1900-1920



For the United States presidential election of 1912 it was fought among three major candidates, two of whom had previously won election to the office. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican party with the support of the conservative wing of the party. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to get the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created a new Progressive Party which was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party. It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. Democrat Woodrow Wilson was nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan. He defeated both Taft and Roosevelt in the general election, winning a huge majority in the Electoral College despite only winning 42% of the popular vote, and initiating the only period between 1892 and 1932 when a Democrat was elected President. Wilson was the second of only two Democrats to be elected President between 1860 and 1932. This was also the last election in which a third party candidate came in second in the Electoral College.

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 * = ‹ [|1908] [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png width="50" height="26" caption="Flag of the United States" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg"]] [|1916] › ||
 * = **United States presidential election, 1912** ||
 * = **[|November 5], [|1912]** ||
 * || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg/138px-President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg width="138" height="168" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg"]] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/President_Theodore_Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg/127px-President_Theodore_Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg width="127" height="168" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:President_Theodore_Roosevelt,_1904.jpg"]] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/William_Howard_Taft.jpg/130px-William_Howard_Taft.jpg width="130" height="168" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:William_Howard_Taft.jpg"]] ||
 * Nominee || **[|Woodrow Wilson]** || [|Theodore Roosevelt] || [|William Howard Taft] ||
 * < Party || [|Democratic] || [|Progressive] || [|Republican] ||
 * Home state || [|New Jersey] || [|New York] || [|Ohio] ||
 * Running mate || **[|Thomas R. Marshall]** || [|Hiram Johnson] || [|Nicholas Murray Butler] ||
 * Electoral vote || **435** || 88 || 8 ||
 * States carried || 40 || 6 || 2 ||
 * Popular vote || **6,296,284** || 4,122,721 || 3,486,242 ||
 * Percentage || **41.8%** || 27.4% || 23.2% ||
 * Percentage || **41.8%** || 27.4% || 23.2% ||