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The1912 United States presidential election in California took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the1912 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.Theodore Roosevelt received 11 electors by winning 174 more votes thanWoodrow Wilson, who received 2 electors. This was the closest presidential election in California history.
California narrowly voted for the Progressive Party nominee, formerpresidentTheodore Roosevelt, over theDemocratic nominee,New Jersey GovernorWoodrow Wilson, though two electors cast their votes for Wilson. Although Roosevelt was the candidate of the“Bull Moose” Progressive Party nationally, in California andSouth Dakota he gained the support of the state Republican Party and acquired the "Republican" line, whilst theincumbent, and national GOP nomineeWilliam Howard Taft did not appear on the ballot and was awrite-in candidate.[a] Roosevelt's running mate was incumbentGovernor of CaliforniaHiram Johnson.
This was the closest presidential election in California history, with Roosevelt winning by just 174 votes out of 677,944 cast, a margin of 0.02567%. It remains the fourth-closest presidential race in any state in history, behindFlorida in2000,Maryland in1832, and Maryland in1904, the latter of which also involved Roosevelt.[b]
Although Wilson narrowly failed to win the state, he did become the first Democrat to carryNapa,Solano[c] andMarin Counties sinceJames Buchanan in1856, the first to carrySan Mateo andSierra County sinceStephen A. Douglas in 1860, the first to winSan Diego County since1868, the first to ever carryVentura County, which had been created in1872, and the first to carryCalaveras County andSutter County since1876.[2] Since this election, Solano County has voted Democratic in all but six Republican landslide elections of1920,1924,1928,1972,1980 and1984.
With 41.83% of the popular vote, California would prove to be Roosevelt's second-strongest state in terms of popular vote percentage in the 1912 election afterSouth Dakota.[3] California would not vote for the losing candidate again until 1960.
This was the fourth occasion in which California's electoral vote was split, rather than being awarded to a single candidate. The previous occasions when this happened were in1880,1892, and1896.[4] This occurred because, at the time, electors were not awarded based upon the popular vote in the presidential preference vote. Instead, voters cast votes for individual electors, with the thirteen top vote-getters among elector nominees becoming elected the state's members of theUnited States Electoral College.[5] A split in the electoral vote would never again occur in California.
| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
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| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | A. J. Wallace | 283,610 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | Thomas F. Griffin | 283,436 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | Charles S. Wheeler | 283,193 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | George C. Pardee | 283,057 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | Marshall Stimson | 282,910 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | Philip Bancroft | 282,888 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | John P. McLaughlin | 282,868 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | Frank H. Devlin | 282,790 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | Florence Collins Porter | 282,781 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | R. G. Fernald | 282,676 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | M. B. Harris | 282,671 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | Ralph W. Bull | 282,653 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | R. F. Del Valle | 282,651 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | J. W. Finney | 282,594 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | Henry E. Monroe | 282,594 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | T. W. H. Shanahan | 282,579 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | Clarence F. Lea | 282,578 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | Joseph F. Tobin | 282,530 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | F. B. Lynch | 282,516 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | Stephen J. Sill | 282,432 | |
