1916 United States presidential election in New York explained

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Election Name:	1916 United States presidential election in New York
Country:	New York
Flag Image:	Flag of New York (1909–2020).svg
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1912 United States presidential election in New York
Previous Year:	1912
Next Election:	1920 United States presidential election in New York
Next Year:	1920
Turnout:	71.6%^[1] 0.5 pp
Election Date:	November 7, 1916
Image1:	Governor Charles Evans Hughes (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:	Charles Evans Hughes
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Alliance1:	American
Home State1:	New York
Running Mate1:	Charles W. Fairbanks
Electoral Vote1:	45
Popular Vote1:	879,238
Percentage1:	51.53%
Nominee2:	Woodrow Wilson
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	New Jersey
Running Mate2:	Thomas R. Marshall
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	759,426
Percentage2:	44.51%
Map Size:	440px
President
Before Election:	Woodrow Wilson
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	Woodrow Wilson
After Party:	Democratic Party (United States)

The 1916 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 1916. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose 45 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

New York was won by the Republican nominee, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York, and his running mate Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. Hughes and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall.

A former Governor of New York, Hughes won his home state fairly comfortably, taking 51.53% of the vote to Wilson's 44.51%, a victory margin of 7.02%. Coming in a distant third was Socialist candidate Allan L. Benson, who took 2.69%, with a sizeable number of Benson's voters in the state being Jewish Americans in New York City.^[2]

New York during the Fourth Party System was usually a Republican state in presidential elections; however in 1912, a strong third party run by former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt against the incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft had split the Republican vote, and had enabled Woodrow Wilson as the Democratic candidate to win New York State's electoral votes in 1912 with a plurality of only 41%. With the Republicans re-united behind Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, and criticism of Wilson's policies already emanating from the Democrats' Irish-American base,^[3] New York returned to the Republican column, and delivered a fairly comfortable win to Hughes even as Wilson won re-election nationwide. Hughes' 7% margin of victory made New York State a strong 10% more Republican than the national average in the 1916 election.

Nonetheless, this was the last occasion until 1964 that the Democratic Party carried Hamilton County, Schoharie County, Otsego County and Chemung County.^[4] With the exception of Chemung, these were historically German or Dutch^[5] and usually Democratic rural counties that would turn permanently to the GOP amidst the fallout from World War I.^[6]

Hughes' victory in the state made him the second Republican presidential candidate to win New York without winning the election, the first was John C. Frémont in 1856 and the third was Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. Hughes also became the first losing candidate to win the state since Samuel J. Tilden in 1876.

Results

1916 United States presidential election in New York^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Charles Evans Hughes	879,238	51.53%	45
	Democratic	Woodrow Wilson (incumbent)	759,426	44.51%	0
	Socialist	Allan L. Benson	45,944	2.69%	0
	Prohibition	Frank Hanly	19,031	1.12%	0
	Socialist Labor	Arthur E. Reimer	2,666	0.16%	0
Totals			1,706,305	100.0%	45

New York City results

1916 Presidential Election in New York City			Manhattan	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Queens	Staten Island	Total
	Democratic	Woodrow Wilson	139,547	47,870	125,625	31,350	8,843	353,235	50.15%
			52.55%	49.76%	48.79%	45.70%	53.60%
	Republican	Charles Evans Hughes	113,254	40,938	120,752	34,670	7,319	316,933	45.00%
			42.65%	42.55%	46.90%	50.54%	44.36%
	Socialist	Allan L. Benson	12,013	6,995	10,220	2,356	204	31,788	4.51%
			4.52%	7.27%	3.97%	3.43%	1.24%
	Socialist Labor	Arthur E. Reimer	485	306	415	104	23	1,333	0.19%
			0.18%	0.32%	0.16%	0.15%	0.14%
	Prohibition	Frank Hanly	261	95	445	115	109	1,025	0.15%
			0.10%	0.10%	0.17%	0.17%	0.66%
TOTAL			265,560	96,204	257,457	68,595	16,498	704,314	100.00%

