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The1916 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the1916 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Iowa was won byRepublican nominee,U.S. Supreme Court JusticeCharles Evans Hughes ofNew York, and his running mateSenatorCharles W. Fairbanks ofIndiana. They defeatedDemocratic nominees, incumbent DemocraticPresidentWoodrow Wilson andVice PresidentThomas R. Marshall.
Hughes won the state by a margin of 11.36%.
With 54.25% of the vote, Iowa would prove to be Hughes' fourth strongest state in terms of popular votes percentage afterVermont,New Jersey andPennsylvania.[1]
This election was one of only three elections in the state's history that it voted against the winning incumbent as Woodrow Wilson was the first presidential incumbent to secure a second consecutive term in office without carrying the state untilFDR in1940 who lost it in his third and then fourth presidential victory in1944. They are currently the only Presidents in history to have carried the state upon winning the White House and lost it upon winning re-election.
Wilson was the first president to win without Keokuk county sinceJames Buchanan in1856.
| 1916 United States presidential election in Iowa[2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | Charles Evans Hughes ofNew York | Charles Warren Fairbanks ofIndiana | 280,439 | 54.25% | 13 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson ofNew Jersey | Thomas Riley Marshall ofIndiana | 221,699 | 42.89% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Allan Louis Benson ofNew York | George Ross Kirkpatrick ofNew Jersey | 10,976 | 2.12% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | James Franklin Hanly ofIndiana | Ira Landrith ofTennessee | 3,371 | 0.65% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist Labor | Arthur E. Reimer ofMassachusetts | Caleb Harrison ofIllinois | 459 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 516,944 | 100.00% | 13 | 100.00% | ||||
| County[3] | Charles Evans Hughes Republican | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic | Allan Louis Benson Socialist | James Franklin Hanly Prohibition | Arthur Elmer Reimer Socialist Labor | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 1,922 | 53.87% | 1,619 | 45.38% | 17 | 0.48% | 10 | 0.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 303 | 8.49% | 3,568 |
| Adams | 1,401 | 50.20% | 1,365 | 48.91% | 16 | 0.57% | 9 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 36 | 1.29% | 2,791 |
| Allamakee | 2,411 | 57.97% | 1,714 | 41.21% | 24 | 0.58% | 8 | 0.19% | 2 | 0.05% | 697 | 16.76% | 4,159 |
| Appanoose | 3,327 | 52.43% | 2,510 | 39.55% | 461 | 7.26% | 32 | 0.50% | 16 | 0.25% | 817 | 12.87% | 6,346 |
| Audubon | 1,581 | 55.61% | 1,247 | 43.86% | 7 | 0.25% | 6 | 0.21% | 2 | 0.07% | 334 | 11.75% | 2,843 |
