48.49% | 891 |
| Lyon | 769 | 47.03% | 669 | 40.92% | 174 | 10.64% | 23 | 1.41% | 100 | 6.11% | 1,635 |
| Mineral | 617 | 55.69% | 385 | 34.75% | 99 | 8.94% | 7 | 0.63% | 232 | 20.94% | 1,108 |
| Nye | 1,601 | 50.50% | 1,019 | 32.15% | 536 | 16.91% | 14 | 0.44% | 582 | 18.35% | 3,170 |
| Ormsby | 610 | 49.71% | 534 | 43.52% | 63 | 5.13% | 20 | 1.63% | 76 | 6.19% | 1,227 |
| Storey | 463 | 52.61% | 403 | 45.80% | 6 | 0.68% | 8 | 0.91% | 60 | 6.81% | 880 |
| Washoe | 3,341 | 47.07% | 3,225 | 45.44% | 397 | 5.59% | 135 | 1.90% | 116 | 1.63% | 7,098 |
| White Pine | 1,922 | 61.45% | 948 | 30.31% | 239 | 7.64% | 19 | 0.61% | 974 | 31.14% | 3,128 |
| Totals | 17,776 | 53.36% | 12,127 | 36.40% | 3,065 | 9.20% | 348 | 1.04% | 5,649 | 16.96% | 33,316 |
References
- "1916 Presidential General Election Results - Nevada". U.S. Election Atlas. David Leip. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- Counting the Votes; Nevada
- Nevada Secretary of State Elections Division; Official Returns of Election of November 7, 1916, p. 20
- Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 268-270 ISBN 9780804716963
