Woodrow Wilson Democratic Woodrow Wilson Democratic Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: The 1916 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 1916.

A former Governor of New York, Hughes won his home state fairly comfortably, taking 51.53% of the vote to Wilson's 44.51%, a victory margin of 7.02%.

With the Republicans re-united behind Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, and criticism of Wilson's policies already emanating from the Democrats' Irish-American base,[3] New York returned to the Republican column, and delivered a fairly comfortable win to Hughes even as Wilson won re-election nationwide.

Hughes' 7% margin of victory made New York State a strong 10% more Republican than the national average in the 1916 election.

[4] With the exception of Chemung, these were historically German or Dutch[5] and usually Democratic rural counties that would turn permanently to the GOP amidst the fallout from World War I.