1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota

none June 2025 September 2023 1916 United States presidential election 1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota South Dakota 1909 presidential no 1912 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1912 1920 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1920 November 7, 1916 x200px File:HUGHES, CHARLES E. HONORABLE LCCN2016857545 (restored) (3x4 crop).png Charles Evans Hughes Republican Party (United States) New York Charles W. Fairbanks 5 64,217 49.80% Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall 0 59,191 45.91% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) 1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota results map by county.svg 300px County results Hughes #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% Wilson #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% The 1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election in which all contemporary forty-eight states participated. Voters chose five electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. South Dakota voted for the Republican nominee, Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey. Hughes won South Dakota by a close margin of 3.90%; alongside Oregon, South Dakota was the only state that Hughes won in the Great Plains or westward. Hughes’ victory was largely due to the powerful GOP loyalty of East River German-Americans, who feared that Wilson's pro-British and pro-French sentiments would lead the United States to involve itself in war with Germany.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 419-420 9780691163246 In contrast, the more Anglo-Saxon West River counties strongly supported Wilson's Southern roots and prohibitionist leanings.Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 424 Despite his loss, Wilson's 45.91% was the best performance in the state by a Democrat since William Jennings Bryan won the state in a fusion with the Populist Party two decades before, and would be beaten only six times in the ensuing century. 2020 11 As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election that Lawrence County voted for the Democratic presidential candidate, and the last election that South Dakota voted for a different presidential candidate than neighboring North Dakota.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 294-298 0786422173Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 Results Presidential CandidateRunning MatePartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV) Charles Evans Hughes Charles W. Fairbanks Republican 5https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1916&fips=46&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1916 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas 64,217 49.80% Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall Democratic 0 59,191 45.91% Allan L. Benson George R. Kirkpatrick Socialist 0 3,760 2.92% James Hanly Ira Landrith Prohibition 0 1,774 1.38% Results by county CountySouth Dakota Secretary of State; ‘Official Vote of South Dakota by Counties November Election, 1916’; South Dakota Manual 1917, pp. 458-461Charles Evans HughesRepublicanThomas Woodrow WilsonDemocraticAllan Louis BensonSocialistJames Franklin HanlyProhibitionMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # % # % Aurora 735 46.05% 793 49.69% 23 1.44% 45 2.82% -58 -3.63% 1,596 Beadle 1,662 45.72% 1,828 50.29% 121 3.33% 24 0.66% -166 -4.57% 3,635 Bennett 67 22.56% 222 74.75% 4 1.35% 4 1.35% -155 -52.19% 297 Bon Homme 1,231 47.92% 1,278 49.75% 40 1.56% 20 0.78% -47 -1.83% 2,569 Brookings 1,638 51.79% 1,385 43.79% 46 1.45% 94 2.97% 253 8.00% 3,163 Brown 2,659 45.19% 2,676 45.48% 472 8.02% 77 1.31% -17 -0.29% 5,884 Brule 729 41.66% 975 55.71% 40 2.29% 6 0.34% -246 -14.06% 1,750 Buffalo 80 30.19% 