1916 United States presidential election in North Carolina

none June 2025 September 2023 North Carolina 58.10% No Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) President 0 41.71% 120,890 Charles W. Fairbanks New York Republican Party (United States) Charles Evans Hughes File:HUGHES, CHARLES E. HONORABLE LCCN2016857545 (restored) (3x4 crop).png 168,383 1885 12 Thomas R. Marshall New Jersey Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg All 12 North Carolina votes to the Electoral College presidential 1920 United States presidential election in North Carolina 1920 1912 United States presidential election in North Carolina 1912 November 7, 1916 1916 United States presidential election in North Carolina x200px 400px 400px County results Wilson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Hughes #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Tie #d4c4dc <50% 1916 United States presidential election The 1916 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Like all former Confederate states, North Carolina would during its "Redemption" develop a politics based upon Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party. Unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party possessed sufficient historic Unionist white support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in general elections even after blacks lost the right to vote.Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority November 23, 2014 210, 242 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-16324-6 A rapid move following disenfranchisement to a completely "lily-white" state GOP also helped maintain Republican support amongst the state's voters.Heersink Boris Jenkins Jeffery A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 2020 48–50, 239–243 Cambridge University Press 9781316663950 Like Tennessee and Oklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewide White primaries, although certain counties did use the White primary.Klarman Michael J. The White Primary Rulings: A Case Study in the Consequences of Supreme Court Decision-Making Florida State University Law Review 29 2001 55–107 Although with disfranchisement of blacks the state introduced a poll tax, it was less severe than any other former Confederate state.Rusk J.J Stucker J.J. The Effect of Southern Election Laws on Turnout Rates Silbey Joel H. Bogue Allan G. The History of American Electoral Behavior 246 0691606625 Since the tail end of the 1900s, proposals to reform what was recognized as an inefficient and regressive tax systemSteelman Joseph F. Origins of the Campaign for Constitutional Reform in North Carolina, 1912-1913 The North Carolina Historical Review 56 4 October 1979 396–418 had become the major issue in North Carolina,Poll-Tax Abolition Urged: North Carolina Board Favors Levy of 2-3 Per Cent on Assessments The Washington Post December 24, 1908 3 especially after the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified. Neither candidate campaigned in the state, which had voted Democratic at every election since 1876. At no point was there any serious question of Wilson carrying the state.Curtis Sumner Close Election Seen: Unbiased Observers Unable to Form General Opinion The Washington Post November 5, 1916 A4 On election day projections were for a majority for Wilson of between forty-five thousand and fifty thousand,Early Returns from States in Presidential Election Evening Capital News Boise, Idaho November 8, 1916 5 which closely approximated the final result. Nonetheless, North Carolina was one of only three states where Wilson failed to improve upon his 1912 percentage, and indeed his 16.39 point win was three points smaller than conservative Democrat Alton B. Parker managed in 1904. Hughes, in fact, was the first Republican to ever carry Carteret and Clay Counties, suggesting latent opposition to Wilson in the Outer Banks and Appalachia.Menendez Albert J. 2005 The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 48 McFarland 0786422173 Results Presidential CandidateRunning MatePartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)Woodrow Wilson of New JerseyThomas R. MarshallDemocratic121916 Presidential General Election Results – North Carolina https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1916&fips=37&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas168,38358.10%Charles Evans HughesCharles W. FairbanksRepublican0120,89041.71%Allan L. BensonGeorge KirkpatrickSocialist05090.18%Frank HanlyIra LandrithProhibition0530.02% Results by county 1916 United States presidential election in North Carolina by countyNorth Carolina State Board of Elections Election Returns Vote for President North Carolina Manual 1917CountyThomas Woodrow WilsonDemocraticCharles Evans HughesRepublicanAllan Louis BensonSocialistJames Franklin