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Apresidential election was held inIndiana on November 5, 1912, as part of the1912 United States presidential election. TheDemocratic ticket of thegovernor of New JerseyWoodrow Wilson and thegovernor of IndianaThomas R. Marshall defeated theProgressive ticket of the formerpresident of the United StatesTheodore Roosevelt and thegovernor of CaliforniaHiram Johnson. TheRepublican ticket of the incumbent presidentWilliam Howard Taft and the president ofColumbia UniversityNicholas Murray Butler finished third, and theSocialist ticket of the former member of theIndiana House of RepresentativesEugene V. Debs and the mayor ofMilwaukee, WisconsinEmil Seidel finished fourth. Wilson defeated Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs in the national election with 435electoral votes.[2]
Wilson became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carryHamilton County, Indiana. As of2024[update], this remains the only occasion on which Hamilton County voted for the Democratic ticket.[3]
Indiana chose 15 electors on a statewidegeneral ticket. State law required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group.[4] This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.[5] The following table quotes the official returns published by thesecretary of state of Indiana, which list the votes for the first elector on each ticket.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall | 281,890 | 43.07 |  3.84 | |
| Progressive | Theodore Roosevelt Hiram Johnson | 162,007 | 24.75 |  24.75 | |
| Republican | William Howard Taft Nicholas Murray Butler[a] | 151,267 | 23.11 | 25.29 | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs Emil Seidel | 36,931 | 5.64 | 3.77 | |
| Prohibition | Eugene W. Chafin Aaron S. Watkins | 19,249 | 2.94 | 0.44 | |
| Socialist Labor | Arthur Reimer August Gilhaus | 3,130 | 0.48 | 0.39 | |
| Total votes | 654,474 | 100.00 | |||
| County | Woodrow Wilson Democratic | Theodore Roosevelt Progressive | William H. Taft Republican | Eugene V. Debs Socialist | Others | Margin[b] | Total | ||||||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Adams | 2,961 | 61.62% | 732 | 15.23% | 917 | 19.08% | 30 | 0.62% | 165 | 3.43% | 2,044[c] | 42.54% | 4,805 |
| Allen | 8,659 | 46.63% | 4,246 | 22.87% | 3,423 | 18.43% | 1,512 | 8.14% | 729 | 3.93% | 4,413 | 23.77% | 18,569 |
| Bartholomew | 3,147 | 48.26% | 1,604 | 24.60% | 1,321 | 20.26% | 196 | 3.01% | 253 | 3.88% | 1,543 | 23.66% | 6,521 |
| Benton | 1,425 | 42.09% | 796 | 23.51% | 1,030 | 30.42% | 30 | 0.89% | 105 | 3.10% | 395[c] | 11.67% | 3,386 |
