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.
In the 12 U. S. Presidential Elections of the past 50 years, Kentucky voted for the Democratic candidate four times: 1964 - Lyndon Johnson 1976 - Jimmy Carter 1992 - Bill Clinton 1996 - Bill Clinton
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.
Although the electors normally vote for their candidates, there have been faithless electors who voted for someone else or else did not vote.
The party leaders were the ones that chose the list of major-party candidates for president and vice-president. The candidates were then voted on by the electoral college.