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The1916 United States presidential election in Missouri was held on November 7, 1916 as part of the1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Missouri was won byincumbent President,Woodrow Wilson (D–New Jersey), running with Vice PresidentThomas R. Marshall, with 50.59% of the popular vote, againstSupreme Court JusticeCharles Evans Hughes (R–New York), running with former vice presidentCharles W. Fairbanks, with 46.94% of the popular vote.[1] Had Hughes carried the state of Missouri, he would have had 272 electoral votes, enough to win the presidency.
This election was the first in which Missouri voted more Republican thanKansas since the latter's statehood. This would not recur until2020.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) | 398,032 | 50.59% | |
| Republican | Charles Evans Hughes | 369,339 | 46.94% | |
| Socialist | Allan L. Benson | 14,612 | 1.86% | |
| Prohibition | James Hanly | 3,884 | 0.49% | |
| Socialist Labor | Arthur E. Reimer | 902 | 0.11% | |
| Total votes | 786,769 | 100% | ||
| 1916 United States presidential election in Missouri by county[2] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic | Charles Evans Hughes Republican | Allan Louis Benson Socialist | James Franklin Hanly Prohibition | Arthur Elmer Reimer Socialist Labor | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 2,275 | 43.36% | 2,681 | 51.10% | 244 | 4.65% | 38 | 0.72% | 9 | 0.17% | -406 | -7.74% | 5,247 |
| Andrew | 1,853 | 46.60% | 2,087 | 52.49% | 16 | 0.40% | 20 | 0.50% | 0 | 0.00% | -234 | -5.89% | 3,976 |
| Atchison | 1,697 | 50.22% | 1,626 | 48.12% | 27 | 0.80% | 27 | 0.80% | 2 | 0.06% | 71 | 2.10% | 3,379 |
| Audrain | 3,572 | 66.63% | 1,741 | 32.48% | 25 | 0.47% | 16 | 0.30% | 7 | 0.13% | 1,831 | 34.15% | 5,361 |
| Barry | 2,752 | 49.05% | 2,683 | 47.82% | 148 | 2.64% | 17 | 0.30% | 11 | 0.20% | 69 | 1.23% | 5,611 |
| Barton | 2,217 | 55.20% | 1,597 | 39.77% | 154 | 3.83% | 40 | 1.00% | 8 | 0.20% | 620 | 15.44% | 4,016 |
| Bates | 3,255 | 53.75% | 2,597 | 42.88% | 129 | 2.13% | 67 | 1.11% | 8 | 0.13% | 658 | 10.87% | 6,056 |
| Benton | 1,285 | 40.37% | 1,842 | 57.87% | 26 | 0.82% | 27 | 0.85% | 3 | 0.09% | -557 | -17.50% | 3,183 |
| Bollinger | 1,538 | 47.40% | 1,624 | 50.05% | 69 | 2.13% | 13 | 0.40% | 1 | 0.03% | -86 | -2.65% | 3,245 |
| Boone | 5,601 | 71.46% | 2,180 | 27.81% | 30 | 0.38% | 23 | 0.29% | 4 | 0.05% | 3,421 | 43.65% | 7,838 |
| Buchanan | 10,973 | 57.35% | 7,761 | 40.56% | 278 | 1.45% | 93 | 0.49% | 29 | 0.15% | 3,212 | 16.79% | 19,134 |
| Butler | 2,135 | 42.24% | 2,717 | 53.76% | 174 | 3.44% | 13 | 0.26% | 15 | 0.30% | -582 | -11.52% | 5,054 |
| Caldwell | 1,683 | 44.52% | 2,069 | 54.74% | 3 | 0.08% | 23 | 0.61% | 2 | 0.05% | -386 | -10.21% | 3,780 |
| Callaway | 3,882 | 65.59% | 2,009 | 33.94% | 15 | 0.25% | 12 | 0.20% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,873 | 31.64% | 5,919 |
