1912 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

The 1912 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1912 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

November 5, 1912

Nominee Woodrow Wilson William Howard Taft Eugene V. Debs Party Democratic Republican Socialist Home state New Jersey Ohio Indiana Running mate Thomas R. Marshall Nicholas M. Butler (replacing James S. Sherman) Emil Seidel Electoral vote 10 0 0 Popular vote 119,156 90,786 41,674 Percentage 46.95% 35.77% 16.42%

County Results Wilson   40-50%   50-60%   60-70% Taft   30-40%   40-50%   50-60%

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

Oklahoma was won by the Democratic nominees, governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson and governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall, with 46.95 percent of the popular vote, against the Republican ticket of incumbent president William Howard Taft (R–Ohio), running with Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, with 35.77 percent of the popular vote, and the five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States Eugene V. Debs (S–Indiana), running with the first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United States Emil Seidel, with 16.42 percent of the popular vote.[1]

Oklahoma was the second best state in percentage points for Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs with 16.42 percent with Nevada being his best with 16.47 percent. This was also the only state in which the Progressive Party candidates, former president Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate, governor of California Hiram Johnson, were not on the ballot.

Results

1912 United States presidential election in Oklahoma[1][lower-alpha 1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Woodrow Wilson	119,156	46.95%
	Republican	William Howard Taft	90,786	35.77%
	Socialist	Eugene V. Debs	41,674	16.42%
	Prohibition	Eugene W. Chafin	2,185	0.86%
Total votes			253,801	100%

