1912 Iowa Senate election

1912 Iowa Senate election

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29 out of 50 seats in the Iowa Senate 26 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Last election 34 16 Seats after 32 18 Seat change 2 2

The 1912 Iowa Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1912 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 29 of the senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa Senate.

A statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1912 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly here.

The primary election on June 3, 1912, determined which candidates appeared on the November 5, 1912 general election ballot. ^{[1] [2]}

Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 34 seats to Democrats' 16 seats.

To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 10 Senate seats.

Republicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1912 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 32 seats and Democrats having 18 seats (a net gain of 2 seats for Democrats).

Summary of Results

• Note: 21 districts with holdover Senators not up for re-election are not listed on this table.

Senate District	Incumbent	Party		Elected Senator	Party
2nd	William Sylvester Allen		Rep	John H. Taylor		Rep
3rd	Lewis Leroy Taylor		Dem	James M. Wilson		Rep
4th	George McCulloch		Rep	John H. Darrah		Rep
5th	John Dana Brown		Rep	Charles H. Thomas		Rep
6th	Theophilus W. Bennett		Rep	Albert D. Nye		Rep
8th	Shirley Gillilland		Rep	Frank F. Jones		Rep
11th	Aaron VanScoy Proudfoot		Rep	LeMerton Edson Crist		Rep
14th	John Fletcher Ream		Dem	John Fletcher Ream		Dem
15th	John Thomas Clarkson		Dem	John Thomas Clarkson		Dem
16th	Arthur Craig Savage		Rep	Arthur Craig Savage		Rep
17th	Anthony Milroy McColl		Rep	Anthony Milroy McColl		Rep
19th [lower-alpha 1]	Charles George Saunders		Rep	Mack C. Goodwin [lower-alpha 2]		Dem
				Clement F. Kimball [lower-alpha 3]		Rep
23rd	Lyman Bradley Parshall		Dem	George Earl Hilsinger		Rep
24th	Horace Ray Chapman		Rep	William David Sheean		Dem
25th	James A. White		Dem	James A. White		Dem
26th	Willard Coldren Stuckslager		Rep	Francis A. Heald		Rep
27th	Frederic Larrabee		Rep	Frederic Larrabee		Rep
28th	Comfort Harvey Van Law		Rep	Wallace H. Arney		Rep
31st	Joseph Andrew Fitchpatrick		Rep	Justin R. Doran		Rep
32nd	Robert Hunter		Rep	Edgar P. Farr		Dem
33rd	Edwin Hiram Hoyt		Rep	Eli Cushman Perkins		Rep
36th	Robert Pollok Quigley		Dem	Robert Pollok Quigley		Dem
39th	Charles Gates		Rep	Charles Gates		Rep
40th	Henry L. Adams		Rep	Albert M. Fellows		Rep
41st	James Albert Smith		Rep	Lars W. Boe		Rep
43rd	John Hammill		Rep	Thomas J. B. Robinson		Rep
46th	James Uriah Sammis		Rep	Guy Mark Gillette		Dem
47th	Leslie E. Francis		Rep	Leslie E. Francis		Rep
49th	Nicholas Balkema		Rep	Nicholas Balkema		Rep

Source: ^[4]

Detailed Results

• NOTE: The 21 districts that did not hold elections in 1912 are not listed here.

District 2 • District 3 • District 4 • District 5 • District 6 • District 8 • District 11 • District 14 • District 15 • District 16 • District 17 • District 19 • District 23 • District 24 • District 25 • District 26 • District 27 • District 28 • District 31 • District 32 • District 33 • District 36 • District 39 • District 40 • District 41 • District 43 • District 46 • District 47 • District 49

• Note: If a district does not list a primary, then that district did not have a competitive primary (i.e., there may have only been one candidate file for that district). ^{[5] [6]}

