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The1916 United States presidential election in Utah took place onNovember7,1916. All contemporary forty-eight states were part of the1916 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to theElectoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was the first election featuring as a distinct voting unitDuchesne County, which had been split from Wasatch County in 1915.
In the preceding1912 presidential election,Utah had been one of only two states (the other being strongly RepublicanVermont) to give a plurality to incumbent PresidentWilliam Howard Taft. However, in contrast to the East where supporters ofTheodore Roosevelt's"Bull Moose" Party rapidly returned to the Republicans, in theMountain States many if not most of these supporters turned to the Democratic Party not only in presidential elections, but also in state and federal legislative ones.[1] Another factor helping Wilson was a powerful "peace vote" in the Western states[2] due to opposition to participation inWorld War I, and a third was that a considerable part of the substantial vote forSocialist candidateEugene Debs from the previous election was turned over to Wilson owing to such progressive reforms as theSixteenth andSeventeenth Amendments.[1] A fourth factor was that Taft had support from the Mormon hierarchy that commanded the loyalty of most of Utah's population – which caused Utah to remain largely loyal to him amidst the GOP split – but the LDS Church did not maintain support with Hughes.[1]
The combined result was that Wilson was able to make Utah his second-strongest victory outside of the "Solid South" – in a state that four years previously had given him his seventh-lowest popular vote proportion.[3] Utah was his eleventh-best state overall and voted 17.83 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large. Wilson swept every county in the state, including rock-ribbed Republican Kane County, which had been Taft's third-strongest county nationwide in 1912,[4] which has never otherwise supported a Democrat for president,[2] and where otherwise onlyWilliam Jennings Bryan in1896 andFranklin D. Roosevelt in1936 have as Democrats received so much as one-third of the vote. This is the only time a Democrat swept every county in the state.
| 1916 United States presidential election in Utah[5] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson (incumbent) | 84,145 | 58.78% | 4 | |
| Republican | Charles Evans Hughes | 54,137 | 37.82% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Allan L. Benson | 4,460 | 3.12% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Frank Hanly | 149 | 0.10% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Arthur E. Reimer | 144 | 0.10% | 0 | |
| Progressive Party | No candidate | 111 | 0.08% | 0 | |
| Totals | 143,146 | 100.00% | 4 | ||
| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic | Charles Evans Hughes Republican | Allan Louis Benson[6] Socialist | Various candidates[6] Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[7] | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Beaver | 1,291 | 58.84% | 842 | 38.38% | 61 | 2.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 449 | 20.46% | 2,194 |
| Box Elder | 2,957 | 54.68% | 2,416 | 44.67% | 34 | 0.65% | 1 | 0.02% | 541 | 10.01% | 5,408 |
| Cache | 5,305 | 58.03% | 3,756 | 41.09% | 75 | 0.89% | 6 | 0.07% | 1,549 | 16.94% | 9,142 |
| Carbon | 1,478 | 50.43% | 1,301 | 44.39% | 147 | 5.19% | 5 | 0.17% | 177 | 6.04% | 2,931 |
| Davis | 2,131 | 56.08% | 1,641 | 43.18% | 22 | 0.74% | 6 | 0.16% | 490 | 12.90% | 3,800 |
| Duchesne | 1,443 | 56.61% | 687 | 26.95% | 410 | 16.44% | 9 | 0.35% | 756 | 29.66% | 2,549 |
| Emery | 1,406 | 58.68% | 896 | 37.40% | 88 | 3.92% | 6 | 0.25% | 510 | 21.28% | 2,396 |
| Garfield | 843 | 61.26% | 516 | 37.50% | 16 | 1.24% | 1 | 0.07% | 327 | 23.76% | 1,376 |
| Grand | 306 | 56.77% | 213 | 39.52% | 19 | 3.71% | 1 | 0.19% | 93 | 17.25% | 539 |
| Iron | 1,156 | 56.09% | 825 | 40.03% | 76 | 3.88% | 4 | 0.19% | 331 | 16.06% | 2,061 |
| Juab | 2,221 | 61.30% | 1,248 | 34.45% | 151 | 4.25% | 3 | 0.08% | 973 | 26.85% | 3,623 |
| Kane | 329 | 50.85% | 304 | 46.99% | 14 | 2.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 25 | 3.86% | 647 |
| Millard | 1,804 | 56.23% | 1,293 | 40.31% | 94 | 3.46% | 17 | 0.53% | 511 | 15.92% | 3,208 |
| Morgan | 484 | 50.63% | 464 | 48.54% | 8 | 0.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 20 | 2.09% | 956 |
| Piute | 417 | 56.20% | 269 | 36.25% | 55 | 7.55% | 1 | 0.13% | 148 | 19.95% | 742 |
| Rich | 454 | 58.28% | 325 | 41.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 129 | 16.56% | 779 |
| Salt Lake | 30,707 | 61.18% | 17,593 | 35.05% | 1,778 | 3.76% | 111 | 0.22% | 13,114 | 26.13% | 50,189 |
| San Juan | 448 | 66.27% | 213 | 31.51% | 15 | 2.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 235 | 34.76% | 676 |
| Sanpete | 3,382 | 52.34% | 2,918 | 45.16% | 78 | 2.51% | 84 | 1.30% | 464 | 7.18% | 6,462 |
| Sevier | 2,052 | 53.44% | 1,720 | 44.79% | 67 | 1.77% | 1 | 0.03% | 332 | 8.65% | 3,840 |
| Summit | 1,495 | 50.92% | 1,195 | 40.70% | 240 | 8.38% | 7 | 0.24% | 300 | 10.22% | 2,936 |
| Tooele | 1,528 | 55.20% | 1,124 | 40.61% | 113 | 4.19% | 3 | 0.11% | 404 | 14.59% | 2,768 |
| Uintah | 1,459 | 64.10% | 712 | 31.28% | 94 | 4.61% | 11 | 0.48% | 747 | 32.82% | 2,276 |
| Utah | 8,235 | 59.30% | 5,201 | 37.45% | 410 | 3.25% | 41 | 0.30% | 3,034 | 21.85% | 13,887 |
| Wasatch | 885 | 51.57% | 817 | 47.61% | 14 | 0.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 68 | 3.96% | 1,716 |
| Washington | 1,397 | 66.40% | 703 | 33.41% | 4 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 694 | 32.99% | 2,104 |
| Wayne | 393 | 62.68% | 225 | 35.89% | 9 | 1.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 168 | 26.79% | 627 |
| Weber | 8,139 | 61.14% | 4,720 | 35.45% | 368 | 3.41% | 86 | 0.65% | 3,419 | 25.69% | 13,313 |
| Totals | 84,145 | 58.78% | 54,137 | 37.82% | 4,460 | 3.12% | 404 | 0.28% | 30,008 | 20.96% | 143,145 |
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