1916 United States presidential election in New Jersey

none June 2025 September 2023 1916 United States presidential election 1916 United States presidential election in New Jersey New Jersey 1896 presidential no 1912 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1912 1920 United States presidential election in New Jersey 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 14 268,982 54.40% Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall 0 211,018 42.68% 1916 United States presidential election in New Jersey results map by county.svg 405px County results Hughes #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% Wilson #86b6f2 50–60% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) The 1916 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 7, 1916. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York and his running mate, former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Hughes and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey and his running mate incumbent Vice President Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana. Hughes carried New Jersey decisively with 54.40 percent of the vote to Wilson's 42.68 percent, a victory margin of 11.72 points.1916 Presidential General Election Results - New Jersey http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1916&fips=34&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 5 February 2014 Coming in a distant third was Socialist candidate Allan L. Benson, who took 2.10 percent. Like much of the Northeast, New Jersey in this era was a staunchly Republican state, having not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1892. However, in 1912, Woodrow Wilson, then the sitting Governor of New Jersey, had won the state's electoral votes, but with a plurality of only 41 percent in a 3-way race against a split Republican field, with former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt running as a third party candidate against incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft. However, with the Republican base re-united behind Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, Wilson lost his home state to the GOP by a decisive 12-point margin in a head-to-head match-up, despite having served as the state's governor. On the county-level map, reflecting his comfortable victory, Hughes carried 17 of the state's 21 counties, breaking sixty percent of the vote in three. Wilson's only significant win was urban Hudson County, while he also won the three rural counties in western North Jersey, Warren, Sussex, and Hunterdon, which had long been non-Yankee Democratic enclaves in the otherwise Republican Northeast.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 121-134 978-0-691-16324-6 Warren and Hunterdon had never voted Republican as of 1916 – and Sussex only for William McKinley in 1896 – yet Wilson would prove the last Democrat to win Sussex County until Lyndon Johnson in 1964.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 258-259 0786422173 Despite being Wilson's home state, New Jersey registered as the second most Republican state in the nation in terms of vote share after Vermont and the fourth most Republican state in the nation in terms of margin, the state being about 15 points more Republican than the national average.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1916&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1916 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 Woodrow Wilson is one of 4 presidents to lose his home state while winning nationally, which also occurred in 1844, 1968, and 2016. This was the first time a Democrat won without the state since 1844. This is the only time between 1884 and 1948, that New Jersey voted for the loser of the national popular vote. Results 1916 United States presidential election in New JerseyPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Charles Evans Hughes 268,982 54.40% 14 Democratic Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) 211,018 42.68% 0 Socialist Allan L. Benson 10,405 2.10% 0 Prohibition Frank Hanly 3,182 0.64% 0 Socialist Labor Arthur E. Reimer 855 0.17% 0 Totals 494,442 100.0% 14 Results by county County Charles Evans HughesRepublican Woodrow WilsonDemocratic Allan L. BensonSocialist Frank HanlyProhibition Arthur E. ReimerSocialist Labor Margin Total votescastNew Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety Division of Elections; Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey 1917 pp. 574-602 # % # % # % # % # % # % Atlantic 9,713 62.88% 5,467 35.39% 122 0.79% 133 0.86% 12 0.08% 4,246 27.49% 15,447 Bergen 18,494 60.05% 11,530 37.44% 595 1.93% 113 0.37% 65 0.21% 6,964 22.61% 30,797 Burlington 8,803 56.36% 6,535 41.84% 115 0.74% 158 1.01% 9 0.06% 2,268 14.52% 15,620 Camden 18,318 54.17% 14,010 41.43% 1,101 3.26% 350 1.03% 38 0.11% 4,308 12.74% 33,817 Cape May 2,904 56.85% 2,097 41.05% 37 0.72% 66 1.29% 4 0.08% 807 15.80% 5,108 Cumberland 5,692 52.14% 4,573 41.89% 308 2.82% 323 2.96% 21 0.19% 1,119 10.25% 10,917 Essex 54,167 59.24% 34,596 37.84% 2,280 2.49% 184 0.20% 212 0.23% 19,571 21.40% 91,439 Gloucester 5,352 54.82% 3,745 38.36% 118 1.21% 538 5.51% 9 0.09% 1,607 16.46% 9,762 Hudson 42,518 47.66% 44,663 50.07% 1,811 2.03% 73 0.08% 140 0.16% -2,145 -2.40% 89,205 Hunterdon 3,408 42.69% 4,462 55.89% 45 0.56% 65 0.81% 4 0.05% -1,054 -13.20% 7,984 Mercer 14,213 55.75% 10,621 41.66% 460 1.80% 154 0.60% 45 0.18% 3,592 14.09% 25,493 Middlesex 11,851 53.51% 9,975 45.04% 185 0.84% 103 0.47% 32 0.14% 1,876 8.47% 22,146 Monmouth 11,624 51.46% 10,729 47.49% 103 0.46% 120 0.53% 14 0.06% 895 3.96% 22,590 Morris 8,530 54.23% 6,798 43.22% 214 1.36% 172 1.09% 14 0.09% 1,732 11.01% 15,728 Ocean 3,386 61.26% 2,076 37.56% 31 0.56% 28 0.51% 6 0.11% 1,310 23.70% 5,527 Passaic 18,754 55.32% 13,340 39.35% 1,561 4.60% 128 0.38% 121 0.36% 5,414 15.97% 33,904 Salem 4,080 53.77% 3,353 44.19% 68 0.90% 84 1.11% 3 0.04% 727 9.58% 7,588 Somerset 4,707 55.70% 3,653 43.23% 34 0.40% 50 0.59% 7 0.08% 1,054 12.47% 8,451 Sussex 2,461 43.38% 3,093 54.52% 70 1.23% 42 0.74% 7 0.12% -632 -11.14% 5,673 Union 16,705 59.21% 10,328 36.61% 1,040 3.69% 97 0.34% 44 0.16% 6,377 22.60% 28,214 Warren 3,302 36.56% 5,374 59.50% 107 1.18% 201 2.23% 48 0.53% -2,072 -22.94% 9,032Totals268,98254.40%211,01842.68%10,4052.10%3,1820.64%8550.17%57,96411.72%494,442 See also Presidency of Woodrow Wilson United States presidential elections in New Jersey References expanded New Jersey 1916 Category:1916 New Jersey elections