United States presidential election, 1912 (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. The election was a rare three-way contest. Two major political parties (Republicans and Liberals) were enduring a split between its each conservative and progressive wings.

While incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing, former President Theodore Roosevelt called his own convention in Chicago and created the Progressive Party. It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states.

On other hand, the Liberal Party nominated a conservative Senator Champ Clark of Missouri after some delegates walked out from the convention. The walk-out delegates then revived the Populist Party which nominated William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Liberal presidential candidate, as its presidential nominee. Eugene V. Debs, running for a fourth time, was the nominee of the Socialist Party of America.