American Psephology
The 1916 Presidential Election in Alabama
On November 7, 1916, Alabama's voters voted for twelve at-large electors. Four electoral slates ran.
The Democratic candidates:
- Horace A. Adams - 99,116 votes
- S. H. Blan - 99,010 votes
- John Craft - 99,235 votes
- W. R. Francis - 99,237 votes
- Charles Ingram - 99,163 votes
- Chester E. Johnson - 99,332 votes
- Walter Miller - 99,216 votes
- J. Sanford Mullins - 99,157 votes
- Y. M. Quinn - 99,219 votes
- T. O. Smith - 99,201 votes
- L. J. Snow - 99,173 votes
- Oscar L. Thompkins - 99,409 votes
The Republican candidates:
- Thomas J. Bawsey - 28,519 votes
- Douglass Booth - 28,662 votes
- I. Green - 28,546 votes
- D. M. Lewis - 28,653 votes
- J. W. McBryde - 28,538 votes
- Jere Murphy - 28,632 votes
- J. M. Pennington - 28,650 votes
- Percy M. Pitts - 28,648 votes
- Charles R. Robinson - 28,655 votes
- G. F. Schad - 28,657 votes
- Jacob Tannenbaum - 28,637 votes
- Frank Vance - 28,557 votes
The Socialist candidates:
- L. E. Bailey - 1916 votes
- I. J. Brock - 748 votes
- G. S. Cox - 644 votes
- C. T. Hoffman - 436 votes
- C. G. Hutchinson - 435 votes
- W. D. Kilby - 435 votes
- J. A. Lindquist - 363 votes
- E. A. Ruge - 397 votes
- C. W. Thomas - 363 votes
- George M. Webb - 365 votes
- I. N. W. Woodham - 362 votes
The Prohibition candidates:
- J. B. Albrittan - 741 votes
- Robert L. Alter - 572 votes
- E. C. Anderson - 562 votes
- A. Daughety - 118 votes
- G. C. Davis - 115 votes
- William Franklin - 84 votes
- J. G. Frost - 82 votes
- Isaac W. Higgs - 79 votes
- W. B. Lovejoy - 79 votes
- W. C. Mahan - 78 votes
- W. E. Patterson - 175 votes
- A. H. Wiltshire - 174 votes
The county returns are as follows:
| Wilson | Hughes | Benson | Hanly | |
| Autauga | 773 | 99 | 11 | 5 |
| Baldwin | 766 | 216 | 148 | 10 |
| Barbour | 1235 | 45 | 13 | 12 |
| Bibb | 1247 | 217 | 106 | 17 |
| Blount | 1488 | 1229 | 26 | 6 |
| Bullock | 743 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Butler | 1162 | 87 | 7 | 3 |
| Calhoun | 2231 | 438 | 29 | 24 |
| Chambers | 1679 | 168 | 7 | 8 |
| Cherokee | 1136 | 508 | 27 | 5 |
| Chilton | 883 | 1363 | 40 | 14 |
| Choctaw | 765 | 21 | 12 | 2 |
| Clarke | 1397 | 25 | 12 | 0 |
| Clay | 1196 | 676 | 1 | 3 |
| Cleburne | 762 | 578 | 5 | 9 |
| Coffee | 2029 | 426 | 17 | 4 |
| Colbert | 1132 | 352 | 44 | 2 |
| Conecuh | 1036 | 42 | 35 | 2 |
| Coosa | 869 | 485 | 34 | 3 |
| Covington | 1740 | 251 | 106 | 8 |
| Crenshaw | 1427 | 139 | 5 | 7 |
| Cullman | 1396 | 1351 | 9 | 7 |
| Dale | 1260 | 597 | 4 | 9 |
| Dallas | 1565 | 23 | 7 | 4 |
| DeKalb | 1787 | 1190 | 33 | 14 |
| Elmore | 1631 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Escambia | 984 | 109 | 3 | 0 |
| Etowah | 1883 | 855 | 72 | 7 |
| Fayette | 1027 | 692 | 18 | 15 |
| Franklin | 1044 | 984 | 39 | 7 |
| Geneva | 1265 | 713 | 23 | 12 |
| Greene | 383 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Hale | 795 | 15 | 1 | 2 |
| Henry | 862 | 142 | 27 | 5 |
| Houston | 1678 | 463 | 45 | 14 |
| Jackson | 1907 | 569 | 32 | 16 |
| Jefferson | 10,677 | 2052 | 296 | 96 |
| Lamar | 1063 | 275 | 4 | 3 |
| Lauderdale | 1678 | 369 | 47 | 13 |
| Lawrence | 995 | 43 | 4 | 416 |
| Lee | 1369 | 42 | 30 | 5 |
| Limestone | 1450 | 92 | 19 | 13 |
| Lowndes | 540 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| Macon | 575 | 43 | 2 | 1 |
| Madison | 2206 | 215 | 45 | 8 |
| Marengo | 1491 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| Marion | 1327 | 806 | 1 | 8 |
| Marshall | 1944 | 1183 | 33 | 10 |
| Mobile | 3023 | 786 | 75 | 21 |
| Monroe | 1029 | 17 | 2 | 1 |
| Montgomery | 3316 | 106 | 19 | 11 |
| Morgan | 2101 | 365 | 43 | 38 |
| Perry | 897 | 20 | 12 | 1 |
| Pickens | 1179 | 218 | 18 | 4 |
| Pike | 1788 | 48 | 11 | 5 |
| Randolph | 1326 | 652 | 5 | 5 |
| Russell | 752 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Shelby | 1311 | 1428 | 8 | 9 |
| St. Clair | 986 | 850 | 53 | 8 |
| Sumter | 770 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Talladega | 1541 | 445 | 4 | 6 |
| Tallapoosa | 1892 | 129 | 33 | 3 |
| Tuscaloosa | 2437 | 218 | 41 | 12 |
| Walker | 2314 | 1860 | 106 | 20 |
| Washington | 500 | 32 | 2 | 4 |
| Wilcox | 866 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Winston | 726 | 1136 | 6 | 7 |
| Total | 99,232 (75.92%) | 28,551 (21.84%) | 1931 (1.48%) | 993 (.76%) |
The Democratic slate was duly elected, and voted for Wilson and Marshall on January 8.