1912 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania America nominee union leader Eugene V. Debs. Roosevelt won Pennsylvania by a margin of 4.04 percent. , this is the last election in which Wayne County, Snyder County, and Union County did not vote for the Republican candidate. 1912 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania The 1912 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 5, 1912. This was the first time that Arizona and New Mexico took part in a presidential election having been admitted to the Union earlier in the year. Voters chose 38 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and
Admission to the Union which predate the present U.S. Constitution. The Admission to the Union Clause also forbids the creation of new states from parts of existing states without the consent of both the affected states and Congress. The primary intent of this caveat was to give Eastern states that still had western land claims (there were four at that time) a veto over whether their western counties could become states. This clause has served the same function since, each time a proposal to partition an existing state or states has arisen. Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1: Between 1781 and 1789 the United