<P> The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election , held on Tuesday , November 5 , 1912 . Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey unseated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft and defeated Former President Theodore Roosevelt , who ran as the Progressive Party ( `` Bull Moose '' ) nominee . Roosevelt remains the only third party presidential candidate in U.S. history to finish better than third in the popular or electoral vote . </P>
who won the presidential race in 1912 and what was his party
Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey