1912_United_States_presidential_election_in_Iowa
The 1912 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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County Results
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Iowa was won by Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson (D–New Jersey), running with governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall, with 37.64% of the popular vote, against the 26th president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (P–New York), running with governor of California Hiram Johnson, with 32.87% of the popular vote and the 27th president of the United States William Howard Taft (R–Ohio), running with Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, with 24.33% of the popular vote.[1]
Wilson was the first Democrat to win Iowa's electoral votes since Franklin Pierce in 1852. No Democrat would obtain a majority until Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | 185,325 | 37.64% | |
Progressive Party (United States, 1912) | Theodore Roosevelt | 161,819 | 32.87% | |
Republican | William Howard Taft (incumbent) | 119,805 | 24.33% | |
Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 16,967 | 3.45% | |
Prohibition | Eugene Chafin | 8,440 | 1.71% | |
Total votes | 492,356 | 100% |
Results by county
County[2] | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
William Howard Taft Republican |
Theodore Roosevelt Progressive |
Eugene Victor Debs Socialist |
Eugene Wilder Chafin Prohibition |
Margin[lower-alpha 1] | Total votes cast | ||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adair | 1,195 | 35.13% | 1,248 | 36.68% | 890 | 26.16% | 31 | 0.91% | 38 | 1.12% | -53[lower-alpha 2] | -1.56% | 3,402 |
Adams | 1,215 | 43.66% | 913 | 32.81% | 571 | 20.52% | 32 | 1.15% | 52 | 1.87% | 302[lower-alpha 2] | 10.85% | 2,783 |
Allamakee | 1,767 | 40.52% | 1,269 | 29.10% | 1,273 | 29.19% | 39 | 0.89% | 13 | 0.30% | 494 | 11.33% | 4,361 |
Appanoose | 2,058 | 35.44% | 2,356 | 40.57% | 969 | 16.69% | 359 | 6.18% | 65 | 1.12% | -298[lower-alpha 2] | -5.13% | 5,807 |
Audubon | 963 | 36.39% | 692 | 26.15% | 968 | 36.58% | 10 | 0.38% | 13 | 0.49% | -5 | -0.19% | 2,646 |
Benton | 2,472 | 42.56% | 1,831 | 31.53% | 1,234 | 21.25% | 199 | 3.43% | 72 | 1.24% | 641[lower-alpha 2] | 11.04% | 5,808 |
Black Hawk | 3,702 | 34.76% | 1,601 | 15.03% | 4,724 | 44.36% | 411 | 3.86% | 211 | 1.98% | -1,022 | -9.60% | 10,649 |
Boone | 1,601 | 27.23% | 802 | 13.64% | 2,835 | 48.21% | 537 | 9.13% | 105 | 1.79% | -1,234 | -20.99% | 5,880 |
Bremer | 1,944 | 51.65% | 1,013 | 26.91% | 741 | 19.69% | 24 | 0.64% | 42 | 1.12% | 931[lower-alpha 2] | 24.73% | 3,764 |
Buchanan | 1,866 | 39.54% | 1,271 | 26.93% | 1,455 | 30.83% | 23 | 0.49% | 104 | 2.20% | 411 | 8.71% | 4,719 |
Buena Vista | 921 | 25.34% | 755 | 20.77% | 1,852 | 50.95% | 61 | 1.68% | 46 | 1.27% | -931 | -25.61% | 3,635 |
Butler | 926 | 26.48% | 903 | 25.82% | 1,553 | 44.41% | 28 | 0.80% | 87 | 2.49% | -627 | -17.93% | 3,497 |
Calhoun | 1,182 | 32.66% | 963 | 26.61% | 1,324 | 36.58% | 85 | 2.35% | 65 | 1.80% | -142 | -3.92% | 3,619 |
Carroll | 2,326 | 54.32% | 664 | 15.51% | 1,188 | 27.74% | 53 | 1.24% | 51 | 1.19% | 1,138 | 26.58% | 4,282 |
Cass | 1,510 | 33.59% | 1,724 | 38.35% | 1,096 | 24.38% | 103 | 2.29% | 62 | 1.38% | -214[lower-alpha 2] | -4.76% | 4,495 |
Cedar | 1,938 | 43.85% | 1,036 | 23.44% | 1,364 | 30.86% | 43 | 0.97% | 39 | 0.88% | 574 | 12.99% | 4,420 |
Cerro Gordo | 1,742 | 33.49% | 1,334 | 25.64% | 1,814 | 34.87% | 212 | 4.08% | 100 | 1.92% | -72 | -1.38% | 5,202 |
Cherokee | 930 | 30.08% | 381 | 12.32% | 1,680 | 54.33% | 56 | 1.81% | 45 | 1.46% | -750 | -24.26% | 3,092 |
Chickasaw | 1,891 | 52.08% | 1,022 | 28.15% | 662 | 18.23% | 35 | 0.96% | 21 | 0.58% | 869[lower-alpha 2] | 23.93% | 3,631 |
Clarke | 910 | 36.56% | 882 | 35.44% | 595 | 23.91% | 21 | 0.84% | 81 | 3.25% | 28[lower-alpha 2] | 1.12% | 2,489 |
Clay | 707 | 25.04% | 679 | 24.04% | 1,347 | 47.70% | 50 | 1.77% | 41 | 1.45% | -640 | -22.66% | 2,824 |
Clayton | 2,919 | 49.80% | 1,239 | 21.14% | 1,471 | 25.10% | 142 | 2.42% | 90 | 1.54% | 1,448 | 24.71% | 5,861 |
Clinton | 3,633 | 39.55% | 1,890 | 20.58% | 3,188 | 34.71% | 403 | 4.39% | 71 | 0.77% | 445 | 4.84% | 9,185 |
Crawford | 2,193 | 46.96% | 1,169 | 25.03% | 1,181 | 25.29% | 66 | 1.41% | 61 | 1.31% | 1,012 | 21.67% | 4,670 |
Dallas | 1,718 | 32.73% | 1,825 | 34.77% | 1,361 | 25.93% | 200 | 3.81% | 145 | 2.76% | -107[lower-alpha 2] | -2.04% | 5,249 |
Davis | 1,453 | 47.41% | 1,184 | 38.63% | 353 | 11.52% | 44 | 1.44% | 31 | 1.01% | 269[lower-alpha 2] | 8.78% | 3,065 |
Decatur | 1,659 | 42.24% | 1,351 | 34.39% | 773 | 19.68% | 90 | 2.29% | 55 | 1.40% | 308[lower-alpha 2] | 7.84% | 3,928 |
Delaware | 1,399 | 34.42% | 1,394 | 34.30% | 1,145 | 28.17% | 83 | 2.04% | 43 | 1.06% | 5[lower-alpha 2] | 0.12% | 4,064 |
Des Moines | 3,169 | 39.30% | 2,136 | 26.49% | 2,090 | 25.92% | 537 | 6.66% | 132 | 1.64% | 1,033[lower-alpha 2] | 12.81% | 8,064 |
Dickinson | 502 | 26.96% | 457 | 24.54% | 850 | 45.65% | 38 | 2.04% | 15 | 0.81% | -348 | -18.69% | 1,862 |
Dubuque | 6,237 | 53.20% | 1,620 | 13.82% | 3,421 | 29.18% | 415 | 3.54% | 31 | 0.26% | 2,816 | 24.02% | 11,724 |
Emmet | 486 | 25.01% | 602 | 30.98% | 738 | 37.98% | 99 | 5.10% | 18 | 0.93% | -136[lower-alpha 3] | -7.00% | 1,943 |
Fayette | 2,379 | 38.20% | 1,192 | 19.14% | 2,240 | 35.97% | 250 | 4.01% | 166 | 2.67% | 139 | 2.23% | 6,227 |
Floyd | 1,244 | 31.85% | 1,216 | 31.13% | 1,256 | 32.16% | 142 | 3.64% | 48 | 1.23% | -12 | -0.31% | 3,906 |
Franklin | 694 | 22.64% | 773 | 25.21% | 1,403 | 45.76% | 67 | 2.19% | 129 | 4.21% | -630[lower-alpha 3] | -20.55% | 3,066 |
Fremont | 1,762 | 47.63% | 973 | 26.30% | 861 | 23.28% | 65 | 1.76% | 38 | 1.03% | 789[lower-alpha 2] | 21.33% | 3,699 |
Greene | 980 | 27.51% | 1,324 | 37.17% | 1,166 | 32.73% | 29 | 0.81% | 63 | 1.77% | 158[lower-alpha 3] | 4.44% | 3,562 |
Grundy | 1,149 | 37.12% | 421 | 13.60% | 1,465 | 47.33% | 12 | 0.39% | 48 | 1.55% | -316 | -10.21% | 3,095 |
Guthrie | 1,390 | 33.93% | 1,258 | 30.71% | 1,303 | 31.80% | 74 | 1.81% | 72 | 1.76% | 87 | 2.12% | 4,097 |
Hamilton | 1,041 | 24.27% | 831 | 19.37% | 2,282 | 53.19% | 68 | 1.59% | 68 | 1.59% | -1,241 | -28.93% | 4,290 |
Hancock | 710 | 28.32% | 860 | 34.30% | 899 | 35.86% | 8 | 0.32% | 30 | 1.20% | -39[lower-alpha 3] | -1.56% | 2,507 |
Hardin | 1,072 | 24.07% | 732 | 16.43% | 2,362 | 53.03% | 87 | 1.95% | 201 | 4.51% | -1,290 | -28.96% | 4,454 |
Harrison | 2,157 | 40.54% | 1,528 | 28.72% | 1,336 | 25.11% | 226 | 4.25% | 74 | 1.39% | 629[lower-alpha 2] | 11.82% | 5,321 |
Henry | 1,580 | 37.17% | 1,663 | 39.12% | 856 | 20.14% | 47 | 1.11% | 105 | 2.47% | -83[lower-alpha 2] | -1.95% | 4,251 |
Howard | 1,416 | 45.17% | 750 | 23.92% | 837 | 26.70% | 69 | 2.20% | 63 | 2.01% | 579 | 18.47% | 3,135 |
Humboldt | 634 | 24.93% | 477 | 18.76% | 1,377 | 54.15% | 16 | 0.63% | 39 | 1.53% | -743 | -29.22% | 2,543 |
Ida | 1,087 | 38.93% | 530 | 18.98% | 1,144 | 40.97% | 18 | 0.64% | 13 | 0.47% | -57 | -2.04% | 2,792 |
Iowa | 1,841 | 45.77% | 1,237 | 30.76% | 875 | 21.76% | 24 | 0.60% | 45 | 1.12% | 604[lower-alpha 2] | 15.02% | 4,022 |
Jackson | 2,259 | 47.06% | 1,174 | 24.46% | 1,003 | 20.90% | 109 | 2.27% | 255 | 5.31% | 1,085[lower-alpha 2] | 22.60% | 4,800 |
Jasper | 2,487 | 39.20% | 1,766 | 27.83% | 1,531 | 24.13% | 397 | 6.26% | 164 | 2.58% | 721[lower-alpha 2] | 11.36% | 6,345 |
Jefferson | 1,311 | 35.80% | 1,378 | 37.63% | 786 | 21.46% | 72 | 1.97% | 115 | 3.14% | -67[lower-alpha 2] | -1.83% | 3,662 |
Johnson | 3,327 | 56.52% | 1,645 | 27.95% | 763 | 12.96% | 92 | 1.56% | 59 | 1.00% | 1,682[lower-alpha 2] | 28.58% | 5,886 |
Jones | 2,189 | 47.93% | 1,622 | 35.52% | 689 | 15.09% | 34 | 0.74% | 33 | 0.72% | 567[lower-alpha 2] | 12.42% | 4,567 |
Keokuk | 2,434 | 46.63% | 1,361 | 26.07% | 1,232 | 23.60% | 74 | 1.42% | 119 | 2.28% | 1,073[lower-alpha 2] | 20.56% | 5,220 |
Kossuth | 1,813 | 39.53% | 857 | 18.69% | 1,860 | 40.56% | 21 | 0.46% | 35 | 0.76% | -47 | -1.02% | 4,586 |
