1912 United States presidential election in Kansas

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1912 United States presidential election in Kansas
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  1908 November 5, 1912 1916  
  Woodrow Wilson-H&E.jpg Unsuccessful 1912 2.jpg
Nominee Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt
Party Democratic Independent
Alliance Progressive
Home state New Jersey New York
Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Hiram Johnson
Electoral vote100
Popular vote143,663120,210
Percentage39.30%32.88%

  William Howard Taft Portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg Eugene Debs portrait.jpeg
Nominee William Howard Taft Eugene V. Debs
Party Republican Socialist
Home state Ohio Indiana
Running mate Nicholas M. Butler Emil Seidel
Electoral vote00
Popular vote74,84526,779
Percentage20.47%7.33%

Kansas Presidential Election Results 1912.svg
County Results

President before election

William Howard Taft
Republican

Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

The 1912 United States presidential election in Kansas 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.

Contents

Kansas was won by Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson (DNew Jersey), running with governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall, with 39.30 percent of the popular vote, against the 26th president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (I [a] New York), running with governor of California Hiram Johnson, with 32.88 percent of the popular vote, the 27th president of the United States William Howard Taft (ROhio), running with Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, with 20.47 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 (Milwaukee) in the United States Emil Seidel, with 7.33 percent of the popular vote. [1]

As a result of his win in the state, Wilson became the second Democratic presidential candidate to ever win Kansas as well as the first one since William Jennings Bryan in 1896.

This is the only election when heavily Yankee Brown County has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, and also the only election until 2020 when Riley County – another heavily Yankee county in the Dissected Till Plains of northeastern Kansas – has not supported the official Republican nominee. [2] This election marks the last time four different candidates won at least one county within one individual state. This feat would be shared by North Dakota in the same election, but the only other occurrence has been in Missouri in 1860.

Results

1912 United States presidential election in Kansas [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Woodrow Wilson 143,663 39.30%
Independent [a] Theodore Roosevelt 120,21032.88%
Republican William Howard Taft (incumbent)74,84520.47%
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 26,7797.33%
Total votes365,560 100%

