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Election 1916 Results

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1916 presidential election in Washington

Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) beat Charles Evans Hughes (Republican) in Washington in 1916, 48.1% to 43.9%, a margin of 4.2 points and 16,180 votes.

Washington voted 1.1 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.1.

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

Democrats led in 22 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 17. The largest, King, cast 95,708 votes and went to the Democrat by 14.0 points. The closest was Mason, where 15 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	183,388	48.1%
Charles Evans Hughes	Republican	167,208	43.9%
Allan L. Benson	Socialist	22,800	6.0%
All other candidates		7,598	2.0%
Total		380,994

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	52,362 54.7%	38,959 40.7%	4,387	95,708	D+14.0
Spokane	21,339 49.5%	19,503 45.2%	2,278	43,120	D+4.3
Pierce	18,940 48.9%	16,780 43.3%	3,050	38,770	D+5.6
Snohomish	8,390 41.5%	8,625 42.7%	3,192	20,207	R+1.2
Whatcom	5,629 35.5%	7,632 48.2%	2,581	15,842	R+12.6
Yakima	6,136 41.9%	7,188 49.1%	1,316	14,640	R+7.2
Grays Harbor	4,992 44.0%	5,024 44.3%	1,320	11,336	R+0.3
Whitman	5,888 52.3%	4,933 43.8%	430	11,251	D+8.5
Lewis	4,318 40.7%	5,186 48.9%	1,097	10,601	R+8.2
Skagit	4,936 47.9%	4,142 40.2%	1,232	10,310	D+7.7
Walla Walla	4,456 48.3%	4,429 48.0%	342	9,227	D+0.3
Clarke	3,728 41.3%	4,419 48.9%	885	9,032	R+7.7
Kitsap	3,479 49.9%	2,638 37.8%	857	6,974	D+12.1
Thurston	2,658 39.4%	3,223 47.8%	867	6,748	R+8.4
Stevens	3,184 47.8%	2,684 40.3%	788	6,656	D+7.5
Chelan	2,747 43.5%	3,011 47.6%	563	6,321	R+4.2
Lincoln	2,827 51.7%	2,356 43.1%	288	5,471	D+8.6
Okanogan	2,924 54.8%	1,896 35.5%	514	5,334	D+19.3
Kittitas	2,609 49.4%	2,310 43.7%	362	5,281	D+5.7
Pacific	1,537 34.0%	2,688 59.5%	293	4,518	R+25.5
Cowlitz	1,282 33.4%	2,113 55.1%	439	3,834	R+21.7
Clallam	1,339 41.1%	1,475 45.2%	447	3,261	R+4.2
Klickitat	1,478 45.4%	1,570 48.2%	211	3,259	R+2.8
Douglas	1,916 59.5%	1,125 34.9%	178	3,219	D+24.6
Benton	1,351 42.0%	1,460 45.4%	403	3,214	R+3.4
Grant	1,563 51.6%	1,205 39.8%	262	3,030	D+11.8
Adams	1,294 48.4%	1,237 46.3%	142	2,673	D+2.1
Columbia	1,164 47.6%	1,148 46.9%	135	2,447	D+0.7
Asotin	1,136 48.6%	1,004 42.9%	198	2,338	D+5.6
Pend Oreille	1,080 50.9%	916 43.2%	124	2,120	D+7.7
Jefferson	861 40.8%	1,094 51.8%	157	2,112	R+11.0
Franklin	1,110 57.9%	671 35.0%	135	1,916	D+22.9
Island	855 46.3%	804 43.6%	186	1,845	D+2.8
Mason	779 45.2%	764 44.3%	181	1,724	D+0.9
Ferry	913 53.0%	581 33.7%	229	1,723	D+19.3
Garfield	728 45.0%	845 52.3%	44	1,617	R+7.2
San Juan	669 48.0%	591 42.4%	135	1,395	D+5.6
Skamania	451 46.1%	489 49.9%	39	979	R+3.9
Wahkiakum	340 36.1%	490 52.1%	111	941	R+15.9

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.

Washington in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+18.2
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+19.2
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+15.7
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+14.9
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+17.2
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+7.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+5.6
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+12.5
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+11.4
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+1.6
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+13.5
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.3
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+3.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+18.3
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+2.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+24.6
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+2.4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+8.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+9.6
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+9.8
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+14.6
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+17.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+36.5
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.5
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+35.7
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+42.1
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+34.8
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+4.2
1912	Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+25.8
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+50.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+11.7
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+15.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+7.6

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