| Blackford | 1,651 | 45.56% | 1,163 | 32.09% | 399 | 11.01% | 256 | 7.06% | 155 | 4.28% | 488 | 13.47% | 3,624 |
| Boone | 3,280 | 48.70% | 2,014 | 29.90% | 1,181 | 17.54% | 90 | 1.34% | 170 | 2.52% | 1,266 | 18.80% | 6,735 |
| Brown | 909 | 59.30% | 253 | 16.50% | 305 | 19.90% | 12 | 0.78% | 54 | 3.52% | 604[c] | 39.40% | 1,533 |
| Carroll | 2,275 | 46.59% | 926 | 18.96% | 1,467 | 30.04% | 83 | 1.70% | 132 | 2.70% | 808[c] | 16.55% | 4,883 |
| Cass | 4,421 | 46.48% | 3,094 | 32.53% | 1,573 | 16.54% | 187 | 1.97% | 236 | 2.48% | 1,327 | 13.95% | 9,511 |
| Clark | 3,315 | 48.93% | 2,453 | 36.21% | 805 | 11.88% | 137 | 2.02% | 65 | 0.96% | 862 | 12.72% | 6,775 |
| Clay | 3,297 | 45.12% | 1,614 | 22.09% | 1,494 | 20.45% | 697 | 9.54% | 205 | 2.81% | 1,683 | 23.03% | 7,307 |
| Clinton | 3,255 | 45.52% | 1,281 | 17.92% | 2,182 | 30.52% | 219 | 3.06% | 213 | 2.98% | 1,073[c] | 15.01% | 7,150 |
| Crawford | 1,159 | 43.33% | 542 | 20.26% | 663 | 24.79% | 128 | 4.79% | 183 | 6.84% | 496[c] | 18.54% | 2,675 |
| Daviess | 2,759 | 43.51% | 1,061 | 16.73% | 2,005 | 31.62% | 327 | 5.16% | 189 | 2.98% | 754[c] | 11.89% | 6,341 |
| Dearborn | 2,957 | 56.13% | 701 | 13.31% | 1,366 | 25.93% | 146 | 2.77% | 98 | 1.86% | 1,591[c] | 30.20% | 5,268 |
| Decatur | 2,246 | 43.44% | 1,436 | 27.78% | 1,263 | 24.43% | 88 | 1.70% | 137 | 2.65% | 810 | 15.67% | 5,170 |
| DeKalb | 2,766 | 44.53% | 1,623 | 26.13% | 1,125 | 18.11% | 437 | 7.04% | 260 | 4.19% | 1,143 | 18.40% | 6,211 |
| Delaware | 4,313 | 35.13% | 4,059 | 33.06% | 2,018 | 16.44% | 1,199 | 9.77% | 689 | 5.61% | 254 | 2.07% | 12,278 |
| Dubois | 3,059 | 68.01% | 606 | 13.47% | 666 | 14.81% | 106 | 2.36% | 61 | 1.36% | 2,393[c] | 53.20% | 4,498 |
| Elkhart | 4,300 | 37.22% | 4,533 | 39.24% | 1,199 | 10.38% | 856 | 7.41% | 665 | 5.76% | -233 | -2.02% | 11,553 |
| Fayette | 1,455 | 36.20% | 1,214 | 30.21% | 1,030 | 25.63% | 231 | 5.75% | 89 | 2.21% | 241 | 6.00% | 4,019 |
| Floyd | 3,236 | 46.66% | 2,580 | 37.20% | 669 | 9.65% | 341 | 4.92% | 110 | 1.59% | 656 | 9.46% | 6,936 |
| Fountain | 2,499 | 46.19% | 1,067 | 19.72% | 1,560 | 28.84% | 140 | 2.59% | 144 | 2.66% | 939[c] | 17.36% | 5,410 |
| Franklin | 2,306 | 58.00% | 630 | 15.84% | 929 | 23.36% | 30 | 0.75% | 81 | 2.04% | 1,376[c] | 34.62% | 3,976 |
| Fulton | 2,022 | 45.60% | 694 | 15.65% | 1,427 | 32.18% | 70 | 1.58% | 221 | 4.98% | 595[c] | 13.42% | 4,434 |
| Gibson | 3,250 | 44.44% | 1,270 | 17.36% | 2,266 | 30.98% | 295 | 4.03% | 233 | 3.19% | 984[c] | 13.45% | 7,314 |