Results by county

1912 United States presidential election in Kansas by county [3] [4] [5]
CountyThomas Woodrow Wilson
Democratic
William Howard Taft
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt
Independent
Eugene Victor Debs
Socialist
Margin [b] Total votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Allen 1,73936.04%1,69235.07%1,00320.79%3918.10%47 [c] 0.97%4,825
Anderson 1,36543.92%61819.88%93430.05%1916.15%43113.87%3,108
Atchison 2,44943.72%1,53527.40%1,52727.26%911.62%914 [c] 16.32%5,602
Barber 88338.11%29512.73%1,02744.32%1124.83%-144-6.21%2,317
Barton 2,06950.85%69217.01%1,11327.35%1954.79%95623.49%4,069
Bourbon 2,20941.25%1,44827.04%99118.51%70713.20%761 [c] 14.21%5,355
Brown 1,77436.65%1,51231.24%1,43529.65%1192.46%262 [c] 5.41%4,840
Butler 2,00537.79%97118.30%2,09639.50%2344.41%-91-1.72%5,306
Chase 81243.35%47625.41%50326.86%824.38%30916.50%1,873
Chautauqua 75228.82%81831.35%76229.21%27710.62%56 [d] 2.15%2,609
Cherokee 2,64135.15%1,99426.54%87211.61%2,00626.70%635 [e] 8.45%7,513
Cheyenne 30134.13%14015.87%30234.24%13915.76%-1-0.11%882
Clark 48543.54%16214.54%41236.98%554.94%736.55%1,114
Clay 1,37336.96%84322.69%1,25033.65%2496.70%1233.31%3,715
Cloud 1,65840.18%89921.79%1,28931.24%2806.79%3698.94%4,126
Coffey 1,58143.48%68118.73%1,19032.73%1845.06%39110.75%3,636
Comanche 37733.25%14813.05%53747.35%726.35%-160-14.11%1,134
Cowley 2,53935.93%1,11315.75%2,59436.71%82011.60%-55-0.78%7,066
Crawford 2,78126.14%2,67625.16%1,42713.42%3,75335.28%-972 [e] -9.14%10,637
Decatur 95555.52%25614.88%38822.56%1217.03%56732.97%1,720
Dickinson 2,18240.44%98818.31%1,93735.90%2885.34%2454.54%5,395
Doniphan 1,01730.13%1,32139.14%94528.00%922.73%-304 [c] -9.01%3,375
Douglas 1,88836.29%1,13321.78%2,05339.46%1292.48%-165-3.17%5,203
Edwards 76444.42%27616.05%58433.95%965.58%18010.47%1,720
Elk 97138.67%60524.09%73529.27%2007.96%2369.40%2,511
Ellis 1,38164.87%1758.22%53525.13%381.78%84639.74%2,129
Ellsworth 1,04545.38%35315.33%86037.34%451.95%1858.03%2,303
Finney 57336.38%28317.97%58637.21%1338.44%-13-0.83%1,575
Ford 1,12540.79%52919.18%93934.05%1655.98%1866.74%2,758
Franklin 1,97040.29%67213.75%1,97140.31%2765.65%-1-0.02%4,889
Geary 80035.94%38717.39%91841.24%1215.44%-118-5.30%2,226
Gove 35538.76%17018.56%35638.86%353.82%-1-0.11%916
Graham 63639.43%32720.27%48129.82%16910.48%1559.61%1,613
Grant 8029.74%5620.82%11141.26%228.18%-31-11.52%269
Gray 24334.62%11215.95%26738.03%8011.40%-24-3.42%702
Greeley 3312.36%9535.58%10639.70%3312.36%-11 [d] -4.12%267
Greenwood 1,33436.11%95425.83%1,12530.45%2817.61%2095.66%3,694
Hamilton 26341.81%13421.30%19931.64%335.25%6410.17%629
Harper 1,27440.60%36511.63%1,29641.30%2036.47%-22-0.70%3,138
Harvey 1,49937.74%70317.70%1,59040.03%1804.53%-91-2.29%3,972
Haskell 10041.67%6125.42%5824.17%218.75%39 [c] 16.25%240
Hodgeman 30238.13%13617.17%31940.28%354.42%-17-2.15%792
Jackson 1,56539.89%1,02726.18%1,28632.78%451.15%2797.11%3,923
Jefferson 1,53739.59%1,15529.75%1,11628.75%741.91%382 [c] 9.84%3,882
Jewell 1,87142.36%90620.51%1,49733.89%1433.24%3748.47%4,417
Johnson 1,83741.85%83419.00%1,56235.58%1573.58%2756.26%4,390
Kearny 23635.54%11317.02%23234.94%8312.50%40.60%664
Kingman 1,42146.35%33610.96%1,16037.83%1494.86%2618.51%3,066
Kiowa 50635.91%27619.59%54938.96%785.54%-43-3.05%1,409
Labette 2,56837.02%1,51621.85%1,74625.17%1,10715.96%82211.85%6,937
Lane 23738.10%15825.40%15524.92%7211.58%79 [c] 12.70%622
Leavenworth 3,09939.97%2,56233.05%1,77822.93%3144.05%537 [c] 6.93%7,753
Lincoln 1,09144.93%38115.69%85335.13%1034.24%2389.80%2,428
Linn 1,28335.82%85823.95%1,05229.37%38910.86%2316.45%3,582
Logan 25931.55%16620.22%31538.37%819.87%-56-6.82%821
Lyon 2,36342.77%96217.41%1,87833.99%3225.83%4858.78%5,525
Marion 1,73240.10%86319.98%1,50034.73%2245.19%2325.37%4,319
Marshall 2,27841.20%1,49226.98%1,58128.59%1783.22%69712.61%5,529
McPherson 1,63935.27%4559.79%2,40651.78%1473.16%-767-16.51%4,647
Meade 38334.29%20418.26%41837.42%11210.03%-35-3.13%1,117
Miami 1,91944.05%1,03323.71%1,16526.74%2395.49%75417.31%4,356
Mitchell 1,44143.13%73722.06%95128.46%2126.35%49014.67%3,341
Montgomery 3,01133.56%1,84220.53%2,92432.59%1,19413.31%870.97%8,971
