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1916 United States presidential election in Georgia
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Nominee Woodrow Wilson No candidate Charles Evans Hughes
Party Democratic Progressive Republican
Home state New Jersey N/A New York
Running mate Thomas R. Marshall John M. Parker Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral vote 14 0 0
Popular vote 127,754 20,692 11,294
Percentage 79.51% 12.88% 7.03%
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The 1916 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties, [1] and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club. [2]

Results

1916 United States presidential election in Georgia [3]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) 127,754 79.51% 14
Progressive No candidate 20,692 12.88% 0
Republican Charles E. Hughes 11,294 7.03% 0
Socialist Allan Benson 941 [a] 0.59% 0

Results by county

County Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic 		Charles Evans Hughes
Republican 		No candidate
Progressive 		Margin [b] Total votes cast [4]
# % # % # % # %
Appling 413 71.95% 44 7.67% 117 20.38% 296 51.57% 574
Bacon 287 86.19% 46 13.81% 0 0.00% 241 [c] 72.37% 333
Baker 435 82.23% 0 0.00% 94 17.77% 341 64.46% 529
Baldwin 579 84.40% 65 9.48% 42 6.12% 514 [c] 74.93% 686
Banks 989 80.21% 126 10.22% 118 9.57% 863 [c] 69.99% 1,233
Barrow 712 74.01% 148 15.38% 102 10.60% 564 [c] 58.63% 962
Bartow 1,325 76.02% 92 5.28% 326 18.70% 999 57.31% 1,743
Ben Hill 627 81.53% 8 1.04% 134 17.43% 493 64.11% 769
Berrien 2,102 96.29% 32 1.47% 49 2.24% 2,053 94.04% 2,183
Bibb 2,048 88.77% 201 8.71% 58 2.51% 1,847 [c] 80.06% 2,307
Bleckley 362 94.76% 6 1.57% 14 3.66% 348 91.10% 382
Brooks 969 88.33% 103 9.39% 25 2.28% 866 [c] 78.94% 1,097
Bryan 295 91.90% 17 5.30% 9 2.80% 278 [c] 86.60% 321
Bulloch 1,410 92.40% 29 1.90% 87 5.70% 1,323 86.70% 1,526
Burke 673 95.33% 19 2.69% 14 1.98% 654 [c] 92.63% 706
Butts 595 88.28% 52 7.72% 27 4.01% 543 [c] 80.56% 674
Calhoun 265 96.01% 9 3.26% 2 0.72% 256 [c] 92.75% 276
Camden 251 96.91% 4 1.54% 4 1.54% 247 [c] 95.37% 259
Campbell 508 78.03% 77 11.83% 66 10.14% 431 [c] 66.21% 651
Candler 442 94.04% 0 0.00% 28 5.96% 414 88.09% 470
Carroll 1,621 75.33% 118 5.48% 413 19.19% 1,208 56.13% 2,152
Catoosa 624 72.06% 32 3.70% 210 24.25% 414 47.81% 866
Charlton 169 72.84% 52 22.41% 11 4.74% 117 [c] 50.43% 232
Chatham 3,797 79.42% 368 7.70% 616 12.88% 3,181 66.53% 4,781
Chattahoochee 156 94.55% 5 3.03% 4 2.42% 151 [c] 91.52% 165
Chattooga 1,006 79.46% 20 1.58% 240 18.96% 766 60.51% 1,266
Cherokee 855 53.17% 292 18.16% 461 28.67% 394 24.50% 1,608
Clarke 1,036 87.80% 113 9.58% 31 2.63% 923 [c] 78.22% 1,180
