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The1912 United States presidential election in Idaho took place onNovember 5,1912, as part of the1912 United States presidential election. State voters chose four representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Idaho was won byNew Jersey GovernorWoodrow Wilson (D–Virginia), running withIndiana GovernorThomas R. Marshall, with 32.08 percent of the popular vote, against the27th president of the United StatesWilliam Howard Taft (R–Ohio), running withColumbia University PresidentNicholas Murray Butler, with 31.02 percent of the popular vote, the26th president of the United StatesTheodore Roosevelt (P–New York), running withgovernor of CaliforniaHiram Johnson, with 24.14 percent of the popular vote and thefive-time candidate of theSocialist Party of America forPresident of the United StatesEugene V. Debs (S–Indiana), running with the first Socialist mayor of a major city in theUnited StatesEmil Seidel, with 11.31 percent of the popular vote.[1]
Wilson's 32.08% of the popular vote is the smallest vote share by which any candidate has carried a state in any United States presidential election; slightly smaller thanJohn Quincy Adams' 32.46% inIllinois in 1824, andAbraham Lincoln's 32.32%in California in 1860.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | 33,921 | 32.08% | |
| Republican | William Howard Taft (incumbent) | 32,810 | 31.02% | |
| Progressive | Theodore Roosevelt | 25,527 | 24.14% | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 11,960 | 11.31% | |
| Prohibition | Eugene Chafin | 1,536 | 1.45% | |
| Total votes | 105,754 | 100.00% | ||
| County | Woodrow Wilson[2] Democratic | William Howard Taft[2] Republican | Theodore Roosevelt[3] Progressive "Bull Moose" | Eugene Victor Debs[4] Socialist | Eugene Chafin[4] Prohibition | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Ada | 2,569 | 25.71% | 3,198 | 32.00% | 3,512 | 35.14% | 599 | 5.99% | 116 | 1.16% | 9,994 |
| Adams | 417 | 27.76% | 598 | 39.81% | 292 | 19.44% | 176 | 11.72% | 19 | 1.26% | 1,502 |
| Bannock | 1,486 | 30.82% | 2,316 | 48.04% | 599 | 12.42% | 412 | 8.55% | 8 | 0.17% | 4,821 |
| Bear Lake | 916 | 36.73% | 1,271 | 50.96% | 274 | 10.99% | 32 | 1.28% | 1 | 0.04% | 2,494 |
| Bingham | 814 | 27.38% | 1,440 | 48.44% | 453 | 15.24% | 266 | 8.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,973 |
| Blaine | 996 | 36.24% | 988 | 35.95% | 371 | 13.50% | 368 | 13.39% | 25 | 0.91% | 2,748 |
| Boise | 743 | 33.53% | 651 | 29.38% | 504 | 22.74% | 303 | 13.67% | 15 | 0.68% | 2,216 |
| Bonner | 1,055 | 25.56% | 711 | 17.23% | 1,247 | 30.22% | 1,058 | 25.64% | 56 | 1.36% | 4,127 |
| Bonneville | 864 | 28.44% | 1,176 | 38.71% | 628 | 20.67% | 350 | 11.52% | 20 | 0.66% | 3,038 |
| Canyon | 2,432 | 29.38% | 1,842 | 22.25% | 2,846 | 34.38% | 848 | 10.24% | 311 | 3.76% | 8,279 |
| Cassia | 846 | 26.76% | 1,459 | 46.16% | 471 | 14.90% | 365 | 11.55% | 20 | 0.63% | 3,161 |
| Clearwater | 549 | 34.90% | 373 | 23.71% | 345 | 21.93% | 284 | 18.05% | 22 | 1.40% | 1,573 |
| Custer | 501 | 42.14% | 326 | 27.42% | 236 | 19.85% | 122 | 10.26% | 4 | 0.34% | 1,189 |
| Elmore | 536 | 34.99% | 415 | 27.09% | 382 | 24.93% | 190 | 12.40% | 9 | 0.59% | 1,532 |
| Fremont | 1,911 | 27.81% | 3,071 | 44.70% | 1,128 | 16.42% | 750 | 10.92% | 11 | 0.16% | 6,871 |
| Idaho | 1,679 | 39.19% | 989 | 23.09% | 932 | 21.76% | 633 | 14.78% | 51 | 1.19% | 4,284 |
| Kootenai | 2,506 | 34.81% | 1,690 | 23.47% | 1,805 | 25.07% | 1,030 | 14.31% | 169 | 2.35% | 7,200 |
| Latah | 1,507 | 28.87% | 904 | 17.32% | 1,943 | 37.22% | 588 | 11.26% | 278 | 5.33% | 5,220 |
| Lemhi | 910 | 45.52% | 669 | 33.47% | 216 | 10.81% | 198 | 9.90% | 6 | 0.30% | 1,999 |
| Lewis | 1,131 | 44.02% | 436 | 16.97% | 694 | 27.01% | 259 | 10.08% | 49 | 1.91% | 2,569 |
| Lincoln | 1,541 | 30.29% | 1,191 | 23.41% | 1,645 | 32.34% | 642 | 12.62% | 68 | 1.34% | 5,087 |
| Nez Perce | 1,619 | 38.86% | 1,011 | 24.27% | 1,064 | 25.54% | 406 | 9.75% | 66 | 1.58% | 4,166 |
| Oneida | 1,386 | 35.29% | 2,373 | 60.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 145 | 3.69% | 24 | 0.61% | 3,928 |
| Owyhee | 567 | 37.25% | 515 | 33.84% | 333 | 21.88% | 94 | 6.18% | 13 | 0.85% | 1,522 |
| Shoshone | 1,634 | 32.33% | 1,399 | 27.68% | 1,159 | 22.93% | 834 | 16.50% | 28 | 0.55% | 5,054 |
| Twin Falls | 1,741 | 32.55% | 1,074 | 20.08% | 1,650 | 30.85% | 781 | 14.60% | 102 | 1.91% | 5,348 |
| Washington | 1,065 | 37.25% | 724 | 25.32% | 798 | 27.91% | 227 | 7.94% | 45 | 1.57% | 2,859 |
| Totals | 33,921 | 32.08% | 32,810 | 31.02% | 25,527 | 24.14% | 11,960 | 11.31% | 1,536 | 1.45% | 105,754 |
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