1912 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

1912 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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Nominee Woodrow Wilson William Howard Taft Eugene V. Debs
Party Democratic Republican Socialist
Home state New Jersey Ohio Indiana
Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Nicholas Murray Butler Emil Seidel
Electoral vote 10 0 0
Popular vote 119,156 90,786 41,674
Percentage 46.95% 35.77% 16.42%

County Results

President before election

William Howard Taft
Republican

Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

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The 1912 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Oklahoma was won by the Democratic nominees, governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson and governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall, with 46.95 percent of the popular vote, against the Republican ticket of incumbent president William Howard Taft (ROhio), running with Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, with 35.77 percent of the popular vote, and the five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States Eugene V. Debs (SIndiana), running with the first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United States Emil Seidel, with 16.42 percent of the popular vote.[1]

Oklahoma was the second best state in percentage points for Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs with 16.42 percent with Nevada being his best with 16.47 percent. This was also the only state in which the Progressive Party candidates, former president Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate, governor of California Hiram Johnson, were not on the ballot.

  1. ^ "1912 Presidential Election Results – Oklahoma". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.