| Camden | 930 | 41.43% | 1,261 | 56.17% | 41 | 1.83% | 8 | 0.36% | 5 | 0.22% | -331 | -14.74% | 2,245 |
| Cape Girardeau | 2,993 | 43.55% | 3,753 | 54.60% | 74 | 1.08% | 44 | 0.64% | 9 | 0.13% | -760 | -11.06% | 6,873 |
| Carroll | 2,822 | 48.00% | 2,978 | 50.65% | 43 | 0.73% | 36 | 0.61% | 0 | 0.00% | -156 | -2.65% | 5,879 |
| Carter | 586 | 51.86% | 469 | 41.50% | 66 | 5.84% | 6 | 0.53% | 3 | 0.27% | 117 | 10.35% | 1,130 |
| Cass | 3,337 | 60.19% | 2,104 | 37.95% | 60 | 1.08% | 43 | 0.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,233 | 22.24% | 5,544 |
| Cedar | 1,410 | 41.59% | 1,874 | 55.28% | 74 | 2.18% | 27 | 0.80% | 5 | 0.15% | -464 | -13.69% | 3,390 |
| Chariton | 3,135 | 58.30% | 2,183 | 40.60% | 22 | 0.41% | 36 | 0.67% | 1 | 0.02% | 952 | 17.71% | 5,377 |
| Christian | 938 | 30.52% | 1,978 | 64.37% | 141 | 4.59% | 14 | 0.46% | 2 | 0.07% | -1,040 | -33.84% | 3,073 |
| Clark | 1,692 | 48.12% | 1,782 | 50.68% | 28 | 0.80% | 12 | 0.34% | 2 | 0.06% | -90 | -2.56% | 3,516 |
| Clay | 3,902 | 74.13% | 1,307 | 24.83% | 38 | 0.72% | 12 | 0.23% | 5 | 0.09% | 2,595 | 49.30% | 5,264 |
| Clinton | 2,153 | 57.05% | 1,551 | 41.10% | 19 | 0.50% | 48 | 1.27% | 3 | 0.08% | 602 | 15.95% | 3,774 |
| Cole | 2,915 | 51.11% | 2,746 | 48.15% | 31 | 0.54% | 10 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.02% | 169 | 2.96% | 5,703 |
| Cooper | 2,537 | 46.86% | 2,830 | 52.27% | 18 | 0.33% | 29 | 0.54% | 0 | 0.00% | -293 | -5.41% | 5,414 |
| Crawford | 1,312 | 43.43% | 1,642 | 54.35% | 47 | 1.56% | 18 | 0.60% | 2 | 0.07% | -330 | -10.92% | 3,021 |
| Dade | 1,618 | 44.50% | 1,941 | 53.38% | 54 | 1.49% | 23 | 0.63% | 0 | 0.00% | -323 | -8.88% | 3,636 |
| Dallas | 1,022 | 40.73% | 1,428 | 56.92% | 47 | 1.87% | 12 | 0.48% | 0 | 0.00% | -406 | -16.18% | 2,509 |
| Daviess | 2,375 | 49.75% | 2,342 | 49.06% | 12 | 0.25% | 44 | 0.92% | 1 | 0.02% | 33 | 0.69% | 4,774 |
| DeKalb | 1,647 | 49.43% | 1,640 | 49.22% | 12 | 0.36% | 31 | 0.93% | 2 | 0.06% | 7 | 0.21% | 3,332 |
| Dent | 1,457 | 52.35% | 1,252 | 44.99% | 66 | 2.37% | 5 | 0.18% | 3 | 0.11% | 205 | 7.37% | 2,783 |
| Douglas | 737 | 27.80% | 1,730 | 65.26% | 164 | 6.19% | 14 | 0.53% | 6 | 0.23% | -993 | -37.46% | 2,651 |
| Dunklin | 3,723 | 61.71% | 1,924 | 31.89% | 375 | 6.22% | 8 | 0.13% | 3 | 0.05% | 1,799 | 29.82% | 6,033 |
| Franklin | 2,468 | 35.59% | 4,325 | 62.36% | 94 | 1.36% | 42 | 0.61% | 6 | 0.09% | -1,857 | -26.78% | 6,935 |
| Gasconade | 510 | 16.68% | 2,513 | 82.20% | 19 | 0.62% | 13 | 0.43% | 2 | 0.07% | -2,003 | -65.52% | 3,057 |
| Gentry | 2,404 | 55.80% | 1,823 | 42.32% | 33 | 0.77% | 45 | 1.04% | 3 | 0.07% | 581 | 13.49% | 4,308 |
| Greene | 7,191 | 46.66% | 7,543 | 48.95% | 542 | 3.52% | 122 | 0.79% | 12 | 0.08% | -352 | -2.28% | 15,410 |
| Grundy | 1,789 | 40.90% | 2,481 | 56.72% | 46 | 1.05% | 53 | 1.21% | 5 | 0.11% | -692 | -15.82% | 4,374 |
