Presidential election in the United States, 1912

Important information is missing from this article or section. Help Wikipedia by researching and pasting it .

‹  1908  •   •  1916 ›
32nd presidential election
November 5, 1912
			Democratic Party
			Woodrow Wilson / Thomas Marshall
			electors					435
			be right				6,296,284
									41.8%
			Progressive party
			Theodore Roosevelt / Hiram Johnson
			electors					88
			be right				4,122,721
									27.4%
			Republican Party
			William Taft / Nicholas Butler
			electors					8th
			be right				3,486,242
									23.2%
			Socialist party
			Eugene V. Debs / Emil Seidel
			electors					0
			be right				901.551
									6.0%
Election results by state
40 states   Wilson / Marshall						6 states   Roosevelt / Johnson
2 states   taffeta / butler						0   Debs / Seidel
President of the United States
Before the election William Taft Republican Party						Elected Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party

The 1912 presidential election in the United States was decided from among three important candidates. Two had previously won White House elections. President William Howard Taft was reappointed by the Republican Party with the support of the party's Conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt was not nominated by the Republicans, he founded a new party, the Progressive Party (nickname: Bull Moose Party ). The Democrats nominated Woodrow Wilson . He got 42 percent of the vote, defeating Taft and Roosevelt. This was the only time between 1892 and 1932 and, after the election of Grover Cleveland, the second time between 1856 and 1932 that a Democrat was elected President.

Result

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
Woodrow Wilson	democrat	6,296,284	41.8%	435
Theodore Roosevelt	Progressive	4,122,721	27.4%	88
William Howard Taft	republican	3,486,242	23.2%	8th
Eugene V. Debs	socialist	901.551	6.0%	0
Eugene W. Chafin	Prohibitionist	208.156	1.4%	0
Arthur E. Reimer	socialist	29,324	0.2%	0
Other		4,556	0.0%	0
total		15,048,834	100%	531

Web links

Commons : United States Presidential Election 1912  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

literature

• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 295-305 (= Chapter 34: Woodrow Wilson's Initial Election. ).
• Lewis L. Gould: Four hats in the ring: the 1912 election and the birth of modern American politics . University Press of Kansas, Lawrence (KA) 2008, ISBN 978-0-7006-1564-3 .
• James Chace: 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs - The Election that Changed the Country . Simon & Schuster, New York City 2004, ISBN 0-7432-0394-1 .