A county result
Hamilton County, presidential election of 1912
Hamilton County
39.03%Woodrow Wilson (D), the most votes109,949Votes counted for president
What this is
Hamilton County counted 109,949 votes for president across 6 candidates in 1912. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.
The count, as certified
Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodrow Wilson | Democratic | 42,909 | 39.03% |
| William Howard Taft | Republican | 42,119 | 38.31% |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive | 16,828 | 15.31% |
| Eugene V. Debs | Socialist | 7,542 | 6.86% |
| Eugene W. Chafin | Prohibition | 384 | 0.35% |
| Arthur E. Reimer | Socialist Labor | 167 | 0.15% |
Turnout: None found in the records checked
This year in context
Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.
- Ohio that year
- Ohio went to Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) with 40.96%, a 14.1-point margin over William Howard Taft. The country elected Woodrow Wilson.
- Against the state
- Hamilton County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+0.7 against Ohio's D+14.1: 13.4 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 13th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1908
- From 1908 to 1912 the county's lean moved 17.0 points toward the Democrats, from R+16.3 to D+0.7. Lean counts only the two major parties; Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) took 15.3% in 1912.
- Matched
- Hamilton County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.
Every field this record holds
The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.
Not yet researched
Where this appears
The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.
Sources
Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1912 United States presidential election in Ohio
- 1912 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1912-11-05 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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