Clay 225 92.21% 9 3.69% 10 4.10% 215 88.11% 244
Clayton 517 86.89% 3 0.50% 75 12.61% 442 74.29% 595
Clinch 374 85.98% 53 12.18% 8 1.84% 321 [c] 73.79% 435
Cobb 1,750 75.40% 137 5.90% 434 18.70% 1,316 56.70% 2,321
Coffee 2,091 93.35% 120 5.36% 29 1.29% 1,971 [c] 87.99% 2,240
Colquitt 1,305 85.35% 53 3.47% 171 11.18% 1,134 74.17% 1,529
Columbia 521 95.60% 6 1.10% 18 3.30% 503 92.29% 545
Coweta 1,179 91.40% 85 6.59% 26 2.02% 1,094 [c] 84.81% 1,290
Crawford 411 98.56% 2 0.48% 4 0.96% 407 97.60% 417
Crisp 577 84.73% 4 0.59% 100 14.68% 477 70.04% 681
Dade 616 88.89% 25 3.61% 52 7.50% 564 81.39% 693
Dawson 440 59.30% 273 36.79% 29 3.91% 167 [c] 22.51% 742
Decatur 1,147 88.37% 35 2.70% 116 8.94% 1,031 79.43% 1,298
DeKalb 1,690 88.99% 12 0.63% 197 10.37% 1,493 78.62% 1,899
Dodge 788 88.84% 64 7.22% 35 3.95% 724 [c] 81.62% 887
Dooly 737 95.96% 0 0.00% 31 4.04% 706 91.93% 768
Dougherty 836 93.93% 37 4.16% 17 1.91% 799 [c] 89.78% 890
Douglas 416 74.95% 61 10.99% 78 14.05% 338 60.90% 555
Early 442 97.14% 4 0.88% 9 1.98% 433 95.16% 455
Echols 173 100.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 173 100.00% 173
Effingham 450 86.21% 8 1.53% 64 12.26% 386 73.95% 522
Elbert 1,756 90.56% 0 0.00% 183 9.44% 1,573 81.12% 1,939
Emanuel 1,500 83.61% 28 1.56% 266 14.83% 1,234 68.78% 1,794
Evans 334 78.40% 34 7.98% 58 13.62% 276 64.79% 426
Fannin 720 39.58% 166 9.13% 933 51.29% -213 -11.71% 1,819
Fayette 494 83.87% 25 4.24% 70 11.88% 424 71.99% 589
Floyd 2,137 83.05% 50 1.94% 386 15.00% 1,751 68.05% 2,573
Forsyth 1,146 74.03% 166 10.72% 236 15.25% 910 58.79% 1,548
Franklin 1,540 86.03% 44 2.46% 206 11.51% 1,334 74.53% 1,790
Fulton 8,945 79.19% 1,311 11.61% 1,040 9.21% 7,634 [c] 67.58% 11,296
Gilmer 742 47.56% 258 16.54% 560 35.90% 182 11.67% 1,560
Glascock 126 43.45% 8 2.76% 156 53.79% -30 -10.34% 290
Glynn 477 85.48% 45 8.06% 36 6.45% 432 [c] 77.42% 558
Gordon 1,010 70.04% 190 13.18% 242 16.78% 768 53.26% 1,442
Grady 675 84.59% 39 4.89% 84 10.53% 591 74.06% 798
Greene 676 76.64% 53 6.01% 153 17.35% 523 59.30% 882
Gwinnett 1,528 75.64% 222 10.99% 270 13.37% 1,258 62.28% 2,020
Habersham 1,032 69.45% 48 3.23% 406 27.32% 626 42.13% 1,486
Hall 1,662 76.59% 141 6.50% 367 16.91% 1,295 59.68% 2,170
Hancock 562 91.53% 30 4.89% 22 3.58% 532 [c] 86.64% 614
Haralson 837 47.75% 137 7.82% 779 44.44% 58 3.31% 1,753
Harris 550 91.06% 23 3.81% 31 5.13% 519 85.93% 604
Hart 750 74.33% 22 2.18% 237 23.49% 513 50.84% 1,009
Heard 439 85.74% 11 2.15% 62 12.11% 377 73.63% 512
Henry 868 83.86% 78 7.54% 89 8.60% 779 75.27% 1,035
Houston 806 92.64% 52 5.98% 12 1.38% 754 [c] 86.67% 870
Irwin 503 90.14% 31 5.56% 24 4.30% 472 [c] 84.59% 558
Jackson 1,185 87.26% 71 5.23% 102 7.51% 1,083 79.75% 1,358
