How did the Progressive Party affect the presidential election of 1912?
1 Answer
The Republican Party lost the election to Wilson and the Democratic Party won
Explanation:
Theodore Roosevelt, the former president failed to be nominated candidate for the Republican Party, his former Vice President Taft won the nomination and ran for a second term. Thus he decided to run as a Progressive after he had created the Progressive Party. The triangle between Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt enabled Wilson to win.
Wilson defeated both Taft and Roosevelt in the general election, winning a huge majority in the Electoral College, and won 42% of the popular vote while his nearest rival won 27%. Wilson became the only elected President of the Democratic Party between 1892 and 1932. Wilson was the second of only two Democrats to be elected President between 1860 and 1932.
This was also the last election in which a candidate who was not a Republican or Democrat came second in either the popular vote or the Electoral College and the first election where the 48 states of the continental United States participated.
