1916 Maine gubernatorial election

The 1916 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 11, 1916.

Results edit

1916 Maine gubernatorial election^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[a]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Carl Milliken	81,760	54.00%
	Democratic	Oakley C. Curtis (incumbent)	67,930	44.86%
	Socialist	Frank H. Maxfield	1,465	0.97%
	Prohibition	Linus Seeley	253	0.17%
	Scattering		2	0.00%
Majority			13,830	9.13%
Turnout			151,410	100.00%
	Republican gain from Democratic		Swing

^ The Maine House Journal and Maine Senate Journal record the result as Milliken 81,317, Curtis 67,719, Maxfield 1,558, Seeley 249.^[6]^[7]

^ "ME Governor, 1916". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
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^ Guide to US Elections, Fifth Edition, Volume II. CQ Press. 2005. p. 1499. ISBN 978-1-56802-981-8. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
^ Dubin, Michael J. (2013). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1912-1931: The Official Results by State and County. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-7864-7033-4.
^ Maine Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual. Vol. 55. Portland, Maine: Portland Directory Company. 1924. p. 273.
^ "Legislative Record – House". Legislative Record of the Seventy-Eighth Legislature of the State of Maine. 1917 (PDF). Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal Print. 1916. p. 21.
^ "Legislative Record – Senate". Legislative Record of the Seventy-Eighth Legislature of the State of Maine. 1917 (PDF). Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal Print. 1916. p. 19.

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