1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas

none June 2025 January 2025 1916 United States presidential election 1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas Arkansas 1913 presidential no 1912 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1912 1920 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1920 November 7, 1916 x200px Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall 9 112,189 66.64% File:HUGHES, CHARLES E. HONORABLE LCCN2016857545 (restored) (3x4 crop).png Charles Evans Hughes Republican Party (United States) New York Charles W. Fairbanks 0 47,153 28.01% 1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas results map by county.svg 300px County results Wilson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% Hughes #e27f90 50–60% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) The 1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.See Urwin Cathy Kunzinger Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71 January 1991 32 University of Arkansas Press 1557282005 Disfranchisement during the 1890s of effectively all black people and most poor white people had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. Although the northwest of the state was to develop a strong Socialist Party movement that served as a swing vote in county elections,Reed Roy Faubus: the Life and Times of American Prodigal 1997 32 University of Arkansas Press 1610751485 political repressionGreen James R. Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943 July 1978 316–318 LSU Press 0807107735 and internal party divisionsReed. Faubus, p. 33 diminished that party's strength substantially. The Democratic Party, under the influence of future federal Senate Minority and Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson and demagogic Governor and Senator Jeff Davis, was to make many familiar progressive changes in railroad regulation and child labor,Moneyhon Carl H. Arkansas and the New South: 1874-1929 121 1610750284 but under the administration of George W. Donaghey – who saw his administration and Democratic primary candidacy as a fight against the “Davis Machine”Moneyhon. Arkansas and the New South, p. 122 – more rapid development occurred, especially in abolishing convict leasing and improving bank regulation.Whayne Jeannie M. DeBlack Thomas A. Sabo George Arnold Morris S. Arkansas: A Narrative History June 2013 302 University of Arkansas Press 978-1557289933 Results Woodrow Wilson Democrat 112,189 New Jersey 66.64% 9 Thomas R. Marshall Indiana Charles Evans Hughes Republican 47,153 New York 28.01% 0 Charles W. Fairbanks Indiana Allan L. Benson Socialist 7,098 New York 4.22% 0 George Ross Kirkpatrick New Jersey Frank Hanly Prohibition 1,914 Indiana 1.14% 0 Ira Landrith Tennessee 168,354 100.00% 9 266 Results by county +1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas by countyRobinson Edgar Eugene The Presidential Vote 1896-1932 139–145 9780804716963County Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic Charles Evans HughesRepublican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Arkansas 1,119 62.44% 613 34.21% 60 3.35% 506 28.24% 1,792 Ashley 1,519 74.94% 463 22.84% 45 2.22% 1,056 52.43% 2,027 Baxter 914 68.88% 318 23.96% 95 7.16% 596 44.91% 1,327 Benton 3,105 66.49% 1,292 27.67% 273 5.85% 1,813 38.82% 4,670 Boone 1,411 66.56% 598 28.21% 111 5.24% 813 38.35% 2,120 Bradley 1,159 73.40% 314 19.89% 106 6.71% 845 53.51% 1,579 Calhoun 914 72.25% 275 21.74% 76 6.01% 639 50.51% 1,265 Carroll 1,512 56.71% 1,034 38.78% 120 4.50% 478 17.93% 2,666 Chicot 560 52.43% 472 44.19% 36 3.37% 88 8.24% 1,068 Clark 1,975 69.35% 824 28.93% 49 1.72% 1,151 40.41% 2,848 Clay 1,949 62.99% 972 31.42% 173 5.59% 977 31.58% 3,094 Cleburne 865 67.00% 271 20.99% 155 12.01% 594 46.01% 1,291 Cleveland 1,128 81.74% 230 16.67% 22 