1912 United States presidential election in Alabama
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The 1912 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Over the preceding twenty years, Alabama had become effectively a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party.
Disenfranchisement of almost all African Americans and a large proportion of poor whites via poll taxes, literacy tests[1] and extralegal violence[2] had essentially eliminated opposition parties outside of Unionist Winston County and a few other northern hill counties that had been Populist strongholds.[3]
The only competitive statewide elections became Democratic Party primaries limited by law to white voters.
Because the supporters of the Populist Party had previously been frequently
Jeter Connelly Pritchard.[5] During the rest of the decade, as conservative Democratic rule was consolidated throughout the state, the party did shift toward a more progressive policy,[6] although African-American convict labour was increased in the coalfields near Birmingham during strikes late in the decade.[7]
In the election year of 1912,
Bull Moose” party after Roosevelt broke from the GOP.[9]
No polls were taken in the state during the election season, and despite Roosevelt’s popularity even in the
Princeton University President Woodrow Wilson and governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall won Alabama easily with 69.94% of the popular vote, against the 26th president of the United States, with 19.24 percent to Roosevelt and 8.24 percent to Taft.[11]
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | 82,438 | 69.94% | |
Progressive
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Theodore Roosevelt | 22,680 | 19.24% | |
Republican | William Howard Taft | 9,717 | 8.24% | |
Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 3,029 | 2.57% | |
Independent
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Write-in
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5 | 0.00% | |
Total votes | 117,869 | 100% |
Results by county
County | Thomas Woodrow Wilson[12] Democratic |
William Howard Taft[12] Republican |
Theodore Roosevelt[13] Progressive |
Eugene Victor Debs[14] Socialist |
Margin[a] | Total votes cast | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Autauga | 622 | 73.35% | 43 | 5.07% | 127 | 14.98% | 56 | 6.60% | 495 | 58.37% | 848 |
Baldwin | 623 | 67.28% | 37 | 4.00% | 141 | 15.23% | 125 | 13.50% | 482 | 52.05% | 926 |
Barbour | 1,155 | 90.38% | 18 | 1.41% | 88 | 6.89% | 17 | 1.33% | 1,067 | 83.49% | 1,278 |
Bibb | 820 | 71.87% | 40 | 3.51% | 178 | 15.60% | 103 | 9.03% | 642 | 56.27% | 1,141 |
Blount | 1,121 | 48.74% | 567 | 24.65% | 580 | 25.22% | 32 | 1.39% | 541 | 23.52% | 2,300 |
Bullock | 736 | 99.19% | 4 | 0.54% | 2 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 732[b] | 98.65% | 742 |
Butler | 903 | 83.00% | 86 | 7.90% | 80 | 7.35% | 19 | 1.75% | 817[b] | 75.09% | 1,088 |
Calhoun | 1,666 | 70.62% | 238 | 10.09% | 423 | 17.93% | 32 | 1.36% | 1,243 | 52.69% | 2,359 |
Chambers | 1,486 | 90.83% | 28 | 1.71% | 113 | 6.91% | 9 | 0.55% | 1,373 | 83.92% | 1,636 |
Cherokee | 814 | 46.57% | 88 | 5.03% | 799 | 45.71% | 47 | 2.69% | 15 | 0.86% | 1,748 |
Chilton | 880 | 39.18% | 140 | 6.23% | 1,154 | 51.38% | 72 | 3.21% | -274 | -12.20% | 2,246 |
Choctaw | 489 | 86.40% | 7 | 1.24% | 66 | 11.66% | 4 | 0.71% | 423 | 74.73% | 566 |
