1912 United States presidential election in Tennessee

none June 2025 September 2023 1912 United States presidential election 1912 United States presidential election in Tennessee Tennessee 1923 presidential no 1908 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1908 1916 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1916 November 5, 1912 x160px Woodrow Wilson-H&E.jpg Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall 12 133,021 52.80% File:William Howard Taft Portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg William Howard Taft Republican Party (United States) Ohio Nicholas Murray Butler 0 60,475 24.00% Unsuccessful 1912 2.jpg Theodore Roosevelt Progressive New York Hiram Johnson 0 54,041 21.45% 350px County results Wilson #d3e7ff 30–40% #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Taft #ffccd0 30–40% #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% Roosevelt #c7ffaf 30–40% #c6e9af 40–50% #aade87 50–60% #8dd35f 60–70% #71c837 70–80% President William Howard Taft Republican Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) a2ed70 The 1912 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee was divided according to political loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and WayneWright John K. Voting Habits in the United States: A Note on Two Maps Geographical Review 22 4 October 1932 666–672 10.2307/208821 208821 1932GeoRv..22..666W voted Republican – generally by landslide margins – as they saw the Democratic Party as the “war party” who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.Key (Jr.), Valdimer Orlando; Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York, 1949), pp. 282-283 Contrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state's secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction.Lyons William Scheb (II) John M. Stair Billy Government and Politics in Tennessee 2001 183–184 Univ. of Tennessee Press 1572331410 After the disfranchisement of the state's African-American population by a poll tax was largely complete in the 1890s,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 the Democratic Party was certain of winning statewide elections if united,Grantham Dewey W. Tennessee and Twentieth-Century American Politics Tennessee Historical Quarterly 54 3 Fall 1995 210–229 although unlike the Deep South Republicans would almost always gain thirty to forty percent of the statewide vote from mountain and Highland Rim support. In the early 1910s, the state Democratic Party was divided over the issue of prohibition. One faction, known as the “Independent Democrats,” wanted the state's Four Mile Law (which banned the sale of liquor within four miles of any school) to apply statewide, while the other faction, known as the “Regular Democrats,” wanted the state's larger cities to be exempt from this law. In 1910, the Independent Democrats fled the party and formed a coalition, known as the “Fusionists,” with Republicans, helping to elect Governor Ben W. Hooper,Langsdon Phillip Tennessee: A Political History Franklin, Tennessee Hillsboro Press 2000 287–295 although the Republicans did not gain at other levels. With the national Republican Party deeply split, divisions between the dominant eastern wing and the “black-and-tan” western wing of the state Republican Party were opened up as Theodore Roosevelt and governor of California Hiram Johnson planned “lily-whitism” for the South with the “Bull Moose” party after Roosevelt broke from the GOP.Link Arthur S. The Negro as a Factor in the Campaign of 1912 The Journal of Negro History