1912 United States presidential election in Idaho County Results
Wilson
30–40%
40–50%
Taft
30–40%
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
Roosevelt
30–40%
The 1912 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 5 , 1912 , as part of the 1912 United States presidential election . State voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
Idaho was won by New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson (D –Virginia ), running with Indiana Governor Thomas R. Marshall , with 32.08 percent of the popular vote, against the 27th president of the United States William Howard Taft (R –Ohio ), running with Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler , with 31.02 percent of the popular vote, the 26th president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (P –New York ), running with governor of California Hiram Johnson , with 24.14 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 (S –Indiana ), running with the first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United States Emil Seidel , with 11.31 percent of the popular vote. [ 1]
Wilson's 32.08% of the popular vote is the smallest vote share by which any candidate has carried a state in any United States presidential election; slightly smaller than John Quincy Adams ' 32.46% in Illinois in 1824 , and Abraham Lincoln 's 32.32% in California in 1860 .
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