returns, Wilson led in 2,039 counties (67.47%). Hughes managed to carry only 976 counties (32.30%), the smallest number in the Republican column in a two-party contest during the Fourth Party System. Two counties (0.07%) split evenly between Wilson and Hughes. Although the Progressive Party had no presidential candidate (just candidates for presidential electors who were unpledged for president), they carried five counties (0.17%), whilst nine counties – 0.30 percent and the same as in 1912 – inhabited either by Native Americans without citizenship or disenfranchised African Americans failed to return a single vote. Wilson carried 200 counties that had never voted Democratic in a two-party contest prior to that time. Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Democratic) Dillon County, South Carolina 100.00% Hampton County, South Carolina 100.00% Jasper County, South Carolina 100.00% Tunica County, Mississippi 100.00% Echols County, Georgia 100.00% Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Republican) Leslie County, Kentucky 91.55% Sevier County, Tennessee 90.42% Zapata County, Texas 89.17% Jackson County, Kentucky 87.90% Johnson County, Tennessee 87.33% Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Other) Lafourche Parish, Louisiana 59.38% Glascock County, Georgia 53.79% Paulding County, Georgia 53.52% Fannin County, Georgia 51.29% Iberia Parish, Louisiana 47.59% Maps Aftermath The gains made by Wilson in this election were a novel phenomenon under the Fourth Party System. This shift of votes led some to believe that the Democratic Party might have the position of decided advantage in the election of 1920. See also History of the United States (1865-1918) 1916 United States House of Representatives elections 1916 United States Senate elections Contested elections in American history Notes References Bibliography Bates, J. Leonard, and Vanette M. Schwartz. "Golden Special Campaign Train: Republican Women Campaign for Charles Evans Hughes for President in 1916." Montana: The Magazine of Western History (1987): 26-35. online Beatson, James Allen. "The Election the West Decided: 1916." Arizona and the West 3.1 (1961): 39-58. online Berman, David R. Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies (University Press of Colorado, 2007). Burchell, R. A. "Did the Irish and German Voters Desert the Democrats in 1920? A Tentative Statistical Answer" Journal of American Studies 5#2 (1972) pp. 153-164 online Cooper, Jr., John Milton. Woodrow Wilson (2009), ch 16. Davies, Gareth, and Julian E. Zelizer, eds. America at the Ballot Box: Elections and Political History (2015) pp. 118–38. online Miller, Sally M. "The Socialist Party and the Negro, 1901–20," Journal of