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The1912 United States presidential election in Arizona took place onNovember5,1912, as part of the1912 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president. In Arizona, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a state, as in the other states.
This was the first presidential electionArizona participated in, as it had been admitted as the 48th state on February 14 of the same year. The state was won by Democratic Governor of New JerseyWoodrow Wilson, running with Indiana GovernorThomas R. Marshall, with 43.52% of the popular vote. Wilson defeated three other major candidates including former progressive Republican PresidentTheodore Roosevelt who ran under theProgressive Party challenging then current Republicanconservative PresidentWilliam Howard Taft and earning nearly 29% of the total vote. Another third party candidate,Eugene V. Debs ran under theSocialist Party of America garnering a large left wing voting base of 13%. President Taft finished fourth place at under 13% of the popular vote, the lowest support for a Republican nominee in Arizona state history due to his low approval ratings and a severe split in the GOP causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the state despite receiving only 43.52% in total.[1]
In 1912, more than 87% of Arizonans voted for one of three economically left-leaning candidates (Wilson, Roosevelt, Debs). Only 13% of the state sided with the conservative incumbent President Taft, who moved further to the right during his one term presidency. Arizona also voted in large numbers for two major third party candidates; Theodore Roosevelt and Eugene Debs, both of whom won a combined 43% of the popular vote, nearly the same as Wilson's vote total. Roosevelt's 29.29% remains the best-ever third-party presidential performance in Arizona history.
Party division among Republican voters helped Wilson carry every single county in Arizona, winning all but three of them with less than a majority.
Arizona was one of only three states outside the formerConfederate States of America in which the combined total of Roosevelt and Taft would not have defeated Wilson, the other two being Kentucky and Oklahoma (although the latter did not have Roosevelt on the ballot). This makes Arizona the sole non-southern or border state in which Wilson would have won over the combined Republican vote (thoughArizonan territory wasclaimed by the Confederacy in the Civil War).
Beginning with this election, Arizona voted for every presidential election winner until1960.[2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | 10,324 | 43.52% | |
| Progressive | Theodore Roosevelt | 6,949 | 29.29% | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 3,163 | 13.33% | |
| Republican | William Howard Taft (incumbent) | 3,021 | 12.74% | |
| Prohibition | Eugene Wilder Chafin | 265 | 1.12% | |
| Total votes | 23,722 | 100% | ||
| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
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| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | Wiley E. Jones | 10,324 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | V. T. Webb | 10,174 | |
| Democratic Party | Woodrow Wilson | John R. Hampton | 10,130 | |
| Progressive Party | Theodore Roosevelt | E. S. Clark | 6,949 | |
| Progressive Party | Theodore Roosevelt | John C. Greenway | 6,879 | |
| Progressive Party | Theodore Roosevelt | Dwight B. Heard | 6,873 | |
| Socialist Party of America | Eugene V. Debs | J. L. Brooks | 3,163 | |
| Socialist Party of America | Eugene V. Debs | E. B. Simanton | 3,139 | |
| Socialist Party of America | Eugene V. Debs | Paul E. White | 3,132 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Hoval A. Smith | 3,021 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Fred S. Breen | 2,986 | |
| Republican Party | William Howard Taft | Walter Talbot | 2,975 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene Wilder Chafin | Thomas F. Wilson | 265 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene Wilder Chafin | J. Stanley Howard | 221 | |
| Prohibition Party | Eugene Wilder Chafin | Roy E. Sibley | 219 | |
| Total votes | 23,722 | |||
| County | Woodrow Wilson[4] Democratic | William Howard Taft[a] Republican | Theodore Roosevelt[4] Progressive | Eugene V. Debs[5] Socialist | Eugene Chafin[5] Prohibition | Total votes cast | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Apache | 108 | 42.35% | 56 | 21.96% | 79 | 30.98% | 10 | 3.92% | 2 | 0.78% | 255 |
| Cochise | 1,973 | 42.71% | 403[a] | 8.72% | 1,396 | 30.22% | 819 | 17.73% | 28 | 0.61% | 4,619 |
| Coconino | 339 | 39.65% | 237[a] | 27.72% | 178 | 20.82% | 96 | 11.23% | 5 | 0.58% | 855 |
| Gila | 779 | 38.09% | 210[a] | 10.27% | 542 | 26.50% | 501 | 24.50% | 13 | 0.64% | 2,045 |
| Graham | 540 | 51.09% | 103[a] | 9.74% | 243 | 22.99% | 164 | 15.52% | 7 | 0.66% | 1,057 |
| Greenlee | 652 | 55.54% | 109[a] | 9.28% | 287 | 24.45% | 122 | 10.39% | 4 | 0.34% | 1,174 |
| Maricopa | 2,606 | 45.97% | 642[a] | 11.32% | 1,818 | 32.07% | 472 | 8.33% | 131 | 2.31% | 5,669 |
| Mohave | 320 | 39.70% | 69[a] | 8.56% | 228 | 28.29% | 184 | 22.83% | 5 | 0.62% | 806 |
| Navajo | 287 | 39.05% | 168[a] | 22.86% | 233 | 31.70% | 40 | 5.44% | 7 | 0.95% | 735 |
| Pima | 693 | 38.41% | 353[a] | 19.57% | 615 | 34.09% | 109 | 6.04% | 34 | 1.88% | 1,804 |
| Pinal | 352 | 43.73% | 80[a] | 9.94% | 311 | 38.63% | 61 | 7.58% | 1 | 0.12% | 805 |
| Santa Cruz | 250 | 53.30% | 56 | 11.94% | 123 | 26.23% | 38 | 8.10% | 2 | 0.43% | 469 |
| Yavapai | 1,001 | 42.38% | 445[a] | 18.84% | 537 | 22.73% | 358 | 15.16% | 21 | 0.89% | 2,362 |
| Yuma | 424 | 39.74% | 90[a] | 8.43% | 359 | 33.65% | 189 | 17.71% | 5 | 0.47% | 1,067 |
| Totals | 10,324 | 43.52% | 3,021[a] | 12.74% | 6,949 | 29.29% | 3,163 | 13.33% | 265 | 1.12% | 23,722 |
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