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Seneca County, presidential election of 1916

Seneca County

57.80%Woodrow Wilson (D), the most votes11,161Votes counted for president

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

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What this is

Seneca County counted 11,161 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 WilsonDemocratic6,45157.80%
Charles Evans HughesRepublican4,30138.54%
Allan L. BensonSocialist3202.87%
Frank HanlyProhibition890.80%

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
Seneca County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+19.3 against Ohio's D+7.7: 11.6 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 73rd of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1912
From 1912 to 1916 the county's lean moved 7.3 points toward the Republicans, from D+26.6 to D+19.3. Lean counts only the two major parties; Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) took 20.1% in 1912.
Matched
Seneca County voted with Ohio and voted 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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