| Republican Party (Progressive) | Theodore Roosevelt | M. A. Luce | 282,383 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | George W. Mordecai | 282,325 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | E. L. Doheny | 282,309 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | Mary Bourn Tucker | 282,215 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | Mary E. Foy | 282,213 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | George M. Cooley | 282,198 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | W. M. Boyd | 79,201 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | Job Harriman | 78,910 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | Dr. A. E. Briggs | 78,905 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | H. F. Whitley | 78,867 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | T. W. Williams | 78,860 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | James Andrews | 78,813 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | Rose Walker | 78,791 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | Jennie Ream | 78,757 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | H. J. Duffy | 78,740 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | Ida Kinney | 78,735 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | J. R. Cothran | 78,709 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | Ethel Lynn | 78,689 | |
| Socialist Party | Eugene V. Debs | Mary Garbutt | 78,534 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Annie E. K. Bidwell | 23,366 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Stephen H. Taft | 23,265 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Frank Willard Emerson | 23,144 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Ellsworth L. Rich | 23,053 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Lucy S. Blanchard | 23,052 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | William P. Fassett | 23,040 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Frederick Head | 23,010 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Stella B. Irvine | 23,004 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Henry French | 23,001 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Simeon P. Meads | 22,997 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Byron E. Paddock | 22,995 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Edward F. Van Vlear | 22,988 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene W. Chafin | Thomas K. Bear | 22,983 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Anson S. Blake | 3,914 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Fred A. Dodge | 3,908 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Arthur E. Miller | 3,903 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Jotham Bixby | 3,902 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Charles N. Felton | 3,896 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Norman Bridge | 3,783 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Ross Campbell | 3,753 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Charles E. Clinch | 3,677 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Mrs. K. M. Flynn | 3,582 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Joseph Martin | 3,525 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Robert Sweeney | 3,313 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Simon Levi | 3,057 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Andrea Sbarboro | 2,847 | |
| Write-in | Scattering | 4,417 | ||
| Votes cast[d] | 677,944 | |||
| County | Theodore Roosevelt Republican/Progressive "Bull Moose" | Woodrow Wilson Democratic | Eugene V. Debs Socialist | Eugene W. Chafin Prohibition | William Howard Taft Republican (write-in) | Scattering Write-in | Margin | Total votes cast[e] | |||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Alameda | 31,542 | 47.47% | 24,418 | 36.75% | 9,332 | 14.04% | 1,160 | 1.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,124 | 10.72% | 66,452 |
| Alpine | 36 | 45.00% | 34 | 42.50% | 2 | 2.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 8 | 10.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 2.50% | 80 |
| Amador | 684 | 27.33% | 1,622 | 64.80% | 135 | 5.39% | 57 | 2.28% | 5 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | -938 | -37.48% | 2,503 |
| Butte | 3,365 | 38.14% | 4,028 | 45.66% | 930 | 10.54% | 489 | 5.54% | 10 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | -663 | -7.52% | 8,822 |
| Calaveras | 750 | 24.28% | 1,869 | 60.51% | 399 | 12.92% | 66 | 2.14% | 5 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,119 | -36.23% | 3,089 |
| Colusa | 810 | 29.26% | 1,760 | 63.58% | 111 | 4.01% | 84 | 3.03% | 3 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | -950 | -34.32% | 2,768 |
| Contra Costa | 3,539 | 42.38% | 3,290 | 39.40% | 1,300 | 15.57% | 181 | 2.17% | 40 | 0.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 249 | 2.98% | 8,350 |
| Del Norte | 376 | 44.60% | 323 | 38.32% | 104 | 12.34% | 40 | 4.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 53 | 6.29% | 843 |
| El Dorado | 776 | 28.40% | 1,613 | 59.04% | 278 | 10.18% | 49 | 1.79% | 16 | 0.59% | 0 | 0.00% | -837 | -30.64% | 2,732 |
| Fresno | 8,839 | 42.71% | 8,891 | 42.96% | 2,278 | 11.01% | 590 | 2.85% | 95 | 0.46% | 3 | 0.01% | -52 | -0.25% | 20,696 |
| Glenn | 906 | 37.21% | 1,325 | 54.41% | 126 | 5.17% | 67 | 2.75% | 11 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | -419 | -17.21% | 2,435 |
| Humboldt | 3,609 | 42.20% | 2,887 | 33.76% | 1,781 | 20.83% | 177 | 2.07% | 93 | 1.09% | 5 | 0.06% | 722 | 8.44% | 8,552 |
| Imperial | 1,420 | 42.17% | 1,295 | 38.46% | 446 | 13.25% | 193 | 5.73% | 13 | 0.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 125 | 3.71% | 3,367 |
| Inyo | 431 | 26.49% | 806 | 49.54% | 305 | 18.75% | 77 | 4.73% | 8 | 0.49% | 0 | 0.00% | -375 | -23.05% | 1,627 |
| Kern | 3,647 | 33.88% | 5,569 | 51.73% | 1,300 | 12.08% | 182 | 1.69% | 67 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,922 | -17.85% | 10,765 |
| Kings | 1,419 | 35.94% | 1,967 | 49.82% | 406 | 10.28% | 156 | 3.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -548 | -13.88% | 3,948 |
| Lake | 649 | 30.10% | 1,118 | 51.86% | 266 | 12.34% | 123 | 5.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -469 | -21.75% | 2,156 |
| Lassen | 559 | 39.59% | 644 | 45.61% | 148 | 10.48% | 34 | 2.41% | 27 | 1.91% | 0 | 0.00% | -85 | -6.02% | 1,412 |
| Los Angeles | 75,593 | 45.73% | 55,110 | 33.34% | 19,895 | 12.04% | 8,190 | 4.95% | 2,181 | 1.32% | 4,327 | 2.62% | 20,483 | 12.39% | 165,296 |
| Madera | 943 | 38.98% | 1,154 | 47.71% | 226 | 9.34% | 89 | 3.68% | 1 | 0.04% | 6 | 0.25% | -211 | -8.72% | 2,419 |
| Marin | 2,750 | 42.97% | 2,849 | 44.52% | 733 | 11.45% | 68 | 1.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -99 | -1.55% | 6,400 |
| Mariposa | 306 | 26.15% | 689 | 58.89% | 138 | 11.79% | 17 | 1.45% | 20 | 1.71% | 0 | 0.00% | -393 | -32.74% | 1,170 |
| Mendocino | 2,237 | 39.61% | 2,507 | 44.39% | 752 | 13.31% | 141 | 2.50% | 11 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | -270 | -4.78% | 5,648 |
| Merced | 1,571 | 37.16% | 1,978 | 46.78% | 441 | 10.43% | 228 | 5.39% | 10 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -407 | -9.63% | 4,228 |
| Modoc | 608 | 35.47% | 941 | 54.90% | 119 | 6.94% | 45 | 2.63% | 1 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | -333 | -19.43% | 1,714 |
| Mono | 106 | 28.73% | 182 | 49.32% | 67 | 18.16% | 11 | 2.98% | 3 | 0.81% | 0 | 0.00% | -76 | -20.60% | 369 |
| Monterey | 3,081 | 42.02% | 3,392 | 46.26% | 557 | 7.60% | 301 | 4.11% | 1 | 0.01% | 0 | 0.00% | -311 | -4.24% | 7,332 |
| Napa | 2,432 | 42.52% | 2,662 | 46.55% | 478 | 8.36% | 126 | 2.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 21 | 0.37% | -230 | -4.02% | 5,719 |
| Nevada | 1,381 | 34.40% | 1,851 | 46.11% | 648 | 16.14% | 111 | 2.77% | 23 | 0.57% | 0 | 0.00% | -470 | -11.71% | 4,014 |
| Orange | 5,143 | 45.03% | 4,406 | 38.58% | 896 | 7.85% | 852 | 7.46% | 123 | 1.08% | 1 | 0.01% | 737 | 6.45% | 11,421 |
