Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Faithless elector
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===1864 to 1912=== '''1''' β [[1864 United States presidential election|1864 election]]: A Nevada elector was snowbound and therefore prevented from casting any ballots.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rocha |first1=Guy |title=Nevada Myths |url=https://nsla.nv.gov/myths |website=Nevada State Library and Archives |access-date=14 March 2025|archive-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908135411/https://nsla.nv.gov/myths |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Nevada Presidential Election Voting History|url=https://www.270towin.com/states/Nevada|access-date=2020-11-13|website=270toWin.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSoXAAAAYAAJ&q=Nevada+1864|title=The Tribune Almanac and Political Register|date=1874|publisher=Tribune Association|page=56|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hFNBAQAAMAAJ&q=1864+election,+Nevada+two+electoral+votes&pg=PA61|title=Handbook of the United States of America: And Guide to Emigration; Giving the Latest and Most Complete Statistics ...|date=1883|publisher=G. Watson|pages=61|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFNHAQAAIAAJ&q=1864+election,+Nevada+two+electoral+votes&pg=PA84|title=United States Congressional serial set|date=1869|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=84|language=en}}</ref> '''66''' β [[1872 United States presidential election|1872 election]]: [[Horace Greeley]], the Liberal Republican/Democrat presidential nominee, died on November 29 shortly before the Electoral College vote in December. Three electors voted for the deceased Greeley as pledged, while the other 63 electors pledged to Greeley voted for other people, with 42 voting for non-candidate [[Thomas A. Hendricks]], 18 voting for Greeley's running mate, [[B. Gratz Brown|Benjamin Gratz Brown]], 2 voting for non-candidate [[Charles J. Jenkins]], and 1 voting for non-candidate [[David Davis (Supreme Court justice)|David Davis]]. The three posthumous presidential votes cast for Greeley were rejected by Congress.<ref>{{National Archives EV source| year=1872| as of=July 31, 2005}}</ref> '''27''' β [[1896 United States presidential election|1896 election]]: The Democratic Party and the [[People's Party (United States)|People's Party]] both ran [[William Jennings Bryan]] as their presidential candidate, but ran different candidates for vice president: the Democratic Party nominated [[Arthur Sewall]] and the People's Party nominated [[Thomas E. Watson]]. Although the Populist ticket did not win the popular vote in any state, 27 Democratic electors cast their vice-presidential vote for Watson instead of Sewall.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E7DF1231E033A2575AC0A9679D94659ED7CF | work=The New York Times | title=Senate and House Secured; Republican control in the next Congress assured. The House of Representatives Republican by More than Two β thirds Majority β Possible Loss of a Republican Senator from the State of Washington β Republicans and Populists Will Organize the Senate and Divide the Patronage | date=November 9, 1894 | access-date=May 26, 2010}}</ref> '''8''' β [[1912 United States presidential election|1912 election]]: the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] vice-presidential candidate, [[James S. Sherman]], died six days before the popular election. The Republicans had won only two states, Utah and Vermont, and [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Nicholas M. Butler]] was hastily designated to receive the eight electoral votes that were pledged to Sherman. All eight Republican electors accordingly voted for Butler for vice president.<ref name="FairVote"/>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)