| Benton | 3,189 | 54.16% | 2,556 | 43.41% | 106 | 1.80% | 29 | 0.49% | 8 | 0.14% | 633 | 10.75% | 5,888 |
| Black Hawk | 6,742 | 59.34% | 4,270 | 37.58% | 247 | 2.17% | 79 | 0.70% | 23 | 0.20% | 2,472 | 21.76% | 11,361 |
| Boone | 2,955 | 52.41% | 2,338 | 41.47% | 256 | 4.54% | 70 | 1.24% | 19 | 0.34% | 617 | 10.94% | 5,638 |
| Bremer | 2,684 | 69.77% | 1,132 | 29.43% | 19 | 0.49% | 11 | 0.29% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,552 | 40.34% | 3,847 |
| Buchanan | 3,000 | 61.79% | 1,808 | 37.24% | 23 | 0.47% | 24 | 0.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,192 | 24.55% | 4,855 |
| Buena Vista | 2,045 | 57.38% | 1,454 | 40.80% | 48 | 1.35% | 17 | 0.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 591 | 16.58% | 3,564 |
| Butler | 2,722 | 72.45% | 977 | 26.00% | 40 | 1.06% | 18 | 0.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,745 | 46.45% | 3,757 |
| Calhoun | 2,276 | 58.34% | 1,515 | 38.84% | 66 | 1.69% | 42 | 1.08% | 2 | 0.05% | 761 | 19.51% | 3,901 |
| Carroll | 2,408 | 53.10% | 2,085 | 45.98% | 18 | 0.40% | 22 | 0.49% | 2 | 0.04% | 323 | 7.12% | 4,535 |
| Cass | 2,763 | 59.75% | 1,801 | 38.95% | 51 | 1.10% | 8 | 0.17% | 1 | 0.02% | 962 | 20.80% | 4,624 |
| Cedar | 2,862 | 63.56% | 1,595 | 35.42% | 30 | 0.67% | 14 | 0.31% | 2 | 0.04% | 1,267 | 28.14% | 4,503 |
| Cerro Gordo | 3,556 | 59.28% | 2,289 | 38.16% | 105 | 1.75% | 49 | 0.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,267 | 21.12% | 5,999 |
| Cherokee | 1,578 | 48.26% | 1,646 | 50.34% | 22 | 0.67% | 24 | 0.73% | 0 | 0.00% | -68 | -2.08% | 3,270 |
| Chickasaw | 1,999 | 53.61% | 1,697 | 45.51% | 20 | 0.54% | 13 | 0.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 302 | 8.10% | 3,729 |
| Clarke | 1,507 | 55.10% | 1,175 | 42.96% | 19 | 0.69% | 33 | 1.21% | 1 | 0.04% | 332 | 12.14% | 2,735 |
| Clay | 1,649 | 55.41% | 1,234 | 41.47% | 75 | 2.52% | 17 | 0.57% | 1 | 0.03% | 415 | 13.94% | 2,976 |
| Clayton | 3,347 | 57.54% | 2,379 | 40.90% | 72 | 1.24% | 17 | 0.29% | 2 | 0.03% | 968 | 16.64% | 5,817 |
| Clinton | 5,576 | 56.61% | 3,903 | 39.62% | 291 | 2.95% | 69 | 0.70% | 11 | 0.11% | 1,673 | 16.98% | 9,850 |
| Crawford | 2,756 | 58.27% | 1,919 | 40.57% | 44 | 0.93% | 11 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 837 | 17.70% | 4,730 |
| Dallas | 2,900 | 52.37% | 2,495 | 45.05% | 95 | 1.72% | 40 | 0.72% | 8 | 0.14% | 405 | 7.31% | 5,538 |
| Davis | 1,476 | 44.14% | 1,811 | 54.16% | 39 | 1.17% | 18 | 0.54% | 0 | 0.00% | -335 | -10.02% | 3,344 |
| Decatur | 1,962 | 47.45% | 2,111 | 51.05% | 36 | 0.87% | 24 | 0.58% | 2 | 0.05% | -149 | -3.60% | 4,135 |
| Delaware | 2,827 | 66.78% | 1,332 | 31.47% | 49 | 1.16% | 22 | 0.52% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,495 | 35.32% | 4,233 |
