1912 United States presidential election in Louisiana
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Parish Results
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The 1912 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Following the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana became a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the
Following disfranchisement, the state’s politics became dominated by the Choctaw Club of Louisiana, generally called the “Old Regulars”. This political machine was based in New Orleans and united with
Louisiana was one of the states where the sitting president William Howard Taft came in fourth place. Debs would take advantage of the growth of the Socialist Party in the hill country and Imperial Calcasieu to gain over twenty percent of the vote in five parishes, with Winn Parish — the home of Louisiana’s future Long dynasty — being his third-best county-equivalent in the nation,[8] although this radical opposition would become mortally weakened almost immediately afterwards by the unresolved conflict between electoral and antipolitical strategies for reform.[9]
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | 60,871 | 76.81% | |
Progressive
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Theodore Roosevelt | 9,283 | 11.71% | |
Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 5,261 | 6.64% | |
Republican | William Howard Taft (incumbent) | 3,833 | 4.84% | |
Total votes | 79,248 | 100% |
Results by parish
Parish | Thomas Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
William Howard Taft Republican |
Theodore Roosevelt Progressive |
Eugene Victor Debs Socialist |
Margin[a] | Total votes cast | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Acadia | 1,147 | 75.07% | 51 | 3.34% | 164 | 10.73% | 166 | 10.86% | 981[b] | 64.20% | 1,528 |
Ascension | 413 | 66.19% | 64 | 10.26% | 135 | 21.63% | 12 | 1.92% | 278 | 44.55% | 624 |
Assumption | 423 | 56.85% | 149 | 20.03% | 171 | 22.98% | 1 | 0.13% | 252 | 33.87% | 744 |
Avoyelles | 949 | 83.32% | 38 | 3.34% | 36 | 3.16% | 116 | 10.18% | 833[b] | 73.13% | 1,139 |
Bienville | 822 | 81.79% | 8 | 0.80% | 34 | 3.38% | 141 | 14.03% | 681[b] | 67.76% | 1,005 |
Bossier | 427 | 87.68% | 6 | 1.23% | 11 | 2.26% | 43 | 8.83% | 384[b] | 78.85% | 487 |
Caddo | 1,946 | 88.45% | 34 | 1.55% | 129 | 5.86% | 91 | 4.14% | 1,817 | 82.59% | 2,200 |
Calcasieu | 2,144 | 66.05% | 171 | 5.27% | 362 | 11.15% | 569 | 17.53% | 1,575[b] | 48.52% | 3,246 |
Caldwell | 366 | 72.62% | 18 | 3.57% | 20 | 3.97% | 100 | 19.84% | 266[b] | 52.78% | 504 |
Cameron | 119 | 84.40% | 13 | 9.22% | 9 | 6.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 106[c] | 75.18% | 141 |
Catahoula | 275 | 73.92% | 11 | 2.96% | 44 | 11.83% | 42 | 11.29% | 231 | 62.10% | 372 |
Claiborne | 785 | 92.24% | 10 | 1.18% | 20 | 2.35% | 36 | 4.23% | 749[b] | 88.01% | 851 |
Concordia | 205 | 91.11% | 6 | 2.67% | 6 | 2.67% | 8 | 3.56% | 197[b] | 87.56% | 225 |
De Soto
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815 | 88.68% | 11 | 1.20% | 19 | 2.07% | 74 | 8.05% | 741[b] | 80.63% | 919 |
East Baton Rouge | 1,067 | 85.43% | 45 | 3.60% | 96 | 7.69% | 41 | 3.28% | 971 | 77.74% | 1,249 |
