1916 United States presidential election in Idaho
November 7, 1916
 
Nominee Woodrow Wilson Charles Evans Hughes Allan L. Benson
Party Democratic Republican Socialist
Home state New Jersey New York New York
Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Charles W. Fairbanks George Ross Kirkpatrick
Electoral vote 4 0 0
Popular vote 70,054 55,368 8,066
Percentage 52.04% 41.13% 5.99%
County Results
President before election

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

 Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

The 1916 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 7, 1916 as part of the 1916 United States presidential election in which all contemporary forty-eight states participated. State voters chose four electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

At state level, Idaho had begun in 1902 to be very much a one-party Republican state,[1] which it has largely remained since apart from the New Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s. For a time there was also a perception that the William Jennings Bryan-led Democratic Party had failed as a “party of reform”.[2]

In 1912, Woodrow Wilson had carried Idaho by 1.06 points with less than one-third of the total vote due to severe divisions within the GOP between conservative incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive former President Theodore Roosevelt. In contrast to the East where supporters of Theodore Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Party rapidly returned to the Republicans, in the Mountain States many if not most of these supporters turned to the Democratic Party not only in presidential elections, but also in state and federal legislative ones.[3] Another factor helping Wilson was a powerful "peace vote" in the Western states[4] due to opposition to participation in World War I, and a third was that a considerable part of the substantial vote for Eugene Debs from the previous election was turned over to Wilson owing to such Progressive reforms as the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments.[3]

The consequence of these trends was that Idaho would vote strongly for Wilson over Republican nominee Charles Evans Hughes, who was viewed as an easterner who epitomized the oligarchic interests so suspect in the Mountain States.[5] Wilson gained almost twenty percent upon his 1912 performance, and carried all but five counties.

Results

Presidential Candidate Running Mate Party Electoral Vote (EV) Popular Vote (PV)[6]
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall Democratic 4 70,054 52.04%
Charles Evans Hughes Charles W. Fairbanks Republican 0 55,368 41.13%
Allan L. Benson George Ross Kirkpatrick Socialist 0 8,066 5.99%
Frank Hanly Ira Landrith Prohibition 0 1,127 0.84%

Results by county

County Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic		 Charles Evans Hughes
Republican		 Allan Louis Benson
Socialist		 James Franklin Hanly
Prohibition		 Margin Total votes cast[7]
# % # % # % # % # %
Ada 5,207 47.48% 5,299 48.32% 359 3.27% 101 0.92% -92 -0.84% 10,966
Adams 645 44.67% 667 46.19% 129 8.93% 3 0.21% -22 -1.52% 1,444
Bannock 4,084 55.52% 2,950 40.10% 298 4.05% 24 0.33% 1,134 15.42% 7,356
Bear Lake 1,566 55.36% 1,229 43.44% 31 1.10% 3 0.11% 337 11.91% 2,829
Benewah 1,374 51.52% 935 35.06% 337 12.64% 21 0.79% 439 16.46% 2,667
Bingham 2,306 53.02% 1,885 43.34% 145 3.33% 13 0.30% 421 9.68% 4,349
Blaine 1,830 56.31% 1,231 37.88% 173 5.32% 16 0.49% 599 18.43% 3,250
Boise 1,048 57.17% 657 35.84% 113 6.16% 15 0.82% 391 21.33% 1,833
Bonner 2,003 51.96% 1,417 36.76% 409 10.61% 26 0.67% 586 15.20% 3,855
Bonneville 2,341 56.13% 1,736 41.62% 85 2.04% 9 0.22% 605 14.50% 4,171
Boundary 653 48.12% 598 44.07% 99 7.30% 7 0.52% 55 4.05% 1,357
Canyon 4,478 49.98% 3,570 39.84% 645 7.20% 267 2.98% 908 10.13% 8,960
Cassia 1,629 50.05% 1,320 40.55% 289 8.88% 17 0.52% 309 9.49% 3,255
Clearwater 678 38.28% 839 47.37% 242 13.66% 12 0.68% -161 -9.09% 1,771
Custer 879 62.38% 454 32.22% 63 4.47% 13 0.92% 425 30.16% 1,409
Elmore 1,104 59.61% 658 35.53% 82 4.43% 8 0.43% 446 24.08% 1,852
Franklin 1,425 55.97% 1,089 42.77% 30 1.18% 2 0.08% 336 13.20% 2,546
Fremont 2,695 59.23% 1,654 36.35% 194 4.26% 7 0.15% 1,041 22.88% 4,550
Gem 990 52.11% 750 39.47% 146 7.68% 14 0.74% 240 12.63% 1,900
Gooding 1,089 47.41% 1,093 47.58% 97 4.22% 18 0.78% -4 -0.17% 2,297
Idaho 2,265 49.76% 1,892 41.56% 370 8.13% 25 0.55% 373 8.19% 4,552
Jefferson 1,606 58.94% 993 36.44% 115 4.22% 11 0.40% 613 22.50% 2,725
Kootenai 2,855 44.46% 2,741 42.68% 714 11.12% 112 1.74% 114 1.78% 6,422
Latah 2,811 45.54% 2,777 44.99% 435 7.05% 149 2.41% 34 0.55% 6,172
Lemhi 1,080 57.32% 723 38.38% 79 4.19% 2 0.11% 357 18.95% 1,884
Lewis 1,255 54.71% 901 39.28% 118 5.14% 20 0.87% 354 15.43% 2,294
Lincoln 1,084 46.99% 1,121 48.59% 95 4.12% 7 0.30% -37 -1.60% 2,307
Madison 1,371 54.32% 1,132 44.85% 21 0.83% 0 0.00% 239 9.47% 2,524
Minidoka 1,135 42.69% 963 36.22% 540 20.31% 21 0.79% 172 6.47% 2,659
Nez Perce 2,675 56.46% 1,753 37.00% 245 5.17% 65 1.37% 922 19.46% 4,738
Oneida 1,298 55.40% 1,014 43.28% 29 1.24% 2 0.09% 284 12.12% 2,343
Owyhee 775 52.76% 594 40.44% 82 5.58% 18 1.23% 181 12.32% 1,469
Power 1,079 49.95% 1,024 47.41% 50 2.31% 7 0.32% 55 2.55% 2,160
Shoshone 4,239 59.11% 2,431 33.90% 485 6.76% 16 0.22% 1,808 25.21% 7,171
Teton 726 51.86% 650 46.43% 21 1.50% 3 0.21% 76 5.43% 1,400
Twin Falls 3,974 51.60% 3,083 40.03% 592 7.69% 52 0.68% 891 11.57% 7,701
Washington 1,802 51.83% 1,545 44.43% 109 3.13% 21 0.60% 257 7.39% 3,477
Totals70,05452.04%55,36841.13%8,0665.99%1,1270.84%14,68610.91%134,615

See also

References

  1. ↑ Burnham, Walter Dean; ‘The System of 1896’, in Kleppner, Paul (editor), The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 176-179 ISBN 0313213798
  2. ↑ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; ‘The Decline of the Democratic Party’; American Journal of Sociology, vol. 20, no. 3 (November 1914), pp. 313-334
  3. 1 2 Sarasohn, David; 'The Election of 1916: Realigning the Rockies', Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 1980), pp. 285-305
  4. ↑ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 ISBN 0786422173
  5. ↑ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 460 ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6
  6. ↑ "1916 Presidential General Election Results – Idaho". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  7. ↑ Idaho Secretary of State Election Division; State of Idaho Presidential Vote Cast at the General Election , November 7, 1916
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