1916 New Jersey gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1916 New Jersey gubernatorial election New Jersey 1896 Presidential no 1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election 1913 1919 New Jersey gubernatorial election 1919 November 7, 1916 File:Walteredge.jpg 150x150px Walter Evans Edge Republican Party (United States) 247,343 55.44% File:Henry Otto Wittpenn circa 1915 (cropped).jpg H. Otto Wittpenn Democratic Party (United States) 177,696 39.83% 1916 New Jersey gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 280px County resultsEdge: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70%Wittpenn: #7996e2 50–60% Governor James Fairman Fielder Democratic Party (United States) Walter Evans Edge Republican Party (United States) The 1916 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1916. Republican nominee Walter Evans Edge defeated Democratic nominee H. Otto Wittpenn with 55.44 percent of the total vote. Democratic primary Candidates H. Otto Wittpenn, former mayor of Jersey City Results Wittpenn, who had run for Governor in 1913 but withdrew in favor of James Fairman Fielder,Biography of James Fairman Fielder (PDF), New Jersey State Library was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. 1916 Democratic gubernatorial primaryManual of the Legislature of New Jersey 1917 M.R. Dennis & Co. https://archive.org/details/manualoflegislat1917mull/page/163/mode/2up registration 163 H. Otto Wittpenn Democratic Party (United States) 95,607 100.00% 95,607 100.00% Blank votes None 23,906 — 119,513 100.00% Republican primary Candidates Austen Colgate, former state senator for Essex County Walter Evans Edge, state senator for Atlantic County George L. Record, attorney and perennial candidate from Jersey City Campaign During the primary, Edge was the beneficiary of a gentleman's agreement between Atlantic County Republican boss Enoch L. Johnson and Hudson County Democratic boss Frank Hague, who feared the election of Otto Wittpenn, a reformer and Hague's political rival.Johnson, Nelson. Boardwalk Empire, Medford, N.J., Plexus Publishing, 2002 0-937548-49-9 Historians disagree over the contours of Johnson and Hague's arrangement, but in 1916, Hague directed his supporters in Hudson County to cross over and vote for Edge in the Republican primary. Results Edge carried the state narrowly over Colgate, with Atlantic County accounting for more than his statewide margin. More than one-quarter of Colgate's vote came from his native Essex County.1916 Republican gubernatorial primary Walter Evans Edge Republican Party (United States) 76,232 42.94% Austen Colgate Republican Party (United States) 72,621 40.90% George L. Record Republican Party (United States) 28,686 16.16% 177,539 100.00% Blank votes None 9,875 — 187,414 100.00% By county CountyEdge %Edge votesColgate %Colgate votesRecord %Record votesAtlantic 76.01%7,32919.19%1,8504.80%463Bergen 32.12%3,89747.69%5,78720.19%2,450Burlington 48.75%3,71541.27%3,1459.99%761Camden 51.48%8,83929.50%5,06619.02%3,266Cape May 76.18%2,25115.63%4628.19%242Cumberland 49.62%2,09931.63%1,33818.75%793Essex 29.31%10,11758.53%20,19912.16%4,196Gloucester 70.01%2,48614.90%52915.09%536Hudson 34.00%5,13854.69%8,26411.32%1,710Hunterdon 64.89%97212.88%19322.23%333Mercer 39.77%4,15228.16%2,94032.07%3,348Middlesex 35.41%1,84947.84%2,49816.76%875Monmouth 37.99%2,48145.46%2,96916.55%1,081Morris 43.91%3,15336.11%2,59319.97%1,434Ocean 49.49%1,41938.58%1,10611.93%342Passaic 42.68%7,81836.95%6,76820.37%3,731Salem 71.89%1,05113.47%19714.64%214Somerset 44.54%1,54534.53%1,19820.93%726Sussex 45.51%59836.38%47818.11%238Union 43.66%4,68942.72%4,58913.62%1,463Warren 40.38%63428.79%45230.83%484 General election Candidates John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) Walter Evans Edge, state senator for Atlantic County (Republican) Frederick Krafft, business manager of the New Yorker Volkszeitung (Socialist) Harry Vaughan (Prohibition) H. Otto Wittpenn, former mayor of Jersey City (Democratic) Campaign In the general election, Frank Hague is believed to have discouraged fellow Democrats from voting for Wittpenn. Results New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1916https://books.google.com/books?id=9CZECwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1715 Guide to U.S. Elections 24 December 2015 9781483380353 2016-01-25 Kalb Deborah CQ Press Republican Party (United States) Walter Evans Edge 247,343 55.44% 18.06 Democratic Party (United States) H. Otto Wittpenn 177,696 39.83% 6.30 Socialist Party of America Frederick Krafft 12,900 2.89% 0.83 Prohibition Party Harry Vaughan 5,873 1.32% 0.41 Socialist Labor Party of America John C. Butterworth 2,334 0.52% 0.14 446,146 Republican Party (United States) Democratic Party (United States) References 1919 New Jersey Gubernatorial Category:November 1916 in the United States