1916 United States presidential election in North Dakota
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The1916 United States presidential election in North Dakotatook place onNovember7,1916.All contemporary forty-eight states were part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose five electors tothe Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
North Dakotawas won narrowly by incumbent PresidentWoodrow Wilson(D–New Jersey), running with incumbent Vice PresidentThomas R. Marshall,with 47.84% of the popular vote, against Associate Justice of theU.S. Supreme CourtCharles Evans Hughes(R–New York), running with former Vice PresidentCharles W. Fairbanks,with 46.34% of the popular vote. Apart from the state’s first presidential election in1892,this is the closest presidential result on record in North Dakota,[1]although the state was only the sixth-closest of the 1916 election.
Wilson had previously won North Dakotafour years earlier.As of the2020 presidential election[update],this is the last time that North Dakota voted for a different candidate than neighboringSouth Dakota,with North Dakota being won by Wilson and South Dakota being won by Hughes.
This is one of just five instances of North Dakota voting Democratic, as along with itsGreat Plainsneighbors, the state would remain almost universally Republican following the4th party system.The others came in1912,1932,1936,and1964.As all of these elections were landslide victories for the Democratic party, this is the only time that North Dakota has voted Democratic in a close election.[2]
Results[edit]
Presidential Candidate | Running Mate | Party | Electoral Vote (EV) | Popular Vote (PV) | |
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Woodrow Wilson | Thomas R. Marshall | Democratic | 5[3] | 55,206 | 47.84% |
Charles Evans Hughes | Charles W. Fairbanks | Republican | 0 | 53,471 | 46.34% |
Allan L. Benson | George R. Kirkpatrick | Socialist | 0 | 5,716 | 4.95% |
Frank Hanly | Ira Landrith | Prohibition | 0 | 997 | 0.86% |
Results by county[edit]
County[4] | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
Charles Evans Hughes Republican |
Allan Louis Benson Socialist |
James Franklin Hanly Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 532 | 49.49% | 469 | 43.63% | 63 | 5.86% | 11 | 1.02% | 63 | 5.86% | 1,075 |
Barnes | 1,678 | 51.57% | 1,467 | 45.08% | 75 | 2.30% | 34 | 1.04% | 211 | 6.48% | 3,254 |
Benson | 922 | 40.62% | 1,210 | 53.30% | 109 | 4.80% | 29 | 1.28% | -288 | -12.69% | 2,270 |
Billings | 276 | 44.30% | 306 | 49.12% | 36 | 5.78% | 5 | 0.80% | -30 | -4.82% | 623 |
Bottineau | 1,471 | 47.00% | 1,294 | 41.34% | 329 | 10.51% | 36 | 1.15% | 177 | 5.65% | 3,130 |
Bowman | 685 | 59.51% | 374 | 32.49% | 88 | 7.65% | 4 | 0.35% | 311 | 27.02% | 1,151 |
Burke | 922 | 55.84% | 518 | 31.37% | 197 | 11.93% | 14 | 0.85% | 404 | 24.47% | 1,651 |
Burleigh | 1,267 | 48.73% | 1,182 | 45.46% | 129 | 4.96% | 22 | 0.85% | 85 | 3.27% | 2,600 |
Cass | 3,303 | 49.85% | 3,093 | 46.68% | 157 | 2.37% | 73 | 1.10% | 210 | 3.17% | 6,626 |
Cavalier | 1,149 | 42.13% | 1,502 | 55.08% | 68 | 2.49% | 8 | 0.29% | -353 | -12.94% | 2,727 |
Dickey | 920 | 44.47% | 1,037 | 50.12% | 99 | 4.78% | 13 | 0.63% | -117 | -5.65% | 2,069 |
Divide | 950 | 52.95% | 707 | 39.41% | 126 | 7.02% | 11 | 0.61% | 243 | 13.55% | 1,794 |
Dunn | 1,028 | 62.53% | 566 | 34.43% | 46 | 2.80% | 4 | 0.24% | 462 | 28.10% | 1,644 |
Eddy | 650 | 51.75% | 505 | 40.21% | 89 | 7.09% | 12 | 0.96% | 145 | 11.54% | 1,256 |
Emmons | 609 | 35.28% | 1,090 | 63.15% | 25 | 1.45% | 2 | 0.12% | -481 | -27.87% | 1,726 |
Foster | 662 | 53.60% | 549 | 44.45% | 14 | 1.13% | 10 | 0.81% | 113 | 9.15% | 1,235 |
Golden Valley | 697 | 54.93% | 499 | 39.32% | 63 | 4.96% | 10 | 0.79% | 198 | 15.60% | 1,269 |