Results by county

County	Thomas Woodrow Wilson[2] Democratic		William Howard Taft[2] Republican		Eugene Victor Debs[3] Socialist		Eugene Chafin[3] Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Adair	916	47.51%	850	44.09%	151	7.83%	11	0.57%	66	3.42%	1,928
Alfalfa	1,179	34.91%	1,714	50.76%	395	11.70%	89	2.64%	-535	-15.84%	3,377
Atoka	1,100	46.89%	669	28.52%	566	24.13%	11	0.47%	431	18.37%	2,346
Beaver	926	36.80%	1,070	42.53%	446	17.73%	74	2.94%	-144	-5.72%	2,516
Beckham	1,566	50.42%	648	20.86%	871	28.04%	21	0.68%	695[lower-alpha 2]	22.38%	3,106
Blaine	744	38.17%	831	42.64%	350	17.96%	24	1.23%	-87	-4.46%	1,949
Bryan	2,278	59.76%	711	18.65%	809	21.22%	14	0.37%	1,469[lower-alpha 2]	38.54%	3,812
Caddo	2,514	42.08%	2,413	40.38%	993	16.62%	55	0.92%	101	1.69%	5,975
Canadian	2,047	48.51%	1,794	42.51%	337	7.99%	42	1.00%	253	6.00%	4,220
Carter	1,860	57.67%	652	20.22%	702	21.77%	11	0.34%	1,158[lower-alpha 2]	35.91%	3,225
Cherokee	1,094	49.64%	962	43.65%	139	6.31%	9	0.41%	132	5.99%	2,204
Choctaw	1,392	49.59%	692	24.65%	703	25.04%	20	0.71%	689[lower-alpha 2]	24.55%	2,807
Cimarron	342	48.10%	263	36.99%	94	13.22%	12	1.69%	79	11.11%	711
Cleveland	1,471	51.40%	938	32.77%	424	14.81%	29	1.01%	533	18.62%	2,862
Coal	1,109	48.15%	571	24.79%	623	27.05%	0	0.00%	486[lower-alpha 2]	21.10%	2,303
Comanche	1,931	49.73%	1,320	33.99%	606	15.61%	26	0.67%	611	15.74%	3,883
Cotton	1,063	54.85%	587	30.29%	269	13.88%	19	0.98%	476	24.56%	1,938
Craig	1,772	53.93%	1,391	42.33%	113	3.44%	10	0.30%	381	11.59%	3,286
Creek	1,676	36.64%	1,902	41.58%	948	20.73%	48	1.05%	-226	-4.94%	4,574
Custer	1,777	44.28%	1,693	42.19%	505	12.58%	38	0.95%	84	2.09%	4,013
Delaware	983	51.71%	732	38.51%	176	9.26%	10	0.53%	251	13.20%	1,901
Dewey	1,075	36.42%	1,086	36.79%	768	26.02%	23	0.78%	-11	-0.37%	2,952
Ellis	918	32.80%	1,373	49.05%	471	16.83%	37	1.32%	-455	-16.26%	2,799
Garfield	2,353	41.14%	2,900	50.71%	398	6.96%	68	1.19%	-547	-9.56%	5,719
Garvin	2,114	53.93%	740	18.88%	1,051	26.81%	15	0.38%	1,063[lower-alpha 2]	27.12%	3,920
Grady	2,577	57.60%	1,121	25.06%	757	16.92%	19	0.42%	1,456	32.54%	4,474
Grant	1,558	42.70%	1,729	47.38%	259	7.10%	103	2.82%	-171	-4.69%	3,649
Greer	1,334	63.86%	351	16.80%	385	18.43%	19	0.91%	949[lower-alpha 2]	45.43%	2,089
Harmon	895	64.71%	197	14.24%	279	20.17%	12	0.87%	616[lower-alpha 2]	44.54%	1,383
Harper	523	34.75%	679	45.12%	280	18.60%	23	1.53%	-156	-10.37%	1,505
Haskell	1,388	46.66%	902	30.32%	672	22.59%	13	0.44%	486	16.34%	2,975
Hughes	1,769	44.21%	1,228	30.69%	984	24.59%	20	0.50%	541	13.52%	4,001
Jackson	1,819	58.79%	588	19.00%	652	21.07%	35	1.13%	1,167[lower-alpha 2]	37.72%	3,094
Jefferson	1,118	51.95%	361	16.78%	660	30.67%	13	0.60%	458[lower-alpha 2]	21.28%	2,152
Johnston	1,289	50.49%	506	19.82%	741	29.02%	17	0.67%	548[lower-alpha 2]	21.46%	2,553
Kay	2,380	44.57%	2,508	46.97%	375	7.02%	77	1.44%	-128	-2.40%	5,340
Kingfisher	1,235	39.63%	1,527	49.01%	318	10.21%	36	1.16%	-292	-9.37%	3,116
Kiowa	1,831	46.40%	1,167	29.57%	918	23.26%	30	0.76%	664	16.83%	3,946
Latimer	722	46.49%	482	31.04%	342	22.02%	7	0.45%	240	15.45%	1,553
Le Flore	2,009	49.30%	1,538	37.74%	507	12.44%	21	0.52%	471	11.56%	4,075
Lincoln	2,137	38.39%	2,459	44.17%	915	16.44%	56	1.01%	-322	-5.78%	5,567
Logan	1,700	35.34%	2,546	52.92%	481	10.00%	84	1.75%	-846	-17.58%	4,811
