1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas

1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Wilson 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%	Hughes 50–60%
President before election; Woodrow Wilson; Democratic	Elected President ; Woodrow Wilson; Democratic

The 1916 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 7, 1916, as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.^[1] Disfranchisement during the 1890s of effectively all black people and most poor white people had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. Although the northwest of the state was to develop a strong Socialist Party movement that served as a swing vote in county elections,^[2] political repression^[3] and internal party divisions^[4] diminished that party's strength substantially.

The Democratic Party, under the influence of future federal Senate Minority and Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson and demagogic Governor and Senator Jeff Davis, was to make many familiar progressive changes in railroad regulation and child labor,^[5] but under the administration of George W. Donaghey – who saw his administration and Democratic primary candidacy as a fight against the “Davis Machine”^[6] – more rapid development occurred, especially in abolishing convict leasing and improving bank regulation.^[7]

^ See Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger (January 1991). Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71. University of Arkansas Press. p. 32. ISBN 1557282005.
^ Reed, Roy (1997). Faubus: the Life and Times of American Prodigal. University of Arkansas Press. p. 32. ISBN 1610751485.
^ Green, James R. (July 1978). Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943. LSU Press. pp. 316–318. ISBN 0807107735.
^ Reed. Faubus, p. 33
^ Moneyhon, Carl H. Arkansas and the New South: 1874-1929. p. 121. ISBN 1610750284.
^ Moneyhon. Arkansas and the New South, p. 122
^ Whayne, Jeannie M.; DeBlack, Thomas A.; Sabo, George; Arnold, Morris S. (June 2013). Arkansas: A Narrative History. University of Arkansas Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-1557289933.

[1] See Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger (January 1991). Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71. University of Arkansas Press. p. 32. ISBN 1557282005.

[2] Reed, Roy (1997). Faubus: the Life and Times of American Prodigal. University of Arkansas Press. p. 32. ISBN 1610751485.

[3] Green, James R. (July 1978). Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943. LSU Press. pp. 316–318. ISBN 0807107735.

[4] Reed. Faubus, p. 33

[5] Moneyhon, Carl H. Arkansas and the New South: 1874-1929. p. 121. ISBN 1610750284.

[6] Moneyhon. Arkansas and the New South, p. 122

[7] Whayne, Jeannie M.; DeBlack, Thomas A.; Sabo, George; Arnold, Morris S. (June 2013). Arkansas: A Narrative History. University of Arkansas Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-1557289933.

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