1916 United States presidential election in Utah
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County Results
Wilson 50–60% 60–70%
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The 1916 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 7, 1916. All contemporary forty-eight states were part of the 1916 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was the first election featuring as a distinct voting unit Duchesne County, which had been split from Wasatch County in 1915.
In the preceding
The combined result was that Wilson was able to make Utah his second-strongest victory outside of the "Solid South" – in a state that four years previously had given him his seventh-lowest popular vote proportion.[3] Utah was his eleventh-best state overall and voted 17.83 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large. Wilson swept every county in the state, including rock-ribbed Republican Kane County, which had been Taft's third-strongest county nationwide in 1912,[4] which has never otherwise supported a Democrat for president,[2] and where otherwise only William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 have as Democrats received so much as one-third of the vote. This is the only time a Democrat swept every county in the state.
Results
1916 United States presidential election in Utah[5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) | 84,145 | 58.78% | 4 | |
Republican | Charles Evans Hughes | 54,137 | 37.82% | 0 | |
Socialist | Allan L. Benson | 4,460 | 3.12% | 0 | |
Prohibition | Frank Hanly | 149 | 0.10% | 0 | |
Socialist Labor | Arthur E. Reimer | 144 | 0.10% | 0 | |
Progressive Party
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No candidate | 111 | 0.08% | 0 | |
Totals | 143,146 | 100.00% | 4 |
Results by county
County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
Charles Evans Hughes Republican |
Allan Louis Benson[6] Socialist |
Various candidates[6] Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[7] | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Beaver | 1,291 | 58.84% | 842 | 38.38% | 61 | 2.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 449 | 20.46% | 2,194 |
Box Elder | 2,957 | 54.68% | 2,416 | 44.67% | 34 | 0.65% | 1 | 0.02% | 541 | 10.01% | 5,408 |
Cache | 5,305 | 58.03% | 3,756 | 41.09% | 75 | 0.89% | 6 | 0.07% | 1,549 | 16.94% | 9,142 |
Carbon | 1,478 | 50.43% | 1,301 | 44.39% | 147 | 5.19% | 5 | 0.17% | 177 | 6.04% | 2,931 |
Davis | 2,131 | 56.08% | 1,641 | 43.18% | 22 | 0.74% | 6 | 0.16% | 490 | 12.90% | 3,800 |
Duchesne | 1,443 | 56.61% | 687 | 26.95% | 410 | 16.44% | 9 | 0.35% | 756 | 29.66% | 2,549 |
Emery | 1,406 | 58.68% | 896 | 37.40% | 88 | 3.92% | 6 | 0.25% | 510 | 21.28% | 2,396 |
Garfield | 843 | 61.26% | 516 | 37.50% | 16 | 1.24% | 1 | 0.07% | 327 | 23.76% | 1,376 |
Grand | 306 | 56.77% | 213 | 39.52% | 19 | 3.71% | 1 | 0.19% | 93 | 17.25% | 539 |
Iron | 1,156 | 56.09% | 825 | 40.03% | 76 | 3.88% | 4 | 0.19% | 331 | 16.06% | 2,061 |
Juab | 2,221 | 61.30% | 1,248 | 34.45% | 151 | 4.25% | 3 | 0.08% | 973 | 26.85% | 3,623 |
Kane | 329 | 50.85% | 304 | 46.99% | 14 | 2.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 25 | 3.86% | 647 |
Millard | 1,804 | 56.23% | 1,293 | 40.31% | 94 | 3.46% | 17 | 0.53% | 511 | 15.92% | 3,208 |
Morgan | 484 | 50.63% | 464 | 48.54% | 8 | 0.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 20 | 2.09% | 956 |
Piute | 417 | 56.20% | 269 | 36.25% | 55 | 7.55% | 1 | 0.13% | 148 | 19.95% | 742 |
Rich | 454 | 58.28% | 325 | 41.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 129 | 16.56% | 779 |
Salt Lake | 30,707 | 61.18% | 17,593 | 35.05% | 1,778 | 3.76% | 111 | 0.22% | 13,114 | 26.13% | 50,189 |
San Juan | 448 | 66.27% | 213 | 31.51% | 15 | 2.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 235 | 34.76% | 676 |
Sanpete | 3,382 | 52.34% | 2,918 | 45.16% | 78 | 2.51% | 84 | 1.30% | 464 | 7.18% | 6,462 |
Sevier | 2,052 | 53.44% | 1,720 | 44.79% | 67 | 1.77% | 1 | 0.03% | 332 | 8.65% | 3,840 |
Summit | 1,495 | 50.92% | 1,195 | 40.70% | 240 | 8.38% | 7 | 0.24% | 300 | 10.22% | 2,936 |
Tooele | 1,528 | 55.20% | 1,124 | 40.61% | 113 | 4.19% | 3 | 0.11% | 404 | 14.59% | 2,768 |
Uintah | 1,459 | 64.10% | 712 | 31.28% | 94 | 4.61% | 11 | 0.48% | 747 | 32.82% | 2,276 |
Utah | 8,235 | 59.30% | 5,201 | 37.45% | 410 | 3.25% | 41 | 0.30% | 3,034 | 21.85% | 13,887 |
Wasatch | 885 | 51.57% | 817 | 47.61% | 14 | 0.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 68 | 3.96% | 1,716 |
Washington | 1,397 | 66.40% | 703 | 33.41% | 4 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 694 | 32.99% | 2,104 |
Wayne | 393 | 62.68% | 225 | 35.89% | 9 | 1.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 168 | 26.79% | 627 |
Weber | 8,139 | 61.14% | 4,720 | 35.45% | 368 | 3.41% | 86 | 0.65% | 3,419 | 25.69% | 13,313 |
Totals | 84,145 | 58.78% | 54,137 | 37.82% | 4,460 | 3.12% | 404 | 0.28% | 30,008 | 20.96% | 143,145 |
See also
References
- ^ Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 1980), pp. 285-305
- ^ ISBN 0786422173
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1912 Presidential General Election Data – National by State: Sorted by Vote Percentage for Wilson
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1912 Presidential Election Statistics
- ^ "1916 Presidential General Election Results – Utah". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
- ^ a b Utah State Elections Office; Abstract of the Returns of an Election Held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 7th, A.D. 1916
- ISBN 9780804716963