The 1916 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 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.
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New Hampshire was won by the Democratic nominees, incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. They defeated Republican nominee, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York, and his running mate Senator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana.
Wilson won New Hampshire by a very narrow margin of just 0.06283% (one vote in 1,592) and 56 popular votes. In terms of popular vote margin, this is the third-closest state presidential election race on record, behind two in Maryland from 1832 and 1904. In terms of percentage, it stands as the ninth-closest behind the two Maryland elections above, two from California in 1892 and 1912, Kentucky in 1896, Hawaii’s inaugural 1960 election, and the 2000 Florida and New Mexico elections. This is the only presidential election in which New Hampshire voted Democratic while a number of modern-day Democratic-leaning states voted Republican. These states include the fellow New England states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, as well as New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Minnesota, Illinois, and Oregon. It was also the only election in which New Hampshire voted Democratic while Pennsylvania voted Republican until 2016.
The giant Rexall drugstore chain made an early opinion poll that predicted Wilson’s narrow victory in New Hampshire and in California almost perfectly,[1] leading to a reputation for accuracy that was to be lost twenty years subsequently.
This was the first time since 1852 that Sullivan County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[2]
Results
edit| 1916 United States presidential election in New Hampshire[3] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey | Thomas Riley Marshall of Indiana | 43,781 | 49.12% | 4 | 100.00% | ||
| Republican | Charles Evans Hughes of New York | Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana | 43,725 | 49.06% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Allan Louis Benson of New York | George Ross Kirkpatrick of New Jersey | 1,318 | 1.48% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | James Franklin Hanly of Indiana | Ira Landrith of Tennessee | 303 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 89,127 | 100.00% | 4 | 100.00% | ||||
Results by county
edit| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
Charles Evans Hughes Republican |
Allan Louis Benson[4] Socialist |
James Franklin Hanly[4] Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Belknap | 2,310 | 46.19% | 2,579 | 51.57% | 62 | 1.24% | 50 | 1.00% | -269 | -5.38% | 5,001 |
| Carroll | 2,003 | 46.65% | 2,259 | 52.61% | 22 | 0.51% | 10 | 0.23% | -256 | -5.96% | 4,294 |
| Cheshire | 2,779 | 44.51% | 3,337 | 53.44% | 121 | 1.94% | 7 | 0.11% | -558 | -8.93% | 6,244 |
| Coös | 3,247 | 51.99% | 2,762 | 44.22% | 210 | 3.36% | 27 | 0.43% | 485 | 7.77% | 6,246 |
| Grafton | 4,644 | 48.80% | 4,795 | 50.38% | 49 | 0.51% | 29 | 0.30% | -151 | -1.58% | 9,517 |
| Hillsborough | 10,939 | 51.05% | 9,927 | 46.33% | 502 | 2.34% | 60 | 0.28% | 1,012 | 4.72% | 21,428 |
| Merrimack | 5,967 | 49.14% | 5,970 | 49.16% | 160 | 1.32% | 47 | 0.39% | -3 | -0.02% | 12,144 |
| Rockingham | 5,637 | 48.32% | 5,866 | 50.29% | 114 | 0.98% | 48 | 0.41% | -229 | -1.97% | 11,665 |
| Strafford | 4,040 | 49.62% | 4,037 | 49.58% | 49 | 0.60% | 16 | 0.20% | 3 | 0.04% | 8,142 |
| Sullivan | 2,215 | 49.82% | 2,193 | 49.33% | 29 | 0.65% | 9 | 0.20% | 22 | 0.49% | 4,446 |
| Totals | 43,781 | 49.12% | 43,725 | 49.06% | 1,621 | 1.82% | 303 | 0.34% | 56 | 0.06% | 89,127 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Pietrusza, David; 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, p. 398 ISBN 0786721022
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 257 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ "1916 Presidential General Election Results - New Hampshire". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- ^ a b New Hampshire Department of State Election Division; New Hampshire Manual 1917, pp, 368-378
- ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, p. 270 ISBN 9780804716963