1.59% 898 65.07% 1,380 Columbia 2,074 73.44% 720 25.50% 30 1.06% 1,354 47.95% 2,824 Conway 1,400 55.69% 1,030 40.97% 84 3.34% 370 14.72% 2,514 Craighead 1,957 73.02% 543 20.26% 180 6.72% 1,414 52.76% 2,680 Crawford 1,622 55.53% 1,195 40.91% 104 3.56% 427 14.62% 2,921 Crittenden 562 84.89% 91 13.75% 9 1.36% 471 71.15% 662 Cross 927 73.98% 252 20.11% 74 5.91% 675 53.87% 1,253 Dallas 1,150 66.05% 524 30.10% 67 3.85% 626 35.96% 1,741 Desha 960 71.11% 369 27.33% 21 1.56% 591 43.78% 1,350 Drew 1,627 64.79% 836 33.29% 48 1.91% 791 31.50% 2,511 Faulkner 2,031 66.94% 817 26.93% 186 6.13% 1,214 40.01% 3,034 Franklin 1,679 69.35% 586 24.20% 156 6.44% 1,093 45.15% 2,421 Fulton 1,094 67.36% 388 23.89% 142 8.74% 706 43.47% 1,624 Garland 1,670 57.57% 1,055 36.37% 176 6.07% 615 21.20% 2,901 Grant 957 80.96% 188 15.91% 37 3.13% 769 65.06% 1,182 Greene 2,292 78.01% 529 18.01% 117 3.98% 1,763 60.01% 2,938 Hempstead 2,089 59.40% 1,225 34.83% 203 5.77% 864 24.57% 3,517 Hot Spring 1,429 66.56% 625 29.11% 93 4.33% 804 37.45% 2,147 Howard 1,316 67.66% 545 28.02% 84 4.32% 771 39.64% 1,945 Independence 1,987 68.35% 762 26.21% 158 5.44% 1,225 42.14% 2,907 Izard 1,267 79.74% 285 17.94% 37 2.33% 982 61.80% 1,589 Jackson 1,351 66.91% 473 23.43% 195 9.66% 878 43.49% 2,019 Jefferson 2,173 68.18% 921 28.90% 93 2.92% 1,252 39.28% 3,187 Johnson 1,479 65.91% 573 25.53% 192 8.56% 906 40.37% 2,244 Lafayette 891 69.77% 368 28.82% 18 1.41% 523 40.96% 1,277 Lawrence 1,706 81.05% 298 14.16% 101 4.80% 1,408 66.89% 2,105 Lee 848 70.02% 353 29.15% 10 0.83% 495 40.88% 1,211 Lincoln 887 65.70% 448 33.19% 15 1.11% 439 32.52% 1,350 Little River 843 65.50% 363 28.21% 81 6.29% 480 37.30% 1,287 Logan 2,015 59.88% 1,185 35.22% 165 4.90% 830 24.67% 3,365 Lonoke 2,178 77.87% 515 18.41% 104 3.72% 1,663 59.46% 2,797 Madison 1,456 50.38% 1,332 46.09% 102 3.53% 124 4.29% 2,890 Marion 781 63.34% 274 22.22% 178 14.44% 507 41.12% 1,233 Miller 1,418 73.36% 402 20.80% 113 5.85% 1,016 52.56% 1,933 Mississippi 1,249 68.89% 417 23.00% 147 8.11% 832 45.89% 1,813 Monroe 741 57.35% 508 39.32% 43 3.33% 233 18.03% 1,292 Montgomery 939 58.91% 432 27.10% 223 13.99% 507 31.81% 1,594 Nevada 1,376 63.62% 651 30.10% 136 6.29% 725 33.52% 2,163 Newton 550 41.23% 675 50.60% 109 8.17% -125 -9.37% 1,334 Ouachita 1,390 58.01% 970 40.48% 36 1.50% 420 17.53% 2,396 Perry 973 65.04% 435 29.08% 88 5.88% 538 35.96% 1,496 Phillips 1,466 71.90% 552 27.07% 21 1.03% 914 44.83% 2,039 Pike 1,178 64.16% 605 32.95% 53 2.89% 573 31.21% 1,836 Poinsett 1,174 67.90% 511 29.55% 44 2.54% 663 38.35% 1,729 Polk 1,242 66.03% 443 23.55% 196 10.42% 799 42.48% 1,881 Pope 2,145 70.37% 783 25.69% 120 3.94% 1,362 44.69% 3,048 Prairie 1,061 59.27% 654 36.54% 75 4.19% 407 22.74% 1,790 Pulaski 6,008 65.26% 2,593 28.17% 605 6.57% 3,415 37.10% 9,206 Randolph 1,553 74.66% 458 22.02% 69 3.32% 1,095 52.64% 2,080 St. Francis 960 67.56% 395 27.80% 66 4.64% 565 39.76% 1,421 Saline 1,567 81.11% 231 11.96% 134 6.94% 1,336 69.15% 1,932 Scott 1,365 68.15% 487 24.31% 151 7.54% 878 43.83% 2,003 Searcy 629 37.62% 919 54.96% 124 7.42% -290 -17.34% 1,672 Sebastian 3,719 68.14% 1,366 25.03% 373 6.83% 2,353 43.11% 5,458 Sevier 1,265 73.38% 240 13.92% 219 12.70% 1,025 59.45% 1,724 Sharp 972 73.58% 251 19.00% 98 7.42% 721 54.58% 1,321 Stone 682 64.40% 298 28.14% 79 7.46% 384 36.26% 1,059 Union 1,691 77.21% 273 12.47% 226 10.32% 1,418 64.75% 2,190 Van Buren 1,272 60.26% 742 35.15% 97 4.59% 530 25.11% 2,111 Washington 2,922 61.23% 1,625 34.05% 225 4.72% 1,297 27.18% 4,772 White 2,820 74.27% 673 17.72% 304 8.01% 2,147 56.54% 3,797 Woodruff 935 66.36% 438 31.09% 36 2.56% 497 35.27% 1,409 Yell 2,099 67.67% 782 25.21% 221 7.12% 1,317 42.46% 3,102Totals112,18966.64%47,15328.01%8,9995.35%65,03638.63%168,341 See also United States presidential elections in Arkansas 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