1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas
The 1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Arkansas voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Background
Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.[1] Disfranchisement during the 1890s of effectively all Negroes and most poor whites had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. Although the northwest of the state was to develop a strong Socialist Party movement that served as a swing vote in county elections,[2] political repression[3] and internal party divisions[4] diminished that party's strength substantially.
The Democratic Party, under the influence of future federal Senate Minority and Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson and demagogic Governor and Senator Jeff Davis, was to make many familiar progressive changes in railroad regulation and child labor,[5] but under the administration of George W. Donaghey – who saw his administration and Democratic primary candidacy as a fight against the “Davis Machine”[6] – more rapid development occurred, especially in abolishing convict leasing and improving bank regulation.[7]
Vote
Arkansas voted powerfully for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson, over the Republican nominee, Supreme Court justice Charles Evans Hughes. Wilson, aided by his support for Prohibition and opposition to involvement in World War I, was able to surpass William Jennings Bryan’s performance in any of his three elections.
Results
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
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| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Woodrow Wilson | Democrat | New Jersey | 112,189 | 66.64% | 9 | Thomas R. Marshall | Indiana | 9 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Republican | New York | 47,153 | 28.01% | 0 | Charles W. Fairbanks | Indiana | 0 |
| Allan L. Benson | Socialist | New York | 7,098 | 4.22% | 0 | George Ross Kirkpatrick | New Jersey | 0 |
| Frank Hanly | Prohibition | Indiana | 1,914 | 1.14% | 0 | Ira Landrith | Tennessee | 0 |
| Total | 168,354 | 100% | 9 | 9 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
Results by county
| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
Charles Evans Hughes Republican |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[8] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Arkansas | 1,119 | 62.44% | 613 | 34.21% | 60 | 3.35% | 506 | 28.24% | 1,792 |
| Ashley | 1,519 | 74.94% | 463 | 22.84% | 45 | 2.22% | 1,056 | 52.43% | 2,027 |
| Baxter | 914 | 68.88% | 318 | 23.96% | 95 | 7.16% | 596 | 44.91% | 1,327 |
| Benton | 3,105 | 66.49% | 1,292 | 27.67% | 273 | 5.85% | 1,813 | 38.82% | 4,670 |
| Boone | 1,411 | 66.56% | 598 | 28.21% | 111 | 5.24% | 813 | 38.35% | 2,120 |
| Bradley | 1,159 | 73.40% | 314 | 19.89% | 106 | 6.71% | 845 | 53.51% | 1,579 |
| Calhoun | 914 | 72.25% | 275 | 21.74% | 76 | 6.01% | 639 | 50.51% | 1,265 |
| Carroll | 1,512 | 56.71% | 1,034 | 38.78% | 120 | 4.50% | 478 | 17.93% | 2,666 |
| Chicot | 560 | 52.43% | 472 | 44.19% | 36 | 3.37% | 88 | 8.24% | 1,068 |