| Grant | 4,390 | 33.68% | 2,185 | 16.76% | 3,939 | 30.22% | 1,323 | 10.15% | 1,199 | 9.20% | 451[c] | 3.46% | 13,036 |
| Greene | 3,373 | 39.28% | 1,563 | 18.20% | 2,156 | 25.11% | 1,203 | 14.01% | 291 | 3.39% | 1,217[c] | 14.17% | 8,586 |
| Hamilton | 2,463 | 34.93% | 1,834 | 26.01% | 2,247 | 31.86% | 90 | 1.28% | 418 | 5.93% | 216[c] | 3.06% | 7,052 |
| Hancock | 2,594 | 51.90% | 1,375 | 27.51% | 738 | 14.77% | 133 | 2.66% | 158 | 3.16% | 1,219 | 24.39% | 4,998 |
| Harrison | 2,106 | 47.34% | 1,219 | 27.40% | 900 | 20.23% | 118 | 2.65% | 106 | 2.38% | 887 | 19.94% | 4,449 |
| Hendricks | 2,372 | 43.10% | 1,495 | 27.17% | 1,439 | 26.15% | 48 | 0.87% | 149 | 2.71% | 877 | 15.94% | 5,503 |
| Henry | 2,687 | 34.82% | 1,550 | 20.09% | 2,479 | 32.12% | 437 | 5.66% | 564 | 7.31% | 208[c] | 2.70% | 7,717 |
| Howard | 2,824 | 31.95% | 2,184 | 24.71% | 2,152 | 24.35% | 1,107 | 12.52% | 572 | 6.47% | 640 | 7.24% | 8,839 |
| Huntington | 3,119 | 41.72% | 1,586 | 21.21% | 2,108 | 28.20% | 252 | 3.37% | 411 | 5.50% | 1,011[c] | 13.52% | 7,476 |
| Jackson | 3,225 | 56.91% | 1,236 | 21.81% | 921 | 16.25% | 175 | 3.09% | 110 | 1.94% | 1,989 | 35.10% | 5,667 |
| Jasper | 1,292 | 39.18% | 694 | 21.04% | 1,238 | 37.54% | 14 | 0.42% | 60 | 1.82% | 54[c] | 1.64% | 3,298 |
| Jay | 2,786 | 44.29% | 1,596 | 25.37% | 1,282 | 20.38% | 218 | 3.47% | 408 | 6.49% | 1,190 | 18.92% | 6,290 |
| Jefferson | 2,325 | 45.31% | 943 | 18.38% | 1,563 | 30.46% | 137 | 2.67% | 163 | 3.18% | 762[c] | 14.85% | 5,131 |
| Jennings | 1,577 | 44.69% | 839 | 23.77% | 955 | 27.06% | 81 | 2.30% | 77 | 2.18% | 622[c] | 17.63% | 3,529 |
| Johnson | 2,890 | 52.59% | 1,408 | 25.62% | 924 | 16.82% | 49 | 0.89% | 224 | 4.08% | 1,482 | 26.97% | 5,495 |
| Knox | 4,448 | 45.61% | 1,316 | 13.49% | 2,805 | 28.76% | 892 | 9.15% | 291 | 2.98% | 1,643[c] | 16.85% | 9,752 |
| Kosciusko | 2,817 | 39.02% | 2,096 | 29.03% | 1,767 | 24.47% | 210 | 2.91% | 330 | 4.57% | 721 | 9.99% | 7,220 |
| LaGrange | 1,233 | 35.11% | 1,402 | 39.92% | 758 | 21.58% | 22 | 0.63% | 97 | 2.76% | -169 | -4.81% | 3,512 |
| Lake | 5,136 | 29.38% | 5,659 | 32.37% | 5,176 | 29.61% | 1,182 | 6.76% | 330 | 1.89% | -483[d] | -2.76% | 17,483 |
| LaPorte | 4,847 | 44.62% | 2,749 | 25.31% | 2,701 | 24.87% | 397 | 3.65% | 168 | 1.55% | 2,098 | 19.32% | 10,862 |
| Lawrence | 2,579 | 37.70% | 2,106 | 30.79% | 1,633 | 23.87% | 398 | 5.82% | 124 | 1.81% | 473 | 6.92% | 6,840 |
| Madison | 6,676 | 42.37% | 4,751 | 30.15% | 1,771 | 11.24% | 1,947 | 12.36% | 612 | 3.88% | 1,925 | 12.22% | 15,757 |
