1912 United States presidential election in New Jersey
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The 1912 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 5, 1912. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
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On the county-level map, Wilson carried 17 of the state's 21 counties, although seven with pluralities between forty and fifty percent of the vote, and six with pluralities of less than forty percent. Wilson won majorities only in urban Hudson County and the three rural counties in western North Jersey, Warren, Sussex, and Hunterdon, which had long been non-Yankee Democratic enclaves in the otherwise Republican Northeast.[2] Warren and Hunterdon had never voted Republican as of 1912, and Sussex only for William McKinley in 1896.[3]
As Roosevelt and his Bull Moose Party finished a strong second ahead of incumbent Republican Taft in the state, the remaining four counties went to Roosevelt. Roosevelt won urban Essex County along with Ocean County with pluralities between 40 and 50% of the vote, while winning Passaic County and Cumberland County with pluralities of less than 40% of the vote. The latter two counties voted for a non-Republican for the first time since 1856. Taft finished a weak third place in the state for an incumbent president and official Republican nominee, and failed to win a single county in New Jersey, the first of two times that a Republican did so, along with 1964. This was the first time since its first election in 1852 that Ocean County did not vote for a Republican. Monmouth County voted Democratic for the first time since 1884, Burlington since 1876, Camden and Cape May since 1860, Mercer and Atlantic since 1856, and Gloucester for the first time ever.
Results
1912 United States presidential election in New Jersey | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Woodrow Wilson | 178,289 | 41.20% | 14 | |
Progressive
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Theodore Roosevelt | 145,410 | 33.60% | 0 | |
Republican | William Howard Taft (incumbent) | 88,835 | 20.53% | 0 | |
Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 15,948 | 3.69% | 0 | |
Prohibition | Eugene W. Chafin | 2,936 | 0.68% | 0 | |
Socialist Labor | Arthur E. Reimer | 1,321 | 0.31% | 0 | |
Totals | 432,739 | 100.0% | 14 |
Results by county
County | Woodrow Wilson Democratic |
William Howard Taft Republican |
Theodore Roosevelt Progressive |
Eugene Debs Socialist |
Eugene Chafin Prohibition |
Arthur Reimer Socialist Labor |
Margin[a] | Total votes cast[4] | |||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Atlantic | 4,885 | 34.99% | 4,422 | 31.67% | 4,245 | 30.40% | 220 | 1.58% | 153 | 1.10% | 38 | 0.27% | 463[b] | 3.32% | 13,963 |
Bergen | 9,978 | 40.12% | 5,087 | 20.46% | 8,594 | 34.56% | 947 | 3.81% | 175 | 0.70% | 87 | 0.35% | 1,384 | 5.57% | 24,868 |
Burlington | 5,592 | 39.93% | 3,967 | 28.33% | 3,973 | 28.37% | 220 | 1.57% | 225 | 1.61% | 27 | 0.19% | 1,619 | 11.56% | 14,004 |
Camden | 10,812 | 36.64% | 7,911 | 26.81% | 8,718 | 29.54% | 1,744 | 5.91% | 263 | 0.89% | 63 | 0.21% | 2,094 | 7.10% | 29,511 |