| Clark | 1,975 | 69.35% | 824 | 28.93% | 49 | 1.72% | 1,151 | 40.41% | 2,848 |
| Clay | 1,949 | 62.99% | 972 | 31.42% | 173 | 5.59% | 977 | 31.58% | 3,094 |
| Cleburne | 865 | 67.00% | 271 | 20.99% | 155 | 12.01% | 594 | 46.01% | 1,291 |
| Cleveland | 1,128 | 81.74% | 230 | 16.67% | 22 | 1.59% | 898 | 65.07% | 1,380 |
| Columbia | 2,074 | 73.44% | 720 | 25.50% | 30 | 1.06% | 1,354 | 47.95% | 2,824 |
| Conway | 1,400 | 55.69% | 1,030 | 40.97% | 84 | 3.34% | 370 | 14.72% | 2,514 |
| Craighead | 1,957 | 73.02% | 543 | 20.26% | 180 | 6.72% | 1,414 | 52.76% | 2,680 |
| Crawford | 1,622 | 55.53% | 1,195 | 40.91% | 104 | 3.56% | 427 | 14.62% | 2,921 |
| Crittenden | 562 | 84.89% | 91 | 13.75% | 9 | 1.36% | 471 | 71.15% | 662 |
| Cross | 927 | 73.98% | 252 | 20.11% | 74 | 5.91% | 675 | 53.87% | 1,253 |
| Dallas | 1,150 | 66.05% | 524 | 30.10% | 67 | 3.85% | 626 | 35.96% | 1,741 |
| Desha | 960 | 71.11% | 369 | 27.33% | 21 | 1.56% | 591 | 43.78% | 1,350 |
| Drew | 1,627 | 64.79% | 836 | 33.29% | 48 | 1.91% | 791 | 31.50% | 2,511 |
| Faulkner | 2,031 | 66.94% | 817 | 26.93% | 186 | 6.13% | 1,214 | 40.01% | 3,034 |
| Franklin | 1,679 | 69.35% | 586 | 24.20% | 156 | 6.44% | 1,093 | 45.15% | 2,421 |
| Fulton | 1,094 | 67.36% | 388 | 23.89% | 142 | 8.74% | 706 | 43.47% | 1,624 |
| Garland | 1,670 | 57.57% | 1,055 | 36.37% | 176 | 6.07% | 615 | 21.20% | 2,901 |
| Grant | 957 | 80.96% | 188 | 15.91% | 37 | 3.13% | 769 | 65.06% | 1,182 |
| Greene | 2,292 | 78.01% | 529 | 18.01% | 117 | 3.98% | 1,763 | 60.01% | 2,938 |
| Hempstead | 2,089 | 59.40% | 1,225 | 34.83% | 203 | 5.77% | 864 | 24.57% | 3,517 |
| Hot Spring | 1,429 | 66.56% | 625 | 29.11% | 93 | 4.33% | 804 | 37.45% | 2,147 |
| Howard | 1,316 | 67.66% | 545 | 28.02% | 84 | 4.32% | 771 | 39.64% | 1,945 |
| Independence | 1,987 | 68.35% | 762 | 26.21% | 158 | 5.44% | 1,225 | 42.14% | 2,907 |
| Izard | 1,267 | 79.74% | 285 | 17.94% | 37 | 2.33% | 982 | 61.80% | 1,589 |
| Jackson | 1,351 | 66.91% | 473 | 23.43% | 195 | 9.66% | 878 | 43.49% | 2,019 |
| Jefferson | 2,173 | 68.18% | 921 | 28.90% | 93 | 2.92% | 1,252 | 39.28% | 3,187 |
| Johnson | 1,479 | 65.91% | 573 | 25.53% | 192 | 8.56% | 906 | 40.37% | 2,244 |
| Lafayette | 891 | 69.77% | 368 | 28.82% | 18 | 1.41% | 523 | 40.96% | 1,277 |
| Lawrence | 1,706 | 81.05% | 298 | 14.16% | 101 | 4.80% | 1,408 | 66.89% | 2,105 |
| Lee | 848 | 70.02% | 353 | 29.15% | 10 | 0.83% | 495 | 40.88% | 1,211 |
| Lincoln | 887 | 65.70% | 448 | 33.19% | 15 | 1.11% | 439 | 32.52% | 1,350 |
| Little River | 843 | 65.50% | 363 | 28.21% | 81 | 6.29% | 480 | 37.30% | 1,287 |
| Logan | 2,015 | 59.88% | 1,185 | 35.22% | 165 | 4.90% | 830 | 24.67% | 3,365 |
| Lonoke | 2,178 | 77.87% | 515 | 18.41% | 104 | 3.72% | 1,663 | 59.46% | 2,797 |
| Madison | 1,456 | 50.38% | 1,332 | 46.09% | 102 | 3.53% | 124 | 4.29% | 2,890 |
| Marion | 781 | 63.34% | 274 | 22.22% | 178 | 14.44% | 507 | 41.12% | 1,233 |
| Miller | 1,418 | 73.36% | 402 | 20.80% | 113 | 5.85% | 1,016 | 52.56% | 1,933 |
| Mississippi | 1,249 | 68.89% | 417 | 23.00% | 147 | 8.11% | 832 | 45.89% | 1,813 |
