<P> Woodrow Wilson Democratic </P> <P> The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912 . Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey defeated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt, who ran as the Progressive Party ("Bull Moose") nominee . </P> <P> Roosevelt had served as president from 1901 to 1909, and Taft had won the 1908 Republican president nomination with Roosevelt's support . Displeased with Taft's actions as president, Roosevelt challenged Taft at the 1912 Republican National Convention . After Taft and his conservative allies narrowly prevailed at the Republican convention, Roosevelt rallied his progressive supporters and launched a third party bid . With the support of William Jennings Bryan and other progressives, Wilson won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on the 46th ballot . Meanwhile, the Socialist Party renominated its perennial standard - bearer, Eugene V. Debs . </P> <P> Wilson carried 40 states and won a large majority of the electoral vote, taking advantage of the split in the Republican Party . He was the first Democrat to win a presidential election since 1892, and would be one of just two Democratic presidents to serve between the Civil War and the onset of the Great Depression . Roosevelt won 88 electoral votes, while Taft carried just two states, taking 8 electoral votes . Wilson won 41.8% of the national popular vote, while Roosevelt won 27%, Taft 23%, and Debs 6% . Roosevelt is the only post-Civil War third party candidate to finish better than third in the popular or electoral vote . </P>

Who ran as the socialist candidate for president in 1912