President / Vice President, 1912 Election

General

Date: November 5, 1912
Cycle: 1912
Office: President / Vice President
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Running mate Party Votes Percent Margin
Theodore Roosevelt Man Hiram Johnson (Man) Progressive 125,856 37.66 +5.81
Woodrow Wilson Man Thomas Marshall (Man) Democrat 106,426 31.84
William Taft Incumbent Man Nicholas Butler (Man) Republican 64,334 19.25
Eugene Debs Man Emil Seidel (Man) Public Ownership 27,505 8.23
Eugene Chafin Man Aaron Watkins (Man) Prohibition 7,886 2.36
Arthur Reimer Man August Gillhaus (Man) Socialist Labor 2,212 0.66

Roosevelt and Johnson each received Minnesota's 12 Electoral College votes. For the first time in Minnesota history, voters did not back a Republican nominee for president – ending a string of 13 straight cycles. Roosevelt's plurality win marked the lowest support ever recorded for a presidential candidate carrying the Gopher State (37.66 percent).

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1955 (p. 340).