1912 United States presidential election in North Carolina

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Nominee Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Party Democratic Progressive Republican Home state New Jersey New York Ohio Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Hiram Johnson Nicholas Murray Butler Electoral vote 12 0 0 Popular vote 133,021 69,130 29,139 Percentage 59.24% 28.34% 11.95%

County Results Wilson   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Roosevelt   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Taft   30–40%   40–50%   50–60%

President before election William Howard Taft Republican Elected President Woodrow Wilson Democratic

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The1912 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place onNovember5,1912, as part of the1912 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.Like all former Confederate states, North Carolina would during its “Redemption” develop a politics based uponJim Crow laws,disfranchisement of itsAfrican-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party. However, unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party possessed sufficienthistoric Unionist white support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in general elections even after blacks lost the right to vote.^[1]

Following theWilmington insurrection of 1898 and the collapse of its interracial coalition withthe Populist Party, North Carolina's GOP turned extremely rapidly towards a “lily-white” strategy that went sufficiently far as to exclude blacks from the state party altogether.^[2] Incumbent President Taft had been in October 1908 the first Republican candidate to tour the South.^[3] Aided by opposition by developing manufacturers to prevalent Democratic populism,^[3] and his willingness to accept black disfranchisement^[4] and even exclusion from the state GOP, Taft improved the Republican performance, especially in previously Democratic western and Piedmont counties.

North Carolina was won byPrinceton University PresidentWoodrow Wilson (D–Virginia), running withgovernor of IndianaThomas R. Marshall, with 59.24 percent of the popular vote, against the26th president of the United StatesTheodore Roosevelt (P–New York), running withgovernor of CaliforniaHiram Johnson, with 28.34 percent of the popular vote and the27th president of the United StatesWilliam Howard Taft (R–Ohio), running withColumbia University PresidentNicholas Murray Butler, with 11.95 percent of the popular vote.^[5] As of the2020 presidential election^[update], this is the last election in whichWilkes County,Avery County, andMitchell County did not support the Republican candidate.^[6]

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