Electoral history of Theodore Roosevelt

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Electoral history of Theodore Roosevelt, who served as the 26th president of the United States (1901–1909), the 25th vice president (1901), and the 33rd governor of New York (1899–1900).

Mayoral elections[]

New York City mayoral election, 1886[1][2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Abram Hewitt 90,552 41.23
Labor Henry George 68,110 31.01
Republican Theodore Roosevelt 60,435 27.52
Prohibition William T. Wardwell 532 0.24 %
Democratic gain from nonpartisan

Gubernatorial elections[]

New York gubernatorial race, 1898 New York gubernatorial election, 1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt/Timothy L. Woodruff (R) - 661,715 (49.09%)
  • Augustus Van Wyck/Elliott Danforth (D) - 643,921 (47.77%)
  • Benjamin Hanford (Socialist) - 23,860 (1.77%)
  • John Kline (Prohibition) - 18,383 (1.36%)

Vice presidential nomination[]

Vice Presidential race, 1900 1900 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):

  • Theodore Roosevelt - 925 (99.89%)
  • Abstaining - 1 (0.11%)

1900 United States presidential election:

  • William McKinley/Theodore Roosevelt (R) - 7,228,864 (51.6%) and 292 electoral votes (65.32%, 28 states carried)
  • William Jennings Bryan/Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) - 6,370,932 (45.5%) and 155 electoral votes (34.68%, 17 states carried)
  • John Granville Woolley/Henry Brewer Metcalf (Prohibition) - 210,864 (1.5%)
  • Eugene V. Debs/Job Harriman (Socialist) - 87,945 (0.6%)
  • Wharton Barker/Ignatius L. Donnelly (Populist) - 50,989 (0.4%)
  • /Valentine Remmel (Socialist Labor) - 40,943 (0.3%)
  • Others - 6,889 (0.0%)

Presidential races, 1904-1916[]

1904 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally)

  • Theodore Roosevelt (inc.) - 994 (100.00%)

1904 United States presidential election:

  • Theodore Roosevelt/Charles W. Fairbanks (R) - 7,630,457 (56.4%) and 336 electoral votes (70.59%, 32 states carried)
  • Alton B. Parker/Henry G. Davis (D) - 5,083,880 (37.6%) and 140 electoral votes (29.41%, 13 states carried)
  • Eugene V. Debs/Benjamin Hanford (Socialist) - 402,810 (3.0%)
  • Silas C. Swallow/George W. Carroll (Prohibition) - 259,102 (1.9%)
  • Thomas E. Watson/Thomas Tibbles (Populist) - 114,070 (0.8%)
  • Charles Hunter Corregan/William Wesley Cox (Socialist Labor) - 33,454 (0.2%)
  • Others - 1,229 (0.0%)

1908 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):

  • William Howard Taft - 702 (71.63%)
  • Philander C. Knox - 68 (6.94%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes - 67 (6.84%)
  • Joseph Gurney Cannon - 58 (5.92%)
  • Charles W. Fairbanks - 40 (4.08%)
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - 25 (2.55%)
  • Joseph B. Foraker - 16 (1.63%)
  • Theodore Roosevelt (inc.) - 3 (0.31%)
  • Abstaining - 1 (0.10%)

1911 New York Republican Senate caucus:

  • Chauncey M. DePew (inc.) - 58 (87.88%)
  • E. H. Butler - 2 (3.03%)
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 2 (3.03%)
  • - 1 (1.52%)
  • Seth Low - 1 (1.52%)
  • George L. Meade - 1 (1.52%)
  • Andrew D. White - 1 (1.52%)

1912 Republican presidential primaries:

  • Theodore Roosevelt - 1,183,238 (51.14%)
  • William Howard Taft (inc.) - 800,441 (34.59%)
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - 327,357 (14.15%)
  • - 605 (0.03%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes - 13 (0.00%)
  • Others - 2,193 (0.10%)

1912 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):

  • William Howard Taft (inc.) - 556 (51.58%)
  • Abstaining - 355 (32.93%)
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 107 (9.93%)
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - 41 (3.80%)
  • Albert B. Cummins - 17 (1.58%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes - 2 (0.19%)

1912 Progressive National Convention:

  • Theodore Roosevelt - unanimously

1912 United States presidential election:

  • Woodrow Wilson/Thomas R. Marshall (D) - 6,296,284 (41.8%) and 435 electoral votes (81.92%, 40 states carried)
  • Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram W. Johnson (Progressive) - 4,122,721 (27.4%) and 88 electoral votes (16.57%, 6 states carried)
  • William Howard Taft/Nicholas M. Butler (R) - 3,486,242 (23.2%) and 8 electoral votes (1.51%, 2 states carried)
  • Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel (Socialist) - 901,551 (6.0%)
  • Eugene Wilder Chafin/Aaron Sherman Watkins (Prohibition) - 208,156 (1.4%)
  • Arthur Elmer Reimer/August Gilhaus (Socialist Labor) - 29,324 (0.2%)
  • Others - 4,556 (0.0%)

1916 Progressive presidential primaries:

  • Theodore Roosevelt - 5,152 (71.12%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes - 10 (0.14%)
  • Lawrence Sherman - 10 (0.14%)
  • Others - 2,072 (28.60%)

1916 Republican presidential primaries:

  • Unpledged delegates - 455,765 (23.60%)
  • Martin G. Brumbaugh - 233,100 (12.07%)
  • Albert B. Cummins - 191,951 (9.94%)
  • Charles W. Fairbanks - 176,080 (9.12%)
  • Lawrence Sherman - 155,945 (8.07%)
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - 133,476 (6.91%)
  • Henry Ford - 131,965 (6.83%)
  • Theodore Elijah Burton - 122,169 (6.33%)
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 83,739 (4.34%)
  • Charles Evans Hughes - 82,530 (4.27%)
  • William Alden Smith - 77,872 (4.03%)
  • - 30,676 (1.59%)
  • - 17,927 (0.93%)
  • - 14,365 (0.74%)

1916 Progressive National Convention:

  • Theodore Roosevelt - unanimously

1916 Republican National Convention:

1st ballot:

2nd ballot:

3rd ballot:

  • Charles Evans Hughes - 949.5
  • Theodore Roosevelt - 18.5
  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - 3
  • John W. Weeks - 3
  • Others - 13

References[]

  1. ^ Brookhiser, Richard (1993). "1886: The Men Who Would Be Mayor". City Journal. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  2. ^ Sharp, Arthur G. (2011). The Everything Theodore Roosevelt Book: The Extraordinary Life of an American Icon. Adams Media. pp. 78–79. ISBN 9781440527296.
  3. ^ Taylor, Dorceta E. (23 November 2009). The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change. Duke University press. p. 572.
  4. ^ "RaceID=105179". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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