| Monroe | 741 | 57.35% | 508 | 39.32% | 43 | 3.33% | 233 | 18.03% | 1,292 |
| Montgomery | 939 | 58.91% | 432 | 27.10% | 223 | 13.99% | 507 | 31.81% | 1,594 |
| Nevada | 1,376 | 63.62% | 651 | 30.10% | 136 | 6.29% | 725 | 33.52% | 2,163 |
| Newton | 550 | 41.23% | 675 | 50.60% | 109 | 8.17% | -125 | -9.37% | 1,334 |
| Ouachita | 1,390 | 58.01% | 970 | 40.48% | 36 | 1.50% | 420 | 17.53% | 2,396 |
| Perry | 973 | 65.04% | 435 | 29.08% | 88 | 5.88% | 538 | 35.96% | 1,496 |
| Phillips | 1,466 | 71.90% | 552 | 27.07% | 21 | 1.03% | 914 | 44.83% | 2,039 |
| Pike | 1,178 | 64.16% | 605 | 32.95% | 53 | 2.89% | 573 | 31.21% | 1,836 |
| Poinsett | 1,174 | 67.90% | 511 | 29.55% | 44 | 2.54% | 663 | 38.35% | 1,729 |
| Polk | 1,242 | 66.03% | 443 | 23.55% | 196 | 10.42% | 799 | 42.48% | 1,881 |
| Pope | 2,145 | 70.37% | 783 | 25.69% | 120 | 3.94% | 1,362 | 44.69% | 3,048 |
| Prairie | 1,061 | 59.27% | 654 | 36.54% | 75 | 4.19% | 407 | 22.74% | 1,790 |
| Pulaski | 6,008 | 65.26% | 2,593 | 28.17% | 605 | 6.57% | 3,415 | 37.10% | 9,206 |
| Randolph | 1,553 | 74.66% | 458 | 22.02% | 69 | 3.32% | 1,095 | 52.64% | 2,080 |
| St. Francis | 960 | 67.56% | 395 | 27.80% | 66 | 4.64% | 565 | 39.76% | 1,421 |
| Saline | 1,567 | 81.11% | 231 | 11.96% | 134 | 6.94% | 1,336 | 69.15% | 1,932 |
| Scott | 1,365 | 68.15% | 487 | 24.31% | 151 | 7.54% | 878 | 43.83% | 2,003 |
| Searcy | 629 | 37.62% | 919 | 54.96% | 124 | 7.42% | -290 | -17.34% | 1,672 |
| Sebastian | 3,719 | 68.14% | 1,366 | 25.03% | 373 | 6.83% | 2,353 | 43.11% | 5,458 |
| Sevier | 1,265 | 73.38% | 240 | 13.92% | 219 | 12.70% | 1,025 | 59.45% | 1,724 |
| Sharp | 972 | 73.58% | 251 | 19.00% | 98 | 7.42% | 721 | 54.58% | 1,321 |
| Stone | 682 | 64.40% | 298 | 28.14% | 79 | 7.46% | 384 | 36.26% | 1,059 |
| Union | 1,691 | 77.21% | 273 | 12.47% | 226 | 10.32% | 1,418 | 64.75% | 2,190 |
| Van Buren | 1,272 | 60.26% | 742 | 35.15% | 97 | 4.59% | 530 | 25.11% | 2,111 |
| Washington | 2,922 | 61.23% | 1,625 | 34.05% | 225 | 4.72% | 1,297 | 27.18% | 4,772 |
| White | 2,820 | 74.27% | 673 | 17.72% | 304 | 8.01% | 2,147 | 56.54% | 3,797 |
| Woodruff | 935 | 66.36% | 438 | 31.09% | 36 | 2.56% | 497 | 35.27% | 1,409 |
| Yell | 2,099 | 67.67% | 782 | 25.21% | 221 | 7.12% | 1,317 | 42.46% | 3,102 |
| Totals | 112,189 | 66.64% | 47,153 | 28.01% | 8,999 | 5.35% | 65,036 | 38.63% | 168,341 |
References
- See Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger; Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71, p. 32 ISBN 1557282005
- Reed, Roy; Faubus: the Life and Times of American Prodigal, p. 32 ISBN 1610751485
- Green, James R.; Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943, p. 316-318 ISBN 0807107735
- Reed; Faubus, p. 33
- Moneyhon, Carl H.; Arkansas and the New South: 1874-1929, p. 121 ISBN 1610750284
- Moneyhon; Arkansas and the New South, p. 122
- Whayne, Jeannie M.; DeBlack, Thomas A.; Sabo, George and Arnold, Morris S.; Arkansas: A Narrative History, p. 302 ISBN 155728993X
- Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 139-145 ISBN 9780804716963
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