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- The ^V1 notations refers to notes in the red cell immediately below.
- The popular vote shown is for the Party Ticket. Popular Vote Results will vary among sources but will give a general idea of the percentage in relation to the other results. Popular vote figures exclude those states that did not use a popular vote to select their electors to the Electoral College.
- - - Amendment XII was enacted after the tie in 1800 - In 1804 the electors began voting for President and Vice President using separate ballots. This change ensured the Vice President would most likely be of the same party as the President.
- Beginning in 1848 all States hold the presidential election on the same day in November.

Year

Presidential Candidates

Party

Electoral

Popular Vote

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1916

1
2
3
4
5

Woodrow Wilson ^V1
Charles E. Hughes ^V2
Allan Louis Benson
James Franklin Hanly
Other

Democratic
Republican
Socialist
Prohibition
(nominal parties)

277
254
    0
    0
    0

9,129,606
8,538,221
585,113
221,302
49,163

Vice Presidential Candidates

Party

Electoral

1
2
3
4
5

Thomas R. Marshall ^V3
Charles W. Fairbanks
G. R. Kirkpatrick
Ira Landrith
---

Democratic
Republican
Socialist
Prohibition
---

277
254
0
0
---

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^V1	Election returns came in close with Hughes in the lead but turned with Wilson becoming president winning California by 3800 votes.
^V2	Hughes retired to bed expecting a win. One account has it that a reporter called Hughes' home for his reaction on the loss, the person answering the phone stated, "The President is sleeping." The reporter responded with, "When he wakes up, tell him he isn't the President anymore."
^V3	Vice President Marshall was the first Vice President to be elected to a second term since John Calhoun's second term in 1828.
*	The Bull Moose Party (Progressive) had disbanded by 1916 with Roosevelt taking most members back into the Republican Party. The Progressives moved to the more liberally progressive Democratic Party. Roosevelt realized that he split the Republican party and to do so again would guarantee another victory for Wilson.

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