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Election 1916 Results

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1916 presidential election in Indiana

Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) beat Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) in Indiana in 1916, 47.4% to 46.5%, a margin of 1.0 point and 6,942 votes.

Indiana voted 4.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.1.

Indiana changed party: in 1912 it went Democratic, for Woodrow Wilson.

Republicans led in 48 of the 92 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 44. The largest, Marion, cast 79,030 votes and went to the Republican by 7.2 points. The closest was Jay, where 5 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
Charles Evans Hughes won Republican 341,005 47.4%
Woodrow Wilson Democratic 334,063 46.5%
All other candidates 43,780 6.1%
Total718,848

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Marion 35,043 44.3% 40,699 51.5% 3,288 79,030 R+7.2
Lake 9,946 41.3% 13,262 55.0% 903 24,111 R+13.8
Vigo 11,165 49.6% 8,934 39.7% 2,397 22,496 D+9.9
Allen 9,470 42.9% 10,169 46.0% 2,451 22,090 R+3.2
Vanderburgh 10,028 47.8% 9,966 47.5% 979 20,973 D+0.3
St. Joseph 9,709 52.3% 7,961 42.9% 891 18,561 D+9.4
Madison 8,106 45.7% 7,449 42.0% 2,197 17,752 D+3.7
Grant 5,827 41.7% 6,059 43.4% 2,081 13,967 R+1.7
Delaware 5,946 43.2% 6,919 50.2% 906 13,771 R+7.1
Elkhart 5,723 44.2% 5,850 45.2% 1,368 12,941 R+1.0
Wayne 5,007 42.5% 6,112 51.8% 672 11,791 R+9.4
Tippecanoe 4,918 42.1% 6,386 54.7% 365 11,669 R+12.6
La Porte 5,276 46.3% 5,726 50.3% 385 11,387 R+4.0
Knox 5,380 47.3% 4,805 42.3% 1,179 11,364 D+5.1
Cass 5,140 49.6% 4,879 47.1% 344 10,363 D+2.5
Howard 3,934 39.0% 4,777 47.4% 1,371 10,082 R+8.4
Greene 3,990 44.6% 3,878 43.3% 1,081 8,949 D+1.3
Henry 3,560 40.6% 4,386 50.0% 825 8,771 R+9.4
Montgomery 4,107 47.1% 4,300 49.4% 304 8,711 R+2.2
Huntington 3,833 46.6% 3,761 45.7% 631 8,225 D+0.9
Kosciusko 3,447 43.8% 4,025 51.2% 393 7,865 R+7.3
Miami 3,854 49.1% 3,390 43.2% 610 7,854 D+5.9
Gibson 3,765 48.3% 3,576 45.8% 460 7,801 D+2.4
Wabash 3,168 41.5% 3,849 50.4% 624 7,641 R+8.9
Clinton 3,662 48.1% 3,638 47.8% 318 7,618 D+0.3
Randolph 2,682 35.9% 4,054 54.3% 728 7,464 R+18.4
Sullivan 3,880 52.0% 2,630 35.2% 953 7,463 D+16.7
Shelby 3,900 52.3% 3,201 42.9% 360 7,461 D+9.4
Floyd 3,850 52.9% 3,200 44.0% 225 7,275 D+8.9
Lawrence 3,108 42.8% 3,813 52.5% 335 7,256 R+9.7
Clay 3,435 47.4% 3,102 42.8% 707 7,244 D+4.6
Hamilton 2,799 38.8% 3,951 54.8% 462 7,212 R+16.0
Boone 3,513 49.5% 3,333 47.0% 250 7,096 D+2.5
Bartholomew 3,441 49.3% 3,287 47.1% 253 6,981 D+2.2
Clark 3,572 51.9% 3,173 46.1% 131 6,876 D+5.8
Daviess 3,143 46.8% 3,191 47.6% 376 6,710 R+0.7
De Kalb 3,372 50.7% 2,898 43.5% 387 6,657 D+7.1
Noble 3,069 46.1% 3,417 51.3% 171 6,657 R+5.2
Jay 3,070 46.4% 3,075 46.5% 470 6,615 R+0.1
Marshall 3,221 50.4% 2,855 44.6% 320 6,396 D+5.7
Monroe 2,796 46.4% 3,033 50.3% 200 6,029 R+3.9
Vermillion 2,343 39.1% 2,607 43.5% 1,038 5,988 R+4.4
Jackson 3,312 55.6% 2,422 40.7% 224 5,958 D+14.9
Rush 2,569 44.6% 2,950 51.2% 241 5,760 R+6.6
Johnson 3,108 54.2% 2,428 42.3% 201 5,737 D+11.9
Hendricks 2,453 42.8% 3,046 53.1% 234 5,733 R+10.3
Morgan 2,616 45.8% 2,860 50.1% 237 5,713 R+4.3
Putnam 2,965 52.3% 2,453 43.3% 250 5,668 D+9.0
Dearborn 3,010 54.8% 2,318 42.2% 167 5,495 D+12.6
Fountain 2,437 44.7% 2,634 48.4% 376 5,447 R+3.6
Ripley 2,549 47.3% 2,686 49.9% 150 5,385 R+2.5
Jefferson 2,518 46.8% 2,675 49.8% 183 5,376 R+2.9
Parke 2,329 43.5% 2,598 48.5% 427 5,354 R+5.0
