1916 United States presidential election in Nebraska explained

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Election Name:	1916 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Election Date:	November 7, 1916
Country:	Nebraska
Flag Year:	1923
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	No
Previous Year:	1912
Previous Election:	1912 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Next Year:	1920
Next Election:	1920 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Votes For Election:	All 8 Nebraska votes to the Electoral College
Image1:	Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919 (cropped 3x4).jpg
Nominee1:	Woodrow Wilson
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:	New Jersey
Running Mate1:	Thomas R. Marshall
Electoral Vote1:	8
Popular Vote1:	158,827
Percentage1:	55.28%
Nominee2:	Charles Evans Hughes
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	117,347
Percentage2:	44.78%
Map Size:	400px
President
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
Before Election:	Woodrow Wilson
After Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	Woodrow Wilson

The 1916 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Nebraska was won by incumbent President Woodrow Wilson (D–Virginia), and incumbent Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, with 55.28% of the popular vote, against former and future Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes (R–New York), running with the 26th vice president of the United States Charles W. Fairbanks, with 40.99% of the popular vote., this is the last occasion when Keya Paha County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.^{[1] [2]}

Results

Presidential Candidate	Running Mate	Party	Electoral Vote (EV)	Popular Vote (PV)
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey	Thomas R. Marshall	Democratic	8^[3]	158,827	55.28%
Charles Evans Hughes	Charles W. Fairbanks	Republican	0	117,771	40.99%
Allan L. Benson	George Ross Kirkpatrick	Socialist	0	7,141	2.49%
Frank Hanly	Ira Landrith	Prohibition	0	2,952	1.03%
Arthur E. Reimer	Caleb Harrison	Socialist Labor	0	624	0.22%

