The 1912 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Over the preceding twenty years, Alabama had become effectively a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party. Disenfranchisement of almost all African Americans and a large proportion of poor whites via poll taxes, literacy tests and extralegal violence had essentially eliminated opposition parties outside of Unionist Winston County and a few other northern hill counties that had been Populist strongholds. The only competitive statewide elections became Democratic Party primaries limited by law to white voters.

Because the supporters of the Populist Party had previously been frequently lily-white Republicans,Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth, p. 151 and Alabama had the most substantial white Republican support in the Deep South, Alabama's white Republicans would after the 1901 constitutional convention immediately make efforts to expel blacks from the state Republican Party. For the 1904 Convention, President Theodore Roosevelt rejected this proposal, unlike in North Carolina where he acquiesced without opposition to the demands of Jeter Connelly Pritchard. During the rest of the decade, as conservative Democratic rule was consolidated throughout the state, the party did shift toward a more progressive policy, although African-American convict labour was increased in the coalfields near Birmingham during strikes late in the decade.

In the election year of 1912, Oscar D. Street was appointed state Republican Party boss as part of the black-and-tan faction loyal to incumbent president William Howard Taft and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler. At the same time, Theodore Roosevelt and governor of California Hiram Johnson planned “lily-whitism” for the South with the “Bull Moose Party” after Roosevelt broke from the GOP.

No polls were taken in the state during the election season, and despite Roosevelt's popularity even in the Solid South, Democratic nominees former Princeton University President and governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson and governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall won Alabama easily with 69.94% of the popular vote, against the 26th president of the United States, with 19.24 percent to Roosevelt and 8.24 percent to Taft.

