Search results
Nov 24, 2009 · Congress sets January 7, 1789 as the date by which states are required to choose electors for the country's first-ever presidential election. A month later, on February 4, George Washington...
- How Are Electoral College Electors Chosen? | HISTORY
The result of this struggle was the Electoral College, the...
- Electoral College - Definition, Vote, Constitution | HISTORY
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 considered several...
- How Are Electoral College Electors Chosen? | HISTORY
- How Electors Are Chosen
- What Happens on Election Day?
- What Are ‘Faithless Electors’?
Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution states that electors can’t be a member of Congress, or hold federal office, but left it up to individual states to figure out everything else. According to the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, electors also can’t be anyonewho has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, ...
After this initial phase of the process, each party’s presidential candidate emerges with their own slate of potential electors. On Election Day, when Americans vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates of a political party, they are actually voting for the slate of electors who have pledged to cast their votes for that party. Elec...
The Constitution doesn’t require electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their states, and there is no federal law that requires this. But a number of states have passed laws that threaten to punish so-called “faithless electors,” who do not vote according to the state’s popular vote. Faithless electors have never decided a...
- Sarah Pruitt
- 2 min
United States presidential election of 1789, American presidential election held on Feb. 4, 1789, in which George Washington was unanimously chosen as the first president of the United States by electors from 10 of the 13 extant states.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
People also ask
When was the first presidential election in the United States?
How are electors selected in a state?
How did we get the Electoral College?
How does the Electoral College work?
Dec 17, 2019 · Electoral College History. How did we get the Electoral College? The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
Feb 1, 2024 · According to the new Constitution, the states were required to appoint electors — representatives — to the Electoral College, which was scheduled to meet on February 4, 1789. George Washington was widely considered to be the front-runner to be elected as President. Other than Benjamin Franklin, Washington was likely the most famous American.
- Randal Rust
May 3, 2023 · Choosing each State's electors is a two-part process. First, the political parties in each State choose slates of potential electors sometime before the general election. Second, during the general election, the voters in each State select their State's electors by casting their ballots.
Jan 12, 2010 · The Constitutional Convention of 1787 considered several methods of electing the President, including selection by Congress, by the governors of the states, by the state legislatures, by a...