| Marion | 29,805 | 44.22% | 18,396 | 27.29% | 12,280 | 18.22% | 5,268 | 7.82% | 1,659 | 2.46% | 11,409 | 16.93% | 67,408 |
| Marshall | 2,859 | 48.31% | 1,490 | 25.18% | 1,196 | 20.21% | 164 | 2.77% | 209 | 3.53% | 1,369 | 23.13% | 5,918 |
| Martin | 1,440 | 47.68% | 553 | 18.31% | 975 | 32.28% | 22 | 0.73% | 30 | 0.99% | 465[c] | 15.40% | 3,020 |
| Miami | 3,366 | 44.92% | 1,995 | 26.62% | 1,426 | 19.03% | 422 | 5.63% | 285 | 3.80% | 1,371 | 18.29% | 7,494 |
| Monroe | 2,396 | 43.48% | 1,497 | 27.16% | 1,388 | 25.19% | 84 | 1.52% | 146 | 2.65% | 899 | 16.31% | 5,511 |
| Montgomery | 3,821 | 46.51% | 1,246 | 15.17% | 2,747 | 33.43% | 173 | 2.11% | 229 | 2.79% | 1,074[c] | 13.07% | 8,216 |
| Morgan | 2,608 | 46.70% | 1,236 | 22.13% | 1,353 | 24.23% | 185 | 3.31% | 202 | 3.62% | 1,255[c] | 22.47% | 5,584 |
| Newton | 965 | 36.92% | 633 | 24.22% | 892 | 34.12% | 26 | 0.99% | 98 | 3.75% | 73[c] | 2.79% | 2,614 |
| Noble | 2,888 | 45.81% | 1,760 | 27.92% | 1,443 | 22.89% | 106 | 1.68% | 107 | 1.70% | 1,128 | 17.89% | 6,304 |
| Ohio | 553 | 49.07% | 120 | 10.65% | 406 | 36.02% | 9 | 0.80% | 39 | 3.46% | 147[c] | 13.04% | 1,127 |
| Orange | 1,830 | 42.43% | 849 | 19.68% | 1,521 | 35.27% | 53 | 1.23% | 60 | 1.39% | 309[c] | 7.16% | 4,313 |
| Owen | 1,621 | 48.32% | 784 | 23.37% | 711 | 21.19% | 161 | 4.80% | 78 | 2.32% | 837 | 24.95% | 3,355 |
| Parke | 2,031 | 38.93% | 684 | 13.11% | 1,891 | 36.25% | 346 | 6.63% | 265 | 5.08% | 140[c] | 2.68% | 5,217 |
| Perry | 1,931 | 52.90% | 1,130 | 30.96% | 520 | 14.25% | 34 | 0.93% | 35 | 0.96% | 801 | 21.95% | 3,650 |
| Pike | 1,984 | 45.53% | 489 | 11.22% | 1,515 | 34.76% | 298 | 6.84% | 72 | 1.65% | 469[c] | 10.76% | 4,358 |
| Porter | 1,352 | 31.59% | 1,241 | 29.00% | 1,510 | 35.28% | 120 | 2.80% | 57 | 1.33% | -158[c] | -3.69% | 4,280 |
| Posey | 2,767 | 55.55% | 745 | 14.96% | 1,193 | 23.95% | 132 | 2.65% | 144 | 2.89% | 1,574[c] | 31.60% | 4,981 |
| Pulaski | 1,250 | 42.57% | 586 | 19.96% | 729 | 24.83% | 135 | 4.60% | 236 | 8.04% | 521[c] | 17.75% | 2,936 |
| Putnam | 2,922 | 52.70% | 1,079 | 19.46% | 1,354 | 24.42% | 91 | 1.64% | 99 | 1.79% | 1,568[c] | 28.28% | 5,545 |
| Randolph | 2,158 | 29.66% | 2,471 | 33.97% | 1,988 | 27.33% | 272 | 3.74% | 386 | 5.31% | -313 | -4.30% | 7,275 |
| Ripley | 2,431 | 47.95% | 884 | 17.44% | 1,492 | 29.43% | 163 | 3.21% | 100 | 1.97% | 939[c] | 18.52% | 5,070 |
| Rush | 2,312 | 41.39% | 1,075 | 19.24% | 1,931 | 34.57% | 77 | 1.38% | 191 | 3.42% | 381[c] | 6.82% | 5,586 |
| St. Joseph | 5,391 | 34.56% | 5,240 | 33.59% | 3,146 | 20.17% | 1,285 | 8.24% | 539 | 3.45% | 151 | 0.97% | 15,601 |