District 2

Iowa Senate, District 2 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	J. H. Taylor	1,546	54.76%
	Republican	Charles J. Fulton	1,277	45.24%
Total votes			2,823	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 2 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John H. Taylor	3,248	49.35%
	Democratic	A. E. Labaugh	3,187	48.42%
	Prohibition	J. W. Wolf	147	2.23%
Total votes			6,582	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 3

Iowa Senate, District 3 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	James M. Wilson	1,843	56.33%
	Republican	George D. Lynch	750	22.92%
	Republican	George W. Swan	679	20.75%
Total votes			3,272	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 3 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	James M. Wilson	4,148	53.58%
	Democratic	R. W. Anderson	3,593	46.42%
Total votes			7,741	100.00%
	Republican gain from Democratic

District 4

Iowa Senate, District 4 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John H. Darrah	1,500	54.90%
	Republican	E. A. Anderson	1,232	45.10%
Total votes			2,732	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 4 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John H. Darrah	2,951	49.60%
	Democratic	H. L. Exley	2,838	47.70%
	Progressive	U. S. Cooper	161	2.71%
Total votes			5,950	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 5

Iowa Senate, District 5 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	C. H. Thomas	3,045	63.96%
	Republican	J. W. Lauder	1,716	36.04%
Total votes			4,761	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 5 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	C. H. Thomas	5,269	55.54%
	Democratic	Henry C. Beard	4,061	42.81%
	Progressive	C. E. Harvey	157	1.65%
Total votes			9,487	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 6

Iowa Senate, District 6 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	A. D. Nye	2,132	65.46%
	Republican	H. E. Tomlinson	1,125	34.54%
Total votes			3,257	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 6 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	A. D. Nye	3,381	55.28%
	Democratic	Carl Stanley	2,735	44.72%
Total votes			6,116	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 8

Iowa Senate, District 8 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	F. F. Jones	3,160	49.31%
	Democratic	W. S. Reiley	2,716	42.38%
	Progressive	A. C. Gustafson	401	6.26%
	Socialist	James P. Christie	132	2.06%
Total votes			6,409	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 11

Iowa Senate, District 11 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	L. E. Crist	1,602	48.86%
	Republican	John Gardiner	1,182	36.05%
	Republican	Carl Dare	495	15.10%
Total votes			3,279	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 11 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	L. E. Crist	3,052	53.58%
	Democratic	Theodore Wall	2,208	38.76%
	Progressive	A. U. Lang	436	7.65%
Total votes			5,696	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 14

Iowa Senate, District 14 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Walter I. Beans	1,257	51.41%
	Republican	Elmer Mitchell	1,188	48.59%
Total votes			2,445	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 14 Progressive Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	G. W. Boyce	47	64.38%
	Progressive	James Picken	26	35.62%
Total votes			73	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 14 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John F. Ream (incumbent)	2,911	51.77%
	Republican	W. I. Beans	2,502	44.50%
	Prohibition	G. W. Boyce	210	3.73%
Total votes			5,623	100.00%
	Democratic hold

District 15

Iowa Senate, District 15 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	John T. Clarkson (incumbent)	4,132	45.38%
	Republican	R. L. Welch	4,008	44.02%
	Socialist	Charles Bruce	965	10.60%
Total votes			9,105	100.00%
	Democratic hold

District 16

Iowa Senate, District 16 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Arthur C. Savage (incumbent)	2,875	44.12%
	Democratic	John Schoenenberger	2,816	43.22%
	Progressive	Harry W. Hill	660	10.13%
	Socialist	B. N. Clark	88	1.35%
	Prohibition	T. C. Dugan	77	1.18%
Total votes			6,516	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 17

Iowa Senate, District 17 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Anthony M. McColl (incumbent)	6,060	60.80%
	Democratic	H. H. Crenshaw	3,720	37.32%
	Progressive	A. J. Hadley	187	1.88%
Total votes			9,967	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 19

Iowa Senate, District 19 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Clement F. Kimball	2,367	70.76%
	Republican	Owen J. McManus	978	29.24%
Total votes			3,345	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 19 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Mack C. Goodwin	5,071	48.27%
	Republican	Clement F. Kimball	5,026	47.84%
	Socialist	S. S. Beem	328	3.12%
	Prohibition	A. J. Matthews	80	0.76%
Total votes			10,505	100.00%
	Democratic gain from Republican