Jasper 537 96.41% 14 2.51% 6 1.08% 523 [c] 93.90% 557
Jeff Davis 299 81.03% 14 3.79% 56 15.18% 243 65.85% 369
Jefferson 588 73.87% 63 7.91% 145 18.22% 443 55.65% 796
Jenkins 402 93.71% 7 1.63% 20 4.66% 382 89.04% 429
Johnson 715 80.79% 20 2.26% 150 16.95% 565 63.84% 885
Jones 398 92.34% 27 6.26% 6 1.39% 371 [c] 86.08% 431
Laurens 1,269 85.98% 64 4.34% 143 9.69% 1,126 76.29% 1,476
Lee 316 97.83% 3 0.93% 4 1.24% 312 96.59% 323
Liberty 245 65.51% 26 6.95% 103 27.54% 142 37.97% 374
Lincoln 333 84.52% 5 1.27% 56 14.21% 277 70.30% 394
Lowndes 1,870 92.67% 60 2.97% 88 4.36% 1,782 88.31% 2,018
Lumpkin 455 66.81% 55 8.08% 171 25.11% 284 41.70% 681
Macon 440 78.85% 21 3.76% 97 17.38% 343 61.47% 558
Madison 1,241 86.12% 19 1.32% 181 12.56% 1,060 73.56% 1,441
Marion 330 70.51% 42 8.97% 96 20.51% 234 50.00% 468
McDuffie 466 77.54% 70 11.65% 65 10.82% 396 [c] 65.89% 601
McIntosh 114 82.61% 20 14.49% 4 2.90% 94 [c] 68.12% 138
Meriwether 1,118 89.44% 36 2.88% 96 7.68% 1,022 81.76% 1,250
Miller 464 95.47% 15 3.09% 7 1.44% 449 [c] 92.39% 486
Milton 462 81.77% 11 1.95% 92 16.28% 370 65.49% 565
Mitchell 921 87.05% 41 3.88% 96 9.07% 825 77.98% 1,058
Monroe 721 86.04% 52 6.21% 65 7.76% 656 78.28% 838
Montgomery 1,002 92.01% 21 1.93% 66 6.06% 936 85.95% 1,089
Morgan 643 84.61% 59 7.76% 58 7.63% 584 [c] 76.84% 760
Murray 1,162 72.67% 301 18.82% 136 8.51% 861 [c] 53.85% 1,599
Muscogee 1,833 92.25% 110 5.54% 44 2.21% 1,723 [c] 86.71% 1,987
Newton 943 86.99% 102 9.41% 39 3.60% 841 [c] 77.58% 1,084
Oconee 497 74.96% 0 0.00% 166 25.04% 331 49.92% 663
Oglethorpe 657 91.63% 18 2.51% 42 5.86% 615 85.77% 717
Paulding 670 45.80% 10 0.68% 783 53.52% -113 -7.72% 1,463
Pickens 497 39.41% 420 33.31% 344 27.28% 77 [c] 6.11% 1,261
Pierce 489 81.64% 85 14.19% 25 4.17% 404 [c] 67.45% 599
Pike 766 81.75% 65 6.94% 106 11.31% 660 70.44% 937
Polk 1,172 62.18% 0 0.00% 713 37.82% 459 24.35% 1,885
Pulaski 383 91.41% 13 3.10% 23 5.49% 360 85.92% 419
Putnam 462 98.30% 8 1.70% 0 0.00% 454 [c] 96.60% 470
Quitman 125 88.03% 2 1.41% 15 10.56% 110 77.46% 142
Rabun 633 70.26% 87 9.66% 181 20.09% 452 50.17% 901
Randolph 645 90.72% 43 6.05% 23 3.23% 602 [c] 84.67% 711
Richmond 2,708 78.04% 238 6.86% 524 15.10% 2,184 62.94% 3,470
Rockdale 490 79.16% 73 11.79% 56 9.05% 417 [c] 67.37% 619
Schley 222 85.71% 2 0.77% 35 13.51% 187 72.20% 259
Screven 625 82.35% 36 4.74% 98 12.91% 527 69.43% 759
Spalding 835 81.23% 41 3.99% 152 14.79% 683 66.44% 1,028
Stephens 500 86.96% 15 2.61% 60 10.43% 440 76.52% 575
Stewart 474 92.76% 23 4.50% 14 2.74% 451 [c] 88.26% 511
Sumter 1,065 93.18% 38 3.32% 40 3.50% 1,025 89.68% 1,143
Talbot 511 94.28% 17 3.14% 14 2.58% 494 [c] 91.14% 542
Taliaferro 255 92.39% 7 2.54% 14 5.07% 241 87.32% 276
