The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. The election was a rare four-way contest. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party"). It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. Democrat Champ Clark was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, after New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson dropped out and most of his delegates flocked to Clark. William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic pre
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| - The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. The election was a rare four-way contest. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party"). It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. Democrat Champ Clark was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, after New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson dropped out and most of his delegates flocked to Clark. William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic pre
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| - Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
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- Blue denotes those won by Clark/Hamron
- Buff denotes those won by Bryan/Howell
- Red denotes those won by Roosevelt/Johnson
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- William Howard Taft
- Champ Clark
- William J. Bryan
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- Missouri
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- Francis Howell
- Judson Harmon
- Nicholas M. Butler
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| - The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. The election was a rare four-way contest. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party"). It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. Democrat Champ Clark was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, after New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson dropped out and most of his delegates flocked to Clark. William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate, still had a large and loyal following in 1912, who encouraged him to break with the Democrats and run as a third party candidate. It is the last election in which a former, or incumbent, President (Roosevelt) ran for the office without being nominated as either a Democrat or Republican. It is also the last election in which an incumbent President running for re-election (Taft) failed to finish either first or second in the popular vote count. Roosevelt won the election, gaining a narrow majority in the Electoral College and winning 32% of the popular vote, while Clark won 27%, Taft 23% and Bryan 6%. Roosevelt became the first president from the Progressive Party and the second president win a nonconsecutive term, after fellow New Yorker Grover Cleveland. Roosevelt became the first president to be elected to a third term. He was also the first third party nominee to become president. This election was the first time an incumbent president failed to win any electoral votes. It was also the only time an incumbent president was not first or second in the popular or electoral vote.
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