| Placer | 1,913 | 43.91% | 1,823 | 41.84% | 481 | 11.04% | 125 | 2.87% | 15 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 90 | 2.07% | 4,357 |
| Plumas | 762 | 42.78% | 742 | 41.66% | 236 | 13.25% | 30 | 1.68% | 11 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 20 | 1.12% | 1,781 |
| Riverside | 5,146 | 50.94% | 2,963 | 29.33% | 1,036 | 10.25% | 834 | 8.25% | 124 | 1.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,183 | 21.61% | 10,103 |
| Sacramento | 7,534 | 39.23% | 9,869 | 51.39% | 1,553 | 8.09% | 213 | 1.11% | 36 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | -2,335 | -12.16% | 19,205 |
| San Benito | 1,054 | 40.96% | 1,253 | 48.70% | 179 | 6.96% | 74 | 2.88% | 13 | 0.51% | 0 | 0.00% | -199 | -7.73% | 2,573 |
| San Bernardino | 6,202 | 40.42% | 5,835 | 38.03% | 1,901 | 12.39% | 1,233 | 8.04% | 172 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 367 | 2.39% | 15,343 |
| San Diego | 7,922 | 36.46% | 9,731 | 44.79% | 2,873 | 13.22% | 1,139 | 5.24% | 63 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,809 | -8.33% | 21,728 |
| San Francisco | 38,610 | 38.17% | 48,953 | 48.40% | 12,354 | 12.21% | 1,158 | 1.14% | 65 | 0.06% | 8 | 0.01% | -10,343 | -10.23% | 101,148 |
| San Joaquin | 4,314 | 31.40% | 7,969 | 58.00% | 995 | 7.24% | 426 | 3.10% | 35 | 0.25% | 0 | 0.00% | -3,655 | -26.60% | 13,739 |
| San Luis Obispo | 2,373 | 42.73% | 2,248 | 40.48% | 704 | 12.68% | 214 | 3.85% | 13 | 0.23% | 1 | 0.02% | 125 | 2.25% | 5,553 |
| San Mateo | 2,825 | 40.44% | 3,246 | 46.47% | 827 | 11.84% | 80 | 1.15% | 7 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | -421 | -6.03% | 6,985 |
| Santa Barbara | 3,395 | 46.78% | 2,819 | 38.84% | 619 | 8.53% | 357 | 4.92% | 68 | 0.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 576 | 7.94% | 7,258 |
| Santa Clara | 10,868 | 46.97% | 9,173 | 39.64% | 2,068 | 8.94% | 824 | 3.56% | 173 | 0.75% | 33 | 0.14% | 1,695 | 7.33% | 23,139 |
| Santa Cruz | 3,059 | 42.77% | 2,875 | 40.20% | 892 | 12.47% | 323 | 4.52% | 3 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 184 | 2.57% | 7,152 |
| Shasta | 1,636 | 34.93% | 2,040 | 43.55% | 938 | 20.03% | 54 | 1.15% | 16 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | -404 | -8.63% | 4,684 |
| Sierra | 483 | 41.71% | 515 | 44.47% | 133 | 11.49% | 13 | 1.12% | 10 | 0.86% | 4 | 0.35% | -32 | -2.76% | 1,158 |
| Siskiyou | 1,740 | 34.99% | 2,465 | 49.57% | 633 | 12.73% | 104 | 2.09% | 29 | 0.58% | 2 | 0.04% | -725 | -14.58% | 4,973 |
| Solano | 3,353 | 41.95% | 3,650 | 45.66% | 781 | 9.77% | 169 | 2.11% | 40 | 0.50% | 0 | 0.00% | -297 | -3.72% | 7,993 |
| Sonoma | 5,806 | 40.89% | 6,500 | 45.78% | 1,494 | 10.52% | 367 | 2.58% | 32 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | -694 | -4.89% | 14,199 |
| Stanislaus | 3,143 | 39.78% | 3,127 | 39.58% | 749 | 9.48% | 864 | 10.94% | 17 | 0.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 16 | 0.20% | 7,900 |
| Sutter | 846 | 41.11% | 1,063 | 51.65% | 79 | 3.84% | 65 | 3.16% | 5 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -217 | -10.54% | 2,058 |
| Tehama | 1,218 | 36.01% | 1,595 | 47.16% | 388 | 11.47% | 168 | 4.97% | 13 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | -377 | -11.15% | 3,382 |
| Trinity | 343 | 34.44% | 461 | 46.29% | 182 | 18.27% | 9 | 0.90% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | -118 | -11.85% | 996 |
| Tulare | 4,283 | 42.21% | 4,293 | 42.31% | 1,233 | 12.15% | 265 | 2.61% | 73 | 0.72% | 0 | 0.00% | -10 | -0.10% | 10,147 |
| Tuolumne | 755 | 28.76% | 1,459 | 55.58% | 363 | 13.83% | 38 | 1.45% | 8 | 0.30% | 2 | 0.08% | -704 | -26.82% | 2,625 |
| Ventura | 2,055 | 42.52% | 2,108 | 43.62% | 426 | 8.81% | 169 | 3.50% | 71 | 1.47% | 4 | 0.08% | -53 | -1.10% | 4,833 |
| Yolo | 1,332 | 33.35% | 2,239 | 56.06% | 301 | 7.54% | 113 | 2.83% | 9 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | -907 | -22.71% | 3,994 |
| Yuba | 1,132 | 43.36% | 1,242 | 47.57% | 186 | 7.12% | 34 | 1.30% | 17 | 0.65% | 0 | 0.00% | -110 | -4.21% | 2,611 |
| Total | 283,610 | 41.834% | 283,436 | 41.808% | 79,201 | 11.68% | 23,366 | 3.45% | 3,914 | 0.58% | 4,417 | 0.65% | 174 | 0.026% | 677,944 |
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