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The 1912 United States presidential election was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. Republican Robert La Follette unseated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft.

Roosevelt served as president from 1901 to 1909 as a Republican, and Taft succeeded him with his support. However, Taft's actions as President displeased Roosevelt, and Roosevelt challenged Taft for the party nomination at the 1912 Republican National Convention. When Taft and Roosevelt deadlocked the convention, Robert La Follette was nominated as a compromise candidate. At the Democratic Convention, Clark won the presidential nomination on the 46th ballot, defeating Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson and several other candidates. The Socialist Party renominated its perennial standard-bearer, Eugene V. Debs.

The general election was bitterly contested by La Follette and Clark. Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" platform called for social insurance programs, reduction to an eight-hour workday, and robust federal regulation of the economy. Clark's "New Liberty" platform called for tariff reduction, banking reform, and new antitrust regulation. Debs claimed both candidates were financed by trusts and tried to galvanize support behind his socialist policies.

Wilson took advantage of the Republican split, winning 40 states and a large majority of the electoral vote with just 41.8% of the popular vote, the lowest support for any President after 1860. Wilson was the first Democrat to win a presidential election since 1892 and one of just two Democratic presidents to serve between 1861 (the American Civil War) and 1932 (the onset of the Great Depression). Roosevelt finished second with 88 electoral votes and 27% of the popular vote. Taft carried 23% of the national vote and won two states, Vermont and Utah. He was the first Republican to lose the Northern states. Debs won no electoral votes but took 6% of the popular vote, which remains the highest ever for a Socialist candidate as of 2021. With Wilson's decisive victory, he became the first presidential candidate to receive over 400 electoral votes in a presidential election.