1912 United States presidential election in Florida

none June 2025 September 2023 1912 United States presidential election 1912 United States presidential election in Florida Florida 1900 presidential no 1908 United States presidential election in Florida 1908 November 5, 1912 1916 United States presidential election in Florida 1916 x200px Woodrow Wilson-H&E.jpg Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall 6 35,343 69.52% Eugene Debs portrait.jpeg Eugene V. Debs Socialist Party of America Indiana Emil Seidel 4,806 0 9.45% Unsuccessful 1912 2.jpg Theodore Roosevelt Progressive New York Hiram Johnson 0 4,555 8.96% File:William Howard Taft Portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg William Howard Taft Republican Party (United States) Ohio Nicholas Murray Butler 4,279 8.42% 0 1912 United States presidential election in Florida results map by county.svg 400px County results Wilson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% President William Howard Taft Republican Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) The 1912 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 5, 1912. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ever since the disfranchisement of black Americans at the beginning of the 1890s, Florida had been a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party. Because, unlike southern states extending into the Appalachian Mountains or Ozarks, or Texas with its German settlements in the Edwards Plateau, Florida completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession, its Republican Party between 1872 and 1888 was entirely dependent upon black votes. An illustration of the original Florida GOP's dependence upon black votes can be seen in that, as late as the landmark court case of Smith v. Allwright, half of Florida's registered Republicans were still blackSee Price, Hugh Douglas; ‘The Negro and Florida Politics, 1944-1954’; The Journal of Politics, Vol. 17, No. 2 (May, 1955), pp. 198-220 – although very few blacks in Florida had ever voted within the previous fifty-five years. Thus this disfranchisement of blacks and poor whites by a poll tax introduced in 1889Silbey, Joel H. and Bogue, Allan G.; The History of American Electoral Behavior, p. 210 140087114X left Florida nearly as devoid of Republican adherents as Louisiana, Mississippi or South Carolina.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 The Democratic Party won every county in Florida in each election from 1892In the 1892 presidential election, Republican Benjamin Harrison was not on the ballot and the party backed Populist James B. Weaver. until 1904, and all bar Calhoun County in 1908.Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896-1932 (second edition); pp. 156-157 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press Only once since 1897 – and then only for a single term – had a Republican served in either house of the state legislature. Despite this disfranchisement of most of the state's lower classes, by the 1912 election, southern Florida – settled after the Civil War – was to develop a considerable socialist movement at the beginning of the 1910s – most strongly in Tampa.Ford, Edward J.; ‘Life on the Campaign Trail: a Political Anthropology of Local Politics’ (thesis), published 2008 by University of South Florida, pp. 114-118 Although this movement had no effect on the overall presidential result – Democrat Woodrow Wilson was to win every county with an absolute majority of votes – it did allow Socialist Eugene Debs to achieve the unique feat for an American socialist of finishing second, ahead of both factions of the splintered national Republican Party. Results 1912 United States presidential election in Floridahttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1912&off=0&elect=0&fips=12&f=0 1912 Presidential General Election Results – Florida Leip David U.S. Election Atlas 2017-06-12 Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson New Jersey Thomas R. Marshall Indiana 35,343 69.52% 6 100.00% Socialist Party of America Eugene Debs Indiana Emil Seidel Wisconsin 4,806 9.45% 0 0.00% Bull Moose Party Theodore Roosevelt New York Hiram W. Johnson California 4,555 8.96% 0 0.00% Republican Party (United States) William Howard Taft Ohio (incumbent) Nicholas Murray Butler New York 4,279 8.42% 0 0.00% Prohibition