| Scott | 1,033 | 53.17% | 531 | 27.33% | 327 | 16.83% | 18 | 0.93% | 34 | 1.75% | 502 | 25.84% | 1,943 |
| Shelby | 3,432 | 47.47% | 1,969 | 27.23% | 1,254 | 17.34% | 319 | 4.41% | 256 | 3.54% | 1,463 | 20.24% | 7,230 |
| Spencer | 2,428 | 47.50% | 1,142 | 22.34% | 1,268 | 24.80% | 151 | 2.95% | 123 | 2.41% | 1,160[c] | 22.69% | 5,112 |
| Starke | 1,208 | 43.14% | 696 | 24.86% | 787 | 28.11% | 54 | 1.93% | 55 | 1.96% | 421[c] | 15.04% | 2,800 |
| Steuben | 1,266 | 31.74% | 1,210 | 30.33% | 1,290 | 32.34% | 41 | 1.03% | 182 | 4.56% | -24[c] | -0.60% | 3,989 |
| Sullivan | 3,707 | 48.82% | 1,068 | 14.07% | 1,406 | 18.52% | 1,045 | 13.76% | 367 | 4.83% | 2,301[c] | 30.30% | 7,593 |
| Switzerland | 1,342 | 49.93% | 322 | 11.98% | 882 | 32.81% | 75 | 2.79% | 67 | 2.49% | 460[c] | 17.12% | 2,688 |
| Tippecanoe | 4,442 | 41.70% | 2,838 | 26.64% | 3,006 | 28.22% | 191 | 1.79% | 176 | 1.65% | 1,436[c] | 13.48% | 10,653 |
| Tipton | 2,185 | 46.61% | 914 | 19.50% | 1,262 | 26.92% | 113 | 4.56% | 214 | 4.56 | 923[c] | 19.69% | 4,688 |
| Union | 705 | 39.34% | 342 | 19.08% | 643 | 35.88% | 38 | 2.12% | 64 | 3.57% | 62[c] | 3.46% | 1,930 |
| Vanderburgh | 7,219 | 40.83% | 2,738 | 15.48% | 4,839 | 27.37% | 2,572 | 14.55% | 314 | 1.78% | 2,380[c] | 13.46% | 17,682 |
| Vermillion | 1,780 | 36.46% | 680 | 13.93% | 1,621 | 33.20% | 550 | 11.27% | 251 | 5.14% | 159[c] | 3.26% | 4,882 |
| Vigo | 7,256 | 40.18% | 4,988 | 27.62% | 3,103 | 17.18% | 1,862 | 10.31% | 851 | 4.71% | 2,268 | 12.56% | 18,060 |
| Wabash | 2,371 | 34.92% | 2,432 | 35.82% | 1,363 | 20.08% | 308 | 4.54% | 315 | 4.64% | -61 | -0.90% | 6,789 |
| Warren | 872 | 30.49% | 695 | 24.30% | 1,183 | 41.36% | 46 | 1.61% | 64 | 2.24% | -311[c] | -10.87% | 2,860 |
| Warrick | 2,218 | 43.84% | 819 | 16.19% | 1,421 | 28.09% | 310 | 6.13% | 291 | 5.75% | 797[c] | 15.75% | 5,059 |
| Washington | 2,233 | 53.31% | 1,113 | 26.57% | 712 | 17.00% | 61 | 1.46% | 70 | 1.67% | 1,120 | 26.74% | 4,189 |
| Wayne | 3,806 | 33.12% | 4,457 | 38.79% | 1,851 | 16.11% | 1,032 | 8.98% | 345 | 3.00% | -651 | -5.67% | 11,491 |
| Wells | 2,760 | 54.20% | 1,080 | 21.21% | 812 | 15.95% | 132 | 2.59% | 308 | 6.05% | 1,680 | 32.99% | 5,092 |
| White | 2,059 | 44.38% | 822 | 17.72% | 1,613 | 34.77% | 41 | 0.88% | 104 | 2.24% | 446[c] | 9.61% | 4,639 |
| Whitley | 2,206 | 48.96% | 990 | 21.97% | 1,082 | 24.01% | 70 | 1.55% | 158 | 3.51% | 1,124[c] | 24.94% | 4,506 |
| TOTAL | 281,890 | 43.07% | 162,007 | 24.75% | 151,267 | 23.11% | 36,931 | 5.64% | 22,379 | 3.42 | 119,883 | 18.32 | 654,474 |
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