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Election 1916 Results

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1916 presidential election in Colorado

Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) beat Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) in Colorado in 1916, 60.7% to 34.8%, a margin of 26.0 points and 76,508 votes.

Colorado voted 22.9 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.1.

The Democratic hold continued from 1912, when Woodrow Wilson also won.

Democrats led in 62 of the 63 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 1. The largest, Denver, cast 68,062 votes and went to the Democrat by 29.3 points. The closest was Sedgwick, where 2 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Woodrow Wilson won	Democratic	178,816	60.7%
Charles Evans Hughes	Republican	102,308	34.8%
All other candidates		13,251	4.5%
Total		294,375

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Denver	42,849 63.0%	22,931 33.7%	2,282	68,062	D+29.3
Pueblo	10,445 59.2%	6,336 35.9%	861	17,642	D+23.3
El Paso	8,336 51.1%	7,091 43.4%	895	16,322	D+7.6
Weld	8,588 59.1%	5,397 37.2%	541	14,526	D+22.0
Boulder	7,443 61.5%	4,004 33.1%	664	12,111	D+28.4
Las Animas	5,322 58.4%	3,551 39.0%	240	9,113	D+19.4
Larimer	4,552 58.6%	2,733 35.2%	484	7,769	D+23.4
Mesa	4,409 59.5%	2,229 30.1%	775	7,413	D+29.4
Otero	3,975 57.2%	2,684 38.6%	287	6,946	D+18.6
Fremont	3,356 56.9%	2,227 37.8%	310	5,893	D+19.2
Teller	3,512 64.2%	1,698 31.1%	257	5,467	D+33.2
Jefferson	3,246 59.9%	2,012 37.1%	162	5,420	D+22.8
Delta	2,824 59.1%	1,606 33.6%	351	4,781	D+25.5
Huerfano	2,569 55.7%	1,976 42.9%	65	4,610	D+12.9
Arapahoe	2,662 62.6%	1,437 33.8%	154	4,253	D+28.8
Logan	2,646 62.8%	1,425 33.8%	143	4,214	D+29.0
Montrose	2,594 61.9%	1,303 31.1%	293	4,190	D+30.8
Yuma	2,447 59.1%	1,432 34.6%	258	4,137	D+24.5
Prowers	2,151 52.2%	1,669 40.5%	301	4,121	D+11.7
Morgan	2,390 58.5%	1,544 37.8%	150	4,084	D+20.7
La Plata	2,605 68.0%	1,043 27.2%	182	3,830	D+40.8
Garfield	2,484 65.1%	1,137 29.8%	196	3,817	D+35.3
Lake	2,587 68.4%	963 25.5%	231	3,781	D+43.0
Chaffee	2,515 72.4%	856 24.6%	104	3,475	D+47.7
Adams	2,112 61.7%	1,161 33.9%	149	3,422	D+27.8
Lincoln	1,693 56.9%	1,126 37.8%	157	2,976	D+19.1
Routt	1,959 66.9%	839 28.6%	132	2,930	D+38.2
Washington	1,752 60.1%	998 34.3%	163	2,913	D+25.9
Kit Carson	1,539 56.5%	1,008 37.0%	178	2,725	D+19.5
Rio Grande	1,746 64.4%	887 32.7%	77	2,710	D+31.7
Conejos	1,731 64.8%	917 34.3%	23	2,671	D+30.5
Gunnison	1,617 65.3%	730 29.5%	129	2,476	D+35.8
Bent	1,482 61.4%	843 35.0%	87	2,412	D+26.5
Baca	1,266 54.3%	830 35.6%	237	2,333	D+18.7
Elbert	1,218 53.8%	934 41.2%	113	2,265	D+12.5
Crowley	1,160 56.5%	806 39.3%	87	2,053	D+17.2
Saguache	1,250 63.1%	676 34.1%	55	1,981	D+29.0
San Miguel	1,311 66.3%	586 29.7%	79	1,976	D+36.7
Montezuma	1,453 74.4%	417 21.3%	84	1,954	D+53.0
Alamosa	1,309 69.9%	491 26.2%	72	1,872	D+43.7
Clear Creek	1,291 71.6%	477 26.4%	36	1,804	D+45.1
Kiowa	862 51.2%	666 39.5%	157	1,685	D+11.6
Costilla	1,053 62.5%	568 33.7%	63	1,684	D+28.8
Eagle	1,129 72.3%	388 24.9%	44	1,561	D+47.5
Cheyenne	797 55.1%	556 38.5%	93	1,446	D+16.7
Ouray	971 67.8%	400 27.9%	61	1,432	D+39.9
Douglas	815 57.0%	596 41.7%	19	1,430	D+15.3
Phillips	782 56.7%	530 38.4%	67	1,379	D+18.3
Archuleta	825 63.4%	456 35.0%	21	1,302	D+28.3
Moffat	736 57.2%	514 39.9%	37	1,287	D+17.2
Pitkin	896 70.9%	263 20.8%	105	1,264	D+50.1
Rio Blanco	698 59.3%	466 39.6%	14	1,178	D+19.7
Gilpin	739 64.0%	394 34.1%	21	1,154	D+29.9
Sedgwick	520 46.3%	522 46.4%	82	1,124	R+0.2
Park	668 62.4%	370 34.5%	33	1,071	D+27.8
Grand	624 61.2%	379 37.2%	16	1,019	D+24.0
Summit	716 70.5%	265 26.1%	35	1,016	D+44.4
San Juan	691 69.9%	216 21.8%	82	989	D+48.0
Custer	537 55.0%	398 40.7%	42	977	D+14.2
Jackson	334 66.7%	158 31.5%	9	501	D+35.1
Mineral	274 60.4%	132 29.1%	48	454	D+31.3
Dolores	254 76.5%	48 14.5%	30	332	D+62.0
Hinsdale	179 59.3%	93 30.8%	30	302	D+28.5

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.

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+11.0
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+13.5
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+4.9
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+5.4
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+9.0
2004	George W. Bush (R)	R+4.7
2000	George W. Bush (R)	R+8.4
1996	Bob Dole (R)	R+1.4
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+4.3
1988	George H. W. Bush (R)	R+7.8
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+28.3
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+24.0
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+11.4
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+28.0
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+9.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+23.1
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+9.7
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+19.7
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.3
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+5.4
1944	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+6.8
1940	Wendell Willkie (R)	R+2.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.3
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+13.4
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.8
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+35.0
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+23.4
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+26.0
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+20.9
1908	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+1.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+14.2
1900	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+13.4
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+71.1
1892	James B. Weaver (other)
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+14.4
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+12.6
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+5.2

1916 presidential election in Colorado

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