Lee | 3,891 | 45.67% | 2,016 | 23.66% | 2,299 | 26.98% | 258 | 3.03% | 56 | 0.66% | 1,592 | 18.69% | 8,520 |
Linn | 5,422 | 40.12% | 4,326 | 32.01% | 3,038 | 22.48% | 487 | 3.60% | 242 | 1.79% | 1,096[lower-alpha 2] | 8.11% | 13,515 |
Louisa | 881 | 29.94% | 1,070 | 36.36% | 891 | 30.28% | 58 | 1.97% | 43 | 1.46% | 179[lower-alpha 3] | 6.08% | 2,943 |
Lucas | 968 | 33.11% | 939 | 32.11% | 855 | 29.24% | 110 | 3.76% | 52 | 1.78% | 29[lower-alpha 2] | 0.99% | 2,924 |
Lyon | 896 | 32.27% | 412 | 14.84% | 1,361 | 49.01% | 89 | 3.20% | 19 | 0.68% | -465 | -16.74% | 2,777 |
Madison | 1,185 | 31.43% | 1,274 | 33.79% | 1,121 | 29.73% | 86 | 2.28% | 104 | 2.76% | -89[lower-alpha 2] | -2.36% | 3,770 |
Mahaska | 2,576 | 39.95% | 1,682 | 26.09% | 1,705 | 26.44% | 202 | 3.13% | 283 | 4.39% | 871 | 13.51% | 6,448 |
Marion | 2,276 | 43.31% | 1,191 | 22.66% | 1,419 | 27.00% | 297 | 5.65% | 72 | 1.37% | 857 | 16.31% | 5,255 |
Marshall | 2,162 | 32.19% | 926 | 13.79% | 3,106 | 46.24% | 324 | 4.82% | 199 | 2.96% | -944 | -14.05% | 6,717 |
Mills | 1,312 | 39.22% | 850 | 25.41% | 1,093 | 32.68% | 57 | 1.70% | 33 | 0.99% | 219 | 6.55% | 3,345 |
Mitchell | 1,082 | 37.28% | 590 | 20.33% | 1,171 | 40.35% | 29 | 1.00% | 30 | 1.03% | -89 | -3.07% | 2,902 |
Monona | 1,358 | 35.51% | 1,109 | 29.00% | 1,289 | 33.71% | 36 | 0.94% | 32 | 0.84% | 69 | 1.80% | 3,824 |
Monroe | 1,485 | 28.11% | 1,385 | 26.22% | 1,495 | 28.30% | 856 | 16.21% | 61 | 1.15% | -10 | -0.19% | 5,282 |
Montgomery | 1,206 | 30.35% | 917 | 23.07% | 1,713 | 43.11% | 106 | 2.67% | 32 | 0.81% | -507 | -12.76% | 3,974 |
Muscatine | 2,679 | 37.68% | 789 | 11.10% | 2,796 | 39.32% | 758 | 10.66% | 88 | 1.24% | -117 | -1.65% | 7,110 |
O'Brien | 1,506 | 38.91% | 620 | 16.02% | 1,659 | 42.87% | 53 | 1.37% | 32 | 0.83% | -153 | -3.95% | 3,870 |
Osceola | 786 | 40.14% | 520 | 26.56% | 609 | 31.10% | 29 | 1.48% | 14 | 0.72% | 177 | 9.04% | 1,958 |
Page | 1,462 | 29.32% | 980 | 19.65% | 2,216 | 44.44% | 197 | 3.95% | 132 | 2.65% | -754 | -15.12% | 4,987 |
Palo Alto | 1,274 | 40.51% | 953 | 30.30% | 755 | 24.01% | 101 | 3.21% | 62 | 1.97% | 321[lower-alpha 2] | 10.21% | 3,145 |
Plymouth | 2,038 | 41.24% | 825 | 16.69% | 2,005 | 40.57% | 28 | 0.57% | 46 | 0.93% | 33 | 0.67% | 4,942 |
Pocahontas | 1,176 | 35.52% | 760 | 22.95% | 1,277 | 38.57% | 69 | 2.08% | 29 | 0.88% | -101 | -3.05% | 3,311 |
Polk | 7,239 | 32.07% | 4,665 | 20.66% | 8,110 | 35.92% | 1,695 | 7.51% | 866 | 3.84% | -871 | -3.86% | 22,575 |
Pottawattamie | 4,993 | 42.08% | 1,753 | 14.77% | 4,538 | 38.24% | 489 | 4.12% | 93 | 0.78% | 455 | 3.83% | 11,866 |
