1916 United States presidential election in Michigan

none June 2025 September 2023 1916 United States presidential election 1916 United States presidential election in Michigan Michigan presidential no 1912 United States presidential election in Michigan 1912 1920 United States presidential election in Michigan 1920 All 15 Michigan votes to the Electoral College 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 15 339,097 52.09% Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall 0 286,775 44.05% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) 375px 375px County results Hughes #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Wilson #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% The 1916 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1917_1921.html#1916 1916 Election for the Thirty-Third Term (1917-1921) 2018-04-03 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Following the Panic of 1893 and the Populist movement, Michigan would turn from a competitive Republican-leaning state into a rigidly one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party.Burnham Walter Dean The System of 1896: An Analysis The Evolution of American Electoral Systems December 23, 1981 178–179 Bloomsbury Academic 0313213798 The dominance of the culture of the Lower Peninsula by anti-slavery YankeesEnglish, Gustavus P.; Proceedings of the Ninth Republican National Convention (1888), p. 234 would be augmented by the turn of formerly Democratic-leaning German Catholics away from that party as a result of the remodelled party's agrarian and free silver sympathies, which became rigidly opposed by both the upper class and workers who followed them.Sundquist James Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years December 2010 526 Brookings Institution Press 978-0815719090 The state Democratic Party was further crippled via the Populist movement severing its critical financial ties with business and commerce in Michigan as in other Northern states.Rogowski Ronald Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments 978-0691219431 Princeton University Press 2020 A brief turn of the strongly evangelical Cabinet Counties toward the Populist movement in the 1896 presidential election would reverse itself following the return to prosperity under President William McKinley, so that these joined in Republican hegemony until the Great Depression. In the 1894 elections, the Democratic Party lost all but one seat in the Michigan legislature,Swamped! The Democrats Drowned Out by a Tremendous Republican Tidal Wave The L'Anse Sentinel November 10, 1894 L'Anse 1 and over the four ensuing decades the party would never make major gains there. Unlike the other states of the Upper Midwest, the Yankee influence on the culture of the Lower Peninsula was so strong that left-wing third parties did not provide significant opposition to the Republicans, nor was there more than a moderate degree of coordinated factionalism within the hegemonic Michigan Republican Party.Hansen John Mark Shigeo Hirano Snyder Jr. James M. Parties within Parties: Parties, Factions, and Coordinated Politics, 1900-1980 Gerber Alan S. Schickler Eric Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America February 27, 2017 165–168 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09509-0 Aided by the support of incumbent Governor Chase OsbornPavord Andrew C. The Gamble for Power: Theodore Roosevelt's Decision to Run for the Presidency in 1912 Presidential Studies Quarterly Summer 1996 26 3 633–647 and state party leader Frank Knox,Steven Macdonald Mark An American Interventionist: Frank Knox and United States Foreign Relations 1977 32–55 “Bull Moose” nominee Theodore Roosevelt would carry Michigan by a double-digit margin over conservative incumbent Taft in 1912. However, Roosevelt's personal interests took over from developing his party after the election,Gould Lewis L. The First Modern Clash over Federal Power: Wilson versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916 12 and after voting on the first ballot for favorite son Henry Ford due to his strong desire to keep America out of World War I,Lovell S.D. The Presidential Election of 1916 1980 28 Southern Illinois University Press 0809309653 Michigan's Republicans would soon shift their support in the national