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Scioto County, presidential election of 1916

Scioto County

53.82%Charles Evans Hughes (R), the most votes11,809Votes counted for president

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

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What this is

Scioto County counted 11,809 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
Charles Evans HughesRepublican6,35653.82%
Woodrow WilsonDemocratic4,80840.71%
Allan L. BensonSocialist5214.41%
Frank HanlyProhibition1241.05%

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
Scioto County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+13.1 against Ohio's D+7.7: 20.8 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 7th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1912
From 1912 to 1916 the county's lean moved 12.2 points toward the Republicans, from R+1.0 to R+13.1. Lean counts only the two major parties; Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) took 19.1% in 1912.
Matched
Scioto County parted from Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

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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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