Poweshiek | 1,631 | 35.89% | 902 | 19.85% | 1,792 | 39.43% | 107 | 2.35% | 113 | 2.49% | -161 | -3.54% | 4,545 |
Ringgold | 958 | 32.72% | 916 | 31.28% | 939 | 32.07% | 45 | 1.54% | 70 | 2.39% | 19 | 0.65% | 2,928 |
Sac | 1,124 | 30.67% | 622 | 16.97% | 1,819 | 49.63% | 58 | 1.58% | 42 | 1.15% | -695 | -18.96% | 3,665 |
Scott | 5,632 | 41.17% | 1,568 | 11.46% | 4,977 | 36.38% | 1,444 | 10.56% | 58 | 0.42% | 655 | 4.79% | 13,679 |
Shelby | 1,841 | 47.78% | 872 | 22.63% | 1,073 | 27.85% | 38 | 0.99% | 29 | 0.75% | 768 | 19.93% | 3,853 |
Sioux | 1,453 | 31.15% | 575 | 12.33% | 2,566 | 55.02% | 55 | 1.18% | 15 | 0.32% | -1,113 | -23.86% | 4,664 |
Story | 1,224 | 23.39% | 1,247 | 23.82% | 2,515 | 48.05% | 76 | 1.45% | 172 | 3.29% | -1,268[lower-alpha 3] | -24.23% | 5,234 |
Tama | 2,446 | 44.76% | 1,179 | 21.57% | 1,722 | 31.51% | 45 | 0.82% | 73 | 1.34% | 724 | 13.25% | 5,465 |
Taylor | 1,372 | 35.61% | 1,364 | 35.40% | 999 | 25.93% | 40 | 1.04% | 78 | 2.02% | 8[lower-alpha 2] | 0.21% | 3,853 |
Union | 1,528 | 39.25% | 1,096 | 28.15% | 1,115 | 28.64% | 75 | 1.93% | 79 | 2.03% | 413 | 10.61% | 3,893 |
Van Buren | 1,495 | 39.68% | 1,483 | 39.36% | 675 | 17.91% | 52 | 1.38% | 63 | 1.67% | 12[lower-alpha 2] | 0.32% | 3,768 |
Wapello | 3,102 | 36.62% | 2,755 | 32.53% | 1,838 | 21.70% | 699 | 8.25% | 76 | 0.90% | 347[lower-alpha 2] | 4.10% | 8,470 |
Warren | 1,396 | 34.46% | 1,386 | 34.21% | 1,102 | 27.20% | 53 | 1.31% | 114 | 2.81% | 10[lower-alpha 2] | 0.25% | 4,051 |
Washington | 2,003 | 41.76% | 1,264 | 26.35% | 1,330 | 27.73% | 84 | 1.75% | 116 | 2.42% | 673 | 14.03% | 4,797 |
Wayne | 1,581 | 41.93% | 1,193 | 31.64% | 796 | 21.11% | 88 | 2.33% | 113 | 3.00% | 388[lower-alpha 2] | 10.29% | 3,771 |
Webster | 2,370 | 33.25% | 2,123 | 29.79% | 2,171 | 30.46% | 316 | 4.43% | 147 | 2.06% | 199 | 2.79% | 7,127 |
Winnebago | 390 | 17.48% | 532 | 23.85% | 1,035 | 46.39% | 142 | 6.36% | 132 | 5.92% | -503[lower-alpha 3] | -22.55% | 2,231 |
Winneshiek | 2,105 | 41.03% | 802 | 15.63% | 2,136 | 41.64% | 61 | 1.19% | 26 | 0.51% | -31 | -0.60% | 5,130 |
Woodbury | 4,564 | 34.89% | 2,441 | 18.66% | 5,463 | 41.76% | 449 | 3.43% | 165 | 1.26% | -899 | -6.87% | 13,082 |
Worth | 402 | 20.28% | 354 | 17.86% | 1,147 | 57.87% | 42 | 2.12% | 37 | 1.87% | -745 | -37.59% | 1,982 |
Wright | 765 | 21.52% | 805 | 22.64% | 1,856 | 52.21% | 54 | 1.52% | 75 | 2.11% | -1,051[lower-alpha 3] | -29.56% | 3,555 |
Total | 185,325 | 37.64% | 119,805 | 24.33% | 161,819 | 32.87% | 16,967 | 3.45% | 8,440 | 1.71% | 23,506 | 4.77% | 492,356 |
- Iowa Secretary of State; ‘Official Canvass of Votes by Counties for President 1912, Governor 1910-’; Iowa Official Register 1913 pp. 504-506