State stories

In 2016 Maine split its electoral votes for the first time under its district system: Clinton won three, and Trump won one by carrying the Second Congressional District.

Donald Trump carried Texas in 2016, but 2 of its 38 electors voted for others: Chris Suprun for John Kasich and Bill Greene for Ron Paul.

Four of Washington's 2016 electors did not vote for Hillary Clinton; three were fined $1,000, and in Chiafalo v. Washington the Supreme Court ruled a state may enforce elector pledges.

In 2008 Nebraska split its electoral votes for the first time under its district system: McCain won four, and Obama won one by carrying the Second Congressional District.

One of Minnesota's ten Kerry electors in 2004 voted for John Edwards for president; the ballots were unsigned, and who cast it was never established.

George W. Bush carried Ohio by 118,601 votes, and its 20 electoral votes gave him his majority; Congress rejected an objection to them, 74 to 1 and 267 to 31.

A District of Columbia elector cast a blank ballot to protest the District's lack of representation in Congress, so only two of its three electoral votes were cast.

Official results gave George W. Bush a 537-vote lead in Florida, whose 25 electoral votes gave him a majority after the Supreme Court reversed a Florida recount order.

A West Virginia elector for Michael Dukakis, Margaret Leach, voted for Lloyd Bentsen as president and Dukakis as vice president, switching the two halves of the Democratic ticket.

Washington voters backed Gerald Ford in 1976, but Republican elector Mike Padden of Spokane cast his presidential vote for Ronald Reagan instead.

Virginia elector Roger L. MacBride voted for Libertarians John Hospers and Tonie Nathan instead of Nixon and Agnew, making Nathan the first woman to receive an electoral vote.

George Wallace ran nationally in 1968 as the American Independent candidate, but in Alabama his electors were the state Democratic Party's nominees, while Humphrey's electors appeared in other columns.

North Carolina elector Lloyd W. Bailey voted for George Wallace instead of Richard Nixon; both houses of Congress rejected an objection, and the vote was counted as cast.

Alabama's Democratic electors were chosen one by one; five voted for Kennedy and six for Harry F. Byrd, so the state's popular vote has no single agreed split.

Nixon was first certified the winner in Hawaii, but a court-ordered recount gave Kennedy a 115-vote lead, and Congress counted Hawaii's Democratic electors.

Kennedy carried Illinois by fewer than 9,000 votes; Republicans alleged fraud in Chicago, but a recount, the courts and the state board left the result unchanged.

In 1960 Mississippi chose a slate of unpledged Democratic electors over both Kennedy's and Nixon's, and all eight voted for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia.

Kennedy and his Texas running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, carried Texas by about 46,000 votes; Republican suits challenging the result were thrown out by a federal judge.

Alabama's 1948 Democratic electors pledged themselves to Strom Thurmond, who was listed on the ballot as the Democratic nominee, and President Truman was kept off the state's ballot.

Truman carried Ohio in 1948 by 7,107 votes, and its 25 electoral votes, reported the morning after the election, gave him the 266 he needed to win.

Preston Parks, a Tennessee elector for Harry S. Truman, cast his 1948 electoral vote for Strom Thurmond of the States' Rights party, as he had vowed to do.

Woodrow Wilson carried California by 3,773 votes in 1916, and its 13 electoral votes gave him a 277 to 254 victory over Charles Evans Hughes.

Theodore Roosevelt carried California in 1912 by 174 votes, but because voters chose electors directly, the state's 13 electoral votes split 11 for Roosevelt and 2 for Wilson.

Under an 1891 law choosing electors by district, which the Supreme Court upheld in McPherson v. Blacker, Michigan split its 1892 electoral votes: 9 for Harrison, 5 for Cleveland.

Benjamin Harrison narrowly carried his home state of Indiana in 1888 amid an uproar over a Republican letter urging that paid "floaters" be organized into "blocks of five."

Grover Cleveland won about 90,000 more votes nationally than Benjamin Harrison in 1888 but narrowly lost his home state of New York, and with it the Electoral College.

Admitted months before the 1876 election, Colorado had its legislature choose its three electors, who voted for Rutherford B. Hayes, the winner by 185 electoral votes to 184.

Florida sent Congress rival sets of electoral votes in 1876; the Electoral Commission, with eight members concurring and seven not, counted all four for Rutherford B. Hayes.

Louisiana's returning board certified Hayes electors although unofficial returns showed Tilden ahead; the Electoral Commission, eight members to seven, counted all eight votes for Hayes.

Oregon's governor certified E. A. Cronin in place of Hayes elector J. W. Watts, a postmaster; the Electoral Commission counted Watts's vote, giving Hayes all three Oregon votes.

South Carolina's presidential returns favored Hayes on their face, but rival electors and objections sent its 7 votes to the Electoral Commission, which counted them for Hayes.

Arkansas's 1872 electoral votes were never counted: the House voted to count them, the Senate voted not to, and under the joint rule that disagreement kept them out.

Three Georgia electors voted for Horace Greeley after his death; the House voted not to count them, the Senate voted to count them, and they went uncounted.

Louisiana sent Congress rival sets of 1872 electoral returns, and both the House and the Senate voted that none of them should be counted.

Missouri was the only state that gave Stephen A. Douglas all its electoral votes in 1860; within months its voters chose a convention that rejected secession.

New Jersey voters chose electors one by one in 1860; four Lincoln electors and three Douglas Democrats won, splitting the state's seven electoral votes.

John Bell carried Virginia by 156 votes in 1860; after Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for troops, a state convention voted for secession and voters approved it in May 1861.

Kentucky's 14 electors voted for Henry Clay; when the House chose the president in 1825, Kentucky's vote went to John Quincy Adams despite the state legislature's instructions.

New York's legislature, not its voters, chose the state's 36 electors in 1824; they cast 26 votes for John Quincy Adams and the rest for three other candidates.

New York's legislature chose its 1800 electors, so the spring legislative election, won by the Republicans, sent all 12 of the state's electoral votes to Jefferson.