Clarke | 1,024 | 95.34% | 13 | 1.21% | 12 | 1.12% | 25 | 2.33% | 999[c] | 93.02% | 1,074 |
Clay | 1,109 | 52.46% | 64 | 3.03% | 939 | 44.42% | 2 | 0.09% | 170 | 8.04% | 2,114 |
Cleburne | 691 | 51.72% | 133 | 9.96% | 510 | 38.17% | 2 | 0.15% | 181 | 13.55% | 1,336 |
Coffee | 1,277 | 70.67% | 68 | 3.76% | 395 | 21.86% | 67 | 3.71% | 882 | 48.81% | 1,807 |
Colbert | 946 | 63.28% | 228 | 15.25% | 242 | 16.19% | 79 | 5.28% | 704 | 47.09% | 1,495 |
Conecuh | 802 | 80.93% | 60 | 6.05% | 103 | 10.39% | 26 | 2.62% | 699 | 70.53% | 991 |
Coosa | 763 | 63.27% | 109 | 9.04% | 317 | 26.29% | 17 | 1.41% | 446 | 36.98% | 1,206 |
Covington | 1,251 | 73.54% | 110 | 6.47% | 147 | 8.64% | 193 | 11.35% | 1,058[c] | 62.20% | 1,701 |
Crenshaw | 986 | 84.49% | 47 | 4.03% | 127 | 10.88% | 7 | 0.60% | 859 | 73.61% | 1,167 |
Cullman | 1,230 | 42.49% | 264 | 9.12% | 1,374 | 47.46% | 27 | 0.93% | -144 | -4.97% | 2,895 |
Dale | 1,059 | 66.02% | 99 | 6.17% | 443 | 27.62% | 3 | 0.19% | 616 | 38.40% | 1,604 |
Dallas | 1,461 | 96.69% | 16 | 1.06% | 18 | 1.19% | 16 | 1.06% | 1,443 | 95.50% | 1,511 |
DeKalb | 1,379 | 54.61% | 492 | 19.49% | 623 | 24.67% | 31 | 1.23% | 756 | 29.94% | 2,525 |
Elmore | 1,152 | 81.70% | 81 | 5.74% | 167 | 11.84% | 10 | 0.71% | 985 | 69.86% | 1,410 |
Escambia | 829 | 85.64% | 52 | 5.37% | 74 | 7.64% | 13 | 1.34% | 755 | 78.00% | 968 |
Etowah | 1,511 | 52.18% | 354 | 12.22% | 887 | 30.63% | 144 | 4.97% | 624 | 21.55% | 2,896 |
Fayette | 762 | 50.07% | 434 | 28.52% | 306 | 20.11% | 20 | 1.31% | 328[b] | 21.55% | 1,522 |
Franklin | 849 | 47.09% | 309 | 17.14% | 570 | 31.61% | 75 | 4.16% | 279 | 15.47% | 1,803 |
Geneva | 891 | 57.93% | 99 | 6.44% | 511 | 33.22% | 37 | 2.41% | 380 | 24.71% | 1,538 |
Greene | 418 | 81.01% | 4 | 0.78% | 94 | 18.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 324 | 62.79% | 516 |
Hale | 720 | 98.50% | 4 | 0.55% | 7 | 0.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 713 | 97.54% | 731 |
Henry | 711 | 75.88% | 47 | 5.02% | 153 | 16.33% | 26 | 2.77% | 558 | 59.55% | 937 |
Houston | 1,160 | 70.18% | 82 | 4.96% | 366 | 22.14% | 45 | 2.72% | 794 | 48.03% | 1,653 |
Jackson | 1,597 | 70.82% | 229 | 10.16% | 406 | 18.00% | 23 | 1.02% | 1,191 | 52.82% | 2,255 |
Jefferson | 8,887 | 72.69% | 693 | 5.67% | 2,034 | 16.64% | 612 | 5.01% | 6,853 | 56.05% | 12,226 |
Lamar | 816 | 77.94% | 61 | 5.83% | 160 | 15.28% | 10 | 0.96% | 656 | 62.66% | 1,047 |
Lauderdale | 1,386 | 68.68% | 263 | 13.03% | 297 | 14.72% | 72 | 3.57% | 1,089 | 53.96% | 2,018 |
Lawrence | 643 | 56.70% | 198 | 17.46% | 261 | 23.02% | 32 | 2.82% | 382 | 33.69% | 1,134 |
Lee | 1,179 | 88.98% | 43 | 3.25% | 43 | 3.25% | 60 | 4.53% | 1,119[c] | 84.45% | 1,325 |
Limestone | 1,012 | 83.02% | 90 | 7.38% | 83 | 6.81% | 34 | 2.79% | 922[b] | 75.64% | 1,219 |
Lowndes | 583 | 97.00% | 4 | 0.67% | 10 | 1.66% | 4 | 0.67% | 573 | 95.34% | 601 |
Macon | 647 | 93.23% | 24 | 3.46% | 23 | 3.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 623[b] | 89.77% | 694 |
Madison | 2,146 | 78.21% | 150 | 5.47% | 357 | 13.01% | 91 | 3.32% | 1,789 | 65.20% | 2,744 |
Marengo | 1,386 | 97.88% | 9 | 0.64% | 20 | 1.41% | 1 | 0.07% | 1,366 | 96.47% | 1,416 |
Marion | 1,098 | 65.05% | 378 | 22.39% | 205 | 12.14% | 7 | 0.41% | 720[b] | 42.65% | 1,688 |
Marshall | 1,457 | 47.11% | 428 | 13.84% | 1,184 | 38.28% | 24 | 0.78% | 273 | 8.83% | 3,093 |