January 1947 32 1 81–99 The University of Chicago Press 10.2307/2715292 2715292 The “black-and-tan” wing being revitalised by Memphis banker and businessman Robert R. Church Jr.Heersink Boris Jenkins Jeffrey A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 March 19, 2020 292 Cambridge University Press 978-1107158436 remained loyal to incumbent President William Howard Taft (R–Ohio), and running mate Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, though it had many fewer votes due to disenfranchisement. Pollsters always conceded Tennessee to Democratic nominees Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson and governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall.Taft Shows Increasing Strength in a Number of Sections and May "Nose Out" the Colonel for Second Place The Cincinnati Enquirer October 20, 1912 19 Results 1912 United States presidential election in TennesseeDavid Leip 1912 Presidential General Election Results – Tennessee https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1912&fips=47&f=0&off=0&elect=0 Dave Leip's U.S. Election AtlasPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votesDemocraticWoodrow Wilson133,02152.80%12RepublicanWilliam Howard Taft (incumbent)60,47524.00%0ProgressiveTheodore Roosevelt54,04121.45%0SocialistEugene V. Debs3,5641.41%0ProhibitionEugene W. Chafin832Prohibition votes were not separated by county but listed only as a statewide total. "notseparated"0.33%0Totals251,933100.00%12 Results by county 1912 United States presidential election in Tennessee by countyGéoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1912.htm 1912 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)Géoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1912debs.htm Popular Vote for Eugene V. Debs, 1912 (.xlsx file for €15)CountyWoodrow WilsonDemocraticWilliam Howard TaftRepublicanTheodore RooseveltProgressive "Bull Moose"Eugene V. DebsSocialistMarginTotal votescast # % # % # % # % # % Anderson 597 25.52% 539 23.04% 1,148 49.08% 55 2.35% -551"RooseveltdTaft" In this county where Roosevelt ran ahead of Taft, margin given is Wilson vote minus Roosevelt vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Roosevelt percentage. -23.56% 2,339 Bedford 2,305 59.39% 1,474 37.98% 96 2.47% 6 0.15% 831 21.41% 3,881 Benton 1,095 53.00% 652 31.56% 289 13.99% 30 1.45% 443 21.44% 2,066 Bledsoe 464 37.00% 379 30.22% 401 31.98% 10 0.80% 63"RooseveltdTaft" 5.02% 1,254 Blount 836 26.83% 870 27.92% 1,410 45.25% 0 0.00% -540"RooseveltdWilson" In this county where Wilson ran third behind both Taft and Roosevelt, margin given is Taft vote minus Roosevelt vote and percentage margin Taft percentage minus Roosevelt percentage. -17.33% 3,116 Bradley 645 38.21% 485 28.73% 548 32.46% 10 0.59% 97"RooseveltdTaft" 5.75% 1,688 Campbell 554 26.37% 302 14.37% 1,193 56.78% 52 2.48% -639"RooseveltdTaft" -30.41% 2,101 Cannon 1,184 63.32% 631 33.74% 48 2.57% 7 0.37% 553 29.57% 1,870 Carroll 1,653 40.80% 1,362 33.62% 967 23.87% 69 1.70% 291 7.18% 4,051 Carter 478 13.11% 1,243 34.08% 1,926 52.81% 0 0.00% -683"RooseveltdWilson" -18.73% 3,647 Cheatham 1,096 70.30% 317 20.33% 123 7.89% 23 1.48% 779 49.97% 1,559 Chester 636 46.29% 312 22.71% 388 28.24% 38 2.77% 248"RooseveltdTaft" 18.05% 1,374 Claiborne 903 34.61% 589 22.58% 1,098 42.09% 19 0.73% -195"RooseveltdTaft" -7.47% 2,609 Clay 718 57.30% 440 35.12% 83 6.62% 12 0.96% 278 22.19% 1,253 Cocke 597 31.21% 757 39.57% 549 28.70% 10 0.52% -160 -8.36% 1,913 Coffee 1,705 73.59% 521 22.49% 63 2.72% 28 1.21% 1,184 51.10% 2,317 Crockett 1,297 48.31% 