182 68.68% 1 0.38% 2 0.75% -102 -38.49% 265 Butte 537 33.31% 930 57.69% 135 8.37% 10 0.62% -393 -24.38% 1,612 Campbell 644 77.40% 163 19.59% 14 1.68% 11 1.32% 481 57.81% 832 Charles Mix 1,450 41.26% 2,011 57.23% 41 1.17% 12 0.34% -561 -15.96% 3,514 Clark 1,226 52.71% 1,016 43.68% 28 1.20% 56 2.41% 210 9.03% 2,326 Clay 1,000 44.52% 1,207 53.74% 25 1.11% 14 0.62% -207 -9.22% 2,246 Codington 1,550 51.82% 1,344 44.93% 47 1.57% 50 1.67% 206 6.89% 2,991 Corson 503 42.20% 641 53.78% 41 3.44% 7 0.59% -138 -11.58% 1,192 Custer 392 42.11% 488 52.42% 50 5.37% 1 0.11% -96 -10.31% 931 Davison 1,516 50.48% 1,374 45.75% 67 2.23% 46 1.53% 142 4.73% 3,003 Day 1,758 61.21% 907 31.58% 121 4.21% 86 2.99% 851 29.63% 2,872 Deuel 908 59.35% 584 38.17% 14 0.92% 24 1.57% 324 21.18% 1,530 Dewey 352 47.00% 379 50.60% 14 1.87% 4 0.53% -27 -3.60% 749 Douglas 815 57.48% 597 42.10% 3 0.21% 3 0.21% 218 15.37% 1,418 Edmunds 894 55.46% 634 39.33% 41 2.54% 43 2.67% 260 16.13% 1,612 Fall River 668 40.63% 922 56.08% 44 2.68% 10 0.61% -254 -15.45% 1,644 Faulk 759 52.89% 629 43.83% 25 1.74% 22 1.53% 130 9.06% 1,435 Grant 1,098 55.31% 772 38.89% 48 2.42% 67 3.38% 326 16.42% 1,985 Gregory 1,434 51.86% 1,242 44.92% 72 2.60% 17 0.61% 192 6.94% 2,765 Haakon 399 41.05% 475 48.87% 86 8.85% 12 1.23% -76 -7.82% 972 Hamlin 1,039 57.82% 692 38.51% 30 1.67% 36 2.00% 347 19.31% 1,797 Hand 801 44.95% 905 50.79% 49 2.75% 27 1.52% -104 -5.84% 1,782 Hanson 767 51.10% 712 47.44% 9 0.60% 13 0.87% 55 3.66% 1,501 Harding 520 41.57% 597 47.72% 119 9.51% 15 1.20% -77 -6.16% 1,251 Hughes 611 51.13% 536 44.85% 39 3.26% 9 0.75% 75 6.28% 1,195 Hutchinson 1,636 73.20% 519 23.22% 53 2.37% 27 1.21% 1,117 49.98% 2,235 Hyde 438 55.58% 305 38.71% 40 5.08% 5 0.63% 133 16.88% 788 Jackson 283 49.39% 279 48.69% 6 1.05% 5 0.87% 4 0.70% 573 Jerauld 612 48.42% 589 46.60% 5 0.40% 58 4.59% 23 1.82% 1,264 Kingsbury 1,339 51.80% 1,096 42.40% 70 2.71% 80 3.09% 243 9.40% 2,585 Lake 1,398 55.04% 1,027 40.43% 92 3.62% 23 0.91% 371 14.61% 2,540 Lawrence 2,074 47.51% 2,157 49.42% 114 2.61% 20 0.46% -83 -1.90% 4,365 Lincoln 1,591 60.29% 936 35.47% 62 2.35% 50 1.89% 655 24.82% 2,639 Lyman 981 45.65% 1,052 48.95% 99 4.61% 17 0.79% -71 -3.30% 2,149 Marshall 808 45.57% 885 49.92% 56 3.16% 24 1.35% -77 -4.34% 1,773 McCook 1,194 52.19% 1,021 44.62% 49 2.14% 24 1.05% 173 7.56% 2,288 McPherson 992 80.06% 224 18.08% 16 1.29% 7 0.56% 768 61.99% 1,239 Meade 858 38.25% 1,224 54.57% 141 6.29% 20 0.89% -366 -16.32% 2,243 Mellette 379 45.55% 436 52.40% 15 1.80% 2 0.24% -57 -6.85% 832 Miner 1,006 52.21% 880 45.67% 24 1.25% 17 0.88% 126 6.54% 1,927 Minnehaha 4,318 52.64% 3,494 42.59% 197 2.40% 194 2.36% 824 10.05% 8,203 Moody 973 49.09% 898 45.31% 89 4.49% 22 1.11% 75 3.78% 1,982 Pennington 1,108 42.73% 1,339 51.64% 122 4.70% 24 0.93% -231 -8.91% 2,593 Perkins 890 45.41% 939 47.91% 118 6.02% 13 0.66% -49 -2.50% 1,960 Potter 512 54.58% 408 43.50% 7 0.75% 11 1.17% 104 11.09% 938 Roberts 1,259 47.17% 1,191 44.62% 187 7.01% 32 1.20% 68 2.55% 2,669 Sanborn 711 42.00% 898 53.04% 28 1.65% 56 3.31% -187 -11.05% 1,693 Spink 1,660 48.61% 1,622 47.50% 74 2.17% 59 1.73% 38 1.11% 3,415 Stanley 254 38.25% 381 57.38% 19 2.86% 10 1.51% -127 -19.13% 664 Sully 281 50.45% 268 48.11% 8 1.44% 0 0.00% 13 2.33% 557 Tripp 1,074 43.57% 1,341 54.40% 40 1.62% 10 0.41% -267 -10.83% 2,465 Turner 1,573 56.93% 1,134 41.04% 18 0.65% 38 1.38% 439 15.89% 2,763 Union 1,108 44.95% 1,313 53.27% 19 0.77% 25 1.01% -205 -8.32% 2,465 Walworth 761 55.03% 590 42.66% 28 2.02% 4 0.29% 171 12.36% 1,383 Yankton 1,429 48.66% 1,438 48.96% 45 1.53% 25 0.85% -9 -0.31% 2,937 Ziebach 275 54.89% 211 42.12% 10 2.00% 5 1.00% 64 12.77% 501Totals64,21749.80%59,19145.91%3,7602.92%1,7741.38%5,0263.90%128,942 See also United States presidential elections in South Dakota References expanded 1916 South Dakota Category:1916 South Dakota elections