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has 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...

vote is given to the unpledged electors. In Georgia, a primary referendum won which didn’t bind Democratic electors to act unpledged but instead gave them...

elector is only considered a faithless elector by breaking their pledge; unpledged electors have no pledge to break. The consequences of an elector voting...

supported the unpledged slate, which competed directly with the Republican electors. As The Tuscaloosa News explained, loyalist electors would have offered...

states. There were 11 Republican electors pledged to Nixon, 6 unpledged Democratic electors, and 5 Democratic electors pledged to Kennedy, from which each...

the plurality, known as "faithless" or "unpledged" electors. In modern times, faithless and unpledged electors have not affected the ultimate outcome of...

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...

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...

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...

Democratic elector. As a result, six unpledged electors and five electors pledged to Kennedy were elected. All six elected unpledged electors cast their...

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...

slate of electors, and as such Monroe was virtually unopposed in most of these states (with the exception of Federalist unpledged electors who received...

candidates. Even in Massachusetts, where the Federalist slate of electors was victorious, the electors cast all of their votes for Monroe. This was the first election...

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...

Mississippi, the slate of unpledged electors won the state. In Alabama, eleven Democratic electors were chosen, six unpledged and five for nominee John...

fall of Cuba to Communism. Due to discrepancies with how Alabama's unpledged electors are counted, the Congressional Quarterly and other sources report...

2005. (a) Only 11 of the 17 states chose electors by popular vote. (b) Those states that did choose electors by popular vote had widely varying restrictions...

southern half of the state, especially Acadiana. Nixon and a slate of unpledged electors aligned with the National States' Rights Party split the northern...

percent of the vote in multiple states. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina Won the electoral college...

2005. (a) Only 10 of the 17 states chose electors by popular vote. (b) Those states that did choose electors by popular vote had widely varying restrictions...