HanlyProhibitionMargin%#%#%#%#%#Northampton97.12%1,5182.88%450.00%00.00%094.24%1,473Edgecombe92.69%2,0286.17%1351.10%240.05%186.52%1,893Bertie92.64%1,4617.36%1160.00%00.00%085.29%1,345Currituck91.48%9458.42%870.00%00.10%183.06%858Halifax88.51%2,31211.45%2990.04%10.00%077.07%2,013Hoke87.64%78012.36%1100.00%00.00%075.28%670Scotland87.26%93812.74%1370.00%00.00%074.51%801Anson87.18%2,04612.82%3010.00%00.00%074.35%1,745Chowan86.89%61012.96%910.00%00.14%173.93%519Warren84.28%1,21715.72%2270.00%00.00%068.56%990Martin83.97%1,47216.03%2810.00%00.00%067.94%1,191Franklin83.86%2,05716.14%3960.00%00.00%067.71%1,661New Hanover82.72%2,35517.28%4920.00%00.00%065.44%1,863Hertford82.31%97717.61%2090.00%00.08%164.70%768Pasquotank81.28%1,17718.65%2700.00%00.07%162.64%907Camden80.70%36818.86%860.00%00.44%261.84%282Pitt79.79%2,83920.21%7190.00%00.00%059.58%2,120Union79.04%2,66220.84%7020.12%40.00%058.19%1,960Greene78.38%1,06621.62%2940.00%00.00%056.76%772Mecklenburg78.11%4,50821.78%1,2570.10%60.00%056.33%3,251Craven76.66%1,78023.34%5420.00%00.00%053.32%1,238Jones75.34%71224.66%2330.00%00.00%050.69%479Hyde74.73%84024.64%2770.36%40.27%350.09%563Wilson73.76%2,05226.24%7300.00%00.00%047.52%1,322Gates72.78%82627.22%3090.00%00.00%045.55%517Granville72.55%1,71327.45%6480.00%00.00%045.11%1,065Nash72.15%2,18927.22%8260.63%190.00%044.92%1,363Vance72.22%1,45127.78%5580.00%00.00%044.45%893Caswell71.52%84928.48%3380.00%00.00%043.05%511Lenoir71.35%1,66628.57%6670.09%20.00%042.78%999Pender70.80%97029.20%4000.00%00.00%041.61%570Richmond70.49%1,55329.51%6500.00%00.00%040.99%903Perquimans69.06%64530.84%2880.00%00.11%138.22%357Robeson66.57%2,89433.43%1,4530.00%00.00%033.15%1,441Bladen65.95%1,26134.05%6510.00%00.00%031.90%610Wake65.23%4,62734.70%2,4610.07%50.00%030.54%2,166Cleveland64.87%2,76435.13%1,4970.00%00.00%029.73%1,267Lee64.78%1,05435.22%5730.00%00.00%029.56%481Wayne64.40%2,62535.48%1,4460.07%30.05%228.93%1,179Cumberland61.83%1,97138.17%1,2170.00%00.00%023.65%754Columbus61.72%2,14338.22%1,3270.00%00.06%223.50%816Iredell61.67%3,33538.33%2,0730.00%00.00%023.34%1,262Haywood61.21%2,40338.79%1,5230.00%00.00%022.41%880Beaufort60.55%1,95739.42%1,2740.00%00.03%121.13%683Onslow60.27%1,19739.53%7850.00%00.20%420.75%412Pamlico56.57%71041.99%5271.43%180.00%014.58%183Durham57.28%2,46342.72%1,8370.00%00.00%014.56%626Washington57.26%65142.74%4860.00%00.00%014.51%165Rowan56.82%3,05343.18%2,3200.00%00.00%013.64%733Rutherford56.65%2,44543.35%1,8710.00%00.00%013.30%574Dare56.42%47043.58%3630.00%00.00%012.85%107Moore55.57%1,33743.52%1,0470.91%220.00%012.05%290Guilford55.41%4,61644.06%3,6700.53%440.00%011.36%946Harnett55.29%1,99244.49%1,6030.22%80.00%010.80%389Alleghany55.39%79644.61%6410.00%00.00%010.79%155Chatham54.83%1,83944.75%1,5010.42%140.00%010.08%338Johnston54.83%3,46845.17%2,8570.00%00.00%09.66%611Duplin54.43%1,82445.57%1,5270.00%00.00%08.86%297Gaston54.18%3,01945.62%2,5420.00%00.20%118.56%477Rockingham54.20%2,31645.80%1,9570.00%00.00%08.40%359Yancey54.06%1,27345.94%1,0820.00%00.00%08.11%191Forsyth51.84%4,11545.16%3,5853.00%2380.00%06.68%530Lincoln52.47%1,52147.22%1,3690.28%80.03%15.24%152Buncombe52.48%4,22947.52%3,8300.00%00.00%04.95%399Burke52.37%1,62147.63%1,4740.00%00.00%04.75%147Stanly51.97%2,11047.81%1,9410.12%50.10%44.16%169Alamance52.03%2,47647.87%2,2780.11%50.00%04.16%198Macon51.74%1,14648.26%1,0690.00%00.00%03.48%77Orange51.51%1,23048.49%1,1580.00%00.00%03.02%72Tyrrell51.49%41648.51%3920.00%00.00%02.97%24McDowell51.08%1,27448.84%1,2180.00%00.08%22.25%56Caldwell50.98%1,72549.02%1,6590.00%00.00%01.95%66Person50.96%95349.04%9170.00%00.00%01.93%36Graham50.85%47649.15%4600.00%00.00%01.71%16Montgomery50.54%1,22249.46%1,1960.00%00.00%01.08%26Jackson50.35%1,30649.65%1,2880.00%00.00%00.69%18Cherokee50.00%1,36250.00%1,3620.00%00.00%00.00%0Catawba49.34%2,56950.39%2,6240.08%40.19%10-1.06%-55Ashe49.47%1,89850.53%1,9390.00%00.00%0-1.07%-41Transylvania49.40%82150.60%8410.00%00.00%0-1.20%-20Davidson48.74%2,67551.04%2,8010.22%120.00%0-2.30%-126Carteret48.32%1,16551.68%1,2460.00%00.00%0-3.36%-81Randolph47.52%2,74752.43%3,0310.00%00.05%3-4.91%-284Polk47.48%67952.45%7500.07%10.00%0-4.97%-71Cabarrus47.10%2,08052.40%2,3140.50%220.00%0-5.30%-234Clay46.89%40053.11%4530.00%00.00%0-6.21%-53Stokes45.58%1,56953.81%1,8520.61%210.00%0-8.22%-283Watauga45.77%1,14154.23%1,3520.00%00.00%0-8.46%-211Brunswick45.00%81054.94%9890.06%10.00%0-9.94%-179Alexander44.56%95455.44%1,1870.00%00.00%0-10.88%-233Swain42.36%82957.64%1,1280.00%00.00%0-15.28%-299Davie42.11%91057.61%1,2450.28%60.00%0-15.50%-335Surry40.43%2,02959.33%2,9770.24%120.00%0-18.89%-948Henderson39.38%1,16660.62%1,7950.00%00.00%0-21.24%-629Yadkin33.81%87966.19%1,7210.00%00.00%0-32.38%-842Sampson33.42%1,36966.58%2,7270.00%00.00%0-33.15%-1,358Madison33.09%97266.91%1,9650.00%00.00%0-33.81%-993Wilkes31.99%1,63268.01%3,4700.00%00.00%0-36.03%-1,838Mitchell26.25%46273.75%1,2980.00%00.00%0-47.50%-836Avery23.68%36076.18%1,1580.00%00.13%2-52.50%-798 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