1912 United States presidential election in Georgia

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1912 United States presidential election in Georgia
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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 Progressive
Home state New Jersey New York
Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Hiram Johnson
Electoral vote140
Popular vote93,08721,985
Percentage76.63%18.10%

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County Results

President before election

William Howard Taft
Republican

Elected President

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

The 1912 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties, [1] and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club. [2]

Contents

In 1908 the Republican Party had made some gains in the South due to opposition by developing manufacturers to William Jennings Bryan’s populism, [3] and by nominee William Howard Taft’s willingness to accept black disfranchisement. [4] This resulted in the GOP carrying twelve secessionist upcountry counties that had never gone Republican before. [5] The split in the GOP after the 1908 election prevented any maintenance of these gains – which had seen Bryan’s 1908 performance as the poorest by a Democrat in Georgia until pro-civil rights Lyndon B. Johnson lost the state in 1964 – but Roosevelt did hold on to some of the new Republican vote from 1908, consequently finishing far ahead of regular Republican and incumbent President Taft.

Georgia was won by the New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson (DNew Jersey), running with governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall, with 76.63 percent of the popular vote against the 26th president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (PNew York), running with governor of California Hiram Johnson, with 18.10% of the popular vote. [6]

Results

1912 United States presidential election in Georgia [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Woodrow Wilson 93,087 76.63%
Progressive Theodore Roosevelt 21,98518.10%
Republican William Howard Taft (incumbent)5,1914.27%
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 1,0580.87%
Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin 1490.12%
Total votes121,470 100%

