1912 United States presidential election in Kansas
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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[a]–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.
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | 143,663 | 39.30% | |
| Independent[a] | Theodore Roosevelt | 120,210 | 32.88% | |
| Republican | William Howard Taft (incumbent) | 74,845 | 20.47% | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 26,779 | 7.33% | |
| Total votes | 365,560 | 100% | ||
Results by county
[edit]| 1912 United States presidential election in Kansas by county[3][4][5] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
William Howard Taft Republican |
Theodore Roosevelt Independent |
Eugene Victor Debs Socialist |
Margin[b] | Total votes cast | |||||
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Allen | 1,739 | 36.04% | 1,692 | 35.07% | 1,003 | 20.79% | 391 | 8.10% | 47[c] | 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[c] | 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[c] | 14.21% | 5,355 |
| Brown | 1,774 | 36.65% | 1,512 | 31.24% | 1,435 | 29.65% | 119 | 2.46% | 262[c] | 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[d] | 2.15% | 2,609 |
| Cherokee | 2,641 | 35.15% | 1,994 | 26.54% | 872 | 11.61% | 2,006 | 26.70% | 635[e] | 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[e] | -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[c] | -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[d] | -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[c] | 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[c] | 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[c] | 12.70% | 622 |
| Leavenworth | 3,099 | 39.97% | 2,562 | 33.05% | 1,778 | 22.93% | 314 | 4.05% | 537[c] | 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[c] | 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[c] | 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[c] | 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[c] | 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 |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Although Roosevelt ran under the “Progressive” or “Bull Moose” banner in most states, he was listed as “Independent” in Kansas.
- ^ Because Roosevelt finished ahead of Taft in Kansas as a whole, all margins give are Wilson minus Roosevelt unless stated in the total for the county in question.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m In this county where Taft did run second ahead of Roosevelt, the margin given is that between Wilson and Taft and the percentage margin is Wilson percentage minus Taft percentage.
- ^ a b In this county where Wilson ran third behind both Taft and Roosevelt, margin given is Taft vote minus Roosevelt vote and percentage margin Taft percentage minus Roosevelt percentage.
- ^ a b In this county where Debs ran ahead of both Taft and Roosevelt, margin give is Wilson vote minus Debs vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Debs percentage.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "1912 Presidential Election Results — Kansas". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 199-206 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896-1932 (second edition); pp. 226-227 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press
- ^ "Popular Vote for Theodore Roosevelt (1912)". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ "1912 Presidential Election Popular Vote for Eugene Debs". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