Results by county

County	Charles Evans Hughes Republican		Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic		Allan Louis Benson Socialist		James Franklin Hanly Prohibition		Arthur Elmer Reimer Socialist Labor		Margin		Total votes cast^[8]
		%		%		%		%		%		%
	Albany		26,628		58.00%		18,799		40.95%		285		0.62%		159		0.35%		41		0.09%		7,829		17.05%		45,912
	Allegany		6,308		62.57%		3,191		31.65%		94		0.93%		486		4.82%		2		0.02%		3,117		30.92%		10,081
	Bronx		40,938		42.55%		47,870		49.76%		6,995		7.27%		95		0.10%		306		0.32%		-6,932		-7.21%		96,204
	Broome		11,445		53.34%		8,906		41.51%		209		0.97%		883		4.12%		13		0.06%		2,539		11.83%		21,456
	Cattaraugus		8,825		54.49%		6,565		40.53%		377		2.33%		421		2.60%		9		0.06%		2,260		13.95%		16,197
	Cayuga		7,831		53.31%		6,391		43.51%		117		0.80%		336		2.29%		14		0.10%		1,440		9.80%		14,689
	Chautauqua		14,782		62.19%		7,153		30.09%		924		3.89%		864		3.63%		47		0.20%		7,629		32.10%		23,770
	Chemung		6,409		43.59%		7,461		50.74%		220		1.50%		609		4.14%		5		0.03%		-1,052		-7.15%		14,704
	Chenango		5,198		54.77%		3,887		40.96%		54		0.57%		345		3.64%		6		0.06%		1,311		13.81%		9,490
	Clinton		4,986		53.68%		4,130		44.47%		21		0.23%		148		1.59%		3		0.03%		856		9.22%		9,288
	Columbia		5,314		51.35%		4,938		47.71%		24		0.23%		71		0.69%		2		0.02%		376		3.63%		10,349
	Cortland		4,521		59.21%		2,693		35.27%		105		1.38%		314		4.11%		3		0.04%		1,828		23.94%		7,636
	Delaware		6,266		53.74%		4,986		42.76%		153		1.31%		248		2.13%		7		0.06%		1,280		10.98%		11,660
	Dutchess		11,082		54.60%		8,906		43.88%		133		0.66%		151		0.74%		26		0.13%		2,176		10.72%		20,298
	Erie		53,638		52.35%		45,622		44.53%		2,305		2.25%		447		0.44%		448		0.44%		8,016		7.82%		102,460
	Essex		4,643		65.39%		2,373		33.42%		21		0.30%		62		0.87%		1		0.01%		2,270		31.97%		7,100
	Franklin		5,146		57.59%		3,593		40.21%		17		0.19%		172		1.92%		8		0.09%		1,553		17.38%		8,936
	Fulton		5,756		54.35%		4,085		38.57%		425		4.01%		297		2.80%		28		0.26%		1,671		15.78%		10,591
	Genesee		5,590		64.39%		2,802		32.27%		19		0.22%		267		3.08%		4		0.05%		2,788		32.11%		8,682
	Greene		3,649		49.06%		3,622		48.70%		59		0.79%		104		1.40%		4		0.05%		27		0.36%		7,438
	Hamilton		612		48.96%		623		49.84%		3		0.24%		11		0.88%		1		0.08%		-11		-0.88%		1,250
	Herkimer		7,934		54.42%		6,271		43.01%		188		1.29%		176		1.21%		11		0.08%		1,663		11.41%		14,580
	Jefferson		11,197		58.68%		7,089		37.15%		324		1.70%		454		2.38%		17		0.09%		4,108		21.53%		19,081
	Kings		120,752		46.90%		125,625		48.79%		10,220		3.97%		445		0.17%		415		0.16%		-4,873		-1.89%		257,457
	Lewis		3,418		54.90%		2,675		42.96%		12		0.19%		120		1.93%		1		0.02%		743		11.93%		6,226
	Livingston		5,211		57.66%		3,608		39.92%		18		0.20%		196		2.17%		5		0.06%		1,603		17.74%		9,038
	Madison		5,881		57.56%		3,937		38.53%		126		1.23%		260		2.54%		13		0.13%		1,944		19.03%		10,217
	Monroe		39,393		61.68%		21,782		34.11%		1,444		2.26%		1,110		1.74%		134		0.21%		17,611		27.58%		63,863
	Montgomery		6,704		54.57%		5,347		43.52%		112		0.91%		104		0.85%		18		0.15%		1,357		11.05%		12,285
	Nassau		13,910		61.67%		8,430		37.38%		127		0.56%		73		0.32%		15		0.07%		5,480		24.30%		22,555
	New York		113,254		42.65%		139,547		52.55%		12,013		4.52%		261		0.10%		485		0.18%		-26,293		-9.90%		265,560
	Niagara		12,212		57.54%		8,367		39.42%		317		1.49%		312		1.47%		16		0.08%		3,845		18.12%		21,224
	Oneida		18,813		52.54%		16,070		44.88%		367		1.02%		525		1.47%		30		0.08%		2,743		7.66%		35,805
	Onondaga		27,815		55.35%		19,892		39.58%		1,113		2.21%		1,369		2.72%		64		0.13%		7,923		15.77%		50,253
