In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is generally a party representative who does not have faith in the election result within...

of these votes were invalidated under the faithless elector laws of their respective states, and the elector either subsequently voted for the pledged...

choose electors based upon how they have pledged to vote for president and vice president, with some state laws prohibiting faithless electors. All states...

been mounted to elect unpledged electors in any state since 1964. An unpledged elector is distinct from a faithless elector who pledges their vote for a...

punish electors who vote in opposition to the plurality, known as "faithless" or "unpledged" electors. In modern times, faithless and unpledged electors have...

Ultimately, Trump received 304 electoral votes and Clinton 227, as two faithless electors defected from Trump and five from Clinton. Trump flipped six states...

Quincy Adams received the only other electoral vote, which came from faithless elector William Plumer. Nine different Federalists received electoral votes...

being selected as a Democratic elector, Parks cast his vote for the Dixiecrat ticket, making him a "faithless elector" and sparking controversy. His defection...

578 (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case on the issue of "faithless electors" in the Electoral College stemming from the 2016 United States presidential...

Fourteen unpledged electors from Mississippi and Alabama cast their votes for Senator Harry F. Byrd, as did a faithless elector from Oklahoma. The 1960...

election. States generally require electors to pledge to vote for that state's winning ticket; to avoid faithless electors, most states have adopted various...

election over Hillary Clinton. This event was notable due to the many faithless electors in the electoral college votes, and the many unsuccessful objections...

Minnesota was the only state to split its electoral votes, as a faithless elector pledged to Kerry cast a ballot for John Edwards (written as John Ewards)...

votes: the first was Tonie Nathan who in 1972 received one vote from a faithless elector. This was followed by Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Sarah Palin in...

one. Spotted Eagle's single vote came from Robert Satiacum Jr., a faithless elector in Washington, who cast it for her instead of Hillary Clinton. Spotted...

served as a presidential elector for Washington, D.C. in that year's presidential election, and notably became a faithless elector when she abstained from...

since 1824, or won at least one electoral vote from an elector who was not a faithless elector. † and bolded indicates a winning candidate ‡ indicates...

receive one Electoral College vote from Virginia from a Republican faithless elector (see below). The Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Tonie Nathan...

them. An elector who votes for someone other than their candidate is known as a faithless elector. In the state of Arizona, a faithless elector's vote is...

West Virginia was home to a faithless elector in the election of 1988. During the assembly of the electoral college, one elector from West Virginia, Margarette...

Hillary Clinton 227, as two faithless electors defected from Trump and five defected from Clinton. Four faithless electors were from Washington (defected...

differ depending on the disposition of faithless electors, on the assumption that certain faithless electors may have chosen to give their vote to the...

as a Republican presidential elector in Virginia in 1972, he defected from his pledged vote and became a faithless elector, casting a vote for the Libertarian...

tickets If not for a faithless elector, Nixon and Agnew would have won 521 (96.8%) Electoral College votes. If not for a faithless elector, Ford would have...

popular vote went towards unpledged Federalist electors. Adams's only electoral vote came from a faithless elector. Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes...

president, Satiacum did not vote as pledged, and as such is regarded as a faithless elector. Satiacum is the son of the late Robert Satiacum Sr., an advocate...

candidate in 1972, was the first woman to receive an electoral vote, via faithless elector Roger MacBride. New York Representative Geraldine Ferraro was the...

any state. However, he was given one electoral vote by Washington faithless elector Mike Padden. As of 2020, the 1976 election remains the last time that...

Tipping point state: Florida, 14.54% (163,478 votes) (a) Alabama faithless elector W. F. Turner, who was pledged to Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver...

convention. Roger MacBride, who had gained fame in the 1972 election as a faithless elector, ran as the nominee of the Libertarian Party. Eugene McCarthy, a former...