The 1916 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 7, 1916 as part of the 1916 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Ever since the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession. Despite this absolute single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana and within the business elite of New Orleans.

Following disfranchisement, the state's politics became dominated by the Choctaw Club of Louisiana, generally called the “Old Regulars”. This political machine was based in New Orleans and united with Black Belt cotton planters. Opposition emerged in the north and west of the state vis the Socialist Party, who elected a few officials in Winn Parish between 1908 and 1912, and by the Industrial Workers of the World in the lumbering parishes of Imperial Calcasieu. This opposition was mortally weakened almost immediately after the 1912 election by the unresolved conflict between electoral and antipolitical strategies for reform.Renshaw (1968). The Wobblies, pp. 122-123 Stronger opposition came via the Progressive movement soon after, although this time in the southern sugarcane-growing parishes, where conflicts with President Wilson's Underwood-Simmons Act even allowed a Progressive Party member in Whitmell P. Martin to be elected to the Third Congressional District in 1914.

Whereas Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party disintegrated after the 1914 elections in most of the United States, in Louisiana it had a brief revival during the following election cycle as John M. Parker, a long-time business progressive and wealthy landowner ran for governor against Democratic primary winner Ruffin G. Pleasant in April 1916, and at the same time sixteen Progressives were elected to the state legislature, the first time any non-Democrat had been so elected since before the 1898 Constitution. Despite carrying sixteen parishes – mostly in the sugar belt – Parker carried only 38 percent of the vote.

However, this would be the high point of the Progressive movement in Louisiana. Parker was nominated for vice-president by the national Progressive Party, but when Roosevelt declined the presidential place on this ticket and endorsed national Republican nominee Charles Evans Hughes, the top spot was left empty and Parker endorsed incumbent president Wilson. Despite this, opposition to Wilson's tariff policy in the sugar parishes was sufficient that the Progressive ticket did very well in this area, becoming the first non-Democrat to carry any Louisiana parish since 1900.

Results Presidential CandidateRunning MatePartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)Woodrow Wilson of New JerseyThomas R. MarshallDemocratic1079,87585.90%Charles Evans HughesCharles W. FairbanksRepublican06,4666.95%—John M. ParkerProgressive06,3496.83%Allan L. BensonGeorge Ross KirkpatrickSocialist02920.31%