• Originally the 1912 general election in the nineteenth senatorial district was deemed a victory for Democrat Mack C. Goodwin. ^{[lower-alpha 1]} Goodwin would serve for a month in 1913. ^{[lower-alpha 2]} However, the senators would remove Goodwin and replace him with Republican Clem F. Kimball following Kimball's contestation of the results. ^{[lower-alpha 3]}

District 23

Iowa Senate, District 23 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	George Hilsinger	998	59.23%
	Republican	S. D. Helde	687	40.77%
Total votes			1,685	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 23 Democratic Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Owen McCaffrey	443	29.95%
	Democratic	W. P. Dunlap	393	26.57%
	Democratic	James W. Ellis	349	23.60%
	Democratic	Lyman B. Parshall (incumbent)	294	19.88%
Total votes			1,479	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 23 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	George E. Hilsinger	2,265	49.65%
	Democratic	Owen McCaffrey	2,218	48.62%
	Socialist	Z. M. Holcomb	79	1.73%
Total votes			4,562	100.00%
	Republican gain from Democratic

District 24

Iowa Senate, District 24 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	William D. Sheean	4,369	53.73%
	Republican	H. R. Chapman (incumbent)	3,763	46.27%
Total votes			8,132	100.00%
	Democratic gain from Republican

District 25

Iowa Senate, District 25 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	E. D. Murphy	123	89.78%
	Republican	Thomas Williams	14	10.22%
Total votes			137	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 25 Democratic Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	James A. White (incumbent)	1,355	55.46%
	Democratic	Thomas Stapleton	1,088	44.54%
Total votes			2,443	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 25 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	James A. White (incumbent)	5,330	59.12%
	Republican	E. D. Murphy	3,685	40.88%
Total votes			9,015	100.00%
	Democratic hold

District 26

Iowa Senate, District 26 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Francis A. Heald	3,327	72.83%
	Republican	John McAllister	1,241	27.17%
Total votes			4,568	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 26 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Francis A. Heald	6,743	55.32%
	Democratic	M. G. Bryan	4,172	34.23%
	Progressive	James M. Sword	702	5.76%
	Socialist	P. W. Hynes	384	3.15%
	Prohibition	Hugh Boyd	188	1.54%
Total votes			12,189	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 27

Iowa Senate, District 27 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Frederic Larrabee (incumbent)	5,434	63.16%
	Democratic	Thomas Tolen	3,169	36.84%
Total votes			8,603	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 28

Iowa Senate, District 28 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Wallace H. Arney	2,723	48.28%
	Democratic	William Shipton	2,511	44.52%
	Socialist	Myron F. Wiltse	253	4.49%
	Prohibition	E. H. Brown	153	2.71%
Total votes			5,640	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 31

Iowa Senate, District 31 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Justin R. Doran	2,926	52.37%
	Republican	William W. Goodykoontz	2,661	47.63%
Total votes			5,587	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 31 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Justin R. Doran	5,611	63.19%
	Democratic	Edward C. Jordan	2,513	28.30%
	Socialist	A. F. Schrader	508	5.72%
	Prohibition	Fred T. Stevenson	247	2.78%
Total votes			8,879	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 32

Iowa Senate, District 32 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	E. P. Farr	4,251	36.81%
	Republican	Robert Hunter (incumbent)	4,020	34.81%
	Progressive	Charles J. Holman	2,921	25.29%
	Socialist	Mort. M. Curtis	356	3.08%
Total votes			11,548	100.00%
	Democratic gain from Republican

District 33

Iowa Senate, District 33 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Eli C. Perkins	3,745	70.41%
	Progressive	Daniel H. Young	1,492	28.05%
	Socialist	Charles Root	82	1.54%
Total votes			5,319	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 36