| Harrison | 2,205 | 43.33% | 2,741 | 53.86% | 62 | 1.22% | 77 | 1.51% | 4 | 0.08% | -536 | -10.53% | 5,089 |
| Henry | 3,653 | 56.12% | 2,727 | 41.90% | 71 | 1.09% | 49 | 0.75% | 9 | 0.14% | 926 | 14.23% | 6,509 |
| Hickory | 552 | 31.24% | 1,144 | 64.74% | 59 | 3.34% | 11 | 0.62% | 1 | 0.06% | -592 | -33.50% | 1,767 |
| Holt | 1,615 | 43.77% | 2,030 | 55.01% | 14 | 0.38% | 29 | 0.79% | 2 | 0.05% | -415 | -11.25% | 3,690 |
| Howard | 2,866 | 71.24% | 1,121 | 27.86% | 16 | 0.40% | 18 | 0.45% | 2 | 0.05% | 1,745 | 43.38% | 4,023 |
| Howell | 1,861 | 43.84% | 2,132 | 50.22% | 225 | 5.30% | 23 | 0.54% | 4 | 0.09% | -271 | -6.38% | 4,245 |
| Iron | 1,027 | 53.05% | 874 | 45.14% | 24 | 1.24% | 9 | 0.46% | 2 | 0.10% | 153 | 7.90% | 1,936 |
| Jackson | 44,556 | 56.38% | 32,943 | 41.68% | 1,094 | 1.38% | 336 | 0.43% | 100 | 0.13% | 11,613 | 14.69% | 79,029 |
| Jasper | 10,513 | 49.97% | 9,358 | 44.48% | 913 | 4.34% | 197 | 0.94% | 56 | 0.27% | 1,155 | 5.49% | 21,037 |
| Jefferson | 3,021 | 46.56% | 3,310 | 51.01% | 130 | 2.00% | 19 | 0.29% | 9 | 0.14% | -289 | -4.45% | 6,489 |
| Johnson | 3,701 | 54.69% | 2,966 | 43.83% | 62 | 0.92% | 29 | 0.43% | 9 | 0.13% | 735 | 10.86% | 6,767 |
| Knox | 1,657 | 52.11% | 1,460 | 45.91% | 37 | 1.16% | 23 | 0.72% | 3 | 0.09% | 197 | 6.19% | 3,180 |
| Laclede | 1,755 | 47.01% | 1,877 | 50.28% | 89 | 2.38% | 9 | 0.24% | 3 | 0.08% | -122 | -3.27% | 3,733 |
| Lafayette | 4,073 | 49.38% | 4,049 | 49.09% | 93 | 1.13% | 29 | 0.35% | 4 | 0.05% | 24 | 0.29% | 8,248 |
| Lawrence | 2,809 | 44.24% | 3,228 | 50.83% | 260 | 4.09% | 44 | 0.69% | 9 | 0.14% | -419 | -6.60% | 6,350 |
| Lewis | 2,357 | 61.49% | 1,429 | 37.28% | 25 | 0.65% | 20 | 0.52% | 2 | 0.05% | 928 | 24.21% | 3,833 |
| Lincoln | 2,468 | 59.61% | 1,642 | 39.66% | 11 | 0.27% | 19 | 0.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 826 | 19.95% | 4,140 |
| Linn | 3,441 | 54.02% | 2,801 | 43.97% | 81 | 1.27% | 46 | 0.72% | 1 | 0.02% | 640 | 10.05% | 6,370 |
| Livingston | 2,609 | 51.07% | 2,424 | 47.45% | 39 | 0.76% | 35 | 0.69% | 2 | 0.04% | 185 | 3.62% | 5,109 |
| Macon | 3,805 | 53.87% | 3,034 | 42.96% | 164 | 2.32% | 52 | 0.74% | 8 | 0.11% | 771 | 10.92% | 7,063 |
| Madison | 1,310 | 50.95% | 1,230 | 47.84% | 21 | 0.82% | 8 | 0.31% | 2 | 0.08% | 80 | 3.11% | 2,571 |
| Maries | 1,319 | 63.60% | 725 | 34.96% | 20 | 0.96% | 7 | 0.34% | 3 | 0.14% | 594 | 28.64% | 2,074 |
| Marion | 4,534 | 61.26% | 2,759 | 37.28% | 53 | 0.72% | 53 | 0.72% | 2 | 0.03% | 1,775 | 23.98% | 7,401 |
| McDonald | 1,631 | 51.43% | 1,414 | 44.59% | 93 | 2.93% | 26 | 0.82% | 7 | 0.22% | 217 | 6.84% | 3,171 |
| Mercer | 1,042 | 36.75% | 1,733 | 61.13% | 28 | 0.99% | 32 | 1.13% | 0 | 0.00% | -691 | -24.37% | 2,835 |
| Miller | 1,395 | 41.59% | 1,862 | 55.52% | 88 | 2.62% | 8 | 0.24% | 1 | 0.03% | -467 | -13.92% | 3,354 |
| Mississippi | 1,874 | 57.43% | 1,330 | 40.76% | 48 | 1.47% | 7 | 0.21% | 4 | 0.12% | 544 | 16.67% | 3,263 |