852 31.73% 509 18.96% 27 1.01% 445 16.57% 2,685 Cumberland 489 37.44% 372 28.48% 434 33.23% 11 0.84% 55"RooseveltdTaft" 4.21% 1,306 Davidson 9,517 76.25% 1,428 11.44% 1,330 10.66% 206 1.65% 8,089 64.81% 12,481 Decatur 758 45.42% 405 24.27% 491 29.42% 15 0.90% 267"RooseveltdTaft" 16.00% 1,669 DeKalb 1,394 48.40% 1,219 42.33% 265 9.20% 2 0.07% 175 6.08% 2,880 Dickson 1,689 67.97% 448 18.03% 293 11.79% 55 2.21% 1,241 49.94% 2,485 Dyer 1,469 66.26% 318 14.34% 348 15.70% 82 3.70% 1,121"RooseveltdTaft" 50.56% 2,217 Fayette 830 84.52% 59 6.01% 93 9.47% 0 0.00% 737"RooseveltdTaft" 75.05% 982 Fentress 399 33.78% 444 37.60% 317 26.84% 21 1.78% -45 -3.81% 1,181 Franklin 2,172 79.33% 370 13.51% 164 5.99% 32 1.17% 1,802 65.81% 2,738 Gibson 2,671 63.20% 1,002 23.71% 518 12.26% 35 0.83% 1,669 39.49% 4,226 Giles 3,081 60.44% 1,596 31.31% 419 8.22% 2 0.04% 1,485 29.13% 5,098 Grainger 841 33.88% 741 29.85% 900 36.26% 0 0.00% -59"RooseveltdTaft" -2.38% 2,482 Greene 2,076 41.75% 1,650 33.18% 1,242 24.97% 5 0.10% 426 8.57% 4,973 Grundy 529 61.58% 122 14.20% 87 10.13% 121 14.09% 407 47.38% 859 Hamblen 722 48.39% 427 28.62% 325 21.78% 18 1.21% 295 19.77% 1,492 Hamilton 4,394 50.96% 1,493 17.32% 2,454 28.46% 281 3.26% 1,940"RooseveltdTaft" 22.50% 8,622 Hancock 427 36.50% 659 56.32% 84 7.18% 0 0.00% -232 -19.83% 1,170 Hardeman 1,323 69.09% 320 16.71% 264 13.79% 8 0.42% 1,003 52.38% 1,915 Hardin 738 31.85% 955 41.22% 592 25.55% 32 1.38% -217 -9.37% 2,317 Hawkins 1,026 40.52% 828 32.70% 660 26.07% 18 0.71% 198 7.82% 2,532 Haywood 1,069 87.69% 34 2.79% 88 7.22% 28 2.30% 981"RooseveltdTaft" 80.48% 1,219 Henderson 738 33.90% 473 21.73% 947 43.50% 19 0.87% -209"RooseveltdTaft" -9.60% 2,177 Henry 2,526 65.44% 941 24.38% 282 7.31% 111 2.88% 1,585 41.06% 3,860 Hickman 1,288 56.49% 868 38.07% 111 4.87% 13 0.57% 420 18.42% 2,280 Houston 586 64.47% 172 18.92% 65 7.15% 86 9.46% 414 45.54% 909 Humphreys 1,283 69.54% 343 18.59% 189 10.24% 30 1.63% 940 50.95% 1,845 Jackson 1,344 57.49% 743 31.78% 251 10.74% 0 0.00% 601 25.71% 2,338 James 202 25.93% 169 21.69% 408 52.37% 0 0.00% -206"RooseveltdTaft" -26.44% 779 Jefferson 514 25.66% 540 26.96% 940 46.93% 9 0.45% -400"RooseveltdWilson" -19.97% 2,003 Johnson 256 11.56% 933 42.14% 1,025 46.30% 0 0.00% -92"RooseveltdWilson" -4.16% 2,214 Knox 4,069 40.73% 1,984 19.86% 3,816 38.19% 122 1.22% 253"RooseveltdTaft" 2.53% 9,991 Lake 499 75.04% 122 18.35% 31 4.66% 13 1.95% 377 56.69% 665 Lauderdale 1,020 55.83% 186 10.18% 593 32.46% 28 1.53% 427"RooseveltdTaft" 23.37% 1,827 Lawrence 1,504 46.81% 878 27.33% 783 24.37% 48 1.49% 626 19.48% 3,213 Lewis 370 57.28% 126 19.50% 144 22.29% 6 0.93% 226"RooseveltdTaft" 34.98% 646 Lincoln 2,651 77.27% 672 19.59% 98 2.86% 10 0.29% 1,979 57.68% 3,431 Loudon 415 38.04% 322 29.51% 348 31.90% 6 0.55% 67"RooseveltdTaft" 6.14% 1,091 Macon 787 35.26% 1,251 56.05% 183 8.20% 11 0.49% -464 -20.79% 2,232 Madison 2,702 65.36% 1,036 25.06% 316 7.64% 80 1.94% 1,666 40.30% 4,134 Marion 810 45.28% 463 25.88% 442 24.71% 74 4.14% 347 19.40% 1,789 Marshall 1,551 76.59% 376 18.57% 87 4.30% 11 0.54% 1,175 58.02% 2,025 Maury 2,309 68.70% 615 18.30% 389 11.57% 48 1.43% 1,694 50.40% 3,361 McMinn 912 42.36% 667 30.98% 557 25.87% 17 0.79% 245 11.38% 2,153 McNairy 1,155 41.67% 616 22.22% 1,001 36.11% 0 0.00% 154"RooseveltdTaft" 5.56% 2,772 Meigs 517 50.79% 337 33.10% 163 16.01% 1 0.10% 180 17.68% 1,018 Monroe 1,136 48.63% 721 30.86% 475 20.33% 4 0.17% 415 17.77% 2,336 Montgomery 1,638 67.32% 514 21.13% 199 8.18% 82 3.37% 1,124 46.20% 2,433 Moore 694 84.43% 116 14.11% 11 1.34% 1 0.12% 578 70.32% 822 Morgan 