Results by county

County^[4]	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
	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%		data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%
	Adams		2,657		54.58%		2,041		41.93%		98		2.01%		64		1.31%		8		0.16%		616		12.65%		4,868
	Antelope		1,881		54.52%		1,495		43.33%		32		0.93%		41		1.19%		1		0.03%		386		11.19%		3,450
	Arthur		286		64.27%		143		32.13%		9		2.02%		3		0.67%		4		0.90%		143		32.13%		445
	Banner		166		50.00%		142		42.77%		17		5.12%		1		0.30%		6		1.81%		24		7.23%		332
	Blaine		246		54.42%		184		40.71%		13		2.88%		9		1.99%		0		0.00%		62		13.72%		452
	Boone		2,005		60.61%		1,225		37.03%		35		1.06%		36		1.09%		7		0.21%		780		23.58%		3,308
	Box Butte		914		58.22%		591		37.64%		28		1.78%		23		1.46%		14		0.89%		323		20.57%		1,570
	Boyd		852		49.48%		809		46.98%		47		2.73%		12		0.70%		2		0.12%		43		2.50%		1,722
	Brown		901		59.91%		528		35.11%		42		2.79%		17		1.13%		16		1.06%		373		24.80%		1,504
	Buffalo		2,877		54.25%		2,216		41.79%		136		2.56%		63		1.19%		11		0.21%		661		12.46%		5,303
	Burt		1,425		47.56%		1,508		50.33%		23		0.77%		24		0.80%		16		0.53%		-83		-2.77%		2,996
	Butler		2,332		66.42%		1,120		31.90%		35		1.00%		21		0.60%		3		0.09%		1,212		34.52%		3,511
	Cass		2,595		54.93%		1,927		40.79%		135		2.86%		61		1.29%		6		0.13%		668		14.14%		4,724
	Cedar		1,715		49.13%		1,727		49.47%		21		0.60%		26		0.74%		2		0.06%		-12		-0.34%		3,491
	Chase		551		55.83%		369		37.39%		40		4.05%		21		2.13%		6		0.61%		182		18.44%		987
	Cherry		1,734		57.92%		1,091		36.44%		124		4.14%		34		1.14%		11		0.37%		643		21.48%		2,994
	Cheyenne		834		56.62%		563		38.22%		41		2.78%		24		1.63%		11		0.75%		271		18.40%		1,473
	Clay		1,975		51.69%		1,737		45.46%		69		1.81%		33		0.86%		7		0.18%		238		6.23%		3,821
	Colfax		1,628		63.13%		897		34.78%		47		1.82%		6		0.23%		1		0.04%		731		28.34%		2,579
	Cuming		1,424		46.86%		1,551		51.04%		51		1.68%		9		0.30%		4		0.13%		-127		-4.18%		3,039
	Custer		3,609		60.37%		2,047		34.24%		227		3.80%		83		1.39%		12		0.20%		1,562		26.13%		5,978
	Dakota		1,032		61.47%		612		36.45%		22		1.31%		10		0.60%		3		0.18%		420		25.01%		1,679
	Dawes		1,088		57.11%		751		39.42%		49		2.57%		16		0.84%		1		0.05%		337		17.69%		1,905
	Dawson		1,989		56.12%		1,444		40.74%		60		1.69%		42		1.19%		9		0.25%		545		15.38%		3,544
	Deuel		340		62.50%		181		33.27%		16		2.94%		4		0.74%		3		0.55%		159		29.23%		544
	Dixon		1,350		51.63%		1,208		46.20%		29		1.11%		28		1.07%		0		0.00%		142		5.43%		2,615
	Dodge		2,644		49.83%		2,446		46.10%		160		3.02%		50		0.94%		6		0.11%		198		3.73%		5,306
	Douglas		24,796		59.84%		14,557		35.13%		1,755		4.24%		294		0.71%		35		0.08%		10,239		24.71%		41,437
	Dundy		570		58.34%		347		35.52%		43		4.40%		17		1.74%		0		0.00%		223		22.82%		977
	Fillmore		1,911		53.80%		1,561		43.95%		42		1.18%		35		0.99%		3		0.08%		350		9.85%		3,552
	Franklin		1,345		53.80%		1,081		43.24%		38		1.52%		26		1.04%		10		0.40%		264		10.56%		2,500
	Frontier		1,138		57.65%		736		37.28%		67		3.39%		28		1.42%		5		0.25%		402		20.36%		1,974
	Furnas		1,607		55.90%		1,163		40.45%		43		1.50%		53		1.84%		9		0.31%		444		15.44%		2,875
	Gage		3,385		48.74%		3,383		48.71%		83		1.20%		74		1.07%		20		0.29%		2		0.03%		6,945
	Garden		598		62.55%		306		32.01%		34		3.56%		15		1.57%		3		0.31%		292		30.54%		956
	Garfield		426		52.79%		302		37.42%		57		7.06%		11		1.36%		11		1.36%		124		15.37%		807
	Gosper		617		56.87%		434		40.00%		20		1.84%		11		1.01%		3		0.28%		183		16.87%		1,085
	Grant		241		59.21%		157		38.57%		6		1.47%		3		0.74%		0		0.00%		84		20.64%		407
	Greeley		1,289		64.97%		627		31.60%		43		2.17%		17		0.86%		8		0.40%		662		33.37%		1,984
	Hall		2,483		47.17%		2,555		48.54%		159		3.02%		61		1.16%		6		0.11%		-72		-1.37%		5,264
	Hamilton		1,816		54.27%		1,444		43.16%		31		0.93%		49		1.46%		6		0.18%		372		11.12%		3,346
	Harlan		1,267		56.94%		834		37.48%		95		4.27%		27		1.21%		2		0.09%		433		19.46%		2,225
	Hayes		382		58.14%		219		33.33%		39		5.94%		9		1.37%		8		1.22%		163		24.81%		657
	Hitchcock		733		60.93%		435		36.16%		25		2.08%		9		0.75%		1		0.08%		298		24.77%		1,203
	Holt		2,213		56.73%		1,568		40.19%		77		1.97%		38		0.97%		5		0.13%		645		16.53%		3,901
	Hooker		218		64.50%		109		32.25%		3		0.89%		7		2.07%		1		0.30%		109		32.25%		338
	Howard		1,695		68.18%		698		28.08%		54		2.17%		21		0.84%		18		0.72%		997		40.10%		2,486
	Jefferson		1,841		47.57%		1,813		46.85%		177		4.57%		38		0.98%		1		0.03%		28		0.72%		3,870
	Johnson		1,117		44.26%		1,373		54.40%		14		0.55%		15		0.59%		5		0.20%		-256		-10.14%		2,524