East Carroll | 161 | 86.10% | 4 | 2.14% | 19 | 10.16% | 3 | 1.60% | 142 | 75.94% | 187 |
East Feliciana | 422 | 95.91% | 1 | 0.23% | 12 | 2.73% | 5 | 1.14% | 410 | 93.18% | 440 |
Evangeline | 457 | 83.70% | 31 | 5.68% | 15 | 2.75% | 43 | 7.88% | 414[b] | 75.82% | 546 |
Franklin | 449 | 76.88% | 8 | 1.37% | 39 | 6.68% | 88 | 15.07% | 361[b] | 61.82% | 584 |
Grant | 446 | 62.20% | 15 | 2.09% | 48 | 6.69% | 208 | 29.01% | 238[b] | 33.19% | 717 |
Iberia | 666 | 51.39% | 222 | 17.13% | 350 | 27.01% | 58 | 4.48% | 316 | 24.38% | 1,296 |
Iberville | 487 | 66.08% | 100 | 13.57% | 147 | 19.95% | 3 | 0.41% | 340 | 46.13% | 737 |
Jackson | 561 | 73.14% | 19 | 2.48% | 80 | 10.43% | 107 | 13.95% | 454[b] | 59.19% | 767 |
Jefferson | 607 | 82.25% | 7 | 0.95% | 97 | 13.14% | 27 | 3.66% | 510 | 69.11% | 738 |
Lafayette | 646 | 63.40% | 244 | 23.95% | 53 | 5.20% | 76 | 7.46% | 402[c] | 39.45% | 1,019 |
Lafourche | 667 | 56.96% | 315 | 26.90% | 175 | 14.94% | 14 | 1.20% | 352[c] | 30.06% | 1,171 |
La Salle
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366 | 65.95% | 7 | 1.26% | 31 | 5.59% | 151 | 27.21% | 215[b] | 38.74% | 555 |
Lincoln | 644 | 84.51% | 3 | 0.39% | 42 | 5.51% | 73 | 9.58% | 571[b] | 74.93% | 762 |
Livingston | 379 | 80.13% | 3 | 0.63% | 67 | 14.16% | 24 | 5.07% | 312 | 65.96% | 473 |
Madison | 146 | 95.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 7 | 4.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 139 | 90.85% | 153 |
Morehouse | 411 | 89.15% | 8 | 1.74% | 9 | 1.95% | 33 | 7.16% | 378[b] | 82.00% | 461 |
Natchitoches | 759 | 75.07% | 21 | 2.08% | 43 | 4.25% | 188 | 18.60% | 571[b] | 56.48% | 1,011 |
Orleans
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26,433 | 80.03% | 904 | 2.74% | 4,965 | 15.03% | 727 | 2.20% | 21,468 | 65.00% | 33,029 |
Ouachita | 902 | 83.91% | 17 | 1.58% | 48 | 4.47% | 108 | 10.05% | 794[b] | 73.86% | 1,075 |
Plaquemines | 361 | 82.80% | 41 | 9.40% | 29 | 6.65% | 5 | 1.15% | 320[c] | 73.39% | 436 |
Pointe Coupee | 304 | 66.81% | 55 | 12.09% | 90 | 19.78% | 6 | 1.32% | 214 | 47.03% | 455 |
Rapides | 1,334 | 79.78% | 46 | 2.75% | 110 | 6.58% | 182 | 10.89% | 1,152[b] | 68.90% | 1,672 |
Red River | 357 | 76.61% | 6 | 1.29% | 18 | 3.86% | 85 | 18.24% | 272[b] | 58.37% | 466 |
Richland | 393 | 89.93% | 2 | 0.46% | 20 | 4.58% | 22 | 5.03% | 371[b] | 84.90% | 437 |
Sabine | 715 | 79.89% | 28 | 3.13% | 37 | 4.13% | 115 | 12.85% | 600[b] | 67.04% | 895 |
Saint Bernard
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221 | 88.40% | 17 | 6.80% | 11 | 4.40% | 1 | 0.40% | 204[c] | 81.60% | 250 |
Saint Charles
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157 | 74.76% | 28 | 13.33% | 9 | 4.29% | 16 | 7.62% | 129[c] | 61.43% | 210 |
Saint Helena
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214 | 88.80% | 13 | 5.39% | 10 | 4.15% | 4 | 1.66% | 201[c] | 83.40% | 241 |
Saint James
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367 | 54.05% | 228 | 33.58% | 77 | 11.34% | 7 | 1.03% | 139[c] | 20.47% | 679 |
Saint John the Baptist
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190 | 61.29% | 74 | 23.87% | 8 | 2.58% | 38 | 12.26% | 116[c] | 37.42% | 310 |
Saint Landry
