Teddy Roosevelt- Bull Moose Progressive Party
Woodrow Wilson- Democrat
William Howard Taft- Republican
Eugene V. Debs- Socialist Party
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Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft split the Republican votes thereby benefitting Democratic Party candidate Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 presidential election defeating Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party") candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican Party candidate incumbent President William Taft. In the 1912 presidential election Woodrow Wilson received 435 electoral votes, Theodore Roosevelt received 88 electoral votes, and William Taft received 8 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Wilson 6,293,152 (42%), Roosevelt 4,119,207 (27%), and Taft 3,483,922 (23%). Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs received 901,551 (6%) popular votes and no electoral votes.
Theodore Roosevelt started a third party,The bull moose party. It pulled away enough Republican votes that it gave ilson the Election.
Woodrow Wilson
In the 1912 election, Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, won against the incumbent Republican candidate William Howard Taft. The election was notable for the split within the Republican Party, as former President Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate under the Progressive Party (also known as the Bull Moose Party). Roosevelt split the Republican vote, resulting in Wilson's victory.
He was a member of the Republican Party until the 1912 election, when he ran in his own party, the Progressive Party or Bull Moose Party.
Yes, before 1912 party candidates were chosen by party leaders, but since the Republican Party split they could not agree on one candidate. Senator Albert Cummins drafted the bill for the first presidential primary.
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President William Taft was the Republican Party candidate in the 1912 presidential election .
Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 Presidential election and served from 1913 to 1921.
He was a Republican then in the 1912 election he created his own party known as the Bull Moose party
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The split in the Republican Party in the 1912 Presidential Election, Teddy Roosevelt starting the Progressive Party, and the eventual election of Woodrow Wilson due to the 3 way split in 1912.
The Bull Moose party who ran TR.
Eugene Debs
Former President Theodore Roosevelt created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party") after he failed to receive the Republic nomination in the 1912 presidential election.
When it received 4 million votes in the 1912 election