William Howard Taft Republican Woodrow Wilson Democratic The 1912 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 5, 1912.

The 1900s had seen Virginia, like all former Confederate States, almost completely disenfranchise its black and poor white populations through the use of a cumulative poll tax and literacy tests.

However, unlike the Deep South, historical fusion with the “Readjuster” Democrats,[2] defection of substantial proportions of the Northeast-aligned white electorate of the Shenandoah Valley and Southwest Virginia over free silver,[3] and an early move towards a “lily white” Jim Crow party[2] meant that in general elections the Republicans retained around one-third of the small statewide electorate,[4] with the majority of GOP support located in the western part of the state.

Polls as early as July showed Virginia as completely safe for Democratic nominee and New Jersey Governor Wilson.

Wilson carried all but two counties, and won the largest popular-vote victory in Virginia since Andrew Jackson in 1832 — although Franklin D. Roosevelt would three times exceed his popular vote percentage.