1912 Electoral Vote Tally

This is the FIRST Presidential Election in which NM was a state. On February 12, 1913 the House and the Senate met in a joint session to count the votes from the 1912 presidential election. The major candidates in the election were unpopular incumbent President William Howard Taft (Republican Party), former President Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive “Bull Moose Party”) and New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson (Democratic Party). Wilson handily defeated Taft and Roosevelt winning 435 of the 531 available electoral votes. Wilson also won 42% of the popular vote, while his nearest challenger, Roosevelt, won just 27%. Eugene Debs, who had run on the Socialist Party ticket, won an impressive 6% of the popular vote but failed to receive a single electoral vote.

Document Type: Primary Document
Historical Event: Statehood (1912)
Sub Event: US Government Role
Origin: National Archives
Date: February 12, 1913
Author: Electoral College
Permission: Public Domain
Contributor: Tammie Torres
Albuquerque Historical Society

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