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 enabling act was a common historic practice, a number of states were admitted to the Union without one. In many instances, an enabling act would detail the mechanism by which the territory would be admitted as a state following ratification of their constitution and election of state officers. Although the use of such an act is a traditional historic practice, a number of territories have drafted constitutions for submission to Congress absent an enabling act and were subsequently admitted. The broad outline for this process was established by the Land Ordinance of 1784 and the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, both of