A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson and the governor of Indiana Thomas R. Marshall defeated the Progressive ticket of the former president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and the governor of California Hiram Johnson. The Republican ticket of the incumbent president William Howard Taft and the president of Columbia University Nicholas Murray Butler finished third, and the Socialist ticket of the former member of the Indiana House of Representatives Eugene V. Debs and the mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Emil Seidel finished fourth. Wilson defeated Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs in the national election with 435 electoral votes.