Answer:
William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican vote, allowing the Democrat Wilson to win in the electoral college vote
Step-by-step explanation:
The presidential election of 1912 was keenly contested by 3 major politicians namely : Woodrow Wilson of the democratic party, William Howard Taft of the republican party and Theodore Roosevelt of the progressives party.
Woodrow Wilson won most of the states in the general election which was about 40 states and loosing the remaining states to Howard Taft and Roosevelt. but the major challenge came in the college electoral votes which is where the congress would vote for the president. any candidate that gets more 50% of the vote wins the Election. The congress was made up of Republicans and Democrats and the votes of the republican congressmen/women were split between William and Roosevelt owing to the fact that they were both Republicans before the elections, this particular split aided Woodrow to win the election.