Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — THE ELECTORAL VOTE. [ARTICLE]

THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

You Can Figure Out What It Means For 1916. One possible way of figuring the national results from the election? last fall consists in regarding the maximum strength of each party in a state as indicated by the the candidate who led his ticket. In many of the states no general election was held. But in such states it is possible to get at results by adding the votes for representatives in congress. , Such a compilation shows the democratic party to have carried 26 states in November arid the republican party to have carried 21. California was carried by the progressives. Apparently, however, the California vote -'as a personal tribute to Governor. Johnson, v fio was re-elected. A deniocrat was elected senator by a rather ’narrow margin.. The states carried by the. democrats, with the electoral vote in each ease, follows: Alabama .12 Mississippi .....jo Arizona ........ 3 Missouri .......is Arkansas ......9 Montana t Ulorida ......... G Nebraska s-' Georgia ....... 1! Nevada 3 Idaho ■■ A North Carolina. 12 Indiana . ’...,.: . .15. < Iklahotna ~.,t0 Kentucky . . South Carolina.; 9 l.oiiisiana 10 Tennessee ......12 Maine. G Texas ........ 20 Maryland ...... 8 Vngirria \ 12 Massechusetts ’..IS Wyoming 3 Michigan ~~. .15' Minnesota ..... 12 Total ... . ;.. . 2GG The republican states were these: Colorado ..... G Ohio ...24 Connecticut ,-..1, 7 Oregon ... ~ 5 Deleware Pennsylvania ....38 Illinois .........29 Rhode Island 5 lowa .. ..13 South Dakota... 5 Kansas . 10 Utah 4 New Hampshire 4 Vermont ....... 4 New Jersey.... .14 Washington .... 7 New Mexico 3 West Virginia . . 8 New York 45 Wisconsin ......13 North Dakota... 5 ——- Total ........252 California, with its 13 electoral votes, does not appear in either table. There are 531 electoral votes,with 266 necessary for a choice. On the basis on which the foregoing tables were figured, the democrats had exactly the necessary number of votes for a choice. The republicans, even with California, were one vote short. - That was the situation last year. Every person is licensed to do his own figuring as to what it means for 1916. —Kansas City Star.