The following is a complete list of people
who received an electoral vote in a United
States presidential election.
For all elections past 1804, "P" denotes a
presidential vote, and "VP" denotes a vice
presidential vote.
Bold entries are successful candidates; Italicized
entries are runners-up who became Vice President
under the original system.
Horace Greeley received three electoral votes
in the 1872 election, but they were disqualified
due to Greeley's death.
This list includes ten females, eight of whom
received vice presidential votes.
The first was Tonie Nathan who in 1972 received
one vote from a faithless elector.
This was followed by Geraldine Ferraro in
1984 and Sarah Palin in 2008.
Maria Cantwell, Susan Collins, Carly Fiorina
and Winona LaDuke all received a single faithless
vote for vice president in 2016, and in that
same election Elizabeth Warren received two.
Hillary Clinton and Faith Spotted Eagle in
2016 are the only women to receive electoral
votes for president; Spotted Eagle's single
vote was from a faithless elector, and she
was also the first Native American to receive
an electoral vote for president.
Various electors did not cast their votes,
including:
Two Maryland electors and two Virginia electors
in 1788
Two Maryland electors and one Vermont elector
in 1792
A Kentucky elector in 1808
An Ohio elector in 1812
Three Maryland electors and one Delaware elector
in 1816
Two Maryland electors in 1832
A Nevada elector in 1864
A Washington, DC elector, Barbara Lett-Simmons,
in 2000
== See also ==
List of United States presidential candidates
by number of votes received
