1912 United States presidential election in Louisiana explained

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Election Name:	1912 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Country:	Louisiana
Flag Year:	1912
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1908 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Previous Year:	1908
Next Election:	1916 United States presidential election in Louisiana
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:	60,871
Percentage1:	76.81%
Nominee2:	Theodore Roosevelt
Party2:	Progressive Party (United States, 1912)
Color2:	A2ED70
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Hiram Johnson
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	9,283
Percentage2:	11.71%
Image3:	Eugene Debs portrait.jpeg
Nominee3:	Eugene V. Debs
Party3:	Socialist Party of America
Home State3:	Indiana
Running Mate3:	Emil Seidel
Electoral Vote3:	0
Popular Vote3:	5,261
Percentage3:	6.64%
Map Size:	350px
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 Louisiana took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Following the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana became a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.^[1] Despite this absolute single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana, within the business elite of New Orleans,^[2] and even amongst the “lily-white” faction of the moribund state GOP that had supported black disenfranchisement in the effort to become respectable amongst the white elite.^[3]

Following disfranchisement, the state’s politics became dominated by the Choctaw Club of Louisiana, generally called the “Old Regulars”. This political machine was based in New Orleans and united with Black Belt cotton planters.^[4] The first significant opposition would not emerge until 1908, when the Socialist Party elected several officials in Winn Parish,^[5] and this would be joined in the early 1910s by the growth of the Industrial Workers of the World in the lumbering parishes of Imperial Calcasieu.^[6]

Louisiana was won by Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson (D–Virginia), running with governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall, with 76.81% of the popular vote, against the 26th president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (P–New York), running with governor of California Hiram Johnson, with 11.71% 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 13.33% of the popular vote.^[7]

Louisiana was one of the states where the sitting president William Howard Taft came in fourth place. Debs would take advantage of the growth of the Socialist Party in the hill country and Imperial Calcasieu to gain over twenty percent of the vote in five parishes, with Winn Parish — the home of Louisiana’s future Long dynasty — being his third-best county-equivalent in the nation,^[8] although this radical opposition would become mortally weakened almost immediately afterwards by the unresolved conflict between electoral and antipolitical strategies for reform.^[9]

Results

Results by parish

1912 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"