Iowa Senate, District 36 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Robert Quigley (incumbent)	3,054	57.72%
	Republican	L. S. Fisher	2,237	42.28%
Total votes			5,291	100.00%
	Democratic hold

District 39

Iowa Senate, District 39 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Charles Gates (incumbent)	3,226	53.22%
	Democratic	O. H. Mitchell	2,836	46.78%
Total votes			6,062	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 40

Iowa Senate, District 40 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Albert M. Fellows	2,431	67.19%
	Republican	Edwin H. Fourt	1,187	32.81%
Total votes			3,618	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 40 Democratic Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	W. C. Earle	169	92.35%
	Democratic	C. J. Haas	14	7.65%
Total votes			183	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 40 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Albert M. Fellows	5,185	57.12%
	Democratic	W. C. Earle	3,893	42.88%
Total votes			9,078	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 41

Iowa Senate, District 41 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Lars W. Boe	4,265	96.93%
	Prohibition	E. T. Clark	135	3.07%
Total votes			4,400	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 43

Iowa Senate, District 43 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	T. J. B. Robinson	5,595	61.99%
	Democratic	D. C. Wolf	2,591	28.71%
	Progressive	James E. Stinehart	839	9.30%
Total votes			9,025	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 46

Iowa Senate, District 46 Republican Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	George F. Coburn [lower-alpha 4]	2,119	53.47%
	Republican	J. U. Sammis (incumbent)	1,844	46.53%
Total votes			3,963	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 46 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Guy M. Gillette	4,505	50.01%
	Socialist	George F. Coburn [lower-alpha 4]	4,504	49.99%
Total votes			9,009	100.00%
	Democratic gain from Republican

District 47

Iowa Senate, District 47 Democratic Primary Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Frank Carpenter	672	61.26%
	Democratic	Ira L. Breffle	425	38.74%
Total votes			1,097	100.00%

Iowa Senate, District 47 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Leslie E. Francis (incumbent)	6,914	60.62%
	Democratic	Frank Carpenter	4,492	39.38%
Total votes			11,406	100.00%
	Republican hold

District 49

Iowa Senate, District 49 General Election, 1912

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Nicholas Balkema (incumbent)	5,846	94.78%
	Socialist	B. E. Hunter	322	5.22%
Total votes			6,168	100.00%
	Republican hold

1. Originally, Democrat Mack C. Goodwin was declared the victor of the general election in the 19th senatorial district. Goodwin would serve in the Iowa Senate from January 13 to February 14, 1913. However, Republican Clem F. Kimball contested the election results. The state senators decided in Kimball's favor, removed Goodwin, and installed Kimball in the seat. ^[3]
2. Democrat Mack C. Goodwin was removed by the members of the senate after Republican Clem F. Kimball contested the results.
3. Republican Clem F. Kimball was installed in the 19th district senate seat after Democrat Mack C. Goodwin was removed by the members of the senate. The senators agreed with Republican Clem F. Kimball, who contested the election's results.
4. Coburn won the Republican primary, but he ran as a Socialist in the general election.

See also

• United States elections, 1912
• United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 1912
• Elections in Iowa

References

1. "Primary Election 1912 For State Senator" (PDF). Iowa General Assembly . Retrieved June 15, 2021.
2. "General Election 1912 For State Senator" (PDF). Iowa General Assembly . Retrieved June 15, 2021.
3. "NOTE.: In compiling the list of the members of the senate in the thirty-fifth general assembly (pages 143, 144) the name of Mack C. Goodwin appears as the member from the nineteenth senatorial district. The election of Mr. Goodwin was contested by Clement F. Kimball of Council Bluffs and was subsequently decided by the senate in favor of the latter" (PDF). Iowa General Assembly . Retrieved June 15, 2021.
4. "Legislators". Iowa Senate . Retrieved June 15, 2021.
5. "Primary Election 1912 For State Senator" (PDF). Iowa General Assembly . Retrieved June 15, 2021.
6. "General Election 1912 For State Senator" (PDF). Iowa General Assembly . Retrieved June 15, 2021.