Under each candidate (L » R): Pop. Vote Percentage - Electoral Points
----------------- T. Woodrow Theodore William H. Eugene V.
State | Electoral Wilson Roosevelt Taft Debs
| Votes Democrat Progressive Republican Socialist
Group D .. 1st priority - 5,000 pts each
+++ Extra 1,000 pts -- South Dakota ... Total, Group-D: 46,000
31. North Carolina (12) 59.24% 2,975 28.36% 1,424 11.95% 601 0.40% ---
32. North Dakota (5) 34.14% 1,731 29.71% 1,507 26.67% 1,352 8.05% 410
33. Ohio (24) 40.96% 2,076 22.16% 1,123 26.82% 1,360 8.69% 441
34. Oklahoma (10) 46.95% 2,367 35.77% 1,804 16.42% 829
35. Oregon (5) 34.34% 1,773 27.44% 1,417 25.30% 1,307 9.74% 503
36. Pennsylvania (38) 32.49% 1,652 36.53% 1,857 22.45% 1,141 6.87% 350
37. Rhode Island (5) 39.04% 2,028 21.67% 1,125 35.56% 1,847 2.63% ---
38. South Carolina (9) **1 95.94% 5,000 2.57% --- 1.06% --- 0.33% ---
39. South Dakota (5) +++ 42.07% 2,725 50.56% 3,275 4.01% ---
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So Far (46,000) 22,327 11,728 9,412 2,533
Needed to Win - 75,010 Wilson-D Roosevelt-Prog Taft-R Debs-Soc
**1 = South Carolina (Group D, above)
Wilson was the only named candidate with at least 5.00% of the state's total popular
vote, so he received all of South Carolina's 5,000 Electoral Points.
Group E .. 2nd priority - 4,000 pts each
+++ Extra 1,000 pts -- Texas, West Virginia ... Total, Group-E: 38,000
40. Tennessee (12) 52.80% 2,150 21.45% 873 24.00% 977 1.41% ---
41. Texas (20) +++ 72.62% 3,657 9.46% 476 8.77% 442 8.44% 425
42. Utah (5) 32.55% 1,308 21.51% 864 37.46% 1,505 8.03% 323
43. Vermont (4) 24.43% 1,009 35.22% 1,456 37.13% 1,535 1.48% ---
44. Virginia (12) 65.95% 2,669 15.90% 643 17.00% 688 0.60% ---
45. Washington (7) 26.90% 1,117 35.22% 1,462 21.82% 906 12.43% 515
46. West Virginia (8) +++ 42.11% 2,141 29.43% 1,497 21.11% 1,074 5.67% 288
47. Wisconsin (13) 41.06% 1,681 15.61% 639 32.65% 1,337 8.37% 343
48. Wyoming (3) 36.20% 1,463 21.83% 882 34.42% 1,391 6.53% 264
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So Far (84,000) 39,522 20,520 19,267 4,691
Needed to Win - 75,010 Wilson-D Roosevelt-Prog Taft-R Debs-Soc
Group A .. 3rd priority - 3,000 pts each
+++ Extra 1,000 pts -- California, Georgia ... Total, Group-A: 32,000
1. Alabama (12) 69.89% 2,152 19.23% 592 8.31% 256 2.57% ---
2. Arizona (3) 43.52% 1,320 29.29% 889 12.74% 387 13.33% 404
3. Arkansas (9) 55.01% 1,662 17.30% 523 20.45% 618 6.52% 197
4. California (13) +++ 41.81% 1,755 41.83% 1,755 00.58% --- 11.68% 490
5. Colorado (6) 42.80% 1,311 27.09% 830 21.88% 670 6.15% 189
6. Connecticut (7) 39.16% 1,196 17.92% 547 35.88% 1,096 5.28% 161
7. Delaware (3) 46.48% 1,429 18.25% 561 32.85% 1,010 1.14% ---
8. Florida (6) 69.52% 2,165 8.96% 279 8.42% 262 9.45% 294
9. Georgia (12) +++ 76.63% 3,000 18.10% 1,000 4.27% --- 0.87% ---
10. Idaho (4) 32.08% 976 24.14% 735 31.02% 944 11.31% 345
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So Far (116,000) 56,488 28,231 24,510 6,771
Needed to Win - 75,010 Wilson-D Roosevelt-Prog Taft-R Debs-Soc
Group B .. 4th priority - 2,000 pts each
+++ Extra 1,000 pts -- Kansas, Massachusetts ... Total, Group-B: 22,000
11. Illinois (29) 35.34% 719 33.72% 686 22.13% 450 7.09% 145
12. Indiana (15) 43.07% 892 24.75% 513 23.11% 479 5.64% 116
13. Iowa (13) 37.64% 794 32.87% 693 24.33% 513 3.45% ---
14. Kansas (10) +++ 39.30% 1,179 32.88% 987 20.47% 614 7.33% 220
15. Kentucky (13) 48.48% 1,005 22.48% 466 25.52% 529 2.57% ---
16. Louisiana (10) 76.81% 1,500 11.71% 319 4.84% --- 6.64% 181
17. Maine (6) 39.43% 810 37.41% 769 20.48% 421 1.96% ---
18. Maryland (8) 48.57% 1,000 24.91% 513 23.69% 487 1.72% ---
19. Massachusetts (18) +++ 35.53% 1,103 29.14% 905 31.95% 992 2.58% ---
20. Michigan (15) 27.36% 583 38.95% 829 27.63% 588 4.21% ---
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So Far (138,000) 66,073 34,911 29,583 7,433
Needed to Win - 75,010 Wilson-D Roosevelt-Prog Taft-R Debs-Soc
Group C .. 5th priority - 1,000 pts each
