The 1916 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Nevada was won by incumbent President of the United States, former Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson, who won the state by a comfortable margin of nearly seventeen points and carried every county in the state except Douglas, a county that since statehood has voted Democratic only for William Jennings Bryan in the "free silver" elections of 1896 and 1900 and for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt landslides of 1932 and 1936.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 Nevada voted more than 5% more Democratic than the nation as a whole,Counting the Votes; Nevada an anomaly exceeded only by Bryan and Roosevelt in their first two elections each, as well as by Barack Obama in 2008.
Results + General Election ResultsParty Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party Woodrow Wilson Robert L. Douglass17,776 Democratic Party Woodrow Wilson Joseph L. Earl17,673 Democratic Party Woodrow Wilson James T. Goodin17,661 Republican Party Charles Evans Hughes Walter R. Bracken12,127 Republican Party Charles Evans Hughes P. L. Flanigan12,082 Republican Party Charles Evans Hughes Allen G. McBride12,068 Socialist Party Allan Benson Jud Harris3,065 Socialist Party Allan Benson Mrs. Nellie T. Ziegler3,038 Socialist Party Allan Benson J. E. Rearick3,032 Prohibition Party Frank Hanly George W. Ingalls348 Prohibition Party Frank Hanly Mortimer J. Swander347 Prohibition Party Frank Hanly Ida M. Ashbury346Votes cast 33,316
Results by county CountyThomas Woodrow WilsonDemocraticCharles Evans HughesRepublicanAllan Louis BensonNevada Secretary of State Elections Division; Official Returns of Election of November 7, 1916, p. 20SocialistJames Franklin HanlyProhibitionMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#%#% Churchill 831 53.51% 531 34.19% 184 11.85% 7 0.45% 300 19.32% 1,553 Clark 1,115 60.17% 529 28.55% 194 10.47% 15 0.81% 586 31.62% 1,853 Douglas 301 43.50% 337 48.70% 43 6.21% 11 1.59% -36 -5.20% 692 Elko 2,020 60.32% 1,072 32.01% 225 6.72% 32 0.96% 948 28.31% 3,349 Esmeralda 1,135 49.76% 709 31.08% 418 18.33% 19 0.83% 426 18.68% 2,281 Eureka 263 50.58% 239 45.96% 15 2.88% 3 0.58% 24 4.62% 520 Humboldt 1,681 56.03% 1,004 33.47% 291 9.70% 24 0.80% 677 22.56% 3,000 Lander 473 50.81% 321 34.48% 130 13.96% 7 0.75% 152 16.33% 931 Lincoln 634 71.16% 202 22.67% 51 5.72% 4 0.45% 432 48.49% 891 Lyon 769 47.03% 669 40.92% 174 10.64% 23 1.41% 100 6.11% 1,635 Mineral 617 55.69% 385 34.75% 99 8.94% 7 0.63% 232 20.94% 1,108 Nye 1,601 50.50% 1,019 32.15% 536 16.91% 14 0.44% 582 18.35% 3,170 Ormsby 610 49.71% 534 43.52% 63 5.13% 20 1.63% 76 6.19% 1,227 Storey 463 52.61% 403 45.80% 6 0.68% 8 0.91% 60 6.81% 880 Washoe 3,341 47.07% 3,225 45.44% 397 5.59% 135 1.90% 116 1.63% 7,098White Pine 1,922 61.45% 948 30.31% 239 7.64% 19 0.61% 974 31.14% 3,128Totals17,77653.36%12,12736.40%3,0659.20%3481.04%5,64916.96%33,316
Counties that flipped from Progressive to Democratic Lander
Counties that flipped from Progressive to Republican Douglas
See also United States presidential elections in Nevada
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