1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas

Summary

The 1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas

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Nominee Woodrow Wilson Charles Evans Hughes
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New Jersey New York
Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 112,189 47,153
Percentage 66.64% 28.01%

County Results

President before election

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.[1] Disfranchisement during the 1890s of effectively all black people and most poor white people had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. Although the northwest of the state was to develop a strong Socialist Party movement that served as a swing vote in county elections,[2] political repression[3] and internal party divisions[4] diminished that party's strength substantially.

The Democratic Party, under the influence of future federal Senate Minority and Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson and demagogic Governor and Senator Jeff Davis, was to make many familiar progressive changes in railroad regulation and child labor,[5] but under the administration of George W. Donaghey – who saw his administration and Democratic primary candidacy as a fight against the “Davis Machine”[6] – more rapid development occurred, especially in abolishing convict leasing and improving bank regulation.[7]

Results edit

Electoral results
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral
vote
Running mate
Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote
Woodrow Wilson Democrat New Jersey 112,189 66.64% 9 Thomas R. Marshall Indiana 9
Charles Evans Hughes Republican New York 47,153 28.01% 0 Charles W. Fairbanks Indiana 0
Allan L. Benson Socialist New York 7,098 4.22% 0 George Ross Kirkpatrick New Jersey 0
Frank Hanly Prohibition Indiana 1,914 1.14% 0 Ira Landrith Tennessee 0
Total 168,354 100% 9 9
Needed to win 266 266

