Official Ballot For Second Election District of Representative District Number Two.

Rare 1916 Delaware ballot listing Democratic, Republican, Progressive, and Prohibition candidates

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A 1916 broadside ballot for the general election in Kent County, Delaware, near Harrington, listing candidates from the Democratic, Republican, Progressive, and Prohibition parties. Each party’s slate of national, state, and local candidates appears beneath its respective symbol: a plough, a bald eagle and star, an arm holding a torch, and what may represent a temperance hotel.

Presidential candidates Woodrow Wilson (D), Charles Evans Hughes (R), and Frank Hanly (Prohibition) are absent from the ballot, as Delaware voters cast ballots for party electors to the Electoral College. Theodore Roosevelt, who had led the Progressive Party in 1912, declined its nomination in 1916. That year, Delaware elected Republican Governor John G. Townsend, Jr. and replaced Republican U.S. Senator Henry A. du Pont with Democrat Josiah O. Wolcott. Hughes carried Delaware with 50.20% of the vote but lost the national race to Wilson.

An uncommon survivor from a pivotal election year in Delaware politics.

Price: $150.00