1912 United States presidential election in New Jersey California, and the Republican nominees, incumbent President William Howard Taft of Ohio and his running mate incumbent Vice President James S. Sherman of New York. Wilson carried New Jersey with a bare plurality of 41.20% of the vote to Roosevelt's 33.60%, a victory margin of 7.60%. Taft came in third place with 20.53%. Coming in a distant fourth was Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs, who took 3.69%. Like much of the Northeast, New Jersey in this era was a staunchly Republican state, having not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1892. In his initial
1912 United States presidential election in Ohio popular vote - though trailed the Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft, an Ohio native, who won 26.82 percent of the popular vote, and Woodrow Wilson of the Democratic Party who won 40.96 percent of the popular vote. 1912 United States presidential election in Ohio The 1912 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 5, 1912. Ohio voters chose 24 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Ohio was won by the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson and his running mate Thomas R. Marshall. Ohio had been a Republican state since 1856, but