Decatur 2,374 44.9% 2,717 51.4% 196 5,287 R+6.5
Wells 2,928 56.0% 1,947 37.3% 351 5,226 D+18.8
Hancock 2,779 54.0% 2,138 41.6% 227 5,144 D+12.5
Posey 2,722 53.0% 2,291 44.6% 119 5,132 D+8.4
Spencer 2,335 45.9% 2,560 50.3% 190 5,085 R+4.4
Carroll 2,401 47.8% 2,468 49.1% 159 5,028 R+1.3
Warrick 2,244 45.3% 2,396 48.4% 309 4,949 R+3.1
Porter 1,871 38.0% 2,913 59.2% 135 4,919 R+21.2
Whitley 2,510 51.2% 2,191 44.7% 202 4,903 D+6.5
Adams 2,875 59.0% 1,796 36.8% 205 4,876 D+22.1
White 2,262 46.9% 2,442 50.7% 116 4,820 R+3.7
Tipton 2,337 48.9% 2,166 45.3% 276 4,779 D+3.6
Fulton 2,231 46.8% 2,325 48.7% 216 4,772 R+2.0
Steuben 1,427 29.9% 2,418 50.7% 922 4,767 R+20.8
Orange 2,091 44.6% 2,481 52.9% 114 4,686 R+8.3
Dubois 3,072 66.0% 1,492 32.1% 89 4,653 D+34.0
Pike 2,212 47.6% 2,172 46.7% 266 4,650 D+0.9
Harrison 2,373 51.2% 2,086 45.0% 180 4,639 D+6.2
Fayette 2,074 45.3% 2,360 51.5% 148 4,582 R+6.2
Washington 2,414 55.2% 1,871 42.8% 86 4,371 D+12.4
Franklin 2,426 60.4% 1,495 37.2% 94 4,015 D+23.2
Perry 2,089 53.5% 1,762 45.1% 55 3,906 D+8.4
Blackford 1,867 50.4% 1,595 43.0% 244 3,706 D+7.3
Lagrange 1,512 41.8% 1,958 54.1% 150 3,620 R+12.3
Jennings 1,686 47.1% 1,791 50.0% 104 3,581 R+2.9
Owen 1,812 51.1% 1,585 44.7% 151 3,548 D+6.4
Jasper 1,488 42.1% 1,995 56.5% 48 3,531 R+14.4
Benton 1,502 43.5% 1,872 54.2% 82 3,456 R+10.7
Pulaski 1,387 44.0% 1,474 46.8% 289 3,150 R+2.8
Martin 1,549 49.4% 1,534 48.9% 52 3,135 D+0.5
Starke 1,334 44.9% 1,550 52.2% 85 2,969 R+7.3
Warren 1,011 34.2% 1,823 61.7% 122 2,956 R+27.5
Crawford 1,508 51.5% 1,201 41.0% 217 2,926 D+10.5
Newton 1,278 44.2% 1,377 47.6% 239 2,894 R+3.4
Switzerland 1,446 52.5% 1,214 44.0% 96 2,756 D+8.4
Scott 1,068 55.9% 802 42.0% 40 1,910 D+13.9
Union 826 43.9% 997 52.9% 60 1,883 R+9.1
Brown 1,046 65.6% 506 31.7% 43 1,595 D+33.9
Ohio 632 50.2% 597 47.5% 29 1,258 D+2.8

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.

Indiana in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+19.0
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+16.1
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+19.2
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+10.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+1.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+20.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+15.6
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+5.6
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+18.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+7.6
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+32.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+12.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+12.4
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+10.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+20.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+17.1
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+0.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+1.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+16.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+14.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+1.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+1.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.8
1900 William McKinley (R) R+4.0
1896 William McKinley (R) R+2.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+0.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.4
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+1.3
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.4
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+2.8