1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota

The 1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election in which all contemporary forty-eight states participated. Voters chose five electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota

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Nominee Charles Evans Hughes Woodrow Wilson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York New Jersey
Running mate Charles W. Fairbanks Thomas R. Marshall
Electoral vote 5 0
Popular vote 64,217 59,191
Percentage 49.80% 45.91%

County Results

President before election

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

South Dakota voted for the Republican nominee, Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey. Hughes won South Dakota by a close margin of 3.90%; alongside Oregon, South Dakota was the only state that Hughes won in the Great Plains or westward.

Hughes’ victory was largely due to the powerful GOP loyalty of East River German-Americans, who feared that Wilson's pro-British and pro-French sentiments would lead the United States to involve itself in war with Germany.[1] In contrast, the more Anglo-Saxon West River counties strongly supported Wilson's Southern roots and prohibitionist leanings.[2] Despite his loss, Wilson's 45.91% was the best performance in the state by a Democrat since William Jennings Bryan won the state in a fusion with the Populist Party two decades before, and would be beaten only six times in the ensuing century.

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election that Lawrence County voted for the Democratic presidential candidate, and the last election that South Dakota voted for a different presidential candidate than neighboring North Dakota.[3][4]

Results

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Presidential Candidate Running Mate Party Electoral Vote (EV) Popular Vote (PV)
Charles Evans Hughes Charles W. Fairbanks Republican 5[5] 64,217 49.80%
Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall Democratic 0 59,191 45.91%
Allan L. Benson George R. Kirkpatrick Socialist 0 3,760 2.92%
James Hanly Ira Landrith Prohibition 0 1,774 1.38%

