1912 United States presidential election

The 1912 United States presidential election was the 33rd election in the history of the United States. It occurred on November 5, 1912. This election was a 4-way race between Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson, Former President Theodore Roosevelt of New York, Incumbent President William Howard Taft of Ohio, and former Congressman Eugene V. Debs of Indiana. Wilson won the election with 435 electoral votes, while Roosevelt got 88 electoral votes, Taft got 8 electoral votes, (lowest for an Incumbent President and lowest of any Republican Candidate), and Debs received 0 electoral votes.

1912 United States presidential election

November 5, 1912
531 members of the Electoral College 266 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	58.8% 6.6 pp
Nominee Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt Party Democratic Home state New Jersey New York Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Hiram Johnson Electoral vote 435 88 States carried 40 6 Popular vote 6,296,284 4,122,721 Percentage 41.8% 27.4%   Nominee William Howard Taft Eugene V. Debs Party Republican Socialist Home state Ohio Indiana Running mate Nicholas M. Butler (replacing James S. Sherman) Emil Seidel Electoral vote 8 0 States carried 2 0 Popular vote 3,486,242 901,551 Percentage 23.2% 6.0%
Template:1912 United States presidential election imagemap Presidential election results map. Blue denotes those won by Wilson/Marshall, light green denotes those won by Roosevelt/Johnson, red denotes states won by Taft/Butler. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
President before election William Howard Taft Republican Elected President Woodrow Wilson Democratic

Democratic Party

1912 Democratic Party ticket
Woodrow Wilson	Thomas R. Marshall
for President	for Vice President
38th Governor of New Jersey (1911-1913)	27th Governor of Indiana (1909-1913)

Presidential

• Eugene V. Debs, Former president of the American Railway Union (1893-1897) and nominee in 1900, 1904, and 1908 (Nominee)
• Emil Seidel, 36th Mayor of Milwaukee (1910–1912) (Vice presidential nominee)
• Charles Edward Russell, journalist and candidate for President in 1912 from New York (1881-1941)

Vice Presidential

• Emil Seidel, 36th Mayor of Milwaukee(1910–1912) (Vice presidential nominee)
• Dan Hogan, Socialist Nominee for Governor of Arkansas in 1910
• John W. Slayton, Socialist Nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1910
• Charles Edward Russell, journalist and candidate for President in 1912 from New York(1881-1941) (Declined)

Progressive Party

1912 Progressive Party ticket
Theodore Roosevelt	Hiram Johnson
for President	for Vice President
26th President of the United States (1901–1909)	23rd Governor of California (1911–1917)

Republican Party

1912 Republican Party ticket
William Howard Taft	James S. Sherman
for President	for Vice President
27th President of the United States (1909–1913)	27th Vice President of the United States (1909–1912)

Socalist Party

Eugene V. Debs	1912 United States Presidential Election Media William Howard Taft Portrait (3x4 cropped) A cartoon by , depicting the perceived aggression between Taft and Roosevelt. Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Democratic Party (United States) Emil Seidel
for President	for Vice President
Indiana state representative (1885–1887)	36th Mayor of Milwaukee (1910–1912)