Mobile | 3,009 | 79.98% | 140 | 3.72% | 445 | 11.83% | 168 | 4.47% | 2,564 | 68.16% | 3,762 |
Monroe | 878 | 97.12% | 2 | 0.22% | 21 | 2.32% | 3 | 0.33% | 857 | 94.80% | 904 |
Montgomery | 3,047 | 94.10% | 43 | 1.33% | 131 | 4.05% | 17 | 0.53% | 2,916 | 90.06% | 3,238 |
Morgan | 1,686 | 71.11% | 241 | 10.16% | 362 | 15.27% | 82 | 3.46% | 1,324 | 55.84% | 2,371 |
Perry | 731 | 93.84% | 3 | 0.39% | 31 | 3.98% | 14 | 1.80% | 700 | 89.86% | 779 |
Pickens | 815 | 88.01% | 22 | 2.38% | 73 | 7.88% | 16 | 1.73% | 742 | 80.13% | 926 |
Pike | 1,293 | 95.14% | 13 | 0.96% | 48 | 3.53% | 5 | 0.37% | 1,245 | 91.61% | 1,359 |
Randolph | 1,177 | 64.99% | 268 | 14.80% | 366 | 20.21% | 0 | 0.00% | 811 | 44.78% | 1,811 |
Russell | 1,553 | 96.22% | 4 | 0.25% | 35 | 2.17% | 22 | 1.36% | 1,518 | 94.05% | 1,614 |
Shelby | 1,181 | 44.45% | 201 | 7.56% | 1,233 | 46.41% | 42 | 1.58% | -52 | -1.96% | 2,657 |
St. Clair | 787 | 43.50% | 260 | 14.37% | 687 | 37.98% | 75 | 4.15% | 100 | 5.53% | 1,809 |
Sumter | 701 | 97.09% | 9 | 1.25% | 2 | 0.28% | 10 | 1.39% | 691[c] | 95.71% | 722 |
Talladega | 1,312 | 72.49% | 111 | 6.13% | 386 | 21.33% | 1 | 0.06% | 926 | 51.16% | 1,810 |
Tallapoosa | 1,586 | 86.06% | 84 | 4.56% | 151 | 8.19% | 22 | 1.19% | 1,435 | 77.86% | 1,843 |
Tuscaloosa | 1,695 | 85.22% | 87 | 4.37% | 158 | 7.94% | 49 | 2.46% | 1,537 | 77.28% | 1,989 |
Walker | 2,063 | 57.71% | 881 | 24.64% | 504 | 14.10% | 127 | 3.55% | 1,182[b] | 33.06% | 3,575 |
Washington | 405 | 90.20% | 14 | 3.12% | 18 | 4.01% | 12 | 2.67% | 387 | 86.19% | 449 |
Wilcox | 878 | 97.77% | 7 | 0.78% | 7 | 0.78% | 6 | 0.67% | 871 | 96.99% | 898 |
Winston | 508 | 29.88% | 292 | 17.18% | 893 | 52.53% | 7 | 0.41% | -385 | -22.65% | 1,700 |
Totals | 82,438 | 69.89% | 9,717 | 8.24% | 22,770[d] | 19.30% | 3,029 | 2.57% | 59,668 | 50.59% | 117,954 |
See also
Notes
- ^ Because Roosevelt finished ahead of Taft in Alabama as a whole, all margins given are Wilson minus Roosevelt unless stated in the total for the county in question.
- ^ a b c d e f g In this county where Taft did run second ahead of Roosevelt, the margin given is that between Wilson and Taft.
- ^ a b c d In this county where Debs ran second ahead of both Roosevelt and Taft, the margin given is that between Wilson and Debs.
- ^ For the Roosevelt ticket only, there are differences between the Géoelections/Edgar Eugene Robinson figure and that from Dave Leip’s Atlas, with the former used only for the county table.
References
- ISBN 9780807849095.
- ISBN 0820326151.
- The Journal of Southern History. 59 (4): 707–736.
- ^ Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth, p. 151
- ^ ISBN 9781107158436.
- ^ "Harris, "Braxton Bragg Comer (1901-11)"". Encyclopedia of Alabama.
- ISBN 0252069331.
- ISBN 0817300481.
- The University of Chicago Press: 81–99.
- The North Carolina Historical Review. 23 (3). North Carolina Office of Archives and History: 313–324.
- ^ a b "1912 Presidential Election Results – Alabama". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ a b Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896-1932 (second edition), pp. 226–227. Published 1947 by Stanford University Press.
- ^ "1912 Presidential Election Popular Vote for Theodore Roosevelt". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ "1912 Presidential Election Popular Vote for Eugene Debs". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)