convention to eventual nominee Charles Evans Hughes.Lovell; The Presidential Election of 1916 At the beginning of the campaign, Michigan, where Republicans had regained their customary near-monopoly of House and state legislative seats in 1914, was seen by the Hughes campaign as a safe state.Gould; The First Modern Clash over Federal Power, p. 78 However, early polls, taken only from rural areas of Central Michigan, indicated Wilson was receiving a substantial proportion of the 1912 “Bull Moose” vote.Greatest Statesman We Have Ever Had — So Says Luther Burbank, Famous Scientist, of Wilson Bucyrus, Ohio Telegraph-Forum+date=September 22, 1916 No further polls would be taken in the state, and in the end Hughes won slightly more than 52 percent of the popular vote.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1916&fips=26&off=0&elect=0&f=0 1916 Presidential General Election Results — Michigan 2018-04-03 Wilson is one of three presidents (along with George W. Bush and Grover Cleveland) to win two terms without ever carrying the state, and the only Democrat to do so in two consecutive elections (Cleveland won two non-consecutive elections in 1884 and 1892). Results + General Election ResultsMichigan State Archives, Canvass of the votes given at the General Election, held in the State of Michigan on Tuesday the Seventh day of November A.D. 1916Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Charles Evans Hughes Charles C. Simons339,097 Republican Charles Evans Hughes James Couzens338,725 Republican Charles Evans Hughes William J. Livingstone338,065 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Bernard J. Onen337,937 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Edmund O. Dewey337,901 Republican Charles Evans Hughes John E. Wallace337,887 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Guy E. Smith337,803 Republican Charles Evans Hughes J. Russel Fisk337,800 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Edwey C. Reid337,737 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Dallas Boudeman337,726 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Holden A. Putnam337,711 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Benjamin Gero337,678 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Homer A. Guck337,664 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Hugh A. McPherson337,389 Republican Charles Evans Hughes Miner S. Keeler337,181 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Charles M. Wilson286,775 Democratic Woodrow Wilson John W. Adams285,151 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Norman Morrish283,922 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Edward Frensdorf283,897 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Arthur F. Jacques283,808 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Frank A. Kelble283,796 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Joseph B. Hendee283,782 Democratic Woodrow Wilson William J. McAneeny283,736 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Daniel W. Goodenough283,684 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Robert Hyslop283,662 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Elmer J. Ottaway283,638 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Henry Heisman283,631 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Clyde W. Hecox283,614 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Knute S. Markstrum283,520 Democratic Woodrow Wilson Joseph Merrell283,253 Socialist Allan L. Benson S. H. Slagle16,120 Socialist Allan L. Benson Anna Karlin16,028 Socialist Allan L. Benson William C. Blackburn16,015 Socialist Allan L. Benson Louis Middleton16,013 Socialist Allan L. Benson John Miller16,013 Socialist Allan L. Benson Daniel Rawley16,008 Socialist Allan L. Benson Robert Calhoun16,006 Socialist Allan L. Benson Guy L. North16,004 Socialist Allan L. Benson Arthur Parent16,004 Socialist Allan L. Benson John Kuskila16,003 Socialist Allan L. Benson Otis M. Southworth16,003 Socialist Allan L. Benson William Blanchard16,002 Socialist Allan L. Benson William Aukerman15,999 Socialist Allan L. Benson Albert Suppus15,978 Socialist Allan L. Benson W. C. Roxburgh15,814 Prohibition Frank Hanly Marshall H. Pettit8,139 Prohibition Frank Hanly Judge Barnum8,110 Prohibition Frank Hanly Robert King8,108 