1916 United States presidential election in Vermont

none June 2025 September 2023 1916 United States presidential election 1916 United States presidential election in Vermont Vermont 1837 presidential no 1912 United States presidential election in Vermont 1912 1920 United States presidential election in Vermont 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 4 40,250 62.43% Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall 0 22,708 35.22% x250px County results x250px Municipality results Hughes #FFCCD0 30–40% #F2B3BE 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% Wilson #B9D7FF 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% Tie #D4C4DC 40–50% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) The 1916 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Vermont was won by the Republican nominee, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York, and his running mate Senator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Hughes and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. Hughes won a decisive victory with 62.43% of the vote, to Wilson's 35.22%, a Republican victory margin of 27.21%. Vermont historically was a bastion of Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1916 it had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1912, Vermont had had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition continued in 1916. In 1912, Vermont had been one of only two states (along with Utah) to vote for incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft, who was pushed into third place nationally by the strong third party candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt, a former Republican president who had run in 1912 with his own Progressive Party. Taft and Roosevelt had split the Republican vote nationally in 1912, and in Vermont, Taft edged out Roosevelt 37–35, while Wilson had received only 24% of the vote. With the Republican base re-united behind Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, the GOP scored a landslide win in Vermont with over 62% of the vote, although Wilson also gained 11 points in support from his 1912 showing. Hughes carried thirteen of the state's fourteen counties, breaking 60% of the vote in 8 of them, and even breaking 70% in 2 counties. Wilson's only county victory came from sparsely populated Grand Isle County in the far northwest of the state, which had also been the only county in the state to give Wilson a plurality win in 1912. This was the first election since 1852 in which a Democratic candidate earned more than forty percent of the vote in any Vermont county. As Wilson narrowly won re-election nationally, Vermont weighed in as over 30% more Republican than the national average in the 1916 election, making it the most Republican state in the union.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 Results 1916 United States presidential election in Vermonthttp://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1916&fips=50&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1916 Presidential General Election Results - Vermont 2013-08-02 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Charles Evans Hughes 40,250 62.43% 4 Democratic Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) 22,708 35.22% 0 Socialist Allan L. Benson 798 1.24% 0 Prohibition Frank Hanly 709 1.10% 0 N/A Write-ins 10 0.02% 0 Totals 64,475 100.00% 4 Results by county County Charles Evans HughesRepublican Woodrow WilsonDemocratic Allan L. BensonSocialist James F. HanlyProhibition Various candidatesWrite-ins Margin Total votes castVermont Office of the Secretary of State Elections Division; ‘Summary Vote for Electors, 1916’ # % # % # % # % # % # % Addison 2,765 74.67% 874 23.60% 11 0.30% 53 1.43% 1,891 51.07% 3,703 Bennington 2,602 60.40% 1,590 36.91% 83 1.93% 33 0.77% 1,012 23.49% 4,308 Caledonia 3,024 60.44% 1,887 37.72% 24 0.48% 68 1.36% 1,137 22.73% 5,003 Chittenden 3,786 56.85% 2,772 41.62% 43 0.65% 58 0.87% 1 0.02% 1,014 15.23% 6,660 Essex 734 56.77% 544 42.07% 7 0.54% 8 0.62% 190 14.69% 1,293 Franklin 2,796 56.41% 2,107 42.51% 11 0.22% 43 0.87% 689 13.90% 4,957 Grand Isle 407 48.17% 434 51.36% 3 0.36% 1 0.12% -27 -3.20% 845 Lamoille 1,474 67.12% 643 29.28% 27 1.23% 51 2.32% 1 0.05% 831 37.84% 2,196 Orange 2,151 59.31% 1,379 38.02% 51 1.41% 46 1.27% 772 21.28% 3,627 Orleans 2,758 71.58% 1,047 27.17% 7 0.18% 41 1.06% 1,711 44.41% 3,853 Rutland 5,926 66.35% 2,785 31.18% 84 0.94% 134 1.50% 3 0.03% 3,141 35.17% 8,932 Washington 4,216 57.11% 2,732 37.01% 335 4.54% 98 1.33% 1 0.01% 1,484 20.10% 7,382 Windham 3,375 65.50% 1,698 32.95% 42 0.82% 37 0.72% 1 0.02% 1,677 32.54% 5,153 Windsor 4,236 64.54% 2,216 33.77% 70 1.07% 38 0.58% 3 0.05% 2,020 30.78% 6,563Totals40,25062.43%22,70835.22%7981.24%7091.10%100.02%17,54227.21%64,475 Counties that flipped from Progressive to Republican Caledonia Franklin Lamoille Orange Orleans Windsor See also United States presidential elections in Vermont References expanded Vermont 1916 Category:1916 Vermont elections