Results by county

CountyThomas Woodrow Wilson [7]
Democratic
William Howard Taft [7]
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt [7]
Progressive
Various candidates [7]
Other parties
Margin [lower-alpha 1] Total votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Appling 38159.72%9414.73%15023.51%132.04%23136.21%638
Baker 18093.75%00.00%126.25%00.00%16887.50%192
Baldwin 62189.74%243.47%476.79%00.00%57482.95%692
Banks 27454.15%173.36%21542.49%00.00%5911.66%506
Bartow 1,01760.86%935.57%56133.57%00.00%45627.29%1,671
Ben Hill 53564.30%344.09%26331.61%00.00%27232.69%832
Berrien 70986.67%354.28%708.56%40.49%63978.12%818
Bibb 2,52691.19%1224.40%903.25%321.16%2,404 [lower-alpha 2] 86.79%2,770
Brooks 69589.79%374.78%425.43%00.00%65384.37%774
Bryan 23686.13%238.39%155.47%00.00%213 [lower-alpha 2] 77.74%274
Bulloch 93293.48%171.71%444.41%40.40%88889.07%997
Burke 44090.72%224.54%224.54%10.21%418 [lower-alpha 2] 86.19%485
Butts 49085.96%295.09%498.60%20.35%44177.37%570
Calhoun 32896.76%51.47%61.77%00.00%32294.99%339
Camden 21998.21%20.90%20.90%00.00%21797.31%223
Campbell 44380.11%61.08%10418.81%00.00%33961.30%553
Carroll 1,19269.30%814.71%43125.06%160.93%76144.24%1,720
Catoosa 28660.34%6313.29%12526.37%00.00%16133.97%474
Charlton 15067.26%2310.31%4821.52%20.90%10245.74%223
Chatham 3,27484.36%2386.13%3328.55%370.95%2,94275.81%3,881
Chattahoochee 13791.95%10.67%117.38%00.00%12684.56%149
Chattooga 57866.59%697.95%22025.35%10.12%35841.24%868
Cherokee 60344.93%211.56%71052.91%80.60%-107-7.97%1,342
Clarke 95086.44%666.01%817.37%20.18%86979.07%1,099
Clay 36993.65%82.03%174.31%00.00%35289.34%394
Clayton 44379.11%30.54%11320.18%10.18%33058.93%560
Clinch 28383.24%4814.12%92.65%00.00%235 [lower-alpha 2] 69.12%340
Cobb 1,51975.76%412.04%44222.04%30.15%1,07753.72%2,005
Coffee 89587.32%282.73%858.29%171.66%81079.02%1,025
Colquitt 69956.88%80.65%50641.17%161.30%19315.70%1,229
Columbia 23487.97%20.75%3011.28%00.00%20476.69%266
Coweta 1,04492.80%353.11%464.09%00.00%99888.71%1,125
Crawford 24997.65%10.39%31.18%20.78%24696.47%255
Crisp 64491.87%121.71%456.42%00.00%59985.45%701
Dade 24375.00%185.56%4413.58%195.86%19961.42%324
Dawson 17047.49%236.42%16144.97%41.12%92.51%358
Decatur 1,15071.12%523.22%37823.38%372.29%77247.74%1,617
DeKalb 83784.46%444.44%656.56%454.54%77277.90%991
Dodge 63786.08%121.62%283.78%638.51%60982.30%740
Dooly 60894.12%50.77%335.11%00.00%57589.01%646
Dougherty 73194.81%212.72%192.46%00.00%710 [lower-alpha 2] 92.09%771
Douglas 26645.01%183.05%30751.95%00.00%-41-6.94%591
Early 50187.74%71.23%274.73%366.30%47483.01%571
Echols 14497.30%00.00%42.70%00.00%14094.59%148
Effingham 34395.81%51.40%102.79%00.00%33393.02%358
Elbert 88277.85%131.15%23821.01%00.00%64456.84%1,133
Emanuel 71581.81%222.52%12914.76%80.92%58667.05%874
Fannin 45148.81%16818.18%30533.01%00.00%14615.80%924
Fayette 36977.20%122.51%9519.87%20.42%27457.32%478
Floyd 1,83780.75%632.77%37416.44%10.04%1,46364.31%2,275
Forsyth 23556.90%153.63%16339.47%00.00%7217.43%413
Franklin 69466.03%262.47%33131.49%00.00%36334.54%1,051
Fulton 7,31775.78%5095.27%1,69617.57%1331.38%5,62158.22%9,655
Gilmer 48874.28%527.91%11617.66%10.15%37256.62%657
Glascock 10157.39%31.70%7240.91%00.00%2916.48%176
Glynn 47088.51%163.01%305.65%152.82%44082.86%531
Gordon 59745.96%524.00%65050.04%00.00%-53-4.08%1,299
Grady 45379.06%213.66%9817.10%10.17%35561.95%573
Greene 52576.64%101.46%15021.90%00.00%37554.74%685
Gwinnett 99760.68%553.35%59035.91%10.06%40724.77%1,643
Habersham 49758.54%424.95%31036.51%00.00%18722.03%849
Hall 1,14574.01%1167.50%27517.78%110.71%87056.24%1,547
Hancock 54991.50%122.00%396.50%00.00%51085.00%600
Haralson 38434.13%191.69%70162.31%211.87%-317-28.18%1,125
Harris 58594.66%40.65%284.53%10.16%55790.13%618
Hart 48461.27%151.90%29136.84%00.00%19324.43%790
Heard 32681.09%112.74%6516.17%00.00%26164.93%402
Henry 53679.06%152.21%12718.73%00.00%40960.32%678
Houston 76095.00%243.00%162.00%00.00%736 [lower-alpha 2] 92.00%800
Irwin 42889.17%61.25%459.38%10.21%38379.79%480
Jackson 1,10865.02%452.64%55132.34%00.00%55732.69%1,704
Jasper 64496.99%121.81%81.20%00.00%632 [lower-alpha 2] 95.18%664
Jeff Davis 26879.06%195.60%5215.34%00.00%21663.72%339
Jefferson 41671.85%81.38%15326.42%20.35%26345.42%579
Jenkins 27990.88%134.23%154.89%00.00%26485.99%307
Johnson 28571.25%235.75%9223.00%00.00%19348.25%400
