• In United States presidential elections, an unpledged elector is a person nominated to stand as an elector but who has not pledged to support any particular...
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    by an alternate elector who then cast votes for Clinton and Tim Kaine. Unpledged elector Indirect election Additionally, another elector from Virginia was...
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    supported the unpledged slate, which competed directly with the Republican electors. As The Tuscaloosa News explained, loyalist electors would have offered...
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    percent. Fourteen unpledged electors from Mississippi and Alabama cast their votes for Senator Harry F. Byrd, as did a faithless elector from Oklahoma. The...
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  • There were eleven Republican electors pledged to Nixon, six unpledged Democratic electors, and five Democratic electors pledged to Kennedy, from which...
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  • second convention. This defeat led them to form their own ticket of unpledged electors, not bound to any candidate. On election day, they finished third...
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    Republican and Democratic primaries to be electors in this election cycle Unpledged elector Powell had several homes, including one in NYC (still) and also one...
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    Representatives elections 1804–05 United States Senate elections Unpledged elector John Bradley is reported with 1 vote in the town of Concord but is...
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  • from a faithless elector in Tennessee. See Unpledged elector#Unpledged electors in the 20th century for more detail. The unpledged electors in the 1960 election...
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    punish electors who vote in opposition to the plurality, known as "faithless" or "unpledged" electors. In modern times, faithless and unpledged electors have...
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    Democratic elector. As a result, six unpledged electors and five electors pledged to Kennedy were elected. All six elected unpledged electors cast their...
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    Johnson won in 2,275 (72.77%), while Goldwater carried 826 (26.42%). Unpledged electors carried six counties in Alabama (0.19%). Johnson was the first president...
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    election saw the only case of a state being carried by a slate of unpledged electors. Mississippi voted narrowly for this slate, who voted unanimously...
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    slate of electors, and as such Monroe was virtually unopposed in most of these states (with the exception of Federalist unpledged electors who received...
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    Citizens' Councils did place a slate of unpledged electors on the ballot alongside Eisenhower and Stevenson electors, although state officials, especially...
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    popular votes in 2,143 (69.11%) while Stevenson carried 924 (29.80%). Unpledged Electors prevailed in 32 counties (1.03%) while Andrews carried two counties...
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    southern half of the state, especially Acadiana. Nixon and a slate of unpledged electors aligned with the National States' Rights Party split the northern...
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    the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for the...
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    of unpledged Democratic electors. by a margin of five-to-one, Under Wallace's guidance, the Alabama Democratic Party placed this slate of unpledged Democratic...
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    an elector was snowbound and there was no law to replace him (Nevada had only become a state that year). In that of the latter, a faithless elector abstained...
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    conservative Democrats who opposed Roosevelt's New Deal and ran a ticket of unpledged electors, took 11.77% of the vote. As a former Confederate state, Texas had...
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    performing elector in Pennsylvania, David Meade, was run on both the Madison and Clinton tickets. He received 79,128 votes, more than any other elector in the...
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    Byrnes, however, obtained 35,000 petitions for an alternative slate of unpledged electors, whom he naturally endorsed when ballot access was obtained for that...
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  • Mississippi, the slate of unpledged electors won the state. In Alabama, eleven Democratic electors were chosen, six unpledged and five for nominee John...
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    college while losing the popular vote Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina "Nevada President - Donald...
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    result for an elector of any given candidate. Electoral boundaries for Maryland could not be found The popular vote totals used are the elector from each...
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    popular vote Two faithless electors, one voting for John Kasich, another for Ron Paul. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi...
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  • Libertarian Party presidential tickets If not for am unpledged elector and 17 invalidated electors from Union-occupied Louisiana and Texas, Lincoln and...
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    machine supported Crawford in New York. During the selection of New York's electors Van Buren was able to deny Clay enough support to prevent him from being...
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  • Communism, and the U-2 incident. Due to discrepancies with how Alabama's unpledged electors are counted, the Congressional Quarterly and other sources report...
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