Results by county edit

1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas by county[8]
County Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
Charles Evans Hughes
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Arkansas 1,119 62.44% 613 34.21% 60 3.35% 506 28.24% 1,792
Ashley 1,519 74.94% 463 22.84% 45 2.22% 1,056 52.43% 2,027
Baxter 914 68.88% 318 23.96% 95 7.16% 596 44.91% 1,327
Benton 3,105 66.49% 1,292 27.67% 273 5.85% 1,813 38.82% 4,670
Boone 1,411 66.56% 598 28.21% 111 5.24% 813 38.35% 2,120
Bradley 1,159 73.40% 314 19.89% 106 6.71% 845 53.51% 1,579
Calhoun 914 72.25% 275 21.74% 76 6.01% 639 50.51% 1,265
Carroll 1,512 56.71% 1,034 38.78% 120 4.50% 478 17.93% 2,666
Chicot 560 52.43% 472 44.19% 36 3.37% 88 8.24% 1,068
Clark 1,975 69.35% 824 28.93% 49 1.72% 1,151 40.41% 2,848
Clay 1,949 62.99% 972 31.42% 173 5.59% 977 31.58% 3,094
Cleburne 865 67.00% 271 20.99% 155 12.01% 594 46.01% 1,291
Cleveland 1,128 81.74% 230 16.67% 22 1.59% 898 65.07% 1,380
Columbia 2,074 73.44% 720 25.50% 30 1.06% 1,354 47.95% 2,824
Conway 1,400 55.69% 1,030 40.97% 84 3.34% 370 14.72% 2,514
Craighead 1,957 73.02% 543 20.26% 180 6.72% 1,414 52.76% 2,680
Crawford 1,622 55.53% 1,195 40.91% 104 3.56% 427 14.62% 2,921
Crittenden 562 84.89% 91 13.75% 9 1.36% 471 71.15% 662
Cross 927 73.98% 252 20.11% 74 5.91% 675 53.87% 1,253
Dallas 1,150 66.05% 524 30.10% 67 3.85% 626 35.96% 1,741
Desha 960 71.11% 369 27.33% 21 1.56% 591 43.78% 1,350
Drew 1,627 64.79% 836 33.29% 48 1.91% 791 31.50% 2,511
Faulkner 2,031 66.94% 817 26.93% 186 6.13% 1,214 40.01% 3,034
Franklin 1,679 69.35% 586 24.20% 156 6.44% 1,093 45.15% 2,421
Fulton 1,094 67.36% 388 23.89% 142 8.74% 706 43.47% 1,624
Garland 1,670 57.57% 1,055 36.37% 176 6.07% 615 21.20% 2,901
Grant 957 80.96% 188 15.91% 37 3.13% 769 65.06% 1,182
Greene 2,292 78.01% 529 18.01% 117 3.98% 1,763 60.01% 2,938
Hempstead 2,089 59.40% 1,225 34.83% 203 5.77% 864 24.57% 3,517
Hot Spring 1,429 66.56% 625 29.11% 93 4.33% 804 37.45% 2,147
Howard 1,316 67.66% 545 28.02% 84 4.32% 771 39.64% 1,945
Independence 1,987 68.35% 762 26.21% 158 5.44% 1,225 42.14% 2,907
Izard 1,267 79.74% 285 17.94% 37 2.33% 982 61.80% 1,589
Jackson 1,351 66.91% 473 23.43% 195 9.66% 878 43.49% 2,019
Jefferson 2,173 68.18% 921 28.90% 93 2.92% 1,252 39.28% 3,187
Johnson 1,479 65.91% 573 25.53% 192 8.56% 906 40.37% 2,244
Lafayette 891 69.77% 368 28.82% 18 1.41% 523 40.96% 1,277
Lawrence 1,706 81.05% 298 14.16% 101 4.80% 1,408 66.89% 2,105
Lee 848 70.02% 353 29.15% 10 0.83% 495 40.88% 1,211
Lincoln 887 65.70% 448 33.19% 15 1.11% 439 32.52% 1,350
Little River 843 65.50% 363 28.21% 81 6.29% 480 37.30% 1,287
Logan 2,015 59.88% 1,185 35.22% 165 4.90% 830 24.67% 3,365
Lonoke 2,178 77.87% 515 18.41% 104 3.72% 1,663 59.46% 2,797
Madison 1,456 50.38% 1,332 46.09% 102 3.53% 124 4.29% 2,890
Marion 781 63.34% 274 22.22% 178 14.44% 507 41.12% 1,233
Miller 1,418 73.36% 402 20.80% 113 5.85% 1,016 52.56% 1,933
Mississippi 1,249 68.89% 417 23.00% 147 8.11% 832 45.89% 1,813
Monroe 741 57.35% 508 39.32% 43 3.33% 233 18.03% 1,292
Montgomery 939 58.91% 432 27.10% 223 13.99% 507 31.81% 1,594
Nevada 1,376 63.62% 651 30.10% 136 6.29% 725 33.52% 2,163
Newton 550 41.23% 675 50.60% 109 8.17% -125 -9.37% 1,334
Ouachita 1,390 58.01% 970 40.48% 36 1.50% 420 17.53% 2,396
Perry 973 65.04% 435 29.08% 88 5.88% 538 35.96% 1,496
Phillips 1,466 71.90% 552 27.07% 21 1.03% 914 44.83% 2,039
Pike 1,178 64.16% 605 32.95% 53 2.89% 573 31.21% 1,836
Poinsett 1,174 67.90% 511 29.55% 44 2.54% 663 38.35% 1,729
Polk 1,242 66.03% 443 23.55% 196 10.42% 799 42.48% 1,881
Pope 2,145 70.37% 783 25.69% 120 3.94% 1,362 44.69% 3,048
Prairie 1,061 59.27% 654 36.54% 75 4.19% 407 22.74% 1,790
Pulaski 6,008 65.26% 2,593 28.17% 605 6.57% 3,415 37.10% 9,206
Randolph 1,553 74.66% 458 22.02% 69 3.32% 1,095 52.64% 2,080
St. Francis 960 67.56% 395 27.80% 66 4.64% 565 39.76% 1,421
Saline 1,567 81.11% 231 11.96% 134 6.94% 1,336 69.15% 1,932
Scott 1,365 68.15% 487 24.31% 151 7.54% 878 43.83% 2,003
Searcy 629 37.62% 919 54.96% 124 7.42% -290 -17.34% 1,672
Sebastian 3,719 68.14% 1,366 25.03% 373 6.83% 2,353 43.11% 5,458
Sevier 1,265 73.38% 240 13.92% 219 12.70% 1,025 59.45% 1,724
Sharp 972 73.58% 251 19.00% 98 7.42% 721 54.58% 1,321
Stone 682 64.40% 298 28.14% 79 7.46% 384 36.26% 1,059
Union 1,691 77.21% 273 12.47% 226 10.32% 1,418 64.75% 2,190
Van Buren 1,272 60.26% 742 35.15% 97 4.59% 530 25.11% 2,111
Washington 2,922 61.23% 1,625 34.05% 225 4.72% 1,297 27.18% 4,772
White 2,820 74.27% 673 17.72% 304 8.01% 2,147 56.54% 3,797
Woodruff 935 66.36% 438 31.09% 36 2.56% 497 35.27% 1,409
Yell 2,099 67.67% 782 25.21% 221 7.12% 1,317 42.46% 3,102
Totals 112,189 66.64% 47,153 28.01% 8,999 5.35% 65,036 38.63% 168,341

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ See Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger. Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71. p. 32. ISBN 1557282005.
  2. ^ Reed, Roy. Faubus: the Life and Times of American Prodigal. p. 32. ISBN 1610751485.
  3. ^ Green, James R. Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943. pp. 316–318. ISBN 0807107735.
  4. ^ Reed. Faubus, p. 33
  5. ^ Moneyhon, Carl H. Arkansas and the New South: 1874-1929. p. 121. ISBN 1610750284.
  6. ^ Moneyhon. Arkansas and the New South, p. 122
  7. ^ Whayne, Jeannie M.; DeBlack, Thomas A.; Sabo, George; Arnold, Morris S. Arkansas: A Narrative History. p. 302. ISBN 155728993X.
  8. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene. The Presidential Vote 1896-1932. pp. 139–145. ISBN 9780804716963.