1912
Reading the 1912 result in Alabama
Alabama backed Wilson (Democratic) in the 1912 presidential election, casting 11 electoral votes for the ticket. Alabama ended up on the winning side — Woodrow Wilson captured the White House that year.
It marked the 10th consecutive election in which Alabama backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1876. Alabama did not move alone — neighboring Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida broke the same way in 1912. Across the 51 presidential elections Alabama has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 times). The vote fell within the Progressive Era — Trust-busting, suffrage, and World War I.
In the national count, Woodrow Wilson took 435 of the 531 electoral votes, against Theodore Roosevelt's 88. Woodrow Wilson led the national popular vote with 41.84% of the ballots cast.
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