1916 United States presidential election (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

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United States presidential election, 1916
November 7, 1916
Nominee		Theodore Roosevelt	Elihu Root	William Gibbs McAdoo
Party		Progressive	Republican	Liberal
Home state		New York	New York	California
Running mate		Henry Cabot Lodge	John W. Weeks	Thomas R. Marshall
Electoral vote		207	123	83
States carried		25	6	7
President before election Theodore Roosevelt Progressive Elected President Theodore Roosevelt Progressive

The United States presidential election of 1916 was the 33rd quadrennial United States presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. Progressive candidate, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, sought his fourth term in office; he was pitted against Republican Elihu Root and Liberal William Gibbs McAdoo. Roosevelt won a majority of Electoral College with 207 electoral votes and carried 25 states. As the result, Roosevelt became the first and only U.S. president that ever elected to the fourth term prior to the Twentieth Amendment.