1912 Washington gubernatorial election

The 1912 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1912. Democratic nominee Ernest Lister defeated Republican incumbent Marion E. Hay with 30.55% of the vote. Lister was voted in with the smallest percentage of the vote in a gubernatorial election in the 1900s.

Primary elections
Primary elections were held on September 10, 1912.

Candidates

 * W.W. Black
 * Ernest Lister, former member of the Tacoma City Council
 * Hugh C. Todd
 * E.C. Million
 * M.M. Godman
 * William Henry Dunphy
 * L.F. Chester

Results
The winner of the primary, W. W. Black, was disqualified for being a sitting judge, and so the second-placed Ernest Lister was ultimately the Democratic nominee.

Candidates

 * Marion E. Hay, incumbent Governor
 * Orville Billings

Candidates
Major party candidates
 * Ernest Lister, Democratic
 * Marion E. Hay, Republican

Other candidates
 * Robert T. Hodge, Progressive
 * Anna A. Maley, Socialist
 * George F. Stivers, Prohibition
 * Abraham Lincoln Brearcliff, Socialist Labor