+++ Extra 1,000 pts -- Montana, New Mexico ... Total, Group-C: 12,000
21. Minnesota (12) 31.84% 328 37.66% 388 19.25% 198 8.23% 86
22. Mississippi (10) 88.90% 750 5.50% 250 2.42% --- 3.18% ---
23. Missouri (18) 47.35% 499 17.80% 188 29.75% 313 4.07% ---
24. Montana (4) +++ 35.00% 700 28.13% 563 23.19% 464 13.64% 273
25. Nebraska (8) 43.69% 462 29.13% 308 21.74% 230 4.08% ---
26. Nevada (3) 39.70% 397 27.94% 279 15.89% 159 16.47% 165
27. New Hampshire (4) 39.48% 406 20.23% 209 37.43% 385 2.25% ---
28. New Jersey (14) 41.20% 432 33.60% 352 20.53% 216 3.69% ---
29. New Mexico (3) +++ 41.39% 828 16.90% 338 35.91% 718 5.79% 116
30. New York (45) 41.27% 437 24.56% 260 28.68% 303 3.69% ---
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TOTAL - 150,000 71,312 38,046 32,569 8,073
Needed to Win - 75,010 Wilson-D Roosevelt-Prog Taft-R Debs-Soc
Finish Order Leader-1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Percentage of Points 47.54133% 25.36400% 21.71266% 5.38200%
I. 1912 - Possible Run-off
No outright winner in the Electoral Points format. A run-off between Wilson and T. Roosevelt would have
been held on Tuesday December 17th, 1912, with the winner to be inaugurated on March 4th, 1913. Travel
conditions and communications standards of the day dictate a six-week gap between the initial election
and the run-off.
Because of how close Wilson was to the need-to-win mark (3,698 pts short) -AND- because of how Roosevelt
stood points-wise vs.Wilson, the chances of a run-off win were quite unlikely. Roosevelt therefore would
had have the option of voluntarily conceding the race to Wilson, thereby canceling the run-off. If such
a concession was declared, Wilson would have been given 3,708 of Roosevelt's points and be certified
as the 1912 election winner (75,020 to 34,338).
** NOTE ** --- In actual fact, Woodrow Wilson was the outright winner of the 1912 election.
II. Debs - The Forgotten 1912 Candidate
With the main focus of the election of 1912 on Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft,
Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs was only a mere footnote. However, the Electoral Points system
allows Debs' 4th place performance to be seen in a different light. Debs' total of 8,073 points is
the best-ever for a 4th place finisher in any election from 1900 to the present. The next closest
4th place total is a mere 1,356 points, achieved by Evan McMullin in the 2016 election.
Debs' 8,073 points would have exceeded any earned by third place finishers in all but six elections
from 1900 to the present. He had better than ten percent of the 1912 popular vote in seven states,
better than eight or nine percent in eight other states. Debs' best states were Nevada, where he
earned 16.47% of the popular vote, and Oklahoma, 16.42%.
Wilson-Roosevelt-Taft Difference Ratios
NOTE -- Electoral Points ratios assume a Roosevelt concession ...
»»» Electoral Points -- Wilson-Roosevelt: 2.181574-1 .. Wilson-Taft: 2.303417-1
»»» Electoral Votes --- Wilson-Roosevelt: 4.943182-1 .. Wilson-Taft: 54.375000-1
Electoral Votes (531) 435 (81.92090%) 88 (16.57250%) 8 (1.50659%) None ***
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|----- Actual (1912) Wilson-D Roosevelt-Prog Taft-R Debs-Soc
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Popular Votes (15,048,834) 6,296,284 4,122,721 3,486,242 901,551
Pctage of Pop. Votes 41.83902% 27.39562% 23.16619% 5.99084%
*** = In California, the method of popular voting resulted in eleven of the thirteen Presidential
electors being pledged to Bull Moose candidate Theodore Roosevelt. The remaining two electors
were pledged to Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson. Wilson's total of 435 Electoral Votes
marked the first and only time that a Presidential candidate received as many as Electoral
Votes as there are seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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