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Wilson was the second of just four presidents in United States history to win re-election with a lower percentage of the electoral vote than in their prior elections, after James Madison in 1812, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944 and Barack Obama in 2012.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1912. Democratic governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey unseated incumbent Republican president William Howard Taft while defeating former president Theodore Roosevelt (who ran under the banner of the new Progressive/"Bull Moose" Party) and Socialist Party nominee Eugene V. Debs.
Wilson's only other county victory was the small island of Nantucket. However, both candidates had fair levels of support across the state, as neither got more than 60% of the vote in any county. As Wilson narrowly won re-election nationwide, Massachusetts ended up weighing in as about 7% more Republican than the national average.
Woodrow Wilson (D) 277: Charles Evans Hughes (R) 254: 1916 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Hughes, blue denotes states won by Wilson. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Democratic hold: Seats contested: 35 of 96 seats (32 Class 1 seats + 3 special elections ...
New York during the Fourth Party System was usually a Republican state in presidential elections; however in 1912, a strong third party run by former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt against the incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft had split the Republican vote, and had enabled Woodrow Wilson as the Democratic candidate to ...
However, a powerful "peace vote" in the Western states [4] due to opposition to participation in World War I, and the transfer of a considerable part of the substantial vote for Eugene Debs from the previous election to Wilson owing to such Progressive reforms as the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments [5] allowed Woodrow Wilson to carry ...
Woodrow Wilson Francis J. Heney 466,289 Democratic Party: Woodrow Wilson Edward L. Doheny 465,936 Democratic Party: Woodrow Wilson Jo V. Snyder 465,092 Democratic Party: Woodrow Wilson Irving C. Ackerman 464,926 Democratic Party: Woodrow Wilson L. F. Puter 464,824 Democratic Party: Woodrow Wilson John F. Barry 464,808 Democratic Party: Woodrow ...
This is the electoral history of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, who served as the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921), and earlier as the 34th Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). Wilson's electoral record is fairly short compared with most other American Presidents. Throughout his lifetime Wilson competed in only three ...