1912 United States presidential election in Connecticut

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Nominee Woodrow Wilson William Howard Taft Party Democratic Republican Home state New Jersey Ohio Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Nicholas M. Butler Electoral vote 7 0 Popular vote 74,561 68,324 Percentage 39.16% 35.88%   Nominee Theodore Roosevelt Eugene V. Debs Party Progressive Socialist Home state New York Indiana Running mate Hiram Johnson Emil Seidel Electoral vote 0 0 Popular vote 34,129 10,056 Percentage 17.92% 5.28%

County Results Municipality Results Wilson   30–40%   40–50% Taft   30–40%   40–50% Roosevelt   30–40%

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

The1912 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the1912 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

During theThird Party System,Connecticut was one of a small number of criticalswing states due to its opposing Democratic Catholic and Republican Yankee populations being closely matched at the polls.^[1] However, the fearWilliam Jennings Bryan generated amongst the northeastern industrial elite,^[2] and among Catholic voters who belonged to a church that condemnedfree silver,^[3] meant that after the “Panic of 1893” Connecticut became substantially a one-party Republican state, although not to the same degree as many states in upper New England,^[4]the Midwest orthe Pacific. No Democrat would serve asa United States Senator from the state during the “System of 1896”, and only one Democrat would serve as Governor — the agingSimeon E. Baldwin, who had been elected in 1910.

Despite the severe divisions that had been affecting the dominant Republican Party since 1910, incumbentPresidentWilliam Howard Taft andVice PresidentJames S. Sherman led the state in the earliest polls from July.^[5] However, when a better poll was taken in October, it was clear thatProgressive Party candidates, former PresidentTheodore Roosevelt and his running mate CaliforniaGovernorHiram Johnson were taking too many votes to hang on even to the forty-four-thousand vote majority Taft had gained in 1908.^[6] The later poll proved accurate andConnecticut was won by theDemocratic nominees, New JerseyGovernorWoodrow Wilson and IndianaGovernorThomas R. Marshall won Connecticut by a narrow margin of 3.28 percent, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate sinceGrover Cleveland in1892 to win the state or any county. Fairfield County last voted Democratic in1884.

While Taft lost the state, his 35.88 percent of the popular vote made it his fifth strongest state in terms of popular vote percentage afterUtah,New Hampshire,Vermont andNew Mexico.^[7] Connecticut was also the only northeastern state where Socialist Eugene V. Debs received over 5 percent of the vote. This was the first occasion since1852 that a Democrat won New London County. To date, this was the most recent presidential election in which the Democratic nominee carried the town ofMonroe.

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