1912 United States presidential election in Kansas explained

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Election Name:1912 United States presidential election in Kansas
Country:Kansas
Flag Year:1912
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1908 United States presidential election in Kansas
Previous Year:1908
Next Election:1916 United States presidential election in Kansas
Next Year:1916
Election Date:November 5, 1912
Image1:Woodrow Wilson-H&E.jpg
Nominee1:Woodrow Wilson
Party1:Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:New Jersey
Running Mate1:Thomas R. Marshall
Electoral Vote1:10
Popular Vote1:143,663
Percentage1:39.30%
Nominee2:Theodore Roosevelt
Party2:Independent politician
Alliance2:Progressive
Home State2:New York
Running Mate2:Hiram Johnson
Electoral Vote2:0
Popular Vote2:120,210
Percentage2:32.88%
Image4:Unsuccessful 1912.jpg
Nominee4:William Howard Taft
Party4:Republican Party (United States)
Home State4:Ohio
Running Mate4:Nicholas M. Butler
Electoral Vote4:0
Popular Vote4:74,845
Percentage4:20.47%
Image5:Eugene Debs portrait.jpeg
Nominee5:Eugene V. Debs
Party5:Socialist Party of America
Home State5:Indiana
Running Mate5:Emil Seidel
Electoral Vote5:0
Popular Vote5:26,779
Percentage5:7.33%
Map Size:300px
President
Before Election:William Howard Taft
Before Party:Republican Party (United States)
After Election:Woodrow Wilson
After Party:Democratic Party (United States)

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.

Kansas was won by Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson (D–New 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 (INew 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 (R–Ohio), 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 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

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
MarginTotal votes cast
data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%
Allen1,73936.04%1,69235.07%1,00320.79%3918.10%470.97%4,825
Anderson1,36543.92%61819.88%93430.05%1916.15%43113.87%3,108
Atchison2,44943.72%1,53527.40%1,52727.26%911.62%91416.32%5,602
Barber88338.11%29512.73%1,02744.32%1124.83%-144-6.21%2,317
Barton2,06950.85%69217.01%1,11327.35%1954.79%95623.49%4,069
Bourbon2,20941.25%1,44827.04%99118.51%70713.20%76114.21%5,355
Brown1,77436.65%1,51231.24%1,43529.65%1192.46%2625.41%4,840
Butler2,00537.79%97118.30%2,09639.50%2344.41%-91-1.72%5,306
Chase81243.35%47625.41%50326.86%824.38%30916.50%1,873
Chautauqua75228.82%81831.35%76229.21%27710.62%562.15%2,609
Cherokee2,64135.15%1,99426.54%87211.61%2,00626.70%6358.45%7,513
Cheyenne30134.13%14015.87%30234.24%13915.76%-1-0.11%882
Clark48543.54%16214.54%41236.98%554.94%736.55%1,114
Clay1,37336.96%84322.69%1,25033.65%2496.70%1233.31%3,715
Cloud1,65840.18%89921.79%1,28931.24%2806.79%3698.94%4,126
Coffey1,58143.48%68118.73%1,19032.73%1845.06%39110.75%3,636
Comanche37733.25%14813.05%53747.35%726.35%-160-14.11%1,134
Cowley2,53935.93%1,11315.75%2,59436.71%82011.60%-55-0.78%7,066
Crawford2,78126.14%2,67625.16%1,42713.42%3,75335.28%-972-9.14%10,637
Decatur95555.52%25614.88%38822.56%1217.03%56732.97%1,720
Dickinson2,18240.44%98818.31%1,93735.90%2885.34%2454.54%5,395
Doniphan1,01730.13%1,32139.14%94528.00%922.73%-304-9.01%3,375
Douglas1,88836.29%1,13321.78%2,05339.46%1292.48%-165-3.17%5,203
Edwards76444.42%27616.05%58433.95%965.58%18010.47%1,720
Elk97138.67%60524.09%73529.27%2007.96%2369.40%2,511
Ellis1,38164.87%1758.22%53525.13%381.78%84639.74%2,129
Ellsworth1,04545.38%35315.33%86037.34%451.95%1858.03%2,303
Finney57336.38%28317.97%58637.21%1338.44%-13-0.83%1,575
Ford1,12540.79%52919.18%93934.05%1655.98%1866.74%2,758
Franklin1,97040.29%67213.75%1,97140.31%2765.65%-1-0.02%4,889
Geary80035.94%38717.39%91841.24%1215.44%-118-5.30%2,226
Gove35538.76%17018.56%35638.86%353.82%-1-0.11%916
Graham63639.43%32720.27%48129.82%16910.48%1559.61%1,613
Grant8029.74%5620.82%11141.26%228.18%-31-11.52%269
Gray24334.62%11215.95%26738.03%8011.40%-24-3.42%702
Greeley3312.36%9535.58%10639.70%3312.36%-11-4.12%267
Greenwood1,33436.11%95425.83%1,12530.45%2817.61%2095.66%3,694
Hamilton26341.81%13421.30%19931.64%335.25%6410.17%629
Harper1,27440.60%36511.63%1,29641.30%2036.47%-22-0.70%3,138
Harvey1,49937.74%70317.70%1,59040.03%1804.53%-91-2.29%3,972
Haskell10041.67%6125.42%5824.17%218.75%3916.25%240
Hodgeman30238.13%13617.17%31940.28%354.42%-17-2.15%792
Jackson1,56539.89%1,02726.18%1,28632.78%451.15%2797.11%3,923
Jefferson1,53739.59%1,15529.75%1,11628.75%741.91%3829.84%3,882
Jewell1,87142.36%90620.51%1,49733.89%1433.24%3748.47%4,417
Johnson1,83741.85%83419.00%1,56235.58%1573.58%2756.26%4,390
Kearny23635.54%11317.02%23234.94%8312.50%40.60%664
Kingman1,42146.35%33610.96%1,16037.83%1494.86%2618.51%3,066
Kiowa50635.91%27619.59%54938.96%785.54%-43-3.05%1,409
Labette2,56837.02%1,51621.85%1,74625.17%1,10715.96%82211.85%6,937
Lane23738.10%15825.40%15524.92%7211.58%7912.70%622
Leavenworth3,09939.97%2,56233.05%1,77822.93%3144.05%5376.93%7,753
Lincoln1,09144.93%38115.69%85335.13%1034.24%2389.80%2,428
Linn1,28335.82%85823.95%1,05229.37%38910.86%2316.45%3,582
Logan25931.55%16620.22%31538.37%819.87%-56-6.82%821
Lyon2,36342.77%96217.41%1,87833.99%3225.83%4858.78%5,525
Marion1,73240.10%86319.98%1,50034.73%2245.19%2325.37%4,319
Marshall2,27841.20%1,49226.98%1,58128.59%1783.22%69712.61%5,529
McPherson1,63935.27%4559.79%2,40651.78%1473.16%-767-16.51%4,647
Meade38334.29%20418.26%41837.42%11210.03%-35-3.13%1,117
Miami1,91944.05%1,03323.71%1,16526.74%2395.49%75417.31%4,356
Mitchell1,44143.13%73722.06%95128.46%2126.35%49014.67%3,341
Montgomery3,01133.56%1,84220.53%2,92432.59%1,19413.31%870.97%8,971
Morris1,14438.73%48716.49%1,24442.11%792.67%-100-3.39%2,954
Morton14440.79%12033.99%6418.13%257.08%246.80%353
Nemaha1,93644.71%96122.19%1,39332.17%400.92%54312.54%4,330
Neosho1,99338.07%1,58030.18%1,19022.73%4729.02%4137.89%5,235
Ness45835.78%23218.13%46436.25%1269.84%-6-0.47%1,280
Norton1,08143.34%59823.98%67427.02%1415.65%40716.32%2,494
Osage1,96940.82%85017.62%1,58832.92%4178.64%3817.90%4,824
Osborne97235.51%73326.78%91533.43%1174.27%572.08%2,737
Ottawa1,26444.68%51718.28%89931.78%1495.27%36512.90%2,829
Pawnee1,05046.63%36616.25%75933.70%773.42%29112.92%2,252
Phillips1,25739.59%59418.71%1,18137.20%1434.50%762.39%3,175
Pottawatomie1,59937.93%1,05825.09%1,50435.67%551.30%952.25%4,216
Pratt94738.32%37215.05%98439.82%1686.80%-37-1.50%2,471
Rawlins56842.93%22016.63%35426.76%18113.68%21416.18%1,323
Reno3,36042.13%1,66820.92%2,50231.37%4455.58%85810.76%7,975
Republic1,81644.12%89521.74%1,27831.05%1273.09%53813.07%4,116
Rice1,31438.77%69720.57%1,18635.00%1925.67%1283.78%3,389
Riley1,17030.67%42511.14%2,04753.66%1734.53%-877-22.99%3,815
Rooks86538.31%54524.14%71531.67%1335.89%1506.64%2,258
Rush87047.52%21011.47%65935.99%925.02%21111.52%1,831
Russell98339.96%41616.91%99340.37%682.76%-10-0.41%2,460
Saline2,26347.23%53411.15%1,77337.01%2214.61%49010.23%4,791
Scott24740.76%569.24%23238.28%7111.72%152.48%606
Sedgwick5,75239.61%1,4199.77%6,54645.08%8045.54%-794-5.47%14,521
Seward39438.07%15514.98%35534.30%13112.66%393.77%1,035
Shawnee5,09438.76%3,59227.33%4,05730.87%3983.03%1,0377.89%13,141
Sheridan50947.48%19518.19%31629.48%524.85%19318.00%1,072
Sherman46547.26%12913.11%29029.47%10010.16%17517.78%984
Smith1,53440.86%97025.84%1,02227.22%2286.07%51213.64%3,754
Stafford1,09441.85%42216.14%93835.88%1606.12%1565.97%2,614
Stanton11443.18%4215.91%7729.17%3111.74%3714.02%264
Stevens23739.17%11719.34%21435.37%376.12%233.80%605
Sumner2,55739.97%78112.21%2,61540.87%4456.96%-58-0.91%6,398
Thomas43248.16%12714.16%25928.87%798.81%17319.29%897
Trego44940.23%16014.34%41737.37%908.06%322.87%1,116
Wabaunsee1,12838.63%78326.82%93632.05%732.50%1926.58%2,920
Wallace15228.46%8115.17%26449.44%376.93%-112-20.97%534
Washington1,91441.01%1,32628.41%1,31428.16%1132.42%58812.60%4,667
Wichita13536.39%8222.10%11330.46%4111.05%225.93%371
Wilson1,30430.60%84919.92%1,41533.21%69316.26%-111-2.61%4,261
Woodson90037.78%69429.14%60825.52%1807.56%2068.65%2,382
Wyandotte7,37039.10%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 and References

  1. Web site: 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
  3. Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896-1932 (second edition); pp. 226-227 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press
  4. Web site: Géoelections. Popular Vote for Theodore Roosevelt (1912). (.xlsx file for €15)
  5. Web site: Géoelections. 1912 Presidential Election Popular Vote for Eugene Debs. (.xlsx file for €15)