Results

Results by county + 1912 United States presidential election in Alabama by county County Thomas Woodrow WilsonRobinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896-1932 (second edition), pp. 226–227. Published 1947 by Stanford University Press.Democratic William Howard TaftRepublican Theodore Roosevelt (.xlsx file for €15)Progressive "Bull Moose" Eugene Victor Debs (.xlsx file for €15)Socialist Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % Autauga 622 73.35% 43 5.07% 127 14.98% 56 6.60% 495 58.37% 848 Baldwin 623 67.28% 37 4.00% 141 15.23% 125 13.50% 482 52.05% 926 Barbour 1,155 90.38% 18 1.41% 88 6.89% 17 1.33% 1,067 83.49% 1,278 Bibb 820 71.87% 40 3.51% 178 15.60% 103 9.03% 642 56.27% 1,141 Blount 1,121 48.74% 567 24.65% 580 25.22% 32 1.39% 541 23.52% 2,300 Bullock 736 99.19% 4 0.54% 2 0.27% 0 0.00% 732 98.65% 742 Butler 903 83.00% 86 7.90% 80 7.35% 19 1.75% 817 75.09% 1,088 Calhoun 1,666 70.62% 238 10.09% 423 17.93% 32 1.36% 1,243 52.69% 2,359 Chambers 1,486 90.83% 28 1.71% 113 6.91% 9 0.55% 1,373 83.92% 1,636 Cherokee 814 46.57% 88 5.03% 799 45.71% 47 2.69% 15 0.86% 1,748 Chilton 880 39.18% 140 6.23% 1,154 51.38% 72 3.21% -274 -12.20% 2,246 Choctaw 489 86.40% 7 1.24% 66 11.66% 4 0.71% 423 74.73% 566 Clarke 1,024 95.34% 13 1.21% 12 1.12% 25 2.33% 999 93.02% 1,074 Clay 1,109 52.46% 64 3.03% 939 44.42% 2 0.09% 170 8.04% 2,114 Cleburne 691 51.72% 133 9.96% 510 38.17% 2 0.15% 181 13.55% 1,336 Coffee 1,277 70.67% 68 3.76% 395 21.86% 67 3.71% 882 48.81% 1,807 Colbert 946 63.28% 228 15.25% 242 16.19% 79 5.28% 704 47.09% 1,495 Conecuh 802 80.93% 60 6.05% 103 10.39% 26 2.62% 699 70.53% 991 Coosa 763 63.27% 109 9.04% 317 26.29% 17 1.41% 446 36.98% 1,206 Covington 1,251 73.54% 110 6.47% 147 8.64% 193 11.35% 1,058 62.20% 1,701 Crenshaw 986 84.49% 47 4.03% 127 10.88% 7 0.60% 859 73.61% 1,167 Cullman 1,230 42.49% 264 9.12% 1,374 47.46% 27 0.93% -144 -4.97% 2,895 Dale 1,059 66.02% 99 6.17% 443 27.62% 3 0.19% 616 38.40% 1,604 Dallas 1,461 96.69% 16 1.06% 18 1.19% 16 1.06% 1,443 95.50% 1,511 DeKalb 1,379 54.61% 492 19.49% 623 24.67% 31 1.23% 756 29.94% 2,525 Elmore 1,152 81.70% 81 5.74% 167 11.84% 10 0.71% 985 69.86% 1,410 Escambia 829 85.64% 52 5.37% 74 7.64% 13 1.34% 755 78.00% 968 Etowah 1,511 52.18% 354 12.22% 887 30.63% 144 4.97% 624 21.55% 2,896 Fayette 762 50.07% 434 28.52% 306 20.11% 20 1.31% 328 21.55% 1,522 Franklin 849 47.09% 309 17.14% 570 31.61% 75 4.16% 279 15.47% 1,803 Geneva 891 57.93% 99 6.44% 511 33.22% 37 2.41% 380 24.71% 1,538 Greene 418 81.01% 4 0.78% 94 18.22% 0 0.00% 324 62.79% 516 Hale 720 98.50% 4 0.55% 7 0.96% 0 0.00% 713 97.54% 731 Henry 711 75.88% 47 5.02% 153 16.33% 26 2.77% 558 59.55% 937 Houston 1,160 70.18% 82 4.96% 366 22.14% 45 2.72% 794 48.03% 1,653 Jackson 1,597 70.82% 229 10.16% 406 18.00% 23 1.02% 1,191 52.82% 2,255 Jefferson 8,887 72.69% 693 5.67% 2,034 16.64% 612 5.01% 6,853 56.05% 12,226 Lamar 816 77.94% 61 5.83% 160 15.28% 10 0.96% 656 62.66% 1,047 Lauderdale 1,386 68.68% 263 13.03% 297 14.72% 72 3.57% 1,089 53.96% 2,018 Lawrence 643 56.70% 198 17.46% 261 23.02% 32 2.82% 382 33.69% 1,134 Lee 1,179 88.98% 43 3.25% 43 3.25% 60 4.53% 1,119 84.45% 1,325 Limestone 1,012 83.02% 90 7.38% 83 6.81% 34 2.79% 922 75.64% 1,219 Lowndes 583 97.00% 4 0.67% 10 1.66% 4 0.67% 573 95.34% 601 Macon 647 93.23% 24 3.46% 23 3.31% 0 0.00% 623 89.77% 694 Madison 2,146 78.21% 150 5.47% 357 13.01% 91 3.32% 1,789 65.20% 2,744 Marengo 1,386 97.88% 9 0.64% 20 1.41% 1 0.07% 1,366 96.47% 1,416 Marion 1,098 65.05% 378 22.39% 205 12.14% 7 0.41% 720 42.65% 1,688 Marshall 1,457 47.11% 428 13.84% 1,184 38.28% 24 0.78% 273 8.83% 3,093 Mobile 3,009 79.98% 140 3.72% 445 11.83% 168 4.47% 2,564 68.16% 3,762 Monroe 878 97.12% 2 0.22% 21 2.32% 3 0.33% 857 94.80% 904 Montgomery 3,047 94.10% 43 1.33% 131 4.05% 17 0.53% 2,916 90.06% 3,238 Morgan 1,686 71.11% 241 10.16% 362 15.27% 82 3.46% 1,324 55.84% 2,371 Perry 731 93.84% 3 0.39% 31 3.98% 14 1.80% 700 89.86% 779 Pickens 815 88.01% 22 2.38% 73 7.88% 16 1.73% 742 80.13% 926 Pike 1,293 95.14% 13 0.96% 48 3.53% 5 0.37% 1,245 91.61% 1,359 Randolph 1,177 64.99% 268 14.80% 366 20.21% 0 0.00% 811 44.78% 1,811 Russell 1,553 96.22% 4 0.25% 35 2.17% 22 1.36% 1,518 94.05% 1,614 Shelby 1,181 44.45% 201 7.56% 1,233 46.41% 42 1.58% -52 -1.96% 2,657 St. Clair 787 43.50% 260 14.37% 687 37.98% 75 4.15% 100 5.53% 1,809 Sumter 701 97.09% 9 1.25% 2 0.28% 10 1.39% 691 95.71% 722 Talladega 1,312 72.49% 111 6.13% 386 21.33% 1 0.06% 926 51.16% 1,810 Tallapoosa 1,586 86.06% 84 4.56% 151 8.19% 22 1.19% 1,435 77.86% 1,843 Tuscaloosa 1,695 85.22% 87 4.37% 158 7.94% 49 2.46% 1,537 77.28% 1,989 Walker 2,063 57.71% 881 24.64% 504 14.10% 127 3.55% 1,182 33.06% 3,575 Washington 405 90.20% 14 3.12% 18 4.01% 12 2.67% 387 86.19% 449 Wilcox 878 97.77% 7 0.78% 7 0.78% 6 0.67% 871 96.99% 898 Winston 508 29.88% 292 17.18% 893 52.53% 7 0.41% -385 -22.65% 1,700Totals82,43869.89%9,7178.24%22,77019.30%3,0292.57%59,66850.59%117,954

See also United States presidential elections in Alabama

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