1916 Indiana U.S. Senate Special
Who won the 1916 Indiana U.S. Senate Special?
James G. Watson won the 1916 Indiana U.S. Senate Special. James G. Watson received 335,193 popular votes (47.66%). The main challenger was Thomas Taggart (46.29%).
See the full head-to-head between Watson and Taggart
Watson +1.4 pts · won by 9,616 votes
335,193 votes
325,577 votes
Other candidates received the remaining 6.1% of the popular vote; only the leading candidates are individually recorded for this election.
A special election fills a Senate seat that came open mid-term. Popular-vote totals for this U.S. Senate election come from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) and the official public record.