The 1912 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Texas voters chose twenty representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Texas was won by Princeton University PresidentWoodrow Wilson (D–Virginia), running with governor of IndianaThomas R. Marshall, with 72.73% of the popular vote, against the 27th president of the United StatesWilliam Howard Taft (R–Ohio), running with Columbia University PresidentNicholas Murray Butler, with 9.45% of the popular vote, the 26th president of the United StatesTheodore Roosevelt (P–New York), running with governor of CaliforniaHiram Johnson, with 8.86% of the popular vote and the five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United StatesEugene V. Debs (S–Indiana), running with the first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United StatesEmil Seidel, with 8.25% of the popular vote.[1] As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Webb County voted Republican.
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1912 United States presidential election in Texas[1]