1916 Montana gubernatorial election
Nominee
Sam V. Stewart
Frank J. Edwards
Lewis J. Duncan
Party
Democratic
Republican
Socialist
Popular vote
85,683
76,547
11,342
Percentage
49.36%
44.10%
6.53%
County resultsStewart: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70%Edwards: 40–50% 50–60%
Governor before election
Sam V. Stewart
Democratic
Elected Governor
Sam V. Stewart
Democratic
The 1916 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1916. Incumbent Governor of Montana Sam V. Stewart , who was first elected governor in 1912, ran for re-election. After comfortably winning the Democratic primary, he advanced to the general election, where he faced Frank J. Edwards, the former Mayor of Helena , who narrowly emerged victorious in a close Republican primary. Benefitting from then-President Woodrow Wilson 's landslide victory in Montana in the presidential election that year, Stewart narrowly won re-election to his second and final term as governor.
Democratic primary [ ]
Candidates [ ]
Sam V. Stewart , incumbent Governor of Montana
, former State Senator , former Mayor of Hamilton [1]
Results [ ]
Republican primary [ ]
Candidates [ ]
Frank J. Edwards, former Mayor of Helena [3]
Edward H. Cooney, Postmaster of Great Falls , former State Representative [4]
Albert J. Galen, former Attorney General of Montana [5]
Charles S. Henderson
Walter B. Sands
E. A. Gerhart
I. A. Leighton
Results [ ]
General election [ ]
Results [ ]
References [ ]
^ Stout, Tom (1921). Montana, Its Story and Biography: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Montana and Three Decades of Statehood . American Historical Society. p. 538 .
^ a b "Report of Official Canvass of the Vote Cast at the Primary Election, Held in the State of Montana, August 29, A. D., 1916" (PDF) . Montana Secretary of State. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014 .
^ Bates, James Leonard (1999). Senator Thomas J. Walsh: Law and Public Affairs, from TR to FDR . University of Illinois Press. p. 45.
^ Fitzgerald Sanders, Helen (1913). A History of Montana, Volume 2 . Lewis Publishing Company. p. 974.
^ "Attorney Generals of the State of Montana" . Montana Association of Counties. Archived from the original on January 6, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
^ "Official Vote of the State of Montana at an Election Held November 7th, 1916" (PDF) . Montana Secretary of State. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 28, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2014 .
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