Party Eugene Chafin Illinois Aaron Watkins Ohio 1,854 3.65% 0 0.00% 50,837 100.00% 6 100.00% Results by county Thomas Woodrow WilsonDemocraticWilliam Howard TaftRepublicanEugene Victor DebsSocialistTheodore Roosevelt Jr.Progressive "Bull Moose"Eugene Wilder ChafinProhibitionMarginTotal votescast County #Robinson; The Presidential Vote, pp. 156-161 % # % #http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1912.htm Presidential Election of 1912 – Map by Counties (.xlsx file for €15) 2017-06-06 Géoelections https://web.archive.org/web/20180613185010/http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1912.htm 2018-06-13 dead % # % # % # % Alachua 1,304 75.33% 221 12.77% 56 3.24% 75 4.33% 75 4.33% 1,083 62.56% 1,731 Baker 168 50.76% 37 11.18% 31 9.37% 93 28.10% 2 0.60% 75 22.66% 331 Bradford 656 76.55% 95 11.09% 10 1.17% 40 4.67% 56 6.53% 561 65.46% 857 Brevard 357 60.51% 61 10.34% 82 13.90% 82 13.90% 8 1.36% 275 46.61% 590 Calhoun 332 50.30% 67 10.15% 152 23.03% 59 8.94% 50 7.58% 180 27.27% 660 Citrus 417 82.90% 11 2.19% 21 4.17% 44 8.75% 10 1.99% 373 74.15% 503 Clay 279 71.54% 26 6.67% 54 13.85% 21 5.38% 10 2.56% 225 57.69% 390 Columbia 520 77.61% 66 9.85% 23 3.43% 50 7.46% 11 1.64% 470 70.15% 670 Dade 1,171 65.71% 99 5.56% 188 10.55% 291 16.33% 33 1.85% 880 49.38% 1,782 DeSoto 847 67.28% 110 8.74% 135 10.72% 78 6.20% 89 7.07% 712 56.56% 1,259 Duval 3,514 75.26% 243 5.20% 350 7.50% 485 10.39% 77 1.65% 3,029 64.87% 4,669 Escambia 1,593 77.11% 72 3.48% 158 7.65% 202 9.78% 41 1.98% 1,391 67.33% 2,066 Franklin 266 68.21% 58 14.87% 38 9.74% 23 5.90% 5 1.28% 208 53.34% 390 Gadsden 609 78.99% 75 9.73% 31 4.02% 54 7.00% 2 0.26% 534 69.26% 771 Hamilton 405 72.71% 46 8.26% 60 10.77% 24 4.31% 22 3.95% 345 61.94% 557 Hernando 272 71.02% 18 4.70% 42 10.97% 22 5.74% 29 7.57% 230 60.05% 383 Hillsborough 2,641 67.63% 159 4.07% 672 17.21% 269 6.89% 164 4.20% 1,969 50.42% 3,905 Holmes 411 61.16% 52 7.74% 79 11.76% 110 16.37% 20 2.98% 301 44.79% 672 Jackson 1,205 71.01% 163 9.61% 146 8.60% 68 4.01% 115 6.78% 1,042 61.40% 1,697 Jefferson 459 82.55% 47 8.45% 9 1.62% 39 7.01% 2 0.36% 412 74.10% 556 Lafayette 473 76.79% 73 11.85% 8 1.30% 11 1.79% 51 8.28% 400 64.94% 616 Lake 596 73.49% 92 11.34% 39 4.81% 63 7.77% 21 2.59% 504 62.15% 811 Lee 432 60.50% 38 5.32% 116 16.25% 97 13.59% 31 4.34% 316 44.25% 714 Leon 546 81.98% 56 8.41% 15 2.25% 46 6.91% 3 0.45% 490 73.57% 666 Levy 375 70.49% 74 13.91% 30 5.64% 24 4.51% 29 5.45% 301 56.58% 532 Liberty 206 77.74% 32 12.08% 7 2.64% 18 6.79% 2 0.75% 174 65.66% 265 Madison 480 87.59% 16 2.92% 19 3.47% 30 5.47% 3 0.55% 450 82.12% 548 Manatee 712 68.73% 55 5.31% 98 9.46% 108 10.42% 63 6.08% 604 58.31% 1,036 Marion 1,165 70.73% 179 10.87% 124 7.53% 117 7.10% 62 3.76% 986 59.86% 1,647 Monroe 1,023 55.72% 414 22.55% 221 12.04% 152 8.28% 26 1.42% 609 33.17% 1,836 Nassau 441 82.89% 38 7.14% 31 5.83% 17 3.20% 5 0.94% 403 75.75% 532Orange 1,256 68.15% 228 12.37% 124 6.73% 134 7.27% 101 5.48% 1,028 55.78% 1,843 Osceola 512 57.59% 110 12.37% 64 7.20% 159 17.89% 44 4.95% 353 39.70% 889 Palm Beach 458 63.17% 31 4.28% 77 10.62% 146 20.14% 13 1.79% 312 43.03% 725 Pasco 485 67.45% 60 8.34% 64 8.90% 74 10.29% 36 5.01% 411 57.16% 719 Pinellas 853 60.16% 87 6.14% 189 13.33% 250 17.63% 39 2.75% 603 42.53% 1,418 Polk 1,520 71.43% 106 4.98% 291 13.67% 141 6.63% 70 3.29% 1,229 57.76% 2,128 Putnam 774 65.93% 229 19.51% 67 5.71% 53 4.51% 51 4.34% 545 46.42% 1,174 St. Johns 836 73.08% 45 3.93% 116 10.14% 132 11.54% 15 1.31% 704 61.54% 1,144 St. Lucie 352 69.57% 45 8.89% 64 12.65% 36 7.11% 9 1.78% 288 56.92% 506 Santa Rosa 592 66.29% 70 7.84% 88 9.85% 48 5.38% 95 10.64% 497 55.65% 893 Sumter 417 74.73% 22 3.94% 19 3.41% 71 12.72% 29 5.20% 346 62.01% 558 Suwannee 714 69.59% 54 5.26% 214 20.86% 29 2.83% 15 1.46% 500 48.73% 1,026 Taylor 236 65.01% 56 15.43% 9 2.48% 19 5.23% 43 11.85% 180 49.58% 363 Volusia 942 67.48% 162 11.60% 98 7.02% 72 5.16% 122 8.74% 780 55.88% 1,396 Wakulla 215 77.06% 25 8.96% 22 7.89% 15 5.38% 2 0.72% 190 68.10% 279 Walton 612 57.95% 74 7.01% 69 6.53% 296 28.03% 5 0.47% 316 29.92% 1,056 Washington 694 64.38% 82 7.61% 186 17.25% 68 6.31% 48 4.45% 508 47.13% 1,078Totals35,34369.52%4,2798.42%4,8069.45%4,5558.96%1,8543.65%30,53760.07%50,837 See also United States presidential elections in Florida Notes References 2 Florida Category:1912 Florida elections 1912