Prohibition Frank Hanly Samuel Dickie8,101 Prohibition Frank Hanly Lemuel B. Bissell8,096 Prohibition Frank Hanly Guy W. Hawley8,096 Prohibition Frank Hanly Thomas R. Davis8,089 Prohibition Frank Hanly Charles R. Evans8,089 Prohibition Frank Hanly Wirt McLean8,088 Prohibition Frank Hanly Charles W. Obee8,088 Prohibition Frank Hanly Edwin W. Orson8,087 Prohibition Frank Hanly Otto E. Cutler8,084 Prohibition Frank Hanly Charles T. Parris8,082 Prohibition Frank Hanly Burton L. Rochwood8,076 Prohibition Frank Hanly George Roelofs8,059 Socialist Labor Arthur E. Reimer Wendall A. Schwan842 Socialist Labor Arthur E. Reimer George W. Foshag834Votes cast"highest" Based on highest elector on each ticket 650,973 Results by county The results below are those for the highest elector on each ticket. The results listed in the 1917-1918 Michigan Manual are a "general average" for each ticket and thus not the "true" results. CountyVaughan Coleman C. Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual for the Years 1917-1918 1917 Lansing 714-715 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073067327&view=1up&seq=794 24 May 2026 Charles Evans HughesRepublican Woodrow WilsonDemocratic Allan L. BensonSocialist Frank HanlyProhibition Arthur ReimerSocialist Labor Margin Total votescast"highest" # % # % # % # % # % # %Alcona57552.32%47142.86%403.64%100.91%30.27%1049.46%1,099Alger68948.15%65845.98%543.77%241.68%60.42%312.17%1,431Allegan4,80854.54%3,63841.27%2242.54%1361.54%100.11%1,17013.27%8,816Alpena2,03758.05%1,39739.81%611.74%120.34%20.06%64018.24%3,509Antrim1,34053.73%94337.81%1516.05%512.04%90.36%39715.92%2,494Arenac90746.66%94348.51%593.03%311.59%40.21%-36-1.85%1,944Baraga75357.22%46535.33%886.69%80.61%20.15%28821.88%1,316Barry3,16553.67%2,51242.60%1111.88%1021.73%70.12%65311.07%5,897Bay6,70851.09%5,99645.67%3172.41%660.50%430.33%7125.42%13,130Benzie90246.86%78640.83%1598.26%643.32%140.73%1166.03%1,925Berrien7,52453.66%6,06943.29%2321.65%1320.94%640.46%1,45510.38%14,021Branch3,10148.73%3,06848.22%931.46%981.54%30.05%330.52%6,363Calhoun6,49141.98%8,07552.23%6514.21%1951.26%490.32%-1,584-10.25%15,461Cass2,52346.67%2,67449.46%1402.59%601.11%90.17%-151-2.79%5,406Charlevoix1,88054.43%1,17233.93%3088.92%702.03%240.69%70820.50%3,454Cheboygan1,57750.89%1,40745.40%892.87%210.68%50.16%1705.49%3,099Chippewa2,36854.55%1,77440.87%1433.29%491.13%70.16%59413.68%4,341Clare1,05054.07%78140.22%763.91%331.70%20.10%26913.85%1,942Clinton3,38860.40%2,11637.73%390.70%661.18%00.00%1,27222.68%5,609Crawford40845.64%46251.68%171.90%60.67%10.11%-54-6.04%894Delta3,10659.73%1,79834.58%2394.60%410.79%160.31%1,30825.15%5,200Dickinson2,39960.52%1,30332.87%2125.35%431.08%70.18%1,09627.65%3,964Eaton3,81350.67%3,49046.38%1091.45%991.32%140.19%3234.29%7,525Emmet1,75250.45%1,38139.76%2918.38%411.18%80.23%37110.68%3,473Genesee9,36548.38%9,33548.23%4182.16%2001.03%390.20%300.15%19,357Gladwin94252.28%75541.90%623.44%372.05%60.33%18710.38%1,802Gogebic2,22255.04%1,55138.42%1243.07%1303.22%100.25%67116.62%4,037Grand Traverse1,95845.87%1,89144.30%3307.73%631.48%270.63%671.57%4,269Gratiot3,43751.93%2,99145.19%600.91%1211.83%90.14%4466.74%6,618Hillsdale3,48048.66%3,44048.11%440.62%1822.55%50.07%400.56%7,151Houghton8,03059.94%4,67734.91%2762.06%3982.97%150.11%3,35325.03%13,396Huron4,76270.62%1,84527.36%751.11%590.87%20.03%2,91743.26%6,743Ingham7,85747.59%7,73146.83%6263.79%2361.43%600.36%1260.76%16,510Ionia3,95348.15%3,94648.07%1401.71%1611.96%90.11%70.09%8,209Iosco99155.80%74041.67%241.35%201.13%10.06%25114.13%1,776Iron2,15967.43%89027.80%1273.97%210.66%50.16%1,26939.63%3,202Isabella2,70353.75%2,16142.97%731.45%871.73%50.10%54210.78%5,029Jackson6,95144.73%8,12052.26%2311.49%2231.44%140.09%-1,169-7.52%15,539Kalamazoo5,95141.88%7,19450.63%7975.61%2451.72%220.15%-1,243-8.75%14,209Kalkaska72357.20%43334.26%816.41%211.66%60.47%29022.94%1,264Kent16,12642.38%20,46753.79%9502.50%5071.33%30.01%-4,341-11.41%38,053Keweenaw86277.80%19717.78%211.90%262.35%20.18%66560.02%1,108Lake58960.22%35536.30%292.97%50.51%00.00%23423.93%978Lapeer3,34661.52%1,95936.02%250.46%1001.84%90.17%1,38725.50%5,439Leelanau99953.59%78542.11%563.00%221.18%20.11%21411.48%1,864Lenawee6,26851.97%5,54445.97%790.66%1611.33%90.07%7246.00%12,061Livingston2,47050.90%2,30547.50%90.19%651.34%40.08%1653.40%4,853Luce52864.63%26632.56%60.73%172.08%00.00%26232