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Wilson's popular vote margin of 3.1 percent was the smallest attained by a victorious sitting president since 1812 and retained that status until 2004. The total popular vote cast in 1916 exceeded that of 1912 by 3,500,000. The large total vote was an indication of an aroused public interest in the campaign.
Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Woodrow Wilson: Democratic: New Jersey: 6,296,284 41.84% 435 Thomas R. Marshall: Indiana: 435 Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive: New York: 4,122,721 27.40% 88 Hiram Johnson: California: 88 William Howard Taft (incumbent) Republican ...
As of 2024, this is the only presidential election since 1860 in which 4 candidates received more than 5% of the popular vote and a third-party candidate outperformed a major party candidate in the general election. Wilson won the presidency with a lower percentage of the popular vote than any candidate since Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Taft's ...
Wilson won 435 of the 531 electoral votes and 41.8% of the popular vote, while Roosevelt won most of the remaining electoral votes and 27.4% of the popular vote, representing one of the strongest third party performances in U.S. history. Taft won 23.2% of the popular vote but just 8 electoral votes, while Debs won 6% of the popular vote.
Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) Next Congress: 65th: Presidential election; Partisan control: Democratic hold: Popular vote margin: Democratic +3.1%: Electoral vote: Woodrow Wilson (D) 277: Charles Evans Hughes (R) 254: 1916 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Hughes, blue denotes states won by Wilson. Numbers indicate the ...
Nationally, Wilson won 277 electoral votes and 49.2 percent of the popular vote, while Hughes won 254 electoral votes and 46.1 percent of the popular vote. [192] Wilson was able to win by picking up many votes that had gone to Roosevelt or Debs in 1912. [193]
1912 United States presidential election in Rhode Island [1] Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote Count % Count % Democratic: Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey: Thomas Riley Marshall of Indiana: 30,412: 39.04%: 5: 100.00%: Republican: William Howard Taft of Ohio: Nicholas Murray Butler of New York: 27,703 35.56% 0 0.00% ...
Popular vote margin: Democratic +14.4%: Electoral vote: Woodrow Wilson (D) 435: Theodore Roosevelt (P) 88: William Howard Taft (R) 8: 1912 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Taft, blue denotes states won by Wilson, and light green denotes states won by Roosevelt. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate ...