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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 (I–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 (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 (S–Indiana), 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.
| 1912 United States presidential election in Kansas by county[3] [4] [5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic | William Howard Taft Republican | Theodore Roosevelt Independent | Eugene Victor Debs Socialist | Margin | Total 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" | % | |||||||||
| Allen | 1,739 | 36.04% | 1,692 | 35.07% | 1,003 | 20.79% | 391 | 8.10% | 47 | 0.97% | 4,825 | ||||||||||||
| Anderson | 1,365 | 43.92% | 618 | 19.88% | 934 | 30.05% | 191 | 6.15% | 431 | 13.87% | 3,108 | ||||||||||||
| Atchison | 2,449 | 43.72% | 1,535 | 27.40% | 1,527 | 27.26% | 91 | 1.62% | 914 | 16.32% | 5,602 | ||||||||||||
| Barber | 883 | 38.11% | 295 | 12.73% | 1,027 | 44.32% | 112 | 4.83% | -144 | -6.21% | 2,317 | ||||||||||||
| Barton | 2,069 | 50.85% | 692 | 17.01% | 1,113 | 27.35% | 195 | 4.79% | 956 | 23.49% | 4,069 | ||||||||||||
| Bourbon | 2,209 | 41.25% | 1,448 | 27.04% | 991 | 18.51% | 707 | 13.20% | 761 | 14.21% | 5,355 | ||||||||||||
| Brown | 1,774 | 36.65% | 1,512 | 31.24% | 1,435 | 29.65% | 119 | 2.46% | 262 | 5.41% | 4,840 | ||||||||||||
| Butler | 2,005 | 37.79% | 971 | 18.30% | 2,096 | 39.50% | 234 | 4.41% | -91 | -1.72% | 5,306 | ||||||||||||
| Chase | 812 | 43.35% | 476 | 25.41% | 503 | 26.86% | 82 | 4.38% | 309 | 16.50% | 1,873 | ||||||||||||
| Chautauqua | 752 | 28.82% | 818 | 31.35% | 762 | 29.21% | 277 | 10.62% | 56 | 2.15% | 2,609 | ||||||||||||
| Cherokee | 2,641 | 35.15% | 1,994 | 26.54% | 872 | 11.61% | 2,006 | 26.70% | 635 | 8.45% | 7,513 | ||||||||||||
| Cheyenne | 301 | 34.13% | 140 | 15.87% | 302 | 34.24% | 139 | 15.76% | -1 | -0.11% | 882 | ||||||||||||
| Clark | 485 | 43.54% | 162 | 14.54% | 412 | 36.98% | 55 | 4.94% | 73 | 6.55% | 1,114 | ||||||||||||
| Clay | 1,373 | 36.96% | 843 | 22.69% | 1,250 | 33.65% | 249 | 6.70% | 123 | 3.31% | 3,715 | ||||||||||||
| Cloud | 1,658 | 40.18% | 899 | 21.79% | 1,289 | 31.24% | 280 | 6.79% | 369 | 8.94% | 4,126 | ||||||||||||
| Coffey | 1,581 | 43.48% | 681 | 18.73% | 1,190 | 32.73% | 184 | 5.06% | 391 | 10.75% | 3,636 | ||||||||||||
| Comanche | 377 | 33.25% | 148 | 13.05% | 537 | 47.35% | 72 | 6.35% | -160 | -14.11% | 1,134 | ||||||||||||
| Cowley | 2,539 | 35.93% | 1,113 | 15.75% | 2,594 | 36.71% | 820 | 11.60% | -55 | -0.78% | 7,066 | ||||||||||||
| Crawford | 2,781 | 26.14% | 2,676 | 25.16% | 1,427 | 13.42% | 3,753 | 35.28% | -972 | -9.14% | 10,637 | ||||||||||||
| Decatur | 955 | 55.52% | 256 | 14.88% | 388 | 22.56% | 121 | 7.03% | 567 | 32.97% | 1,720 | ||||||||||||
| Dickinson | 2,182 | 40.44% | 988 | 18.31% | 1,937 | 35.90% | 288 | 5.34% | 245 | 4.54% | 5,395 | ||||||||||||
| Doniphan | 1,017 | 30.13% | 1,321 | 39.14% | 945 | 28.00% | 92 | 2.73% | -304 | -9.01% | 3,375 | ||||||||||||
| Douglas | 1,888 | 36.29% | 1,133 | 21.78% | 2,053 | 39.46% | 129 | 2.48% | -165 | -3.17% | 5,203 | ||||||||||||
| Edwards | 764 | 44.42% | 276 | 16.05% | 584 | 33.95% | 96 | 5.58% | 180 | 10.47% | 1,720 | ||||||||||||
| Elk | 971 | 38.67% | 605 | 24.09% | 735 | 29.27% | 200 | 7.96% | 236 | 9.40% | 2,511 | ||||||||||||
| Ellis | 1,381 | 64.87% | 175 | 8.22% | 535 | 25.13% | 38 | 1.78% | 846 | 39.74% | 2,129 | ||||||||||||
| Ellsworth | 1,045 | 45.38% | 353 | 15.33% | 860 | 37.34% | 45 | 1.95% | 185 | 8.03% | 2,303 | ||||||||||||
| Finney | 573 | 36.38% | 283 | 17.97% | 586 | 37.21% | 133 | 8.44% | -13 | -0.83% | 1,575 | ||||||||||||
| Ford | 1,125 | 40.79% | 529 | 19.18% | 939 | 34.05% | 165 | 5.98% | 186 | 6.74% | 2,758 | ||||||||||||
| Franklin | 1,970 | 40.29% | 672 | 13.75% | 1,971 | 40.31% | 276 | 5.65% | -1 | -0.02% | 4,889 | ||||||||||||
| Geary | 800 | 35.94% | 387 | 17.39% | 918 | 41.24% | 121 | 5.44% | -118 | -5.30% | 2,226 | ||||||||||||
| Gove | 355 | 38.76% | 170 | 18.56% | 356 | 38.86% | 35 | 3.82% | -1 | -0.11% | 916 | ||||||||||||
| Graham | 636 | 39.43% | 327 | 20.27% | 481 | 29.82% | 169 | 10.48% | 155 | 9.61% | 1,613 | ||||||||||||
| Grant | 80 | 29.74% | 56 | 20.82% | 111 | 41.26% | 22 | 8.18% | -31 | -11.52% | 269 | ||||||||||||
| Gray | 243 | 34.62% | 112 | 15.95% | 267 | 38.03% | 80 | 11.40% | -24 | -3.42% | 702 | ||||||||||||
| Greeley | 33 | 12.36% | 95 | 35.58% | 106 | 39.70% | 33 | 12.36% | -11 | -4.12% | 267 | ||||||||||||
| Greenwood | 1,334 | 36.11% | 954 | 25.83% | 1,125 | 30.45% | 281 | 7.61% | 209 | 5.66% | 3,694 | ||||||||||||
| Hamilton | 263 | 41.81% | 134 | 21.30% | 199 | 31.64% | 33 | 5.25% | 64 | 10.17% | 629 | ||||||||||||
| Harper | 1,274 | 40.60% | 365 | 11.63% | 1,296 | 41.30% | 203 | 6.47% | -22 | -0.70% | 3,138 | ||||||||||||
| Harvey | 1,499 | 37.74% | 703 | 17.70% | 1,590 | 40.03% | 180 | 4.53% | -91 | -2.29% | 3,972 | ||||||||||||
| Haskell | 100 | 41.67% | 61 | 25.42% | 58 | 24.17% | 21 | 8.75% | 39 | 16.25% | 240 | ||||||||||||
| Hodgeman | 302 | 38.13% | 136 | 17.17% | 319 | 40.28% | 35 | 4.42% | -17 | -2.15% | 792 | ||||||||||||
| Jackson | 1,565 | 39.89% | 1,027 | 26.18% | 1,286 | 32.78% | 45 | 1.15% | 279 | 7.11% | 3,923 | ||||||||||||
| Jefferson | 1,537 | 39.59% | 1,155 | 29.75% | 1,116 | 28.75% | 74 | 1.91% | 382 | 9.84% | 3,882 | ||||||||||||
| Jewell | 1,871 | 42.36% | 906 | 20.51% | 1,497 | 33.89% | 143 | 3.24% | 374 | 8.47% | 4,417 | ||||||||||||
| Johnson | 1,837 | 41.85% | 834 | 19.00% | 1,562 | 35.58% | 157 | 3.58% | 275 | 6.26% | 4,390 | ||||||||||||
| Kearny | 236 | 35.54% | 113 | 17.02% | 232 | 34.94% | 83 | 12.50% | 4 | 0.60% | 664 | ||||||||||||
| Kingman | 1,421 | 46.35% | 336 | 10.96% | 1,160 | 37.83% | 149 | 4.86% | 261 | 8.51% | 3,066 | ||||||||||||
| Kiowa | 506 | 35.91% | 276 | 19.59% | 549 | 38.96% | 78 | 5.54% | -43 | -3.05% | 1,409 | ||||||||||||
| Labette | 2,568 | 37.02% | 1,516 | 21.85% | 1,746 | 25.17% | 1,107 | 15.96% | 822 | 11.85% | 6,937 | ||||||||||||
| Lane | 237 | 38.10% | 158 | 25.40% | 155 | 24.92% | 72 | 11.58% | 79 | 12.70% | 622 | ||||||||||||
| Leavenworth | 3,099 | 39.97% | 2,562 | 33.05% | 1,778 | 22.93% | 314 | 4.05% | 537 | 6.93% | 7,753 | ||||||||||||
| Lincoln | 1,091 | 44.93% | 381 | 15.69% | 853 | 35.13% | 103 | 4.24% | 238 | 9.80% | 2,428 | ||||||||||||
| Linn | 1,283 | 35.82% | 858 | 23.95% | 1,052 | 29.37% | 389 | 10.86% | 231 | 6.45% | 3,582 | ||||||||||||
| Logan | 259 | 31.55% | 166 | 20.22% | 315 | 38.37% | 81 | 9.87% | -56 | -6.82% | 821 | ||||||||||||
| Lyon | 2,363 | 42.77% | 962 | 17.41% | 1,878 | 33.99% | 322 | 5.83% | 485 | 8.78% | 5,525 | ||||||||||||
| Marion | 1,732 | 40.10% | 863 | 19.98% | 1,500 | 34.73% | 224 | 5.19% | 232 | 5.37% | 4,319 | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | 2,278 | 41.20% | 1,492 | 26.98% | 1,581 | 28.59% | 178 | 3.22% | 697 | 12.61% | 5,529 | ||||||||||||
| McPherson | 1,639 | 35.27% | 455 | 9.79% | 2,406 | 51.78% | 147 | 3.16% | -767 | -16.51% | 4,647 | ||||||||||||
| Meade | 383 | 34.29% | 204 | 18.26% | 418 | 37.42% | 112 | 10.03% | -35 | -3.13% | 1,117 | ||||||||||||
| Miami | 1,919 | 44.05% | 1,033 | 23.71% | 1,165 | 26.74% | 239 | 5.49% | 754 | 17.31% | 4,356 | ||||||||||||
| Mitchell | 1,441 | 43.13% | 737 | 22.06% | 951 | 28.46% | 212 | 6.35% | 490 | 14.67% | 3,341 | ||||||||||||
| Montgomery | 3,011 | 33.56% | 1,842 | 20.53% | 2,924 | 32.59% | 1,194 | 13.31% | 87 | 0.97% | 8,971 | ||||||||||||
| Morris | 1,144 | 38.73% | 487 | 16.49% | 1,244 | 42.11% | 79 | 2.67% | -100 | -3.39% | 2,954 | ||||||||||||
| Morton | 144 | 40.79% | 120 | 33.99% | 64 | 18.13% | 25 | 7.08% | 24 | 6.80% | 353 | ||||||||||||
| Nemaha | 1,936 | 44.71% | 961 | 22.19% | 1,393 | 32.17% | 40 | 0.92% | 543 | 12.54% | 4,330 | ||||||||||||
| Neosho | 1,993 | 38.07% | 1,580 | 30.18% | 1,190 | 22.73% | 472 | 9.02% | 413 | 7.89% | 5,235 | ||||||||||||
| Ness | 458 | 35.78% | 232 | 18.13% | 464 | 36.25% | 126 | 9.84% | -6 | -0.47% | 1,280 | ||||||||||||
| Norton | 1,081 | 43.34% | 598 | 23.98% | 674 | 27.02% | 141 | 5.65% | 407 | 16.32% | 2,494 | ||||||||||||
| Osage | 1,969 | 40.82% | 850 | 17.62% | 1,588 | 32.92% | 417 | 8.64% | 381 | 7.90% | 4,824 | ||||||||||||
| Osborne | 972 | 35.51% | 733 | 26.78% | 915 | 33.43% | 117 | 4.27% | 57 | 2.08% | 2,737 | ||||||||||||
| Ottawa | 1,264 | 44.68% | 517 | 18.28% | 899 | 31.78% | 149 | 5.27% | 365 | 12.90% | 2,829 | ||||||||||||
| Pawnee | 1,050 | 46.63% | 366 | 16.25% | 759 | 33.70% | 77 | 3.42% | 291 | 12.92% | 2,252 | ||||||||||||
| Phillips | 1,257 | 39.59% | 594 | 18.71% | 1,181 | 37.20% | 143 | 4.50% | 76 | 2.39% | 3,175 | ||||||||||||
| Pottawatomie | 1,599 | 37.93% | 1,058 | 25.09% | 1,504 | 35.67% | 55 | 1.30% | 95 | 2.25% | 4,216 | ||||||||||||
| Pratt | 947 | 38.32% | 372 | 15.05% | 984 | 39.82% | 168 | 6.80% | -37 | -1.50% | 2,471 | ||||||||||||
| Rawlins | 568 | 42.93% | 220 | 16.63% | 354 | 26.76% | 181 | 13.68% | 214 | 16.18% | 1,323 | ||||||||||||
| Reno | 3,360 | 42.13% | 1,668 | 20.92% | 2,502 | 31.37% | 445 | 5.58% | 858 | 10.76% | 7,975 | ||||||||||||
| Republic | 1,816 | 44.12% | 895 | 21.74% | 1,278 | 31.05% | 127 | 3.09% | 538 | 13.07% | 4,116 | ||||||||||||
| Rice | 1,314 | 38.77% | 697 | 20.57% | 1,186 | 35.00% | 192 | 5.67% | 128 | 3.78% | 3,389 | ||||||||||||
| Riley | 1,170 | 30.67% | 425 | 11.14% | 2,047 | 53.66% | 173 | 4.53% | -877 | -22.99% | 3,815 | ||||||||||||
| Rooks | 865 | 38.31% | 545 | 24.14% | 715 | 31.67% | 133 | 5.89% | 150 | 6.64% | 2,258 | ||||||||||||
| Rush | 870 | 47.52% | 210 | 11.47% | 659 | 35.99% | 92 | 5.02% | 211 | 11.52% | 1,831 | ||||||||||||
| Russell | 983 | 39.96% | 416 | 16.91% | 993 | 40.37% | 68 | 2.76% | -10 | -0.41% | 2,460 | ||||||||||||
| Saline | 2,263 | 47.23% | 534 | 11.15% | 1,773 | 37.01% | 221 | 4.61% | 490 | 10.23% | 4,791 | ||||||||||||
| Scott | 247 | 40.76% | 56 | 9.24% | 232 | 38.28% | 71 | 11.72% | 15 | 2.48% | 606 | ||||||||||||
| Sedgwick | 5,752 | 39.61% | 1,419 | 9.77% | 6,546 | 45.08% | 804 | 5.54% | -794 | -5.47% | 14,521 | ||||||||||||
| Seward | 394 | 38.07% | 155 | 14.98% | 355 | 34.30% | 131 | 12.66% | 39 | 3.77% | 1,035 | ||||||||||||
| Shawnee | 5,094 | 38.76% | 3,592 | 27.33% | 4,057 | 30.87% | 398 | 3.03% | 1,037 | 7.89% | 13,141 | ||||||||||||
| Sheridan | 509 | 47.48% | 195 | 18.19% | 316 | 29.48% | 52 | 4.85% | 193 | 18.00% | 1,072 | ||||||||||||
| Sherman | 465 | 47.26% | 129 | 13.11% | 290 | 29.47% | 100 | 10.16% | 175 | 17.78% | 984 | ||||||||||||
| Smith | 1,534 | 40.86% | 970 | 25.84% | 1,022 | 27.22% | 228 | 6.07% | 512 | 13.64% | 3,754 | ||||||||||||
| Stafford | 1,094 | 41.85% | 422 | 16.14% | 938 | 35.88% | 160 | 6.12% | 156 | 5.97% | 2,614 | ||||||||||||
| Stanton | 114 | 43.18% | 42 | 15.91% | 77 | 29.17% | 31 | 11.74% | 37 | 14.02% | 264 | ||||||||||||
| Stevens | 237 | 39.17% | 117 | 19.34% | 214 | 35.37% | 37 | 6.12% | 23 | 3.80% | 605 | ||||||||||||
| Sumner | 2,557 | 39.97% | 781 | 12.21% | 2,615 | 40.87% | 445 | 6.96% | -58 | -0.91% | 6,398 | ||||||||||||
| Thomas | 432 | 48.16% | 127 | 14.16% | 259 | 28.87% | 79 | 8.81% | 173 | 19.29% | 897 | ||||||||||||
| Trego | 449 | 40.23% | 160 | 14.34% | 417 | 37.37% | 90 | 8.06% | 32 | 2.87% | 1,116 | ||||||||||||
| Wabaunsee | 1,128 | 38.63% | 783 | 26.82% | 936 | 32.05% | 73 | 2.50% | 192 | 6.58% | 2,920 | ||||||||||||
| Wallace | 152 | 28.46% | 81 | 15.17% | 264 | 49.44% | 37 | 6.93% | -112 | -20.97% | 534 | ||||||||||||
| Washington | 1,914 | 41.01% | 1,326 | 28.41% | 1,314 | 28.16% | 113 | 2.42% | 588 | 12.60% | 4,667 | ||||||||||||
| Wichita | 135 | 36.39% | 82 | 22.10% | 113 | 30.46% | 41 | 11.05% | 22 | 5.93% | 371 | ||||||||||||
| Wilson | 1,304 | 30.60% | 849 | 19.92% | 1,415 | 33.21% | 693 | 16.26% | -111 | -2.61% | 4,261 | ||||||||||||
| Woodson | 900 | 37.78% | 694 | 29.14% | 608 | 25.52% | 180 | 7.56% | 206 | 8.65% | 2,382 | ||||||||||||
| Wyandotte | 7,370 | 39.10% | 2,107 | 11.18% | 8,109 | 43.02% | 1,262 | 6.70% | -739 | -3.92% | 18,848 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 143,663 | 39.30% | 74,845 | 20.47% | 120,210 | 32.88% | 26,842 | 7.34% | 68,818 | 23,453 | 365,560 | ||||||||||||