Jones 42693.42%275.92%30.66%00.00%399 [lower-alpha 2] 87.50%456
Laurens 1,11889.44%262.08%1068.48%00.00%1,01280.96%1,250
Lee 21093.33%94.00%62.67%00.00%201 [lower-alpha 2] 89.33%225
Liberty 25170.31%298.12%7721.57%00.00%17448.74%357
Lincoln 25390.68%00.00%269.32%00.00%22781.36%279
Lowndes 84791.87%242.60%353.80%161.74%81288.07%922
Lumpkin 27965.34%296.79%11927.87%00.00%16037.47%427
Macon 41179.81%193.69%8516.50%00.00%32663.30%515
Madison 56478.01%131.80%14620.19%00.00%41857.81%723
Marion 23377.41%175.65%5116.94%00.00%18260.47%301
McDuffie 27170.03%92.33%10627.39%10.26%16542.64%387
McIntosh 11892.19%21.56%86.25%00.00%11085.94%128
Meriwether 88288.20%262.60%919.10%10.10%79179.10%1,000
Miller 20078.13%20.78%62.34%4818.75%19475.78%256
Milton 32072.07%173.83%10724.10%00.00%21347.97%444
Mitchell 91782.91%302.71%14012.66%191.72%77770.25%1,106
Monroe 78688.51%91.01%9310.47%00.00%69378.04%888
Montgomery 85485.49%525.21%939.31%00.00%76176.18%999
Morgan 57587.65%243.66%578.69%00.00%51878.96%656
Murray 36647.47%688.82%30739.82%303.89%597.65%771
Muscogee 1,81785.35%512.40%1024.79%1597.47%1,71580.55%2,129
Newton 84089.27%576.06%434.57%10.11%783 [lower-alpha 2] 83.21%941
Oconee 20853.47%10.26%18046.27%00.00%287.20%389
Oglethorpe 50381.79%335.37%7912.85%00.00%42468.94%615
Paulding 42637.30%322.80%68459.89%00.00%-258-22.59%1,142
Pickens 32434.80%19020.41%41744.79%00.00%-93-9.99%931
Pierce 40869.39%8314.12%9716.50%00.00%31152.89%588
Pike 75181.63%343.70%13414.57%10.11%61767.07%920
Polk 70654.90%362.80%53941.91%50.39%16712.99%1,286
Pulaski 1,08095.07%171.50%393.43%00.00%1,04191.64%1,136
Putnam 46096.64%61.26%102.10%00.00%45094.54%476
Quitman 11287.50%75.47%97.03%00.00%10380.47%128
Rabun 32771.24%122.61%11925.93%10.22%20845.32%459
Randolph 55984.70%578.64%446.67%00.00%502 [lower-alpha 2] 76.06%660
Richmond 1,87177.44%1777.33%2349.69%1345.55%1,63767.76%2,416
Rockdale 43485.77%112.17%6112.06%00.00%37373.72%506
Schley 21289.83%31.27%208.47%10.42%19281.36%236
Screven 46074.07%213.38%13822.22%20.32%32251.85%621
Spalding 73691.20%263.22%455.58%00.00%69185.63%807
Stephens 40984.33%153.09%6112.58%00.00%34871.75%485
Stewart 45294.96%173.57%71.47%00.00%435 [lower-alpha 2] 91.39%476
Sumter 1,00495.62%242.29%191.81%30.29%980 [lower-alpha 2] 93.33%1,050
Talbot 44682.44%81.48%8716.08%00.00%35966.36%541
Taliaferro 24283.74%72.42%4013.84%00.00%20269.90%289
Tattnall 59269.89%182.13%23427.63%30.35%35842.27%847
Taylor 34274.84%173.72%9821.44%00.00%24453.39%457
Telfair 69594.69%202.72%192.59%00.00%675 [lower-alpha 2] 91.96%734
Terrell 60892.68%294.42%192.90%00.00%579 [lower-alpha 2] 88.26%656
Thomas 1,01281.48%473.78%17614.17%70.56%83667.31%1,242
Tift 42765.49%00.00%18928.99%365.52%23836.50%652
Toombs 32777.30%204.73%7517.73%10.24%25259.57%423
Towns 23043.48%8916.82%20638.94%40.76%244.54%529
Troup 1,44193.94%161.04%754.89%20.13%1,36689.05%1,534
Turner 38574.18%254.82%7514.45%346.55%31059.73%519
Twiggs 30795.05%30.93%134.02%00.00%29491.02%323
Union 31948.11%8813.27%25638.61%00.00%639.50%663
Upson 44575.42%71.19%13823.39%00.00%30752.03%590
Walker 77154.64%21515.24%40428.63%211.49%36726.01%1,411
Walton 88573.81%403.34%27422.85%00.00%61150.96%1,199
Ware 97288.77%544.93%393.56%302.74%918 [lower-alpha 2] 83.84%1,095
Warren 26276.83%113.23%6719.65%10.29%19557.18%341
Washington 92082.51%282.51%16714.98%00.00%75367.53%1,115
Wayne 38089.83%143.31%255.91%40.95%35583.92%423
Webster 13997.89%21.41%10.70%00.00%137 [lower-alpha 2] 96.48%142
White 15255.68%114.03%11040.29%00.00%4215.38%273
Whitfield 76155.55%1067.74%43731.90%664.82%32423.65%1,370
Wilcox 52592.11%152.63%295.09%10.18%49687.02%570
Wilkes 65789.39%30.41%689.25%70.95%58980.14%735
Wilkinson 33592.54%102.76%174.70%00.00%31887.85%362
Worth 50084.18%122.02%7712.96%50.84%42371.21%594
Totals93,08776.63%5,1914.27%21,98518.10%1,2070.99%71,10258.53%121,470

Notes

  1. Because Roosevelt finished ahead of Taft in Georgia as a whole, all margins given are Wilson minus Roosevelt unless stated in the total for the county in question.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 In this county where Taft did run second ahead of Roosevelt, margin given is Wilson vote minus Taft vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Taft percentage.

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