| Moniteau | 1,675 | 48.19% | 1,748 | 50.29% | 35 | 1.01% | 16 | 0.46% | 2 | 0.06% | -73 | -2.10% | 3,476 |
| Monroe | 3,738 | 81.60% | 742 | 16.20% | 86 | 1.88% | 14 | 0.31% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,996 | 65.40% | 4,581 |
| Montgomery | 1,988 | 48.26% | 2,079 | 50.47% | 18 | 0.44% | 33 | 0.80% | 1 | 0.02% | -91 | -2.21% | 4,119 |
| Morgan | 1,368 | 46.11% | 1,578 | 53.19% | 13 | 0.44% | 7 | 0.24% | 1 | 0.03% | -210 | -7.08% | 2,967 |
| New Madrid | 2,715 | 55.65% | 2,039 | 41.79% | 99 | 2.03% | 18 | 0.37% | 8 | 0.16% | 676 | 13.86% | 4,879 |
| Newton | 3,158 | 49.27% | 2,929 | 45.70% | 249 | 3.89% | 64 | 1.00% | 9 | 0.14% | 229 | 3.57% | 6,409 |
| Nodaway | 3,874 | 51.60% | 3,540 | 47.15% | 41 | 0.55% | 44 | 0.59% | 9 | 0.12% | 334 | 4.45% | 7,508 |
| Oregon | 1,799 | 70.66% | 660 | 25.92% | 82 | 3.22% | 5 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,139 | 44.74% | 2,546 |
| Osage | 1,383 | 43.44% | 1,769 | 55.56% | 24 | 0.75% | 8 | 0.25% | 0 | 0.00% | -386 | -12.12% | 3,184 |
| Ozark | 654 | 32.38% | 1,331 | 65.89% | 26 | 1.29% | 9 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | -677 | -33.51% | 2,020 |
| Pemiscot | 2,447 | 52.95% | 2,076 | 44.93% | 95 | 2.06% | 3 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 371 | 8.03% | 4,621 |
| Perry | 1,396 | 41.01% | 1,988 | 58.40% | 10 | 0.29% | 8 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.06% | -592 | -17.39% | 3,404 |
| Pettis | 4,665 | 50.13% | 4,319 | 46.42% | 253 | 2.72% | 63 | 0.68% | 5 | 0.05% | 346 | 3.72% | 9,305 |
| Phelps | 1,887 | 55.13% | 1,487 | 43.44% | 36 | 1.05% | 8 | 0.23% | 5 | 0.15% | 400 | 11.69% | 3,423 |
| Pike | 3,344 | 58.42% | 2,322 | 40.57% | 45 | 0.79% | 12 | 0.21% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,022 | 17.85% | 5,724 |
| Platte | 2,974 | 75.96% | 921 | 23.52% | 11 | 0.28% | 8 | 0.20% | 1 | 0.03% | 2,053 | 52.44% | 3,915 |
| Polk | 2,149 | 44.24% | 2,613 | 53.79% | 63 | 1.30% | 30 | 0.62% | 3 | 0.06% | -464 | -9.55% | 4,858 |
| Pulaski | 1,339 | 56.00% | 1,003 | 41.95% | 40 | 1.67% | 6 | 0.25% | 3 | 0.13% | 336 | 14.05% | 2,391 |
| Putnam | 1,035 | 31.87% | 2,106 | 64.84% | 59 | 1.82% | 42 | 1.29% | 6 | 0.18% | -1,071 | -32.97% | 3,248 |
| Ralls | 1,994 | 70.11% | 826 | 29.04% | 9 | 0.32% | 14 | 0.49% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,168 | 41.07% | 2,844 |
| Randolph | 5,081 | 69.84% | 2,111 | 29.02% | 45 | 0.62% | 36 | 0.49% | 2 | 0.03% | 2,970 | 40.82% | 7,275 |
| Ray | 3,380 | 65.47% | 1,718 | 33.28% | 32 | 0.62% | 29 | 0.56% | 4 | 0.08% | 1,662 | 32.19% | 5,163 |
| Reynolds | 1,209 | 65.39% | 592 | 32.02% | 35 | 1.89% | 4 | 0.22% | 9 | 0.49% | 617 | 33.37% | 1,849 |
| Ripley | 1,325 | 53.08% | 1,053 | 42.19% | 105 | 4.21% | 10 | 0.40% | 3 | 0.12% | 272 | 10.90% | 2,496 |
| Saint Charles | 1,914 | 34.91% | 3,518 | 64.16% | 33 | 0.60% | 12 | 0.22% | 6 | 0.11% | -1,604 | -29.25% | 5,483 |