Results by county

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County[6] Charles Evans Hughes
Republican
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
Allan Louis Benson
Socialist
James Franklin Hanly
Prohibition
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Aurora 735 46.05% 793 49.69% 23 1.44% 45 2.82% -58 -3.63% 1,596
Beadle 1,662 45.72% 1,828 50.29% 121 3.33% 24 0.66% -166 -4.57% 3,635
Bennett 67 22.56% 222 74.75% 4 1.35% 4 1.35% -155 -52.19% 297
Bon Homme 1,231 47.92% 1,278 49.75% 40 1.56% 20 0.78% -47 -1.83% 2,569
Brookings 1,638 51.79% 1,385 43.79% 46 1.45% 94 2.97% 253 8.00% 3,163
Brown 2,659 45.19% 2,676 45.48% 472 8.02% 77 1.31% -17 -0.29% 5,884
Brule 729 41.66% 975 55.71% 40 2.29% 6 0.34% -246 -14.06% 1,750
Buffalo 80 30.19% 182 68.68% 1 0.38% 2 0.75% -102 -38.49% 265
Butte 537 33.31% 930 57.69% 135 8.37% 10 0.62% -393 -24.38% 1,612
Campbell 644 77.40% 163 19.59% 14 1.68% 11 1.32% 481 57.81% 832
Charles Mix 1,450 41.26% 2,011 57.23% 41 1.17% 12 0.34% -561 -15.96% 3,514
Clark 1,226 52.71% 1,016 43.68% 28 1.20% 56 2.41% 210 9.03% 2,326
Clay 1,000 44.52% 1,207 53.74% 25 1.11% 14 0.62% -207 -9.22% 2,246
Codington 1,550 51.82% 1,344 44.93% 47 1.57% 50 1.67% 206 6.89% 2,991
Corson 503 42.20% 641 53.78% 41 3.44% 7 0.59% -138 -11.58% 1,192
Custer 392 42.11% 488 52.42% 50 5.37% 1 0.11% -96 -10.31% 931
Davison 1,516 50.48% 1,374 45.75% 67 2.23% 46 1.53% 142 4.73% 3,003
Day 1,758 61.21% 907 31.58% 121 4.21% 86 2.99% 851 29.63% 2,872
Deuel 908 59.35% 584 38.17% 14 0.92% 24 1.57% 324 21.18% 1,530
Dewey 352 47.00% 379 50.60% 14 1.87% 4 0.53% -27 -3.60% 749
Douglas 815 57.48% 597 42.10% 3 0.21% 3 0.21% 218 15.37% 1,418
Edmunds 894 55.46% 634 39.33% 41 2.54% 43 2.67% 260 16.13% 1,612
Fall River 668 40.63% 922 56.08% 44 2.68% 10 0.61% -254 -15.45% 1,644
Faulk 759 52.89% 629 43.83% 25 1.74% 22 1.53% 130 9.06% 1,435
Grant 1,098 55.31% 772 38.89% 48 2.42% 67 3.38% 326 16.42% 1,985
Gregory 1,434 51.86% 1,242 44.92% 72 2.60% 17 0.61% 192 6.94% 2,765
Haakon 399 41.05% 475 48.87% 86 8.85% 12 1.23% -76 -7.82% 972
Hamlin 1,039 57.82% 692 38.51% 30 1.67% 36 2.00% 347 19.31% 1,797
Hand 801 44.95% 905 50.79% 49 2.75% 27 1.52% -104 -5.84% 1,782
Hanson 767 51.10% 712 47.44% 9 0.60% 13 0.87% 55 3.66% 1,501
Harding 520 41.57% 597 47.72% 119 9.51% 15 1.20% -77 -6.16% 1,251
Hughes 611 51.13% 536 44.85% 39 3.26% 9 0.75% 75 6.28% 1,195
Hutchinson 1,636 73.20% 519 23.22% 53 2.37% 27 1.21% 1,117 49.98% 2,235
Hyde 438 55.58% 305 38.71% 40 5.08% 5 0.63% 133 16.88% 788
Jackson 283 49.39% 279 48.69% 6 1.05% 5 0.87% 4 0.70% 573
Jerauld 612 48.42% 589 46.60% 5 0.40% 58 4.59% 23 1.82% 1,264
Kingsbury 1,339 51.80% 1,096 42.40% 70 2.71% 80 3.09% 243 9.40% 2,585
Lake 1,398 55.04% 1,027 40.43% 92 3.62% 23 0.91% 371 14.61% 2,540
Lawrence 2,074 47.51% 2,157 49.42% 114 2.61% 20 0.46% -83 -1.90% 4,365
Lincoln 1,591 60.29% 936 35.47% 62 2.35% 50 1.89% 655 24.82% 2,639
Lyman 981 45.65% 1,052 48.95% 99 4.61% 17 0.79% -71 -3.30% 2,149
Marshall 808 45.57% 885 49.92% 56 3.16% 24 1.35% -77 -4.34% 1,773
McCook 1,194 52.19% 1,021 44.62% 49 2.14% 24 1.05% 173 7.56% 2,288
McPherson 992 80.06% 224 18.08% 16 1.29% 7 0.56% 768 61.99% 1,239
Meade 858 38.25% 1,224 54.57% 141 6.29% 20 0.89% -366 -16.32% 2,243
Mellette 379 45.55% 436 52.40% 15 1.80% 2 0.24% -57 -6.85% 832
Miner 1,006 52.21% 880 45.67% 24 1.25% 17 0.88% 126 6.54% 1,927
Minnehaha 4,318 52.64% 3,494 42.59% 197 2.40% 194 2.36% 824 10.05% 8,203
Moody 973 49.09% 898 45.31% 89 4.49% 22 1.11% 75 3.78% 1,982
Pennington 1,108 42.73% 1,339 51.64% 122 4.70% 24 0.93% -231 -8.91% 2,593
Perkins 890 45.41% 939 47.91% 118 6.02% 13 0.66% -49 -2.50% 1,960
Potter 512 54.58% 408 43.50% 7 0.75% 11 1.17% 104 11.09% 938
Roberts 1,259 47.17% 1,191 44.62% 187 7.01% 32 1.20% 68 2.55% 2,669
Sanborn 711 42.00% 898 53.04% 28 1.65% 56 3.31% -187 -11.05% 1,693
Spink 1,660 48.61% 1,622 47.50% 74 2.17% 59 1.73% 38 1.11% 3,415
Stanley 254 38.25% 381 57.38% 19 2.86% 10 1.51% -127 -19.13% 664
Sully 281 50.45% 268 48.11% 8 1.44% 0 0.00% 13 2.33% 557
Tripp 1,074 43.57% 1,341 54.40% 40 1.62% 10 0.41% -267 -10.83% 2,465
Turner 1,573 56.93% 1,134 41.04% 18 0.65% 38 1.38% 439 15.89% 2,763
Union 1,108 44.95% 1,313 53.27% 19 0.77% 25 1.01% -205 -8.32% 2,465
Walworth 761 55.03% 590 42.66% 28 2.02% 4 0.29% 171 12.36% 1,383
Yankton 1,429 48.66% 1,438 48.96% 45 1.53% 25 0.85% -9 -0.31% 2,937
Ziebach 275 54.89% 211 42.12% 10 2.00% 5 1.00% 64 12.77% 501
Totals 64,217 49.80% 59,191 45.91% 3,760 2.92% 1,774 1.38% 5,026 3.90% 128,942

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 419-420 ISBN 9780691163246
  2. ^ Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 424
  3. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 294-298 ISBN 0786422173
  4. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  5. ^ "1916 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
  6. ^ South Dakota Secretary of State; ‘Official Vote of South Dakota by Counties November Election, 1916’; South Dakota Manual 1917, pp. 458-461