	Ontario		7,491		56.82%		5,286		40.10%		53		0.40%		349		2.65%		4		0.03%		2,205		16.73%		13,183
	Orange		13,619		56.06%		10,198		41.98%		238		0.98%		217		0.89%		23		0.09%		3,421		14.08%		24,295
	Orleans		4,903		64.41%		2,529		33.22%		19		0.25%		159		2.09%		2		0.03%		2,374		31.19%		7,612
	Oswego		9,854		57.72%		6,210		36.38%		46		0.27%		959		5.62%		3		0.02%		3,644		21.34%		17,072
	Otsego		5,926		48.16%		5,975		48.56%		74		0.60%		326		2.65%		3		0.02%		-49		-0.40%		12,304
	Putnam		1,717		56.67%		1,290		42.57%		5		0.17%		18		0.59%		0		0.00%		427		14.09%		3,030
	Queens		34,670		50.54%		31,350		45.70%		2,356		3.43%		115		0.17%		104		0.15%		3,320		4.84%		68,595
	Rensselaer		14,968		51.21%		13,822		47.29%		213		0.73%		201		0.69%		26		0.09%		1,146		3.92%		29,230
	Richmond		7,319		44.36%		8,843		53.60%		204		1.24%		109		0.66%		23		0.14%		-1,524		-9.24%		16,498
	Rockland		5,041		52.19%		4,469		46.27%		85		0.88%		55		0.57%		9		0.09%		572		5.92%		9,659
	Saratoga		8,062		53.00%		6,711		44.12%		154		1.01%		280		1.84%		4		0.03%		1,351		8.88%		15,211
	Schenectady		9,759		47.45%		8,962		43.58%		1,446		7.03%		328		1.59%		71		0.35%		797		3.88%		20,566
	Schoharie		2,851		43.50%		3,457		52.75%		11		0.17%		233		3.56%		2		0.03%		-606		-9.25%		6,554
	Schuyler		1,956		52.38%		1,629		43.63%		13		0.35%		136		3.64%		0		0.00%		327		8.76%		3,734
	Seneca		3,307		50.84%		2,845		43.74%		25		0.38%		327		5.03%		1		0.02%		462		7.10%		6,505
	St. Lawrence		13,142		66.77%		6,056		30.77%		67		0.34%		407		2.07%		11		0.06%		7,086		36.00%		19,683
	Steuben		10,424		53.99%		8,032		41.60%		196		1.02%		645		3.34%		11		0.06%		2,392		12.39%		19,308
	Suffolk		12,742		59.20%		8,422		39.13%		168		0.78%		174		0.81%		16		0.07%		4,320		20.07%		21,522
	Sullivan		4,340		53.05%		3,659		44.73%		110		1.34%		65		0.79%		7		0.09%		681		8.32%		8,181
	Tioga		3,376		52.78%		2,748		42.96%		94		1.47%		172		2.69%		6		0.09%		628		9.82%		6,396
	Tompkins		4,736		54.83%		3,455		40.00%		121		1.40%		316		3.66%		10		0.12%		1,281		14.83%		8,638
	Ulster		10,734		56.58%		7,807		41.15%		71		0.37%		354		1.87%		5		0.03%		2,927		15.43%		18,971
	Warren		4,880		61.47%		2,825		35.58%		126		1.59%		97		1.22%		11		0.14%		2,055		25.88%		7,939
	Washington		7,310		63.77%		3,907		34.08%		108		0.94%		135		1.18%		3		0.03%		3,403		29.69%		11,463
	Wayne		7,465		58.72%		4,797		37.73%		22		0.17%		427		3.36%		2		0.02%		2,668		20.99%		12,713
	Westchester		34,693		59.43%		22,457		38.47%		932		1.60%		195		0.33%		103		0.18%		12,236		20.96%		58,380
	Wyoming		4,952		62.14%		2,783		34.92%		22		0.28%		208		2.61%		4		0.05%		2,169		27.22%		7,969
	Yates		2,940		61.78%		1,666		35.01%		24		0.50%		129		2.71%		0		0.00%		1,274		26.77%		4,759
Totals	879,238	51.53%	759,426	44.51%	45,944	2.69%	19,031	1.12%	2,666	0.16%	119,812	7.02%	1,706,305

See also

• United States presidential elections in New York
• Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

Notes and References

1. Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
2. Sorin, Gerald; The prophetic minority: American Jewish immigrant radicals, 1880-1920, p. 2
3. Lichtman, Allan J.; Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928, p. 103
4. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 261-265
5. Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 121
6. Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 132
7. Web site: 1916 Presidential Election Results - New York. July 27, 2013 . Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas.
8. New York State Board of Elections; 'Vote for Electors of President in 1916'; New York Red Book (1917), p. 480