Electoral History
| State prosecutor for northeastern Indiana, 1880 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Republican | Elijah Jackson | 5,594 | 52.7% | |
| Democratic | Thomas R. Marshall | 5,023 | 47.3% | |
| Indiana gubernatorial election, 1908 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Democratic | Thomas R. Marshall | 348,439 | 48.1% | |
| Republican | James E. Watson | 338,262 | 48% | |
| Prohibition | Samuel W. Haynes | 15,926 | 2.3% | |
| Populist | F.J.S. Robinson | 986 | 0.1% | |
United States presidential election, 1912
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| Thomas Woodrow Wilson | Democratic | New Jersey | 6,296,284 | 41.8% | 435 | Thomas Riley Marshall | Indiana | 435 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Progressive | New York | 4,122,721 | 27.4% | 88 | Hiram Warren Johnson | California | 88 |
| William Howard Taft | Republican | Ohio | 3,486,242 | 23.2% | 8 | Nicholas Murray Butler | New York | 8 |
| Eugene Victor Debs | Socialist | Indiana | 901,551 | 6.0% | 0 | Emil Seidel | Wisconsin | 0 |
| Eugene Wilder Chafin | Prohibition | Illinois | 208,156 | 1.4% | 0 | Aaron Sherman Watkins | Ohio | 0 |
| Arthur Elmer Reimer | Socialist Labor | Massachusetts | 29,324 | 0.2% | 0 | August Gilhaus | New York | 0 |
| Other | 4,556 | 0.0% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 15,048,834 | 100% | 531 | 531 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
United States presidential election, 1916
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| Woodrow Wilson | Democratic | New Jersey | 9,126,868 | 49.2% | 277 | Thomas Riley Marshall | Indiana | 277 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Republican | New York | 8,548,728 | 46.1% | 254 | Charles Warren Fairbanks | Indiana | 254 |
| Allan Louis Benson | Socialist | New York | 590,524 | 3.2% | 0 | George Ross Kirkpatrick | New Jersey | 0 |
| James Franklin Hanly | Prohibition | Indiana | 221,302 | 1.2% | 0 | Ira Landrith | Tennessee | 0 |
| Other | 49,163 | 0.3% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 18,536,585 | 100% | 531 | 531 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
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