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Election 1916 Results

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1916 presidential election in Vermont

Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) beat Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) in Vermont in 1916, 62.4% to 35.2%, a margin of 27.2 points and 17,542 votes.

Vermont voted 30.3 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.1.

The Republican hold continued from 1912, when William Howard Taft won.

Republicans led in 13 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, Rutland, cast 8,932 votes and went to the Republican by 35.2 points. The closest was Grand Isle, where 27 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 40,250 62.4%
Woodrow Wilson Democratic 22,708 35.2%
All other candidates 1,517 2.4%
Total64,475

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Rutland 2,785 31.2% 5,926 66.3% 221 8,932 R+35.2
Washington 2,732 37.0% 4,216 57.1% 434 7,382 R+20.1
Chittenden 2,772 41.6% 3,786 56.8% 102 6,660 R+15.2
Windsor 2,216 33.8% 4,236 64.5% 111 6,563 R+30.8
Windham 1,698 33.0% 3,375 65.5% 80 5,153 R+32.5
Caledonia 1,887 37.7% 3,024 60.4% 92 5,003 R+22.7
Franklin 2,107 42.5% 2,796 56.4% 54 4,957 R+13.9
Bennington 1,590 36.9% 2,602 60.4% 116 4,308 R+23.5
Orleans 1,047 27.2% 2,758 71.6% 48 3,853 R+44.4
Addison 874 23.6% 2,765 74.7% 64 3,703 R+51.1
Orange 1,379 38.0% 2,151 59.3% 97 3,627 R+21.3
Lamoille 643 29.3% 1,474 67.1% 79 2,196 R+37.8
Essex 544 42.1% 734 56.8% 15 1,293 R+14.7
Grand Isle 434 51.4% 407 48.2% 4 845 D+3.2

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.

Vermont in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+31.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+35.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+26.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+35.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+37.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+20.1
2000 Al Gore (D) D+9.9
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+22.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+17.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+6.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+26.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+32.6
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+44.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+43.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+24.6
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+9.9
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+13.2
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+16.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+34.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+62.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+52.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+27.2
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+53.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+59.1
1900 William McKinley (R) R+52.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+63.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+38.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+43.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+37.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+41.9
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+37.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.1