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On election day, 5 November 1912, Democratic nominee John Pemberton Gordon won re-election by a margin of 117,979 votes against his foremost opponent Republican nominee William J. Mauthe, thereby retaining Democratic control over the office of state auditor. Gordon was sworn in for his second term on 13 January 1913.