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Election 1916 Results

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1916 presidential election in South Dakota

Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) beat Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) in South Dakota in 1916, 49.8% to 45.9%, a margin of 3.9 points and 5,026 votes.

South Dakota voted 7.0 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.1.

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

Republicans led in 34 of the 63 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 29. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 8,203 votes and went to the Republican by 10.0 points. The closest was Jackson, where 4 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 64,217 49.8%
Woodrow Wilson Democratic 59,191 45.9%
All other candidates 5,534 4.3%
Total128,942

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 3,494 42.6% 4,318 52.6% 391 8,203 R+10.0
Brown 2,676 45.5% 2,659 45.2% 549 5,884 D+0.3
Lawrence 2,157 49.4% 2,074 47.5% 134 4,365 D+1.9
Beadle 1,828 50.3% 1,662 45.7% 145 3,635 D+4.6
Charles Mix 2,011 57.2% 1,450 41.3% 53 3,514 D+16.0
Spink 1,622 47.5% 1,660 48.6% 133 3,415 R+1.1
Brookings 1,385 43.8% 1,638 51.8% 140 3,163 R+8.0
Davison 1,374 45.8% 1,516 50.5% 113 3,003 R+4.7
Codington 1,344 44.9% 1,550 51.8% 97 2,991 R+6.9
Yankton 1,438 49.0% 1,429 48.7% 70 2,937 D+0.3
Day 907 31.6% 1,758 61.2% 207 2,872 R+29.6
Gregory 1,242 44.9% 1,434 51.9% 89 2,765 R+6.9
Turner 1,134 41.0% 1,573 56.9% 56 2,763 R+15.9
Roberts 1,191 44.6% 1,259 47.2% 219 2,669 R+2.5
Lincoln 936 35.5% 1,591 60.3% 112 2,639 R+24.8
Pennington 1,339 51.6% 1,108 42.7% 146 2,593 D+8.9
Kingsbury 1,096 42.4% 1,339 51.8% 150 2,585 R+9.4
Bon Homme 1,278 49.7% 1,231 47.9% 60 2,569 D+1.8
Lake 1,027 40.4% 1,398 55.0% 115 2,540 R+14.6
Tripp 1,341 54.4% 1,074 43.6% 50 2,465 D+10.8
Union 1,313 53.3% 1,108 44.9% 44 2,465 D+8.3
Clark 1,016 43.7% 1,226 52.7% 84 2,326 R+9.0
McCook 1,021 44.6% 1,194 52.2% 73 2,288 R+7.6
Clay 1,207 53.7% 1,000 44.5% 39 2,246 D+9.2
Meade 1,224 54.6% 858 38.3% 161 2,243 D+16.3
Hutchinson 519 23.2% 1,636 73.2% 80 2,235 R+50.0
Lyman 1,052 49.0% 981 45.6% 116 2,149 D+3.3
Grant 772 38.9% 1,098 55.3% 115 1,985 R+16.4
Moody 898 45.3% 973 49.1% 111 1,982 R+3.8
Perkins 939 47.9% 890 45.4% 131 1,960 D+2.5
Miner 880 45.7% 1,006 52.2% 41 1,927 R+6.5
Hamlin 692 38.5% 1,039 57.8% 66 1,797 R+19.3
Hand 905 50.8% 801 44.9% 76 1,782 D+5.8
Marshall 885 49.9% 808 45.6% 80 1,773 D+4.3
Brule 975 55.7% 729 41.7% 46 1,750 D+14.1
Sanborn 898 53.0% 711 42.0% 84 1,693 D+11.0
Fall River 922 56.1% 668 40.6% 54 1,644 D+15.5
Butte 930 57.7% 537 33.3% 145 1,612 D+24.4
Edmunds 634 39.3% 894 55.5% 84 1,612 R+16.1
Aurora 793 49.7% 735 46.1% 68 1,596 D+3.6
Deuel 584 38.2% 908 59.3% 38 1,530 R+21.2
Hanson 712 47.4% 767 51.1% 22 1,501 R+3.7
Faulk 629 43.8% 759 52.9% 47 1,435 R+9.1
Douglas 597 42.1% 815 57.5% 6 1,418 R+15.4
Walworth 590 42.7% 761 55.0% 32 1,383 R+12.4
Jerauld 589 46.6% 612 48.4% 63 1,264 R+1.8
Harding 597 47.7% 520 41.6% 134 1,251 D+6.2
McPherson 224 18.1% 992 80.1% 23 1,239 R+62.0
Hughes 536 44.9% 611 51.1% 48 1,195 R+6.3
Corson 641 53.8% 503 42.2% 48 1,192 D+11.6
Haakon 475 48.9% 399 41.0% 98 972 D+7.8
Potter 408 43.5% 512 54.6% 18 938 R+11.1
Custer 488 52.4% 392 42.1% 51 931 D+10.3
Campbell 163 19.6% 644 77.4% 25 832 R+57.8
Mellette 436 52.4% 379 45.6% 17 832 D+6.9
Hyde 305 38.7% 438 55.6% 45 788 R+16.9
Dewey 379 50.6% 352 47.0% 18 749 D+3.6
Stanley 381 57.4% 254 38.3% 29 664 D+19.1
Jackson 279 48.7% 283 49.4% 11 573 R+0.7
Sully 268 48.1% 281 50.4% 8 557 R+2.3
Ziebach 211 42.1% 275 54.9% 15 501 R+12.8
Bennett 222 74.7% 67 22.6% 8 297 D+52.2
Buffalo 182 68.7% 80 30.2% 3 265 D+38.5

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.

South Dakota in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+29.2
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+26.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+29.8
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+18.0
2008 John McCain (R) R+8.4
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+21.5
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+22.7
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+3.5
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+26.5
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.5
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.6
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+11.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+11.2
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+16.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+16.8
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.5
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+16.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.8
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+29.2
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+21.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+36.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+49.4
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.6
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+0.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+36.6