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 President would issue a proclamation announcing that a new state has been added to the Union. While Congress, which has ultimate authority over the admission of new states, has usually followed this procedure, there have been occasions (due to unique case-specific circumstances) where it did not. Congress is under no obligation to admit states, even in those areas whose population expresses a desire for statehood. In one instance, Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake City sought to establish the state of Deseret in 1849. It existed for slightly over two years and was never approved by the United States Congress. In