| Saint Clair | 1,881 | 50.15% | 1,718 | 45.80% | 115 | 3.07% | 34 | 0.91% | 3 | 0.08% | 163 | 4.35% | 3,751 |
| Saint Francois | 3,675 | 53.38% | 3,015 | 43.79% | 157 | 2.28% | 33 | 0.48% | 5 | 0.07% | 660 | 9.59% | 6,885 |
| Saint Louis County | 7,587 | 36.71% | 12,485 | 60.41% | 454 | 2.20% | 99 | 0.48% | 41 | 0.20% | -4,898 | -23.70% | 20,666 |
| Saint Louis City | 74,059 | 45.71% | 83,798 | 51.72% | 3,484 | 2.15% | 432 | 0.27% | 259 | 0.16% | -9,739 | -6.01% | 162,032 |
| Sainte Genevieve | 1,218 | 51.35% | 1,137 | 47.93% | 14 | 0.59% | 3 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 81 | 3.41% | 2,372 |
| Saline | 4,503 | 59.53% | 2,966 | 39.21% | 26 | 0.34% | 55 | 0.73% | 14 | 0.19% | 1,537 | 20.32% | 7,564 |
| Schuyler | 1,341 | 56.42% | 995 | 41.86% | 15 | 0.63% | 25 | 1.05% | 1 | 0.04% | 346 | 14.56% | 2,377 |
| Scotland | 1,592 | 54.90% | 1,243 | 42.86% | 51 | 1.76% | 14 | 0.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 349 | 12.03% | 2,900 |
| Scott | 2,816 | 52.72% | 2,285 | 42.78% | 201 | 3.76% | 24 | 0.45% | 15 | 0.28% | 531 | 9.94% | 5,341 |
| Shannon | 1,213 | 56.31% | 788 | 36.58% | 141 | 6.55% | 3 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.42% | 425 | 19.73% | 2,154 |
| Shelby | 2,549 | 67.26% | 1,195 | 31.53% | 21 | 0.55% | 23 | 0.61% | 2 | 0.05% | 1,354 | 35.73% | 3,790 |
| Stoddard | 3,274 | 53.59% | 2,482 | 40.63% | 314 | 5.14% | 28 | 0.46% | 11 | 0.18% | 792 | 12.96% | 6,109 |
| Stone | 621 | 27.38% | 1,525 | 67.24% | 116 | 5.11% | 6 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | -904 | -39.86% | 2,268 |
| Sullivan | 2,446 | 49.54% | 2,420 | 49.02% | 40 | 0.81% | 28 | 0.57% | 3 | 0.06% | 26 | 0.53% | 4,937 |
| Taney | 679 | 36.80% | 1,123 | 60.87% | 34 | 1.84% | 7 | 0.38% | 2 | 0.11% | -444 | -24.07% | 1,845 |
| Texas | 2,291 | 54.35% | 1,809 | 42.92% | 86 | 2.04% | 27 | 0.64% | 2 | 0.05% | 482 | 11.44% | 4,215 |
| Vernon | 3,776 | 60.63% | 2,211 | 35.50% | 193 | 3.10% | 37 | 0.59% | 11 | 0.18% | 1,565 | 25.13% | 6,228 |
| Warren | 487 | 21.31% | 1,752 | 76.67% | 41 | 1.79% | 3 | 0.13% | 2 | 0.09% | -1,265 | -55.36% | 2,285 |
| Washington | 1,394 | 45.26% | 1,657 | 53.80% | 24 | 0.78% | 5 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | -263 | -8.54% | 3,080 |
| Wayne | 1,594 | 49.37% | 1,528 | 47.32% | 92 | 2.85% | 14 | 0.43% | 1 | 0.03% | 66 | 2.04% | 3,229 |
| Webster | 1,903 | 46.22% | 2,114 | 51.35% | 61 | 1.48% | 33 | 0.80% | 6 | 0.15% | -211 | -5.13% | 4,117 |
| Worth | 1,079 | 53.57% | 892 | 44.29% | 7 | 0.35% | 36 | 1.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 187 | 9.29% | 2,014 |
| Wright | 1,593 | 41.21% | 2,176 | 56.29% | 77 | 1.99% | 16 | 0.41% | 4 | 0.10% | -583 | -15.08% | 3,866 |
| Totals | 398,032 | 50.59% | 369,339 | 46.94% | 14,612 | 1.86% | 3,884 | 0.49% | 902 | 0.11% | 28,693 | 3.65% | 786,769 |
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