Who won Pennsylvania in the 1912 presidential election?

Roosevelt (Progressive) carried Pennsylvania in 1912, winning its 38 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Pennsylvania have in 1912?

Pennsylvania cast 38 electoral votes in the 1912 presidential election.

Did Pennsylvania vote for the national winner in 1912?

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

Progressive EraPA · 38 EV

1912

Pennsylvania: Roosevelt carries 38 EV.

Pennsylvania cast its 38 electoral votes for Roosevelt (Progressive). National winner: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) — Pennsylvania voted against the national winner this cycle.

Pennsylvania in 1912

The 1912 contest saw Pennsylvania line up behind Roosevelt, delivering 38 electoral votes to the Progressive ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Pennsylvania among the states he did not carry.

Roosevelt's win closed out Pennsylvania's 13-election run of voting Republican. It stood apart from its neighbors: Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York went the other way that year. Across the 60 presidential elections Pennsylvania has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (26 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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