.07%817Mackinac1,09153.38%91644.81%311.52%60.29%00.00%1758.56%2,044Macomb4,56458.13%3,13639.94%470.60%951.21%90.11%1,42818.19%7,851Manistee2,36249.86%2,20746.59%1072.26%531.12%80.17%1553.27%4,737Marquette5,28663.04%2,65331.64%3313.95%1011.20%140.17%2,63331.40%8,385Mason2,20352.63%1,73341.40%1784.25%721.72%00.00%47011.23%4,186Mecosta2,46456.93%1,51535.00%2575.94%851.96%70.16%94921.93%4,328Menominee2,70657.15%1,86339.35%1182.49%460.97%20.04%84317.80%4,735Midland2,11257.52%1,47940.28%601.63%150.41%60.16%63317.24%3,672Missaukee1,15553.95%93343.58%261.21%251.17%20.09%22210.37%2,141Monroe3,78946.51%4,22751.89%470.58%821.01%10.01%-438-5.38%8,146Montcalm3,90655.64%2,85640.68%1101.57%1381.97%100.14%1,05014.96%7,020Montmorency39453.10%28638.54%547.28%70.94%10.13%10814.56%742Muskegon5,71551.98%4,52441.15%6015.47%1271.16%270.25%1,19110.83%10,994Newaygo2,41957.90%1,65339.56%00.00%902.15%160.38%76618.33%4,178Oakland7,73251.86%6,65444.63%2941.97%2041.37%250.17%1,0787.23%14,909Oceana1,95753.88%1,40938.79%1714.71%842.31%110.30%54815.09%3,632Ogemaw87750.87%75443.74%422.44%502.90%10.06%1237.13%1,724Ontonagon1,23653.97%90239.39%1235.37%241.05%50.22%33414.59%2,290Osceola2,20361.62%1,30636.53%190.53%471.31%00.00%89725.09%3,575Oscoda24555.68%18542.05%51.14%51.14%00.00%6013.64%440Otsego53248.45%53648.82%90.82%161.46%50.46%-4-0.36%1,098Ottawa5,49655.85%4,01340.78%2422.46%850.86%50.05%1,48315.07%9,841Presque Isle1,40960.97%82735.79%612.64%80.35%60.26%58225.18%2,311Roscommon31352.87%24841.89%233.89%30.51%50.84%6510.98%592Saginaw9,57551.73%8,45145.66%3131.69%1430.77%270.15%1,1246.07%18,509Sanilac4,66068.99%1,93428.63%380.56%1201.78%30.04%2,72640.36%6,755Schoolcraft99758.96%63237.37%452.66%150.89%20.12%36521.58%1,691Shiawassee3,94551.24%3,33343.29%1792.32%2333.03%90.12%6127.95%7,699St. Clair6,54257.30%4,63640.60%1311.15%1010.88%80.07%1,90616.69%11,418St. Joseph3,13244.94%3,57751.32%1912.74%610.88%90.13%-445-6.38%6,970Tuscola4,46663.33%2,35533.39%530.75%1712.42%70.10%2,11129.93%7,052Van Buren4,31855.22%3,25641.64%1672.14%660.84%130.17%1,06213.58%7,820Washtenaw6,50554.02%5,27943.84%1361.13%1060.88%160.13%1,22610.18%12,042Wayne70,52051.62%61,86045.28%3,2362.37%9940.73%00.00%8,6606.34%136,610Wexford2,33555.01%1,69039.81%1152.71%962.26%90.21%64515.19%4,245Totals339,09752.09%286,77544.05%16,120The county results add up to 16,1262.48%8,1391.25%8420.13%52,3228.04%650,973 Counties that flipped from Progressive to Republican 20em Alcona Alger Allegan Alpena Antrim Baraga Barry Bay Benzie Berrien Cheboygan Chippewa Clare Clinton Delta Emmet Genesee Gogebic Grand Traverse Gratiot Hillsdale Houghton Huron Ingham Iosco Isabella Kalkaska Keweenaw Lake Lapeer Leelanau Luce Marquette Mason Mecosta Menominee Midland Missaukee Montcalm Muskegon Newaygo Oceana Ogemaw Osceola Oscoda Ottawa Presque Isle Roscommon Sanilac Shiawassee St. Clair Tuscola Van Buren Wayne Wexford Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican 20em Branch Eaton Ionia Lenawee Livingston Mackinac Macomb Manistee Saginaw Washtenaw Counties that flipped from Progressive to Democratic Arenac Calhoun Jackson Kalamazoo Kent St. Joseph Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Crawford Otsego Analysis Despite Hughes’ comfortable win, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson did nonetheless achieve the best performance in Michigan by a Democrat since Grover Cleveland in 1888.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=1916&fips=26&f=0&off=0&elect=0&type=state Presidential General Election Results Comparison — Michigan Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas Wilson improved seventeen percent on his 1912 showing when he finished third behind both Roosevelt and Taft, with most of his gains occurring in the heavily evangelical cabinet counties of the southern part of the state. Wilson was the first Democrat to ever carry Kalamazoo County.Menendez Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 2005 222–227 McFarland 0786422173 This was the last time the Republican candidate won Michigan without carrying Kent County - the home of Grand Rapids, until Donald Trump did so in 2024. This is the last time a Democrat won two terms without ever carrying the state. See also United States presidential elections in Michigan Notes References Michigan 1916 United States presidential election