Love	750	55.11%	199	14.62%	407	29.90%	5	0.37%	343[lower-alpha 2]	25.20%	1,361
Major	689	27.62%	1,210	48.50%	545	21.84%	51	2.04%	-521	-20.88%	2,495
Marshall	958	48.51%	315	15.95%	690	34.94%	12	0.61%	268[lower-alpha 2]	13.57%	1,975
Mayes	1,391	51.81%	1,079	40.19%	202	7.52%	13	0.48%	312	11.62%	2,685
McClain	1,273	55.93%	583	25.62%	409	17.97%	11	0.48%	690	30.32%	2,276
McCurtain	1,059	40.56%	704	26.96%	831	31.83%	17	0.65%	228[lower-alpha 2]	8.73%	2,611
McIntosh	1,325	46.74%	970	34.22%	528	18.62%	12	0.42%	355	12.52%	2,835
Murray	987	52.95%	321	17.22%	550	29.51%	6	0.32%	437[lower-alpha 2]	23.44%	1,864
Muskogee	3,681	55.76%	2,385	36.13%	513	7.77%	23	0.35%	1,296	19.63%	6,602
Noble	1,188	43.25%	1,266	46.09%	270	9.83%	23	0.84%	-78	-2.84%	2,747
Nowata	1,012	44.56%	1,087	47.86%	146	6.43%	26	1.14%	-75	-3.30%	2,271
Okfuskee	952	40.63%	651	27.78%	724	30.90%	16	0.68%	228[lower-alpha 2]	9.73%	2,343
Oklahoma	6,963	51.30%	5,706	42.04%	822	6.06%	83	0.61%	1,257	9.26%	13,574
Okmulgee	1,243	42.14%	1,140	38.64%	540	18.31%	27	0.92%	103	3.49%	2,950
Osage	1,900	46.33%	1,713	41.77%	467	11.39%	21	0.51%	187	4.56%	4,101
Ottawa	1,384	48.19%	1,315	45.79%	165	5.75%	8	0.28%	69	2.40%	2,872
Pawnee	1,316	42.15%	1,332	42.66%	443	14.19%	31	0.99%	-16	-0.51%	3,122
Payne	1,534	38.24%	1,669	41.61%	737	18.37%	71	1.77%	-135	-3.37%	4,011
Pittsburg	2,767	47.55%	1,574	27.05%	1,443	24.80%	35	0.60%	1,193	20.50%	5,819
Pontotoc	1,842	53.81%	642	18.76%	921	26.91%	18	0.53%	921[lower-alpha 2]	26.91%	3,423
Pottawatomie	3,082	49.56%	2,075	33.37%	1,021	16.42%	41	0.66%	1,007	16.19%	6,219
Pushmataha	747	43.53%	479	27.91%	482	28.09%	8	0.47%	265[lower-alpha 2]	15.44%	1,716
Roger Mills	902	41.19%	716	32.69%	555	25.34%	17	0.78%	186	8.49%	2,190
Rogers	1,637	48.92%	1,258	37.60%	432	12.91%	19	0.57%	379	11.33%	3,346
Seminole	1,172	44.18%	715	26.95%	749	28.23%	17	0.64%	423[lower-alpha 2]	15.94%	2,653
Sequoyah	1,416	51.55%	1,099	40.01%	220	8.01%	12	0.44%	317	11.54%	2,747
Stephens	1,735	53.65%	598	18.49%	882	27.27%	19	0.59%	853[lower-alpha 2]	26.38%	3,234
Texas	764	44.24%	683	39.55%	239	13.84%	41	2.37%	81	4.69%	1,727
Tillman	1,801	64.02%	638	22.68%	353	12.55%	21	0.75%	1,163	41.34%	2,813
Tulsa	2,747	51.37%	2,029	37.95%	523	9.78%	48	0.90%	718	13.43%	5,347
Wagoner	888	51.51%	555	32.19%	270	15.66%	11	0.64%	333	19.32%	1,724
Washington	1,561	46.62%	1,447	43.22%	315	9.41%	25	0.75%	114	3.41%	3,348
Washita	1,663	47.07%	1,100	31.14%	734	20.78%	36	1.02%	563	15.94%	3,533
Woods	1,247	35.95%	1,679	48.40%	501	14.44%	42	1.21%	-432	-12.45%	3,469
Woodward	1,083	35.14%	1,403	45.52%	568	18.43%	28	0.91%	-320	-10.38%	3,082
Totals[lower-alpha 1]	119,143	46.96%	90,726	35.76%	41,630	16.41%	2,195	0.87%	28,417	11.20%	253,694

Notes

1. There are some differences in the totals between Dave Leip’s and those of Eugene Robinson that were used by Géoelections and are quoted for the county table.
2. In this county where Debs ran second ahead of Taft, the margin given is that between Wilson and Debs.

References

1. "1912 Presidential Election Results – Oklahoma". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
2. Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896-1932 (second edition); pp. 226-227 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press
3. Géoelections; 1912 Presidential Election Popular Vote for Eugene Debs (.xlsx file for €15)