Republican nominee and Supreme Court justice
Charles Evans Hughes carried
Delaware with 50.20% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee and incumbent president
Woodrow Wilson, who won 47.78% of the vote. This election marks one of three times in the 20th century that the state voted for the losing candidate, along with
1932 and
1948.
Wilson was the first Democrat to win the presidency without Delaware since
James K. Polk in 1844, and Hughes the first Republican to ever carry Delaware without winning the presidency.
Results
1916 United States presidential election in Delaware[1]