Parish	Democratic		Republican		Progressive "Bull Moose"		Socialist		Margin
	%		%		%		%		%
	Acadia		1,147		75.07%		51		3.34%		164		10.73%		166		10.86%		981		64.20%		1,528
	Ascension		413		66.19%		64		10.26%		135		21.63%		12		1.92%		278		44.55%		624
	Assumption		423		56.85%		149		20.03%		171		22.98%		1		0.13%		252		33.87%		744
	Avoyelles		949		83.32%		38		3.34%		36		3.16%		116		10.18%		833		73.13%		1,139
	Bienville		822		81.79%		8		0.80%		34		3.38%		141		14.03%		681		67.76%		1,005
	Bossier		427		87.68%		6		1.23%		11		2.26%		43		8.83%		384		78.85%		487
	Caddo		1,946		88.45%		34		1.55%		129		5.86%		91		4.14%		1,817		82.59%		2,200
	Calcasieu		2,144		66.05%		171		5.27%		362		11.15%		569		17.53%		1,575		48.52%		3,246
	Caldwell		366		72.62%		18		3.57%		20		3.97%		100		19.84%		266		52.78%		504
	Cameron		119		84.40%		13		9.22%		9		6.38%		0		0.00%		106		75.18%		141
	Catahoula		275		73.92%		11		2.96%		44		11.83%		42		11.29%		231		62.10%		372
	Claiborne		785		92.24%		10		1.18%		20		2.35%		36		4.23%		749		88.01%		851
	Concordia		205		91.11%		6		2.67%		6		2.67%		8		3.56%		197		87.56%		225
			815		88.68%		11		1.20%		19		2.07%		74		8.05%		741		80.63%		919
			1,067		85.43%		45		3.60%		96		7.69%		41		3.28%		971		77.74%		1,249
			161		86.10%		4		2.14%		19		10.16%		3		1.60%		142		75.94%		187
			422		95.91%		1		0.23%		12		2.73%		5		1.14%		410		93.18%		440
	Evangeline		457		83.70%		31		5.68%		15		2.75%		43		7.88%		414		75.82%		546
	Franklin		449		76.88%		8		1.37%		39		6.68%		88		15.07%		361		61.82%		584
	Grant		446		62.20%		15		2.09%		48		6.69%		208		29.01%		238		33.19%		717
	Iberia		666		51.39%		222		17.13%		350		27.01%		58		4.48%		316		24.38%		1,296
	Iberville		487		66.08%		100		13.57%		147		19.95%		3		0.41%		340		46.13%		737
	Jackson		561		73.14%		19		2.48%		80		10.43%		107		13.95%		454		59.19%		767
	Jefferson		607		82.25%		7		0.95%		97		13.14%		27		3.66%		510		69.11%		738
	Lafayette		646		63.40%		244		23.95%		53		5.20%		76		7.46%		402		39.45%		1,019
	Lafourche		667		56.96%		315		26.90%		175		14.94%		14		1.20%		352		30.06%		1,171
			366		65.95%		7		1.26%		31		5.59%		151		27.21%		215		38.74%		555
	Lincoln		644		84.51%		3		0.39%		42		5.51%		73		9.58%		571		74.93%		762
	Livingston		379		80.13%		3		0.63%		67		14.16%		24		5.07%		312		65.96%		473
	Madison		146		95.42%		0		0.00%		7		4.58%		0		0.00%		139		90.85%		153
	Morehouse		411		89.15%		8		1.74%		9		1.95%		33		7.16%		378		82.00%		461
	Natchitoches		759		75.07%		21		2.08%		43		4.25%		188		18.60%		571		56.48%		1,011
	Orleans		26,433		80.03%		904		2.74%		4,965		15.03%		727		2.20%		21,468		65.00%		33,029
	Ouachita		902		83.91%		17		1.58%		48		4.47%		108		10.05%		794		73.86%		1,075
	Plaquemines		361		82.80%		41		9.40%		29		6.65%		5		1.15%		320		73.39%		436
			304		66.81%		55		12.09%		90		19.78%		6		1.32%		214		47.03%		455
	Rapides		1,334		79.78%		46		2.75%		110		6.58%		182		10.89%		1,152		68.90%		1,672
			357		76.61%		6		1.29%		18		3.86%		85		18.24%		272		58.37%		466
	Richland		393		89.93%		2		0.46%		20		4.58%		22		5.03%		371		84.90%		437
	Sabine		715		79.89%		28		3.13%		37		4.13%		115		12.85%		600		67.04%		895
			221		88.40%		17		6.80%		11		4.40%		1		0.40%		204		81.60%		250
			157		74.76%		28		13.33%		9		4.29%		16		7.62%		129		61.43%		210
			214		88.80%		13		5.39%		10		4.15%		4		1.66%		201		83.40%		241
			367		54.05%		228		33.58%		77		11.34%		7		1.03%		139		20.47%		679
			190		61.29%		74		23.87%		8		2.58%		38		12.26%		116		37.42%		310
			938		77.20%		101		8.31%		150		12.35%		26		2.14%		788		64.86%		1,215
			375		64.43%		68		11.68%		116		19.93%		23		3.95%		259		44.50%		582
			652		61.63%		147		13.89%		242		22.87%		17		1.61%		410		38.75%		1,058
			668		82.27%		30		3.69%		70		8.62%		44		5.42%		598		73.65%		812
	Tangipahoa		1,061		80.02%		40		3.02%		155		11.69%		70		5.28%		906		68.33%		1,326
	Tensas		220		91.67%		1		0.42%		19		7.92%		0		0.00%		201		83.75%		240
	Terrebonne		455		55.35%		89		10.83%		247		30.05%		31		3.77%		208		25.30%		822
	Union		696		87.66%		11		1.39%		26		3.27%		61		7.68%		635		79.97%		794
	Vermilion		531		59.66%		124		13.93%		119		13.37%		116		13.03%		407		45.73%		890
	Vernon		754		59.09%		44		3.45%		50		3.92%		428		33.54%		326		25.55%		1,276
	Washington		491		83.08%		18		3.05%		46		7.78%		36		6.09%		445		75.30%		591
	Webster		696		83.96%		9		1.09%		13		1.57%		111		13.39%		585		70.57%		829
			170		83.33%		19		9.31%		15		7.35%		0		0.00%		151		74.02%		204
			159		63.35%		1		0.40%		14		5.58%		77		30.68%		82		32.67%		251
			281		89.49%		3		0.96%		30		9.55%		0		0.00%		251		79.94%		314
	Winn		600		57.75%		26		2.50%		49		4.72%		364		35.03%		236		22.71%		1,039
Totals	60,871	76.81%	3,833	4.84%	9,283	11.71%	5,261	6.64%	51,588	65.10%	79,248

See also

• United States presidential elections in Louisiana

Notes and References

1. Book: [[Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips]], Kevin P.. The Emerging Republican Majority. 208, 210. 9780691163246.
2. Schott. Matthew J.. Progressives against Democracy: Electoral Reform in Louisiana, 1894-1921. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 20. 3. Summer 1979. 247–260.
3. Book: Heersink. Boris. Jenkins. Jeffrey A.. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. 265–266. 1107158435.
4. Book: Wall. Bennett H.. Rodriguez. John C.. Louisiana: A History. 274–275. 1118619293.
5. Book: Williams, Thomas Harry. Huey Long. 44–45. Vintage Books. New York City. 1981. 0394747909.
6. Book: Renshaw, Patrick. The Wobblies: The Story of Syndicalism in the United States. 1968. Garden City, New York. Anchor Books. 76, 120–121.
7. Web site: 1912 Presidential Election Results — Louisiana. Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
8. Web site: 1912 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
9. Renshaw (1968). The Wobblies, pp. 122-123