1916 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results
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1916 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results
The United States presidential election of 1916 was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. Incumbent President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. After a hard-fought contest, Wilson defeated Hughes by nearly 600,000 votes in the popular vote and secured a narrow majority in the Electoral College by winning several swing states with razor-thin margins.
1916 US Presidential Election Result
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral | Running mate | |||
| Count | Pct | vote | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | |||
| Woodrow Wilson(Incumbent) | Democratic | New Jersey | 91,26,868 | 49.24% | 277 | Thomas R. Marshall | Indiana | 277 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Republican | New York | 85,48,728 | 46.12% | 254 | Charles W. Fairbanks | Indiana | 254 |
| Allan L. Benson | Socialist | New York | 5,90,524 | 3.19% | 0 | George Ross Kirkpatrick | New Jersey | 0 |
| Frank Hanly | Prohibition | Indiana | 2,21,302 | 1.19% | 0 | Ira Landrith | Tennessee | 0 |
| No Candidate | Progressive | (n/a) | 33,406 | 0.18% | 0 | (n/a) | (n/a) | 0 |
| Arthur E. Reimer | Socialist Labor | Massachusetts | 15,295 | 0.08% | 0 | Caleb Harrison | Illinois | 0 |
| Other | 462 | 0.00% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 1,85,36,585 | 100% | 531 | 531 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
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