	Kearney		1,396		62.83%		760		34.20%		46		2.07%		19		0.86%		1		0.05%		636		28.62%		2,222
	Keith		544		54.62%		389		39.06%		46		4.62%		11		1.10%		6		0.60%		155		15.56%		996
	Keya Paha		401		50.44%		316		39.75%		40		5.03%		13		1.64%		25		3.14%		85		10.69%		795
	Kimball		388		59.78%		223		34.36%		20		3.08%		13		2.00%		5		0.77%		165		25.42%		649
	Knox		2,329		53.79%		1,910		44.11%		53		1.22%		29		0.67%		9		0.21%		419		9.68%		4,330
	Lancaster		9,093		54.49%		7,042		42.20%		314		1.88%		232		1.39%		7		0.04%		2,051		12.29%		16,688
	Lincoln		2,192		57.96%		1,309		34.61%		213		5.63%		40		1.06%		28		0.74%		883		23.35%		3,782
	Logan		283		57.76%		172		35.10%		25		5.10%		8		1.63%		2		0.41%		111		22.65%		490
	Loup		219		50.81%		164		38.05%		36		8.35%		8		1.86%		4		0.93%		55		12.76%		431
	Madison		2,358		48.15%		2,428		49.58%		47		0.96%		42		0.86%		22		0.45%		-70		-1.43%		4,897
	McPherson		184		57.86%		106		33.33%		15		4.72%		9		2.83%		4		1.26%		78		24.53%		318
	Merrick		1,349		51.33%		1,178		44.82%		49		1.86%		50		1.90%		2		0.08%		171		6.51%		2,628
	Morrill		888		62.18%		470		32.91%		57		3.99%		12		0.84%		1		0.07%		418		29.27%		1,428
	Nance		1,165		54.57%		930		43.56%		17		0.80%		18		0.84%		5		0.23%		235		11.01%		2,135
	Nemaha		1,658		52.15%		1,438		45.23%		46		1.45%		34		1.07%		3		0.09%		220		6.92%		3,179
	Nuckolls		1,732		53.41%		1,411		43.51%		70		2.16%		28		0.86%		2		0.06%		321		9.90%		3,243
	Otoe		2,344		51.34%		2,121		46.45%		53		1.16%		40		0.88%		8		0.18%		223		4.88%		4,566
	Pawnee		1,171		47.35%		1,228		49.66%		33		1.33%		41		1.66%		0		0.00%		-57		-2.30%		2,473
	Perkins		397		60.61%		210		32.06%		41		6.26%		5		0.76%		2		0.31%		187		28.55%		655
	Phelps		1,425		56.66%		971		38.61%		71		2.82%		42		1.67%		6		0.24%		454		18.05%		2,515
	Pierce		1,030		44.96%		1,228		53.60%		15		0.65%		17		0.74%		1		0.04%		-198		-8.64%		2,291
	Platte		2,412		54.76%		1,918		43.54%		41		0.93%		27		0.61%		7		0.16%		494		11.21%		4,405
	Polk		1,600		57.80%		1,060		38.29%		46		1.66%		50		1.81%		12		0.43%		540		19.51%		2,768
	Red Willow		1,418		55.20%		977		38.03%		144		5.61%		17		0.66%		13		0.51%		441		17.17%		2,569
	Richardson		2,650		54.98%		2,039		42.30%		64		1.33%		66		1.37%		1		0.02%		611		12.68%		4,820
	Rock		449		51.08%		375		42.66%		46		5.23%		7		0.80%		2		0.23%		74		8.42%		879
	Saline		2,646		63.23%		1,469		35.10%		32		0.76%		27		0.65%		11		0.26%		1,177		28.12%		4,185
	Sarpy		1,320		58.46%		885		39.19%		33		1.46%		17		0.75%		3		0.13%		435		19.26%		2,258
	Saunders		2,671		55.73%		1,957		40.83%		89		1.86%		66		1.38%		10		0.21%		714		14.90%		4,793
	Scotts Bluff		1,587		54.07%		1,144		38.98%		169		5.76%		30		1.02%		5		0.17%		443		15.09%		2,935
	Seward		1,797		48.54%		1,855		50.11%		24		0.65%		22		0.59%		4		0.11%		-58		-1.57%		3,702
	Sheridan		1,158		62.02%		604		32.35%		74		3.96%		27		1.45%		4		0.21%		554		29.67%		1,867
	Sherman		1,208		59.57%		706		34.81%		79		3.90%		19		0.94%		16		0.79%		502		24.75%		2,028
	Sioux		737		65.34%		344		30.50%		33		2.93%		14		1.24%		0		0.00%		393		34.84%		1,128
	Stanton		899		53.64%		736		43.91%		17		1.01%		15		0.89%		9		0.54%		163		9.73%		1,676
	Thayer		1,581		45.73%		1,772		51.26%		74		2.14%		30		0.87%		0		0.00%		-191		-5.53%		3,457
	Thomas		261		48.97%		244		45.78%		18		3.38%		6		1.13%		4		0.75%		17		3.19%		533
	Thurston		1,255		62.47%		717		35.69%		26		1.29%		11		0.55%		0		0.00%		538		26.78%		2,009
	Valley		1,388		60.22%		840		36.44%		51		2.21%		15		0.65%		11		0.48%		548		23.77%		2,305
	Washington		1,555		52.71%		1,297		43.97%		76		2.58%		20		0.68%		2		0.07%		258		8.75%		2,950
	Wayne		1,006		44.36%		1,208		53.26%		19		0.84%		29		1.28%		6		0.26%		-202		-8.91%		2,268
	Webster		1,469		53.01%		1,191		42.98%		61		2.20%		46		1.66%		4		0.14%		278		10.03%		2,771
	Wheeler		270		54.66%		163		33.00%		59		11.94%		2		0.40%		0		0.00%		107		21.66%		494
	York		2,206		50.70%		2,011		46.22%		48		1.10%		59		1.36%		27		0.62%		195		4.48%		4,351
Totals	158,827	55.28%	117,771	40.99%	7,141	2.49%	2,952	1.03%	624	0.22%	41,056	14.29%	287,315

See also

• United States presidential elections in Nebraska

Notes and References

1. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 250-255
2. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
3. Web site: 1916 Presidential General Election Results – Nebraska. Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
4. Nebraska Secretary of State Election Administration; Official Report of the Nebraska State Canvassing Board General Election Held November 7th, 1916