Democratic President Woodrow Wilson defeated the Republican nominee , former Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes , in the presidential election . Hughes won the Republican nomination on the third ballot of the 1916 Republican National Convention , defeating several other candidates . Republicans won several Northern states , but Wilson 's success in the rest of the country gave him a small margin in the electoral college and the popular vote . Wilson 's win made him the first sitting Democratic President to win re-election since Andrew Jackson . Wilson 's running mate , Thomas R. Marshall , was the first sitting Vice President to win re-election since John C. Calhoun
1916 Republican National Convention
1916 Republican National Convention
1916 United States elections