Grand Forks | 2,814 | 54.66% | 2,159 | 41.94% | 125 | 2.43% | 50 | 0.97% | 655 | 12.72% | 5,148 |
Griggs | 668 | 52.39% | 521 | 40.86% | 59 | 4.63% | 27 | 2.12% | 147 | 11.53% | 1,275 |
Hettinger | 661 | 41.44% | 856 | 53.67% | 67 | 4.20% | 11 | 0.69% | -195 | -12.23% | 1,595 |
Kidder | 650 | 46.07% | 604 | 42.81% | 134 | 9.50% | 23 | 1.63% | 46 | 3.26% | 1,411 |
LaMoure | 990 | 45.08% | 1,045 | 47.59% | 141 | 6.42% | 20 | 0.91% | -55 | -2.50% | 2,196 |
Logan | 260 | 29.41% | 567 | 64.14% | 51 | 5.77% | 6 | 0.68% | -307 | -34.73% | 884 |
McHenry | 1,316 | 59.57% | 692 | 31.33% | 185 | 8.37% | 16 | 0.72% | 624 | 28.25% | 2,209 |
McIntosh | 270 | 21.99% | 950 | 77.36% | 7 | 0.57% | 1 | 0.08% | -680 | -55.37% | 1,228 |
McKenzie | 1,456 | 47.17% | 1,394 | 45.16% | 200 | 6.48% | 37 | 1.20% | 62 | 2.01% | 3,087 |
McLean | 1,210 | 47.81% | 1,054 | 41.64% | 247 | 9.76% | 20 | 0.79% | 156 | 6.16% | 2,531 |
Mercer | 353 | 31.02% | 730 | 64.15% | 52 | 4.57% | 3 | 0.26% | -377 | -33.13% | 1,138 |
Morton | 1,835 | 37.13% | 2,785 | 56.35% | 299 | 6.05% | 23 | 0.47% | -950 | -19.22% | 4,942 |
Mountrail | 1,262 | 55.67% | 740 | 32.64% | 231 | 10.19% | 34 | 1.50% | 522 | 23.03% | 2,267 |
Nelson | 861 | 43.33% | 1,013 | 50.98% | 77 | 3.88% | 36 | 1.81% | -152 | -7.65% | 1,987 |
Oliver | 327 | 45.17% | 346 | 47.79% | 48 | 6.63% | 3 | 0.41% | -19 | -2.62% | 724 |
Pembina | 1,400 | 48.33% | 1,469 | 50.71% | 16 | 0.55% | 12 | 0.41% | -69 | -2.38% | 2,897 |
Pierce | 789 | 49.69% | 703 | 44.27% | 74 | 4.66% | 22 | 1.39% | 86 | 5.42% | 1,588 |
Ramsey | 1,331 | 51.13% | 1,169 | 44.91% | 90 | 3.46% | 13 | 0.50% | 162 | 6.22% | 2,603 |
Ransom | 1,121 | 49.04% | 1,093 | 47.81% | 45 | 1.97% | 27 | 1.18% | 28 | 1.22% | 2,286 |
Renville | 1,012 | 59.99% | 532 | 31.54% | 119 | 7.05% | 24 | 1.42% | 480 | 28.45% | 1,687 |
Richland | 1,772 | 45.00% | 2,097 | 53.25% | 41 | 1.04% | 28 | 0.71% | -325 | -8.25% | 3,938 |
Rolette | 762 | 50.80% | 600 | 40.00% | 132 | 8.80% | 6 | 0.40% | 162 | 10.80% | 1,500 |
Sargent | 868 | 43.49% | 1,050 | 52.61% | 67 | 3.36% | 11 | 0.55% | -182 | -9.12% | 1,996 |
Sheridan | 310 | 26.91% | 807 | 70.05% | 25 | 2.17% | 10 | 0.87% | -497 | -43.14% | 1,152 |
Sioux | 200 | 43.20% | 232 | 50.11% | 24 | 5.18% | 7 | 1.51% | -32 | -6.91% | 463 |
Slope | 867 | 58.54% | 516 | 34.84% | 91 | 6.14% | 7 | 0.47% | 351 | 23.70% | 1,481 |
Stark | 953 | 39.30% | 1,409 | 58.10% | 57 | 2.35% | 6 | 0.25% | -456 | -18.80% | 2,425 |
Steele | 515 | 40.62% | 676 | 53.31% | 71 | 5.60% | 6 | 0.47% | -161 | -12.70% | 1,268 |
Stutsman | 1,846 | 50.67% | 1,664 | 45.68% | 109 | 2.99% | 24 | 0.66% | 182 | 5.00% | 3,643 |
Towner | 769 | 50.53% | 665 | 43.69% | 77 | 5.06% | 11 | 0.72% | 104 | 6.83% | 1,522 |
Traill | 664 | 30.15% | 1,423 | 64.62% | 72 | 3.27% | 43 | 1.95% | -759 | -34.47% | 2,202 |
Walsh | 2,003 | 52.54% | 1,670 | 43.81% | 126 | 3.31% | 13 | 0.34% | 333 | 8.74% | 3,812 |
Ward | 2,791 | 56.74% | 1,743 | 35.43% | 301 | 6.12% | 84 | 1.71% | 1,048 | 21.31% | 4,919 |
Wells | 810 | 38.70% | 1,226 | 58.58% | 48 | 2.29% | 9 | 0.43% | -416 | -19.88% | 2,093 |
Williams | 1,769 | 55.40% | 903 | 28.28% | 495 | 15.50% | 26 | 0.81% | 866 | 27.12% | 3,193 |
Totals | 55,206 | 47.84% | 53,471 | 46.34% | 5,716 | 4.95% | 997 | 0.86% | 1,735 | 1.50% | 115,390 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^"Presidential General Election Results Comparison – North Dakota".Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^"Historical U.S. Presidential Elections 1789-2020 - 270toWin".270toWin.com.RetrievedJuly 7,2023.
- ^"1916 Presidential General Election Results – North Dakota".Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.RetrievedDecember 26,2019.
- ^North Dakota Secretary of State Elections;Party Votes, General Election November 7, 1916