1916 New Jersey gubernatorial election
Results

1916 New Jersey gubernatorial election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Republican	Walter Evans Edge	247,343	55.44%

Democratic	H. Otto Wittpenn	177,696	39.83%

Socialist	Frederick Krafft	12,900	2.89%

Prohibition	Harry Vaughan	5,873	1.32%

Socialist Labor	John C. Butterworth	2,334	0.52%

Majority

Turnout

Republican hold	Swing

Sentence(s)

Republican nominee Walter Evans Edge defeated Democratic nominee H. Otto Wittpenn with 55.44% of the vote.

final_sentence: Republican nominee Walter Evans Edge defeated Democratic nominee H. Otto Wittpenn with 55.44% of the vote.