156 according to FairVote.org.
Unsurprisingly, the North. Lincoln wasn't even officially on the ballot in several Southern states (at the time, people didn't vote directly for a specific person for president; instead they voted for a particular elector pledged to vote for that candidate, and in several states, nobody wanted to publicly associate themselves with Lincoln, so there were no electors pledged to him).
Congressional districts function by selecting one elector within each congressional district by popular vote and selecting the remaining two electors by a statewide popular vote. No elector is required by law to vote how they pledge, but there have been only a few incidences where an elector voted differently than how they pledged.
William Plumer was an elector from Massachusetts in the election of 1820. He voted against James Monroe casting his vote for John Quincy Adams.
the voter voted for his preferred candidate.
John Kerry.
Kentucky last voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 1996 when it supported Bill Clinton's reelection bid. Since then, the state has consistently voted for Republican candidates in presidential elections.
Virginia voted for Democratic candidate Barack Obama on November 4, 2008.
Because insufficient people have voted for such a candidate.
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In the 2008 election California voted for Obama.
When a person is nominated they are put up as a candidate, but they are not elected until there is an election and voted into office by the people voting.
Although the electors normally vote for their candidates, there have been faithless electors who voted for someone else or else did not vote.