| Des Moines | 4,132 | 49.51% | 3,827 | 45.86% | 292 | 3.50% | 73 | 0.87% | 21 | 0.25% | 305 | 3.65% | 8,345 |
| Dickinson | 1,249 | 57.24% | 893 | 40.93% | 35 | 1.60% | 5 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 356 | 16.32% | 2,182 |
| Dubuque | 5,772 | 47.22% | 6,063 | 49.60% | 372 | 3.04% | 11 | 0.09% | 5 | 0.04% | -291 | -2.38% | 12,223 |
| Emmet | 1,409 | 62.37% | 809 | 35.81% | 34 | 1.51% | 7 | 0.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 600 | 26.56% | 2,259 |
| Fayette | 3,872 | 60.81% | 2,311 | 36.30% | 140 | 2.20% | 39 | 0.61% | 5 | 0.08% | 1,561 | 24.52% | 6,367 |
| Floyd | 2,691 | 66.10% | 1,250 | 30.70% | 99 | 2.43% | 25 | 0.61% | 6 | 0.15% | 1,441 | 35.40% | 4,071 |
| Franklin | 2,464 | 77.24% | 691 | 21.66% | 22 | 0.69% | 11 | 0.34% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,773 | 55.58% | 3,190 |
| Fremont | 1,732 | 44.38% | 2,085 | 53.42% | 45 | 1.15% | 35 | 0.90% | 6 | 0.15% | -353 | -9.04% | 3,903 |
| Greene | 2,345 | 60.85% | 1,455 | 37.75% | 8 | 0.21% | 41 | 1.06% | 5 | 0.13% | 890 | 23.09% | 3,854 |
| Grundy | 2,127 | 67.23% | 1,015 | 32.08% | 14 | 0.44% | 6 | 0.19% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,112 | 35.15% | 3,164 |
| Guthrie | 2,316 | 55.30% | 1,805 | 43.10% | 37 | 0.88% | 28 | 0.67% | 2 | 0.05% | 511 | 12.20% | 4,188 |
| Hamilton | 3,037 | 70.94% | 1,125 | 26.28% | 78 | 1.82% | 39 | 0.91% | 2 | 0.05% | 1,912 | 44.66% | 4,281 |
| Hancock | 1,726 | 64.43% | 913 | 34.08% | 24 | 0.90% | 15 | 0.56% | 1 | 0.04% | 813 | 30.35% | 2,679 |
| Hardin | 3,335 | 67.72% | 1,481 | 30.07% | 46 | 0.93% | 56 | 1.14% | 7 | 0.14% | 1,854 | 37.64% | 4,925 |
| Harrison | 2,610 | 45.88% | 2,932 | 51.54% | 96 | 1.69% | 49 | 0.86% | 2 | 0.04% | -322 | -5.66% | 5,689 |
| Henry | 2,470 | 57.99% | 1,728 | 40.57% | 24 | 0.56% | 31 | 0.73% | 6 | 0.14% | 742 | 17.42% | 4,259 |
| Howard | 1,562 | 48.86% | 1,560 | 48.80% | 34 | 1.06% | 38 | 1.19% | 3 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.06% | 3,197 |
| Humboldt | 1,676 | 66.69% | 809 | 32.19% | 20 | 0.80% | 8 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 867 | 34.50% | 2,513 |
| Ida | 1,412 | 51.12% | 1,244 | 45.04% | 92 | 3.33% | 14 | 0.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 168 | 6.08% | 2,762 |
| Iowa | 2,484 | 57.90% | 1,763 | 41.10% | 18 | 0.42% | 23 | 0.54% | 2 | 0.05% | 721 | 16.81% | 4,290 |
| Jackson | 2,533 | 52.63% | 2,186 | 45.42% | 66 | 1.37% | 22 | 0.46% | 6 | 0.12% | 347 | 7.21% | 4,813 |
| Jasper | 3,092 | 47.08% | 3,282 | 49.97% | 141 | 2.15% | 48 | 0.73% | 5 | 0.08% | -190 | -2.89% | 6,568 |
| Jefferson | 2,167 | 54.61% | 1,734 | 43.70% | 29 | 0.73% | 37 | 0.93% | 1 | 0.03% | 433 | 10.91% | 3,968 |
| Johnson | 2,704 | 42.23% | 3,650 | 57.00% | 32 | 0.50% | 15 | 0.23% | 2 | 0.03% | -946 | -14.77% | 6,403 |
