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Mercer County, presidential election of 1916

Mercer County

62.27%Woodrow Wilson (D), the most votes6,107Votes counted for president

Every election in Mercer County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1916

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What this is

Mercer County counted 6,107 votes for president across 4 candidates in 1916. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Woodrow WilsonDemocratic3,80362.27%
Charles Evans HughesRepublican2,06533.81%
Frank HanlyProhibition1843.01%
Allan L. BensonSocialist550.90%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) with 51.86%, a 7.7-point margin over Charles Evans Hughes. The country elected Woodrow Wilson.
Against the state
Mercer County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+28.5 against Ohio's D+7.7: 20.8 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 82nd of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1912
From 1912 to 1916 the county's lean moved 11.4 points toward the Republicans, from D+39.9 to D+28.5. Lean counts only the two major parties; Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) took 10.0% in 1912.
Matched
Mercer County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1916 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1916 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1916-11-07 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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