1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota
Election in South Dakota
1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota
County Results
Hughes
40-50%
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
80-90%
Wilson
40-50%
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
The 1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 7 , 1916 , as part of the 1916 United States presidential election in which all contemporary forty-eight states participated. Voters chose five electors, or representatives to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president.
South Dakota voted for the Republican nominee, Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes of New York , over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey . Hughes won South Dakota by a close margin of 3.90%; alongside Oregon , South Dakota was the only state that Hughes won in the Great Plains or westward.
Hughes’ victory was largely due to the powerful GOP loyalty of East River German-Americans , who feared that Wilson's pro-British and pro-French sentiments would lead the United States to involve itself in war with Germany .[1] In contrast, the more Anglo-Saxon West River counties strongly supported Wilson's Southern roots and prohibitionist leanings.[2] Despite his loss, Wilson's 45.91% was the best performance in the state by a Democrat since William Jennings Bryan won the state in a fusion with the Populist Party two decades before , and would be beaten only six times in the ensuing century.
As of the 2020 presidential election [update] , this is the last election that Lawrence County voted for the Democratic presidential candidate, and the last election that South Dakota voted for a different presidential candidate than neighboring North Dakota .[3] [4]
Results
Results by county
County[6]
Charles Evans Hughes Republican
Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic
Allan Louis Benson Socialist
James Franklin Hanly Prohibition
Margin
Total votes cast
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
Aurora
735
46.05%
793
49.69%
23
1.44%
45
2.82%
-58
-3.63%
1,596
Beadle
1,662
45.72%
1,828
50.29%
121
3.33%
24
0.66%
-166
-4.57%
3,635
Bennett
67
22.56%
222
74.75%
4
1.35%
4
1.35%
-155
-52.19%
297
Bon Homme
1,231
47.92%
1,278
49.75%
40
1.56%
20
0.78%
-47
-1.83%
2,569
Brookings
1,638
51.79%
1,385
43.79%
46
1.45%
94
2.97%
253
8.00%
3,163
Brown
2,659
45.19%
2,676
45.48%
472
8.02%
77
1.31%
-17
-0.29%
5,884
Brule
729
41.66%
975
55.71%
40
2.29%
6
0.34%
-246
-14.06%
1,750
Buffalo
80
30.19%
182
68.68%
1
0.38%
2
0.75%
-102
-38.49%
265
Butte
537
33.31%
930
57.69%
135
8.37%
10
0.62%
-393
-24.38%
1,612
Campbell
644
77.40%
163
19.59%
14
1.68%
11
1.32%
481
57.81%
832
Charles Mix
1,450
41.26%
2,011
57.23%
41
1.17%
12
0.34%
-561
-15.96%
3,514
Clark
1,226
52.71%
1,016
43.68%
28
1.20%
56
2.41%
210
9.03%
2,326
Clay
1,000
44.52%
1,207
53.74%
25
1.11%
14
0.62%
-207
-9.22%
2,246
Codington
1,550
51.82%
1,344
44.93%
47
1.57%
50
1.67%
206
6.89%
2,991
Corson
503
42.20%
641
53.78%
41
3.44%
7
0.59%
-138
-11.58%
1,192
Custer
392
42.11%
488
52.42%
50
5.37%
1
0.11%
-96
-10.31%
931
Davison
1,516
50.48%
1,374
45.75%
67
2.23%
46
1.53%
142
4.73%
3,003
Day
1,758
61.21%
907
31.58%
121
4.21%
86
2.99%
851
29.63%
2,872
Deuel
908
59.35%
584
38.17%
14
0.92%
24
1.57%
324
21.18%
1,530
Dewey
352
47.00%
379
50.60%
14
1.87%
4
0.53%
-27
-3.60%
749
Douglas
815
57.48%
597
42.10%
3
0.21%
3
0.21%
218
15.37%
1,418
Edmunds
894
55.46%