| Jones | 2,848 | 58.62% | 1,966 | 40.47% | 26 | 0.54% | 18 | 0.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 882 | 18.16% | 4,858 |
| Keokuk | 2,822 | 52.18% | 2,486 | 45.97% | 51 | 0.94% | 48 | 0.89% | 1 | 0.02% | 336 | 6.21% | 5,408 |
| Kossuth | 2,647 | 59.63% | 1,748 | 39.38% | 26 | 0.59% | 16 | 0.36% | 2 | 0.05% | 899 | 20.25% | 4,439 |
| Lee | 4,395 | 51.18% | 3,993 | 46.50% | 139 | 1.62% | 49 | 0.57% | 11 | 0.13% | 402 | 4.68% | 8,587 |
| Linn | 8,212 | 55.67% | 6,131 | 41.56% | 278 | 1.88% | 119 | 0.81% | 11 | 0.07% | 2,081 | 14.11% | 14,751 |
| Louisa | 1,876 | 62.26% | 1,081 | 35.88% | 37 | 1.23% | 16 | 0.53% | 3 | 0.10% | 795 | 26.39% | 3,013 |
| Lucas | 1,672 | 47.91% | 1,536 | 44.01% | 234 | 6.70% | 40 | 1.15% | 8 | 0.23% | 136 | 3.90% | 3,490 |
| Lyon | 1,760 | 59.78% | 1,137 | 38.62% | 46 | 1.56% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 623 | 21.16% | 2,944 |
| Madison | 1,871 | 51.26% | 1,711 | 46.88% | 25 | 0.68% | 39 | 1.07% | 4 | 0.11% | 160 | 4.38% | 3,650 |
| Mahaska | 3,143 | 48.14% | 3,151 | 48.26% | 98 | 1.50% | 133 | 2.04% | 4 | 0.06% | -8 | -0.12% | 6,529 |
| Marion | 2,459 | 42.90% | 3,094 | 53.98% | 145 | 2.53% | 31 | 0.54% | 3 | 0.05% | -635 | -11.08% | 5,732 |
| Marshall | 4,172 | 60.32% | 2,414 | 34.90% | 224 | 3.24% | 101 | 1.46% | 5 | 0.07% | 1,758 | 25.42% | 6,916 |
| Mills | 1,707 | 50.58% | 1,600 | 47.41% | 38 | 1.13% | 27 | 0.80% | 3 | 0.09% | 107 | 3.17% | 3,375 |
| Mitchell | 1,963 | 64.38% | 1,033 | 33.88% | 37 | 1.21% | 16 | 0.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 930 | 30.50% | 3,049 |
| Monona | 1,777 | 47.87% | 1,910 | 51.45% | 25 | 0.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -133 | -3.58% | 3,712 |
| Monroe | 2,144 | 45.15% | 2,095 | 44.11% | 451 | 9.50% | 47 | 0.99% | 12 | 0.25% | 49 | 1.03% | 4,749 |
| Montgomery | 2,333 | 60.33% | 1,431 | 37.01% | 82 | 2.12% | 18 | 0.47% | 3 | 0.08% | 902 | 23.33% | 3,867 |
| Muscatine | 3,929 | 54.25% | 2,694 | 37.20% | 573 | 7.91% | 34 | 0.47% | 12 | 0.17% | 1,235 | 17.05% | 7,242 |
| O'Brien | 2,021 | 52.53% | 1,787 | 46.45% | 29 | 0.75% | 10 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 234 | 6.08% | 3,847 |
| Osceola | 1,258 | 58.05% | 874 | 40.33% | 28 | 1.29% | 7 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 384 | 17.72% | 2,167 |
| Page | 2,993 | 60.87% | 1,747 | 35.53% | 106 | 2.16% | 68 | 1.38% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,246 | 25.34% | 4,917 |
| Palo Alto | 1,594 | 48.49% | 1,630 | 49.59% | 40 | 1.22% | 22 | 0.67% | 1 | 0.03% | -36 | -1.10% | 3,287 |
| Plymouth | 2,666 | 53.14% | 2,258 | 45.01% | 30 | 0.60% | 62 | 1.24% | 1 | 0.02% | 408 | 8.13% | 5,017 |
| Pocahontas | 1,808 | 51.29% | 1,658 | 47.04% | 37 | 1.05% | 18 | 0.51% | 4 | 0.11% | 150 | 4.26% | 3,525 |
| Polk | 11,295 | 45.81% | 12,327 | 50.00% | 764 | 3.10% | 211 | 0.86% | 59 | 0.24% | -1,032 | -4.19% | 24,656 |
