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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George Wallace (section 1964 unpledged elector slate)
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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List of United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote (section 1960 election ambiguity: Alabama's unpledged electors)
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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Texas Regulars (section Unpledged electors)
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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1960 United States presidential election in Mississippi (section Counties that flipped from Democratic to Unpledged)
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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1956 United States presidential election in Mississippi (section Counties that flipped from Republican to Unpledged)
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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1960 United States presidential election in Louisiana (section Parishes that flipped from Republican to Unpledged)
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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United States Electoral College (redirect from Presidential elector)
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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1964 United States presidential election in Alabama (section Counties that flipped from Democratic to Unpledged)
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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1944 United States presidential election in Texas (section Counties that flipped from Republican to Unpledged)
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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1956 United States presidential election in South Carolina (section Counties that flipped from Democratic to Unpledged)
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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