634
39.33%
41
2.54%
43
2.67%
260
16.13%
1,612
Fall River
668
40.63%
922
56.08%
44
2.68%
10
0.61%
-254
-15.45%
1,644
Faulk
759
52.89%
629
43.83%
25
1.74%
22
1.53%
130
9.06%
1,435
Grant
1,098
55.31%
772
38.89%
48
2.42%
67
3.38%
326
16.42%
1,985
Gregory
1,434
51.86%
1,242
44.92%
72
2.60%
17
0.61%
192
6.94%
2,765
Haakon
399
41.05%
475
48.87%
86
8.85%
12
1.23%
-76
-7.82%
972
Hamlin
1,039
57.82%
692
38.51%
30
1.67%
36
2.00%
347
19.31%
1,797
Hand
801
44.95%
905
50.79%
49
2.75%
27
1.52%
-104
-5.84%
1,782
Hanson
767
51.10%
712
47.44%
9
0.60%
13
0.87%
55
3.66%
1,501
Harding
520
41.57%
597
47.72%
119
9.51%
15
1.20%
-77
-6.16%
1,251
Hughes
611
51.13%
536
44.85%
39
3.26%
9
0.75%
75
6.28%
1,195
Hutchinson
1,636
73.20%
519
23.22%
53
2.37%
27
1.21%
1,117
49.98%
2,235
Hyde
438
55.58%
305
38.71%
40
5.08%
5
0.63%
133
16.88%
788
Jackson
283
49.39%
279
48.69%
6
1.05%
5
0.87%
4
0.70%
573
Jerauld
612
48.42%
589
46.60%
5
0.40%
58
4.59%
23
1.82%
1,264
Kingsbury
1,339
51.80%
1,096
42.40%
70
2.71%
80
3.09%
243
9.40%
2,585
Lake
1,398
55.04%
1,027
40.43%
92
3.62%
23
0.91%
371
14.61%
2,540
Lawrence
2,074
47.51%
2,157
49.42%
114
2.61%
20
0.46%
-83
-1.90%
4,365
Lincoln
1,591
60.29%
936
35.47%
62
2.35%
50
1.89%
655
24.82%
2,639
Lyman
981
45.65%
1,052
48.95%
99
4.61%
17
0.79%
-71
-3.30%
2,149
Marshall
808
45.57%
885
49.92%
56
3.16%
24
1.35%
-77
-4.34%
1,773
McCook
1,194
52.19%
1,021
44.62%
49
2.14%
24
1.05%
173
7.56%
2,288
McPherson
992
80.06%
224
18.08%
16
1.29%
7
0.56%
768
61.99%
1,239
Meade
858
38.25%
1,224
54.57%
141
6.29%
20
0.89%
-366
-16.32%
2,243
Mellette
379
45.55%
436
52.40%
15
1.80%
2
0.24%
-57
-6.85%
832
Miner
1,006
52.21%
880
45.67%
24
1.25%
17
0.88%
126
6.54%
1,927
Minnehaha
4,318
52.64%
3,494
42.59%
197
2.40%
194
2.36%
824
10.05%
8,203
Moody
973
49.09%
898
45.31%
89
4.49%
22
1.11%
75
3.78%
1,982
Pennington
1,108
42.73%
1,339
51.64%
122
4.70%
24
0.93%
-231
-8.91%
2,593
Perkins
890
45.41%
939
47.91%
118
6.02%
13
0.66%
-49
-2.50%
1,960
Potter
512
54.58%
408
43.50%
7
0.75%
11
1.17%
104
11.09%
938
Roberts
1,259
47.17%
1,191
44.62%
187
7.01%
32
1.20%
68
2.55%
2,669
Sanborn
711
42.00%
898
53.04%
28
1.65%
56
3.31%
-187
-11.05%
1,693
Spink
1,660
48.61%
1,622
47.50%
74
2.17%
59
1.73%
38
1.11%
3,415
Stanley
254
38.25%
381
57.38%
19
2.86%
10
1.51%
-127
-19.13%
664
Sully
281
50.45%
268
48.11%
8
1.44%
0
0.00%
13
2.33%
557
Tripp
1,074
43.57%
1,341
54.40%
40
1.62%
10
0.41%
-267
-10.83%
2,465
Turner
1,573
56.93%
1,134
41.04%
18
0.65%
38
1.38%
439
15.89%
2,763
Union
1,108
44.95%
1,313
53.27%
19
0.77%
25
1.01%
-205
-8.32%
2,465
Walworth
761
55.03%
590
42.66%
28
2.02%
4
0.29%
171
12.36%
1,383
Yankton
1,429
48.66%
1,438
48.96%
45
1.53%
25
0.85%
-9
-0.31%
2,937
Ziebach
275
54.89%
211
42.12%
10
2.00%
5
1.00%
64
12.77%
501
Totals
64,217
49.80%
59,191
45.91%
3,760
2.92%
1,774
1.38%
5,026
3.90%
128,942
See also
References
^ Phillips, Kevin P. ; The Emerging Republican Majority , pp. 419-420 ISBN 9780691163246
^ Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority , p. 424
^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 , pp. 294-298 ISBN 0786422173
^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’ ; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review ; June 29, 2016
^ "1916 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota" . Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
^ South Dakota Secretary of State; ‘Official Vote of South Dakota by Counties November Election, 1916’; South Dakota Manual 1917 , pp. 458-461