| Pottawattamie | 5,992 | 47.83% | 6,263 | 49.99% | 187 | 1.49% | 78 | 0.62% | 9 | 0.07% | -271 | -2.16% | 12,529 |
| Poweshiek | 2,748 | 57.39% | 1,880 | 39.26% | 99 | 2.07% | 61 | 1.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 868 | 18.13% | 4,788 |
| Ringgold | 1,733 | 55.46% | 1,351 | 43.23% | 25 | 0.80% | 15 | 0.48% | 1 | 0.03% | 382 | 12.22% | 3,125 |
| Sac | 2,057 | 55.03% | 1,629 | 43.58% | 35 | 0.94% | 16 | 0.43% | 1 | 0.03% | 428 | 11.45% | 3,738 |
| Scott | 8,329 | 56.39% | 5,212 | 35.29% | 1,143 | 7.74% | 40 | 0.27% | 46 | 0.31% | 3,117 | 21.10% | 14,770 |
| Shelby | 1,898 | 47.50% | 2,060 | 51.55% | 25 | 0.63% | 12 | 0.30% | 1 | 0.03% | -162 | -4.05% | 3,996 |
| Sioux | 2,261 | 51.89% | 2,049 | 47.03% | 37 | 0.85% | 7 | 0.16% | 3 | 0.07% | 212 | 4.87% | 4,357 |
| Story | 3,722 | 66.18% | 1,772 | 31.51% | 49 | 0.87% | 76 | 1.35% | 5 | 0.09% | 1,950 | 34.67% | 5,624 |
| Tama | 3,061 | 53.37% | 2,572 | 44.85% | 57 | 0.99% | 40 | 0.70% | 5 | 0.09% | 489 | 8.53% | 5,735 |
| Taylor | 2,219 | 54.70% | 1,775 | 43.75% | 44 | 1.08% | 18 | 0.44% | 1 | 0.02% | 444 | 10.94% | 4,057 |
| Union | 2,050 | 49.95% | 1,985 | 48.37% | 30 | 0.73% | 37 | 0.90% | 2 | 0.05% | 65 | 1.58% | 4,104 |
| Van Buren | 1,994 | 52.52% | 1,735 | 45.69% | 32 | 0.84% | 32 | 0.84% | 4 | 0.11% | 259 | 6.82% | 3,797 |
| Wapello | 4,398 | 47.65% | 3,994 | 43.28% | 786 | 8.52% | 41 | 0.44% | 10 | 0.11% | 404 | 4.38% | 9,229 |
| Warren | 2,182 | 52.21% | 1,910 | 45.70% | 30 | 0.72% | 55 | 1.32% | 2 | 0.05% | 272 | 6.51% | 4,179 |
| Washington | 2,745 | 55.31% | 2,139 | 43.10% | 34 | 0.69% | 44 | 0.89% | 1 | 0.02% | 606 | 12.21% | 4,963 |
| Wayne | 1,936 | 48.68% | 1,935 | 48.65% | 71 | 1.79% | 32 | 0.80% | 3 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.03% | 3,977 |
| Webster | 3,917 | 53.50% | 3,196 | 43.66% | 151 | 2.06% | 52 | 0.71% | 5 | 0.07% | 721 | 9.85% | 7,321 |
| Winnebago | 1,713 | 72.92% | 584 | 24.86% | 23 | 0.98% | 29 | 1.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,129 | 48.06% | 2,349 |
| Winneshiek | 2,876 | 57.87% | 1,956 | 39.36% | 121 | 2.43% | 15 | 0.30% | 2 | 0.04% | 920 | 18.51% | 4,970 |
| Woodbury | 5,735 | 38.61% | 8,819 | 59.38% | 212 | 1.43% | 79 | 0.53% | 8 | 0.05% | -3,084 | -20.76% | 14,853 |
| Worth | 1,463 | 70.44% | 566 | 27.25% | 34 | 1.64% | 12 | 0.58% | 2 | 0.10% | 897 | 43.19% | 2,077 |
| Wright | 2,599 | 68.22% | 1,135 | 29.79% | 65 | 1.71% | 11 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,464 | 38.43% | 3,810 |
| Soldier's Vote | 1,108 | 49.44% | 1,102 | 49.17% | 23 | 1.03% | 6 | 0.27% | 2 | 0.09% | 6 | 0.27% | 2,241 |
| Totals | 280,439 | 54.25% | 221,699 | 42.89% | 10,976 | 2.12% | 3,371 | 0.65% | 459 | 0.09% | 58,740 | 11.36% | 516,944 |
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