A county result
Scioto County, presidential election of 1912
Scioto County
34.22%William Howard Taft (R), the most votes10,547Votes counted for president
What this is
Scioto County counted 10,547 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Howard Taft | Republican | 3,609 | 34.22% |
| Woodrow Wilson | Democratic | 3,508 | 33.26% |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive | 2,012 | 19.08% |
| Eugene V. Debs | Socialist | 1,222 | 11.59% |
| Eugene W. Chafin | Prohibition | 168 | 1.59% |
| Arthur E. Reimer | Socialist Labor | 28 | 0.27% |
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
- Scioto County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+1.0 against Ohio's D+14.1: 15.1 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 12th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1908
- From 1908 to 1912 the county's lean moved 12.7 points toward the Democrats, from R+13.7 to R+1.0. Lean counts only the two major parties; Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) took 19.1% in 1912.
- Matched
- Scioto County parted from Ohio and did not vote 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
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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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