Morris 1,14438.73%48716.49%1,24442.11%792.67%-100-3.39%2,954
Morton 14440.79%12033.99%6418.13%257.08%24 [c] 6.80%353
Nemaha 1,93644.71%96122.19%1,39332.17%400.92%54312.54%4,330
Neosho 1,99338.07%1,58030.18%1,19022.73%4729.02%413 [c] 7.89%5,235
Ness 45835.78%23218.13%46436.25%1269.84%-6-0.47%1,280
Norton 1,08143.34%59823.98%67427.02%1415.65%40716.32%2,494
Osage 1,96940.82%85017.62%1,58832.92%4178.64%3817.90%4,824
Osborne 97235.51%73326.78%91533.43%1174.27%572.08%2,737
Ottawa 1,26444.68%51718.28%89931.78%1495.27%36512.90%2,829
Pawnee 1,05046.63%36616.25%75933.70%773.42%29112.92%2,252
Phillips 1,25739.59%59418.71%1,18137.20%1434.50%762.39%3,175
Pottawatomie 1,59937.93%1,05825.09%1,50435.67%551.30%952.25%4,216
Pratt 94738.32%37215.05%98439.82%1686.80%-37-1.50%2,471
Rawlins 56842.93%22016.63%35426.76%18113.68%21416.18%1,323
Reno 3,36042.13%1,66820.92%2,50231.37%4455.58%85810.76%7,975
Republic 1,81644.12%89521.74%1,27831.05%1273.09%53813.07%4,116
Rice 1,31438.77%69720.57%1,18635.00%1925.67%1283.78%3,389
Riley 1,17030.67%42511.14%2,04753.66%1734.53%-877-22.99%3,815
Rooks 86538.31%54524.14%71531.67%1335.89%1506.64%2,258
Rush 87047.52%21011.47%65935.99%925.02%21111.52%1,831
Russell 98339.96%41616.91%99340.37%682.76%-10-0.41%2,460
Saline 2,26347.23%53411.15%1,77337.01%2214.61%49010.23%4,791
Scott 24740.76%569.24%23238.28%7111.72%152.48%606
Sedgwick 5,75239.61%1,4199.77%6,54645.08%8045.54%-794-5.47%14,521
Seward 39438.07%15514.98%35534.30%13112.66%393.77%1,035
Shawnee 5,09438.76%3,59227.33%4,05730.87%3983.03%1,0377.89%13,141
Sheridan 50947.48%19518.19%31629.48%524.85%19318.00%1,072
Sherman 46547.26%12913.11%29029.47%10010.16%17517.78%984
Smith 1,53440.86%97025.84%1,02227.22%2286.07%51213.64%3,754
Stafford 1,09441.85%42216.14%93835.88%1606.12%1565.97%2,614
Stanton 11443.18%4215.91%7729.17%3111.74%3714.02%264
Stevens 23739.17%11719.34%21435.37%376.12%233.80%605
Sumner 2,55739.97%78112.21%2,61540.87%4456.96%-58-0.91%6,398
Thomas 43248.16%12714.16%25928.87%798.81%17319.29%897
Trego 44940.23%16014.34%41737.37%908.06%322.87%1,116
Wabaunsee 1,12838.63%78326.82%93632.05%732.50%1926.58%2,920
Wallace 15228.46%8115.17%26449.44%376.93%-112-20.97%534
Washington 1,91441.01%1,32628.41%1,31428.16%1132.42%588 [c] 12.60%4,667
Wichita 13536.39%8222.10%11330.46%4111.05%225.93%371
Wilson 1,30430.60%84919.92%1,41533.21%69316.26%-111-2.61%4,261
Woodson 90037.78%69429.14%60825.52%1807.56%206 [c] 8.65%2,382
Wyandotte 7,37039.10%2,10711.18%8,10943.02%1,2626.70%-739-3.92%18,848
Totals143,66339.30%74,84520.47%120,21032.88%26,8427.34%68,81823,453365,560

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Although Roosevelt ran under the “Progressive” or “Bull Moose” banner in most states, he was listed as “Independent” in Kansas.
  2. Because Roosevelt finished ahead of Taft in Kansas as a whole, all margins give are Wilson minus Roosevelt unless stated in the total for the county in question.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 In this county where Taft did run second ahead of Roosevelt, the margin given is that between Wilson and Taft and the percentage margin is Wilson percentage minus Taft percentage.
  4. 1 2 In this county where Wilson ran third behind both Taft and Roosevelt, margin given is Taft vote minus Roosevelt vote and percentage margin Taft percentage minus Roosevelt percentage.
  5. 1 2 In this county where Debs ran ahead of both Taft and Roosevelt, margin give is Wilson vote minus Debs vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Debs percentage.

References

  1. 1 2 "1912 Presidential Election Results — Kansas". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
  2. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 199-206 ISBN   0786422173
  3. Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896-1932 (second edition); pp. 226-227 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press
  4. "Popular Vote for Theodore Roosevelt (1912)". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
  5. "1912 Presidential Election Popular Vote for Eugene Debs". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)