See main article: 1916 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1916 United States presidential election in Wyoming |
| Country: | Wyoming |
| Flag Year: | 1923 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1912 United States presidential election in Wyoming |
| Previous Year: | 1912 |
| Next Election: | 1920 United States presidential election in Wyoming |
| Next Year: | 1920 |
| Election Date: | November 7, 1916 |
| 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: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 28,316 |
| Percentage1: | 54.62% |
| Nominee2: | Charles Evans Hughes |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | New York |
| Running Mate2: | Charles W. Fairbanks |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 21,698 |
| Percentage2: | 41.86% |
| Map Size: | 290px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Woodrow Wilson |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Before Color: | FF3333 |
| After Election: | Woodrow Wilson |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Color: | FF3333 |
The 1916 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
In 1912, Wyoming had been the eighth-best state for embattled Republican nominee William Howard Taft.[1] However, in contrast to the East where supporters of Theodore Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Party rapidly returned to the Republicans, in the Mountain 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.[2] Another factor helping President Woodrow Wilson was a powerful "peace vote" in the Western states[3] due to opposition to participation in World War I, and a third was that a considerable part of the substantial vote for Eugene Debs from the previous election was turned over to Wilson owing to such Progressive reforms as the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments.[2]
Consequently, Wilson was able not merely to hold Wyoming from 1912, but to increase his margin by over ten percentage points to carry the state by 12.76 percent. This is the third best Democratic performance in the history of presidential elections in Wyoming, behind Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide wins in 1932 and 1936.[4] Wilson became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the counties of Carbon, Converse, Lincoln, Natrona, Niobrara, and Washakie.[5], this election is the last time Wyoming has voted more Democratic than the nation at-large.
| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic | Charles Evans Hughes Republican | Allan Louis Benson Socialist | James Franklin Hanly Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast[6] | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Albany | 1,571 | 52.45% | 1,313 | 43.84% | 73 | 3.71% | 38 | 1.27% | 258 | 8.61% | 2,995 | ||||||||||||
| Big Horn | 1,493 | 53.92% | 1,239 | 44.75% | 29 | 1.34% | 8 | 0.29% | 254 | 9.17% | 2,769 | ||||||||||||
| Campbell | 690 | 59.48% | 448 | 38.62% | 12 | 1.90% | 10 | 0.86% | 242 | 20.86% | 1,160 | ||||||||||||
| Carbon | 1,661 | 54.58% | 1,217 | 39.99% | 155 | 5.42% | 10 | 0.33% | 444 | 14.59% | 3,043 | ||||||||||||
| Converse | 879 | 52.32% | 766 | 45.60% | 20 | 2.08% | 15 | 0.89% | 113 | 6.72% | 1,680 | ||||||||||||
| Crook | 1,181 | 56.59% | 846 | 40.54% | 51 | 2.87% | 9 | 0.43% | 335 | 16.05% | 2,087 | ||||||||||||
| Fremont | 1,752 | 53.89% | 1,407 | 43.28% | 75 | 2.83% | 17 | 0.52% | 345 | 10.61% | 3,251 | ||||||||||||
| Goshen | 1,096 | 56.61% | 770 | 39.77% | 49 | 3.62% | 21 | 1.08% | 326 | 16.84% | 1,936 | ||||||||||||
| Hot Springs | 760 | 54.25% | 523 | 37.33% | 95 | 8.42% | 23 | 1.64% | 237 | 16.92% | 1,401 | ||||||||||||
| Johnson | 812 | 49.03% | 814 | 49.15% | 28 | 1.81% | 2 | 0.12% | -2 | -0.12% | 1,656 | ||||||||||||
| Laramie | 2,759 | 51.86% | 2,428 | 45.64% | 78 | 2.50% | 55 | 1.03% | 331 | 6.22% | 5,320 | ||||||||||||
| Lincoln | 2,378 | 60.11% | 1,426 | 36.05% | 142 | 3.84% | 10 | 0.25% | 952 | 24.06% | 3,956 | ||||||||||||
| Natrona | 1,377 | 59.17% | 912 | 39.19% | 30 | 1.63% | 8 | 0.34% | 465 | 19.98% | 2,327 | ||||||||||||
| Niobrara | 599 | 51.28% | 533 | 45.63% | 14 | 3.08% | 22 | 1.88% | 66 | 5.65% | 1,168 | ||||||||||||
| Park | 1,146 | 49.21% | 1,092 | 46.89% | 69 | 3.91% | 22 | 0.94% | 54 | 2.32% | 2,329 | ||||||||||||
| Platte | 1,276 | 58.08% | 806 | 36.69% | 62 | 5.23% | 53 | 2.41% | 470 | 21.39% | 2,197 | ||||||||||||
| Sheridan | 2,906 | 57.57% | 1,914 | 37.92% | 205 | 4.52% | 23 | 0.46% | 992 | 19.65% | 5,048 | ||||||||||||
| Sweetwater | 1,496 | 50.90% | 1,287 | 43.79% | 152 | 5.31% | 4 | 0.14% | 209 | 7.11% | 2,939 | ||||||||||||
| Uinta | 1,295 | 59.57% | 822 | 37.81% | 51 | 2.62% | 6 | 0.28% | 473 | 21.76% | 2,174 | ||||||||||||
| Washakie | 455 | 55.62% | 344 | 42.05% | 16 | 2.32% | 3 | 0.37% | 111 | 13.57% | 818 | ||||||||||||
| Weston | 734 | 46.28% | 791 | 49.87% | 47 | 3.85% | 14 | 0.88% | -57 | -3.59% | 1,586 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 28,316 | 54.62% | 21,698 | 41.86% | 1,453 | 2.80% | 373 | 0.72% | 6,618 | 12.76% | 51,840 | ||||||||||||