Cape May | 2,124 | 42.24% | 909 | 18.08% | 1,847 | 36.73% | 66 | 1.31% | 73 | 1.45% | 10 | 0.20% | 277 | 5.51% | 5,029 |
Cumberland | 3,858 | 37.01% | 1,895 | 18.18% | 4,097 | 39.30% | 303 | 2.91% | 248 | 2.38% | 23 | 0.22% | -239 | -2.29% | 10,424 |
Essex | 26,250 | 32.57% | 16,994 | 21.08% | 33,627 | 41.72% | 3,320 | 4.12% | 167 | 0.21% | 243 | 0.30% | -7,377 | -9.15% | 80,601 |
Gloucester | 3,364 | 38.29% | 1,856 | 21.12% | 3,108 | 35.37% | 206 | 2.34% | 232 | 2.64% | 20 | 0.23% | 256 | 2.91% | 8,786 |
Hudson | 40,517 | 52.55% | 8,763 | 11.37% | 24,156 | 31.33% | 3,169 | 4.11% | 143 | 0.19% | 356 | 0.46% | 16,361 | 21.22% | 77,104 |
Hunterdon | 4,103 | 53.37% | 1,970 | 25.62% | 1,470 | 19.12% | 51 | 0.66% | 74 | 0.96% | 20 | 0.26% | 2,133[b] | 27.74% | 7,688 |
Mercer | 7,773 | 36.80% | 5,676 | 26.88% | 6,907 | 32.70% | 586 | 2.77% | 105 | 0.50% | 73 | 0.35% | 866 | 4.10% | 21,120 |
Middlesex | 8,186 | 44.49% | 4,743 | 25.78% | 5,061 | 27.51% | 250 | 1.36% | 111 | 0.60% | 48 | 0.26% | 3,125 | 16.98% | 18,399 |
Monmouth | 9,799 | 48.55% | 3,683 | 18.25% | 6,305 | 31.24% | 232 | 1.15% | 126 | 0.62% | 37 | 0.18% | 3,494 | 17.31% | 20,182 |
Morris | 5,628 | 40.07% | 3,329 | 23.70% | 4,440 | 31.61% | 413 | 2.94% | 216 | 1.54% | 20 | 0.14% | 1,188 | 8.46% | 14,046 |
Ocean | 1,858 | 37.61% | 919 | 18.60% | 2,055 | 41.60% | 44 | 0.89% | 46 | 0.93% | 18 | 0.36% | -197 | -3.99% | 4,940 |
Passaic | 10,810 | 35.41% | 5,349 | 17.52% | 11,701 | 38.32% | 2,374 | 7.78% | 89 | 0.29% | 208 | 0.68% | -891 | -2.92% | 30,531 |
Salem | 2,745 | 45.14% | 1,803 | 29.65% | 1,374 | 22.59% | 80 | 1.32% | 68 | 1.12% | 11 | 0.18% | 942[b] | 15.49% | 6,081 |
Somerset | 3,146 | 42.50% | 2,068 | 27.94% | 2,059 | 27.82% | 46 | 0.62% | 66 | 0.89% | 17 | 0.23% | 1,078[b] | 14.56% | 7,402 |
Sussex | 2,852 | 53.10% | 890 | 16.57% | 1,506 | 28.04% | 49 | 0.91% | 71 | 1.32% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,346 | 25.06% | 5,371 |
Union | 9,695 | 38.54% | 5,421 | 21.55% | 8,429 | 33.51% | 1,484 | 5.90% | 82 | 0.33% | 45 | 0.18% | 1,266 | 5.03% | 25,156 |
Warren | 4,663 | 55.14% | 1,411 | 16.68% | 2,007 | 23.73% | 144 | 1.70% | 203 | 2.40% | 29 | 0.34% | 2,656 | 31.41% | 8,457 |
Totals | 178,289 | 41.20% | 88,835 | 20.53% | 145,410 | 33.60% | 15,948 | 3.69% | 2,936 | 0.68% | 1,321 | 0.31% | 32,879 | 7.60% | 432,739 |
See also
Notes
- ^ Because Roosevelt finished second behind Wilson in New Jersey as a whole, all margins given are Wilson vote minus Roosevelt vote and percentage margins Wilson percentage minus Roosevelt percentage unless otherwise noted.
- ^ a b c d In this county where Taft did run second ahead of Roosevelt, margin given is Wilson vote minus Taft vote and percentage margin Wilson percentage minus Taft percentage.
References
- ^ "1912 Presidential General Election Results – New Jersey". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6
- ISBN 0786422173
- ^ New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety Division of Elections; Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey (1913) p. 641