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The Presidential Election of 1916. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-0965-8. Miller, Sally M. "The Socialist Party and the Negro, 1901–20," Journal of Negro History 56 (July 1971): 220–229. online; Oks, David. "The Election of 1916, 'Negrowumpism,' and the Black Defection from the Republican Party."
Elections were held for the 65th United States Congress. The election occurred during the Fourth Party System, six months before the United States entered World War I. Unlike 1912, the Democrats did not benefit from a split in the Republican Party, but the Democrats still retained the presidency and the majority in the Senate.
The Fourth Party System was the political party system in the United States from about 1896 to 1932 that was dominated by the Republican Party, except the 1912 split in which Democrats captured the White House and held it for eight years.
Much of the pre-primary speculation centered on whether or not Roosevelt would rejoin his former party or keep it divided. Entering the 1916 election, Republicans were aware that the greatest threat to victory was the continued opposition of the Progressive Party, and in particular Theodore Roosevelt, who remained immensely popular.
New York during the Fourth Party System was usually a Republican state in presidential elections; however in 1912, a strong third party run by former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt against the incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft had split the Republican vote, and had enabled Woodrow Wilson as the Democratic candidate to ...
1916 US presidential election; United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1916; 1916 Minnesota gubernatorial election; 1916 New York state election; United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1916; 1916 South Carolina gubernatorial election; 1916 United States House of Representatives elections
Republicans won a plurality of seats in the 1916 election. However, when the 65th Congress convened in April 1917, the Democrats narrowly maintained control of the House, forming an alliance with third-party ( Progressive and Socialist ) members.
Before 1916, all but one winning Democrat as well as one losing Democrat had carried the state. Beginning with 1916, the Democratic party has won 14 elections as of 2022, and in only four of these elections did it carry Indiana. Furthermore, three of those four victories were in landslide elections with double-digit margins: 1932, 1936, and 1964.