Tattnall 574 69.74% 49 5.95% 200 24.30% 374 45.44% 823
Taylor 405 70.43% 57 9.91% 113 19.65% 292 50.78% 575
Telfair 773 93.47% 25 3.02% 29 3.51% 744 89.96% 827
Terrell 677 92.74% 40 5.48% 13 1.78% 637 [c] 87.26% 730
Thomas 1,298 85.79% 42 2.78% 173 11.43% 1,125 74.36% 1,513
Tift 1,034 82.79% 42 3.36% 173 13.85% 861 68.94% 1,249
Toombs 425 78.13% 33 6.07% 86 15.81% 339 62.32% 544
Towns 358 42.37% 481 56.92% 6 0.71% -123 [c] -14.56% 845
Troup 1,227 81.53% 38 2.52% 240 15.95% 987 65.58% 1,505
Turner 400 55.79% 145 20.22% 172 23.99% 228 31.80% 717
Twiggs 365 91.25% 20 5.00% 15 3.75% 345 [c] 86.25% 400
Union 532 50.43% 523 49.57% 0 0.00% 9 [c] 0.85% 1,055
Upson 734 72.60% 18 1.78% 259 25.62% 475 46.98% 1,011
Walker 1,883 71.82% 439 16.74% 300 11.44% 1,444 [c] 55.07% 2,622
Walton 1,305 88.24% 83 5.61% 91 6.15% 1,214 82.08% 1,479
Ware 1,066 84.74% 133 10.57% 59 4.69% 933 [c] 74.17% 1,258
Warren 292 68.22% 47 10.98% 89 20.79% 203 47.43% 428
Washington 954 84.57% 18 1.60% 156 13.83% 798 70.74% 1,128
Wayne 460 89.49% 29 5.64% 25 4.86% 431 [c] 83.85% 514
Webster 248 87.63% 20 7.07% 15 5.30% 228 [c] 80.57% 283
Wheeler 372 83.97% 31 7.00% 40 9.03% 332 74.94% 443
White 639 75.62% 6 0.71% 200 23.67% 439 51.95% 845
Whitfield 1,093 60.19% 16 0.88% 707 38.93% 386 21.26% 1,816
Wilcox 590 89.39% 12 1.82% 58 8.79% 532 80.61% 660
Wilkes 785 91.92% 17 1.99% 52 6.09% 733 85.83% 854
Wilkinson 371 88.54% 28 6.68% 20 4.77% 343 [c] 81.86% 419
Worth 690 87.45% 31 3.93% 68 8.62% 622 78.83% 789
Totals 127,754 79.51% 11,294 7.03% 20,692 12.88% 107,062 66.63% 160,681

Notes

  1. ^ These Socialist votes were not separated by county and only given as a statewide total. They are included in the totals at the bottom of the county table.
  2. ^ Because the Progressive slate finished second behind Wilson in Georgia as a whole, all margins given are Wilson vote minus Progressive vote and percentage margins Wilson percentage minus Progressive percentage unless stated otherwise for the county in question.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay In this county where the “Progressive” slate did run third behind Wilson and Hughes, margin given is Wilson vote minus Hughes vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Hughes percentage.

References

  1. ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 ISBN  9780691163246
  2. ^ Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155 ISBN  022611435X
  3. ^ Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; 1916 Presidential General Election Results – Georgia
  4. ^ "Popular Vote at The Presidential Election of 1916". Géoelections.
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