1916 United States presidential election in Kansas  The 1916 United States presidential election in Kansas was held on November 7, 1916. Kansas voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Kansas voted for the Democratic nominee, President Woodrow Wilson, over the Republican nominee, U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes. Wilson won Kansas by a margin of 5.86 percentage points.  , this is the last election in which Osborne County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. It is also the last time Kansas has voted more Democratic than the nation at-large.