The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-27
Increase of As Per Cent Over
Vote of Four Years Ago.
Totals Compiled From States
Official Returns.
G. 0. P. GAINED 152 Per CENT
. Parties Cast 4,212,295 More
Than Major 3 in 1912.
Socialist Vote Less, "Drys"
Gain Over 4 Years Ago.

New York, Dec. 27-WOodrow Will
son will be president for four years
more by virtue of a popular plurality
over Charles Evans Hughes of 51S'-
14T votes out OF a total of 1S,110,777
cast on November for the two ma
1or political parties. This total does
not include votes for the Socialist,
Prohibition and Socialist-Labor can
didates.
The figures as assembled today by
the United Press. are based in a ma
jority of cases on the official counts of
the states. as certified to the electoral
college.
They show thai Wilson received O.
314.462 votes against S,796,315 for
Four years ago the Democratic can
didate (Wilson1 polled 6,293,019 votes
The Democratic candidates total this
year was an increase of AS per cent
over those figures.
Big Gain in Total Vote.
Similarly the Republican nominee
CTaft) in 1912 polled 3.4S4,956 votes.
Hughes total in 1916 was an increase
of about 152 per cent. The total vote
cast for the two major parties was A.
2l2,295 more than that cast in 1912
for the then three major political par
ties. In other words there was an in
crease in 1916 of mope than 80 per
cent in the total vote cast.
There is no way. on the basis of the
figures themselves, 10 ascertain what
became of the 4.119.5O Progressive
votes registered for Roosevelt four
years ago.
Figures for the nationwide vote on
the Socialist and Prohibition tickets
are as yet incomplete. but it is esti-
mated that Allan Benson, Socialist, re-
ceived about Isl 1.000-nearly 100000
less than the Socialist ticket polled in
1912; and Prohibitionist Candidate
Hanly 225. 200. or about 1900 more
than the same ticket received four
years ago.
Montana Vote, 143 Per Cent Gain.
Every state in the union had a
bigger total vote in 1915 than in 1912.
Montana led in the list of biggest in
creases-the Wilson-Hughes total be-
ing i42 per cent in excess of that she
gave Wilson, Roosevelt and Taft four
years ago. Illinois jumped her total
1O1 per cent--due to this year being
the first time the women of the suck
er state have voted.
The western states, without excep-
ton. showed an increase in vote. Ore
gon jumped 106 per cent; Utah "a per
cent. Kansas 75 per cent.
which lost the election
for Hughes-was another western
state showing Il startling increase in
the total vote. Four years ago the
state went to Roosevelt and the total
vote for the three candidates was
570,960. This year Wilson and Hughes
together polled 92S,SO5 votes-an in
crease Of 62 per cent.
y. Y. Vote Largest i'm History.
North Dakota was another state
which increased it's voting population
in the four years past-by thirty
per cent
New York had the biggest vote in
her HISTORIAN eight per cent increase
over 1912.
Ohios turn to Wilson was accom-
plished in a vote twenty per cent
greater than in 1912.
Texas gained twenty-three per cent
The same canvass of figures shows
that the balance of power in the new
house of representatives will be in the
hands of six independents The Re
!. Dublicans will have one majority ovel
: the Democrats-214 to 213, with two
elections contested and still in doubt