1912 United States presidential election in Indiana

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson and the governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall defeated the Progressive ticket of the former president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and the governor of California Hiram Johnson. The Republican ticket of the incumbent president William Howard Taft and the president of Columbia University Nicholas Murray Butler finished third, and the Socialist ticket of the former member of the Indiana House of Representatives Eugene V. Debs and the mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Emil Seidel finished fourth. Wilson defeated Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs in the national election with 435 electoral votes.

Wilson became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Hamilton County, Indiana. As of 2024, this remains the only occasion on which Hamilton County voted for the Democratic ticket.

Indiana chose 15 electors on a statewide general ticket. State law required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. The following table quotes the official returns published by the secretary of state of Indiana, which list the votes for the first elector on each ticket.

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

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