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938 | 77.20% | 101 | 8.31% | 150 | 12.35% | 26 | 2.14% | 788 | 64.86% | 1,215 |
Saint Martin
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375 | 64.43% | 68 | 11.68% | 116 | 19.93% | 23 | 3.95% | 259 | 44.50% | 582 |
Saint Mary
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652 | 61.63% | 147 | 13.89% | 242 | 22.87% | 17 | 1.61% | 410 | 38.75% | 1,058 |
Saint Tammany
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668 | 82.27% | 30 | 3.69% | 70 | 8.62% | 44 | 5.42% | 598 | 73.65% | 812 |
Tangipahoa | 1,061 | 80.02% | 40 | 3.02% | 155 | 11.69% | 70 | 5.28% | 906 | 68.33% | 1,326 |
Tensas | 220 | 91.67% | 1 | 0.42% | 19 | 7.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 201 | 83.75% | 240 |
Terrebonne | 455 | 55.35% | 89 | 10.83% | 247 | 30.05% | 31 | 3.77% | 208 | 25.30% | 822 |
Union | 696 | 87.66% | 11 | 1.39% | 26 | 3.27% | 61 | 7.68% | 635[b] | 79.97% | 794 |
Vermilion | 531 | 59.66% | 124 | 13.93% | 119 | 13.37% | 116 | 13.03% | 407[c] | 45.73% | 890 |
Vernon | 754 | 59.09% | 44 | 3.45% | 50 | 3.92% | 428 | 33.54% | 326[b] | 25.55% | 1,276 |
Washington | 491 | 83.08% | 18 | 3.05% | 46 | 7.78% | 36 | 6.09% | 445 | 75.30% | 591 |
Webster | 696 | 83.96% | 9 | 1.09% | 13 | 1.57% | 111 | 13.39% | 585[b] | 70.57% | 829 |
West Baton Rouge | 170 | 83.33% | 19 | 9.31% | 15 | 7.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 151[c] | 74.02% | 204 |
West Carroll | 159 | 63.35% | 1 | 0.40% | 14 | 5.58% | 77 | 30.68% | 82[b] | 32.67% | 251 |
West Feliciana | 281 | 89.49% | 3 | 0.96% | 30 | 9.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 251 | 79.94% | 314 |
Winn | 600 | 57.75% | 26 | 2.50% | 49 | 4.72% | 364 | 35.03% | 236[b] | 22.71% | 1,039 |
Totals | 60,871 | 76.81% | 3,833 | 4.84% | 9,283 | 11.71% | 5,261 | 6.64% | 51,588 | 65.10% | 79,248 |
See also
Notes
- ^ Because Roosevelt finished second behind Wilson in Louisiana as a whole, all margins given are Wilson vote minus Roosevelt vote and percentage margins Wilson percentage minus Roosevelt percentage unless stated otherwise for the parish in question.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa In this parish where Debs finished second ahead of Roosevelt, margin given is Wilson vote minus Debs vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Debs percentage.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k In this parish where Taft did finish second ahead of Roosevelt, margin given is Wilson vote minus Teft vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Taft percentage.
References
- ISBN 9780691163246.
- ^ Schott, Matthew J. (Summer 1979). "Progressives against Democracy: Electoral Reform in Louisiana, 1894-1921". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 20 (3): 247–260.
- ISBN 1107158435.
- ISBN 1118619293.
- ISBN 0394747909.
- ^ Renshaw, Patrick (1968). The Wobblies: The Story of Syndicalism in the United States. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books. pp. 76, 120–121.
- ^ a b "1912 Presidential Election Results — Louisiana". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ "1912 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ Renshaw (1968). The Wobblies, pp. 122-123