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Election 1916 Results

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1916 presidential election in California

Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) beat Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) in California in 1916, 46.6% to 46.3%, a margin of 0.4 points and 3,773 votes.

California voted 2.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.1.

California changed party: in 1912 it went third-party, for Theodore Roosevelt.

Democrats led in 42 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 16. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 267,966 votes and went to the Republican by 8.0 points. The closest was Mono, where 22 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Woodrow Wilson won Democratic 466,289 46.6%
Charles Evans Hughes Republican 462,516 46.3%
All other candidates 70,798 7.1%
Total999,603

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 114,115 42.6% 135,554 50.6% 18,297 267,966 R+8.0
San Francisco 78,171 52.4% 63,093 42.3% 7,834 149,098 D+10.1
Alameda 43,654 42.8% 51,417 50.4% 6,966 102,037 R+7.6
San Diego 16,794 46.0% 16,978 46.5% 2,744 36,516 R+0.5
Santa Clara 14,162 43.4% 16,592 50.8% 1,904 32,658 R+7.4
Fresno 14,195 49.9% 11,707 41.1% 2,560 28,462 D+8.7
Sacramento 14,497 54.6% 10,696 40.3% 1,379 26,572 D+14.3
San Bernardino 9,402 39.9% 11,932 50.7% 2,215 23,549 R+10.7
San Joaquin 11,433 55.4% 7,861 38.1% 1,346 20,640 D+17.3
Sonoma 8,372 43.3% 9,733 50.4% 1,214 19,319 R+7.0
Orange 6,482 34.6% 10,609 56.6% 1,663 18,754 R+22.0
Kern 9,574 59.9% 5,611 35.1% 804 15,989 D+24.8
Tulare 7,295 46.9% 6,845 44.0% 1,428 15,568 D+2.9
Riverside 4,561 33.4% 7,452 54.6% 1,626 13,639 R+21.2
Contra Costa 6,091 46.8% 5,731 44.1% 1,188 13,010 D+2.8
Stanislaus 5,470 46.9% 4,401 37.7% 1,796 11,667 D+9.2
Humboldt 4,097 36.2% 5,786 51.2% 1,424 11,307 R+14.9
Santa Barbara 5,196 49.6% 4,453 42.5% 818 10,467 D+7.1
San Mateo 4,482 43.1% 5,207 50.0% 719 10,408 R+7.0
Solano 5,668 58.3% 3,536 36.4% 514 9,718 D+21.9
Butte 4,893 50.6% 3,956 40.9% 825 9,674 D+9.7
Santa Cruz 4,497 47.7% 4,228 44.8% 707 9,432 D+2.9
Marin 3,780 43.8% 4,328 50.1% 530 8,638 R+6.3
Monterey 3,878 48.3% 3,599 44.8% 555 8,032 D+3.5
Mendocino 3,371 45.1% 3,494 46.8% 603 7,468 R+1.6
Napa 3,080 41.3% 3,914 52.5% 459 7,453 R+11.2
Ventura 2,841 39.4% 3,980 55.1% 398 7,219 R+15.8
San Luis Obispo 3,529 49.8% 2,854 40.3% 706 7,089 D+9.5
Imperial 3,270 49.1% 2,694 40.5% 692 6,656 D+8.7
Siskiyou 3,447 57.1% 2,059 34.1% 526 6,032 D+23.0
Placer 3,365 58.2% 1,954 33.8% 462 5,781 D+24.4
Kings 2,896 51.8% 2,221 39.7% 476 5,593 D+12.1
Yolo 2,918 53.1% 2,334 42.5% 245 5,497 D+10.6
Shasta 2,831 52.4% 2,008 37.2% 562 5,401 D+15.2
Merced 2,629 50.3% 2,132 40.8% 467 5,228 D+9.5
Tehama 2,529 52.9% 1,739 36.4% 515 4,783 D+16.5
Nevada 2,551 56.6% 1,586 35.2% 369 4,506 D+21.4
Yuba 1,978 54.5% 1,530 42.1% 124 3,632 D+12.3
Madera 1,883 54.0% 1,323 38.0% 278 3,484 D+16.1
Glenn 1,800 53.9% 1,342 40.2% 197 3,339 D+13.7
San Benito 1,694 51.9% 1,440 44.1% 131 3,265 D+7.8
Colusa 1,992 62.8% 1,011 31.9% 168 3,171 D+30.9
Amador 1,764 56.3% 1,209 38.6% 163 3,136 D+17.7
El Dorado 1,753 57.6% 1,068 35.1% 220 3,041 D+22.5
Tuolumne 1,590 54.3% 1,057 36.1% 281 2,928 D+18.2
Sutter 1,540 53.5% 1,211 42.0% 129 2,880 D+11.4
Calaveras 1,525 53.1% 1,175 40.9% 173 2,873 D+12.2
Lassen 1,322 55.7% 877 37.0% 173 2,372 D+18.8
Lake 1,161 52.1% 791 35.5% 278 2,230 D+16.6
Modoc 1,224 58.3% 768 36.6% 108 2,100 D+21.7
Inyo 968 48.0% 846 41.9% 204 2,018 D+6.0
Plumas 1,023 56.5% 663 36.6% 126 1,812 D+19.9
Mariposa 800 58.2% 451 32.8% 124 1,375 D+25.4
Trinity 659 54.7% 424 35.2% 121 1,204 D+19.5
Del Norte 468 41.2% 499 43.9% 169 1,136 R+2.7
Sierra 594 58.3% 360 35.4% 64 1,018 D+23.0
Mono 159 48.6% 137 41.9% 31 327 D+6.7
Alpine 23 27.7% 60 72.3% 83 R+44.6

Counties as they stood in 1916; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5