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what percentage of the vote did Eugene Debs, a member of the socialist party, receive when he ran for president in 1912?

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6% votes

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Eugene Victor Debs contested for all of five times for the post of president of the united states of America as a representative of the socialist party of America. Earlier a member of the democratic party he later was much influenced by socialist ideas and was founding member of the Socialist Party of America (1901). In the election of 1912, he got 6 % votes.

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Eugene Debs received 6% of the popular vote when he ran for president against William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. 
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