Results by parish 1916 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parishParishDemocraticRepublicanProgressive "Bull Moose"Margin#%#%#%#% Acadia 1,165 83.87% 202 14.54% 22 1.58% 963 69.33% 1,389 Allen 708 89.51% 81 10.24% 2 0.25% 627 79.27% 791 Ascension 531 76.07% 106 15.19% 61 8.74% 425 60.89% 698 Assumption 489 45.15% 221 20.41% 373 34.44% 116 10.71% 1,083 Avoyelles 1,253 95.72% 44 3.36% 12 0.92% 1,209 92.36% 1,309 Beauregard 968 94.07% 59 5.73% 2 0.19% 909 88.34% 1,029 Bienville 1,229 98.01% 20 1.59% 5 0.40% 1,209 96.41% 1,254 Bossier 675 98.68% 9 1.32% 0 0.00% 666 97.37% 684 Caddo 3,109 95.25% 151 4.63% 4 0.12% 2,958 90.63% 3,264 Calcasieu 1,798 91.13% 165 8.36% 10 0.51% 1,633 82.77% 1,973 Caldwell 554 96.01% 20 3.47% 3 0.52% 534 92.55% 577 Cameron 163 94.22% 10 5.78% 0 0.00% 153 88.44% 173 Catahoula 459 95.63% 20 4.17% 1 0.21% 439 91.46% 480 Claiborne 1,276 98.76% 15 1.16% 1 0.08% 1,261 97.60% 1,292 Concordia 264 95.31% 10 3.61% 3 1.08% 254 91.70% 277 1,104 98.48% 17 1.52% 0 0.00% 1,087 96.97% 1,121 1,482 89.98% 130 7.89% 35 2.13% 1,352 82.09% 1,647 219 98.65% 3 1.35% 0 0.00% 216 97.30% 222 489 95.69% 21 4.11% 1 0.20% 468 91.59% 511 Evangeline 808 92.77% 26 2.99% 37 4.25% 771 88.52% 871 Franklin 684 98.56% 10 1.44% 0 0.00% 674 97.12% 694 Grant 640 94.81% 31 4.59% 4 0.59% 609 90.22% 675 Iberia 802 44.90% 134 7.50% 850 47.59% -48 -2.69% 1,786 Iberville 471 72.02% 160 24.46% 23 3.52% 311 47.55% 654 Jackson 980 97.13% 27 2.68% 2 0.20% 953 94.45% 1,009 Jefferson 1,041 94.21% 56 5.07% 8 0.72% 985 89.14% 1,105 656 75.14% 200 22.91% 17 1.95% 456 52.23% 873 Lafayette 1,066 66.01% 73 4.52% 476 29.47% 590 36.53% 1,615 Lafourche 629 32.51% 157 8.11% 1,149 59.38% -520 -26.87% 1,935 610 95.61% 20 3.13% 8 1.25% 590 92.48% 638 Lincoln 932 95.30% 42 4.29% 4 0.41% 890 91.00% 978 Livingston 503 90.47% 35 6.29% 18 3.24% 468 84.17% 556 Madison 187 99.47% 1 0.53% 0 0.00% 186 98.94% 188 Morehouse 564 99.30% 3 0.53% 1 0.18% 561 98.77% 568 Natchitoches 1,181 95.78% 45 3.65% 7 0.57% 1,136 92.13% 1,233 Orleans 30,936 91.03% 2,531 7.45% 516 1.52% 28,405 83.59% 33,983 Ouachita 1,215 96.97% 35 2.79% 3 0.24% 1,180 94.17% 1,253 Plaquemines 461 90.22% 43 8.41% 7 1.37% 418 81.80% 511 301 85.27% 37 10.48% 15 4.25% 264 74.79% 353 Rapides 2,184 93.25% 134 5.72% 24 1.02% 2,050 87.53% 2,342 567 99.30% 4 0.70% 0 0.00% 563 98.60% 571 Richland 650 98.93% 7 1.07% 0 0.00% 643 97.87% 657 Sabine 1,147 97.04% 30 2.54% 5 0.42% 1,117 94.50% 1,182 363 92.84% 23 5.88% 5 1.28% 340 86.96% 391 297 90.00% 30 9.09% 3 0.91% 267 80.91% 330 319 95.51% 9 2.69% 6 1.80% 310 92.81% 334 520 71.53% 185 25.45% 22 3.03% 335 46.08% 727 289 70.15% 115 27.91% 8 1.94% 174 42.23% 412 139 36.87% 117 31.03% 121 32.10% 18 4.77% 377 971 69.41% 36 2.57% 392 28.02% 579 41.39% 1,399 652 45.95% 162 11.42% 605 42.64% 47 3.31% 1,419 782 87.67% 95 10.65% 15 1.68% 687 77.02% 892 Tangipahoa 1,326 88.58% 159 10.62% 12 0.80% 1,167 77.96% 1,497 Tensas 204 96.68% 5 2.37% 2 0.95% 199 94.31% 211 Terrebonne 606 46.37% 113 8.65% 588 44.99% 18 1.38% 1,307 Union 1,106 97.96% 22 1.95% 1 0.09% 1,084 96.01% 1,129 Vermilion 1,340 59.56% 78 3.47% 832 36.98% 508 22.58% 2,250 Vernon 754 59.09% 44 3.45% 478 37.46% 276 21.63% 1,276 Washington 1,094 93.19% 66 5.62% 14 1.19% 1,028 87.56% 1,174 Webster 1,040 99.24% 6 0.57% 2 0.19% 1,034 98.66% 1,048 237 87.78% 28 10.37% 5 1.85% 209 77.41% 270 311 95.11% 14 4.28% 2 0.61% 297 90.83% 327 261 95.26% 8 2.92% 5 1.82% 253 92.34% 274 Winn 868 94.55% 50 5.45% 0 0.00% 818 89.11% 918Totals79,87585.90%6,4666.95%6,3496.83%73,40978.95%92,982

See also United States presidential elections in Louisiana

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