466 28.17% 312 18.86% 841 50.85% 35 2.12% -375"RooseveltdTaft" -22.67% 1,654 Obion 2,152 75.17% 455 15.89% 193 6.74% 63 2.20% 1,697 59.27% 2,863 Overton 1,531 60.73% 743 29.47% 181 7.18% 66 2.62% 788 31.26% 2,521 Perry 664 56.32% 379 32.15% 94 7.97% 42 3.56% 285 24.17% 1,179 Pickett 411 45.67% 355 39.44% 134 14.89% 0 0.00% 56 6.22% 900 Polk 867 42.69% 533 26.24% 622 30.63% 9 0.44% 245"RooseveltdTaft" 12.06% 2,031 Putnam 1,867 58.69% 923 29.02% 386 12.13% 5 0.16% 944 29.68% 3,181 Rhea 692 45.38% 253 16.59% 552 36.20% 28 1.84% 140"RooseveltdTaft" 9.18% 1,525 Roane 570 29.26% 482 24.74% 826 42.40% 70 3.59% -256"RooseveltdTaft" -13.14% 1,948 Robertson 2,287 74.57% 513 16.73% 142 4.63% 125 4.08% 1,774 57.84% 3,067 Rutherford 3,406 68.57% 1,217 24.50% 280 5.64% 64 1.29% 2,189 44.07% 4,967 Scott 160 9.74% 123 7.49% 1,234 75.15% 125 7.61% -1,074"RooseveltdTaft" -65.41% 1,642 Sequatchie 354 57.56% 139 22.60% 83 13.50% 39 6.34% 215 34.96% 615 Sevier 341 9.17% 967 26.00% 2,410 64.80% 1 0.03% -1,443"RooseveltdWilson" -38.80% 3,719 Shelby 6,732 64.11% 589 5.61% 2,951 28.10% 228 2.17% 3,781"RooseveltdTaft" 36.01% 10,500 Smith 1,863 62.90% 915 30.89% 184 6.21% 0 0.00% 948 32.01% 2,962 Stewart 1,312 64.06% 485 23.68% 54 2.64% 197 9.62% 827 40.38% 2,048 Sullivan 2,413 57.07% 538 12.72% 1,265 29.92% 12 0.28% 1,148"RooseveltdTaft" 27.15% 4,228 Sumner 2,477 72.94% 769 22.64% 89 2.62% 61 1.80% 1,708 50.29% 3,396 Tipton 987 55.29% 564 31.60% 222 12.44% 12 0.67% 423 23.70% 1,785 Trousdale 544 68.86% 211 26.71% 35 4.43% 0 0.00% 333 42.15% 790 Unicoi 170 13.87% 280 22.84% 765 62.40% 11 0.90% -485"RooseveltdWilson" -39.56% 1,226 Union 404 21.12% 307 16.05% 1,192 62.31% 10 0.52% -788"RooseveltdTaft" -41.19% 1,913 Van Buren 225 58.44% 106 27.53% 30 7.79% 24 6.23% 119 30.91% 385 Warren 1,745 74.26% 339 14.43% 250 10.64% 16 0.68% 1,406 59.83% 2,350 Washington 1,531 35.89% 1,134 26.58% 1,592 37.32% 9 0.21% -61"RooseveltdTaft" -1.43% 4,266 Wayne 435 24.10% 971 53.80% 390 21.61% 9 0.50% -536 -29.70% 1,805 Weakley 2,810 63.03% 1,265 28.38% 350 7.85% 33 0.74% 1,545 34.66% 4,458 White 1,222 64.72% 330 17.48% 279 14.78% 57 3.02% 892 47.25% 1,888 Williamson 2,205 71.75% 797 25.94% 62 2.02% 9 0.29% 1,408 45.82% 3,073 Wilson 2,325 70.35% 682 20.64% 292 8.84% 6 0.18% 1,643 49.71% 3,305Totals133,02152.71%60,47523.96%54,04121.41%3,5641.41%72,54628.75%252,353 Analysis In the end Wilson achieved just under 53 percent of the popular vote, a figure very similar to that which Democrats had achieved in Tennessee over the previous four elections.1912 Presidential Election Results – Tennessee http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1912&fips=47&f=0&off=0&elect=0 Despite the appeal of Roosevelt's lily-white policy in the many emerging sundown towns or counties of East Tennessee,Loewen James A. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism 72–74 0743294483 the “Bull Moose” candidate finished third in the state, 2.55 percentage points behind incumbent President Taft. As of , this is the last presidential election in which Hawkins County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, as well as the last election in which Blount County, Washington County, Sevier County, Carter County, Jefferson County, Henderson County, Grainger County, Scott County, Unicoi County, and Johnson County did not vote for the Republican candidate.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 See also 1912 Tennessee gubernatorial election United States presidential elections in Tennessee Notes References Tennessee 1912 Category:1912 Tennessee elections