Who won Minnesota in the 1912 presidential election?

Roosevelt (Progressive) carried Minnesota in 1912, winning its 12 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Minnesota have in 1912?

Minnesota cast 12 electoral votes in the 1912 presidential election.

Did Minnesota vote for the national winner in 1912?

No. Minnesota backed Roosevelt, while Woodrow Wilson won the presidency nationally.

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1912

Minnesota: Roosevelt carries 12 EV.

Minnesota cast its 12 electoral votes for Roosevelt (Progressive). National winner: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) — Minnesota voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Minnesota, 1912

In 1912, Minnesota awarded its 12 electoral votes to Roosevelt of the Progressive party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Minnesota among the states he did not carry.

Roosevelt's win closed out Minnesota's 14-election run of voting Republican. It stood apart from its neighbors: North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin went the other way that year. Across the 43 presidential elections Minnesota has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (23 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.

The 1912 national map

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