Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123.

He reprised resolutions for constitutional amendments to provide for 1 ) the direct election of the president, rather than by the electoral college, 2 ) the direct election of U. S. Senators, rather than by state legislatures and 3 ) the limiting of judges ' terms to twelve years.

Further, they opposed the creation of an electoral college to elect the leader of the Party, who had previously been elected by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party – in particular, the arrangement of block voting by constituency parties and trade unions, with the total votes of a constituency party or trade union being given to a candidate based on a first-past-the-post within that CLP or union, or changed at the discretion of delegates ( similar to primary elections in the United States ).

* 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The elections were widely believed to be heavily rigged in the favor of Ayub Khan using state patronage and intimidation to influence the indirectly elected electoral college.

The head of government ( the Chief Executive of Hong Kong ) is elected indirectly through an electoral college, the majority of whose members are appointed.

In his book In the Fourth Year published in 1918 he suggested how each nation of the world would elect, " upon democratic lines " by proportional representation, an electoral college in the manner of the United States of America, in turn to select its delegate to the proposed League of Nations.

The prince-electors ( or simply electors ) of the Holy Roman Empire were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of electing the King of the Romans or, from the middle of the 16th century onwards, directly the Holy Roman Emperor.

The president and vice president are elected indirectly for 5-year terms by a special electoral college.

A single elector from New Hampshire cast a vote for John Quincy Adams, preventing a unanimous vote in the electoral college.

All elections are direct ; that is, no electoral college is constituted for any of the elections at the federal, state or municipal level.

Only when an incumbent president is absolutely absent ( either through resignation, impeachment or death ), the Congress of the Union constitutes itself acts as an electoral college to elect an interim president by absolute majority.

The National Council had 60 members, 10 nominated by the king, 35 elected by the House of Representatives and the remaining 15 elected by an electoral college made up of chairs of villages and towns.

His ambition was noted by other MPs, and David Owen's opposition to the changes to the electoral college was thought to be motivated by the realisation that they would favour Kinnock's succession.

Among other things, " President " today is a common title for the heads of state of most republics, whether popularly elected, chosen by the legislature or by a special electoral college.

Presidents in this system are either directly elected by popular vote or indirectly elected by an electoral college or some other democratically elected body.

Since the Referendum on the Direct Election of the President of the French Republic, 1962, the President has been directly elected by universal suffrage ; he or she was previously elected by an electoral college.

In that country the president is officially elected by an electoral college, chosen by the States, all of which do so by direct election of the electors.

The indirect election of the president through the electoral college conforms to the concept of republic as one with a system of indirect election.

Even some lesser used modern constitutional concepts, such as the block voting found in the electoral college of the United States, originate from ideas found in the Roman constitution.

The first national election was held in 1964 for the seat of Honiara, and by 1967 the first general election was held for all but one of the 15 representative seats on the Legislative Council ( the one exception was the seat for the Eastern Outer Islands, which was again appointed by electoral college ).

Under the 1976 republican Constitution, the British monarch was replaced as head of state by a President chosen by an electoral college composed of the members of the bicameral Parliament, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

It is fully understood by the voters and the Electors themselves that they are the representative " stand-ins " for the individuals to whom they have pledged to cast their electoral college ballots to be President and Vice President.

More recently, state legislatures ( exercising their constitutional authority to do so ) have mandated in law that Electors shall cast their electoral college ballot for the Presidential Candidate to whom they are pledged.

The 1800 election exposed a defect in the original formula in that if each member of the electoral college followed party tickets, there would be a tie between the two candidates from the most popular ticket.

In December 1945, Albanians elected a new People's Assembly, but only candidates from the Democratic Front ( previously the National Liberation Movement then the National Liberation Front ) appeared on the electoral lists, and the communists used propaganda and terror tactics to gag the opposition.

Third parties have failed to score any electoral success: in the 2008 election the Alternattiva Demokratika ( Democratic Alternative-a Green Party established in 1989 ) and the Azzjoni Nazzjonali ( National Action ) managed to secure only 1. 31 % and 0. 5 % of the first preference votes nationwide respectively.

Instead, WASG candidates — including the former Social Democratic leader, Oskar Lafontaine — were nominated on the PDS electoral list.

Ohio was a crucial swing state in presidential elections, and it would have been devastating to the fledgling Democratic Party to lose Ohio's electoral votes.

In 1836, the Whig Party nominated different candidates in different regions in the hopes of splintering the electoral vote and denying Martin Van Buren, the Democratic candidate, a majority in the Electoral College, thereby throwing the election into the Whig-controlled House.

In that same election no candidate for Vice President secured a majority in the electoral college as Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson did not receive the electoral votes of Democratic electors from Virginia, because of his relationship with a former slave.

** Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses control of the House of Councillors, the LDP's worst electoral showing in 34 years, leading to Prime Minister Uno announcing he will resign to take responsibility for the result.

At the 2001 parliamentary elections, the UP entered into an electoral alliance with the larger social-democratic party Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ), and managed to get 16 of its members elected to parliament.

In 2006, the UP joined the SLD, SDPL and the liberal Democratic Party – demokraci. pl to form an electoral alliance of centre and centre-left parties, named Left and Democrats ( LiD ), for the upcoming local government elections.

In the general election, Garfield defeated the Democratic candidate Winfield Scott Hancock, another distinguished former Union Army general, by 214 electoral votes to 155.

The Democratic Party controlled many large Northern states that had a great percentage of the electoral votes.

He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party ( Dixiecrat ) candidate, receiving 2. 4 % of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes.

In 2005, the Italian Radicals joined Italian Democratic Socialists and founded the Rose in the Fist electoral coalition.

On 4 September 1970, he obtained a narrow plurality of 36. 2 percent to 34. 9 percent over Jorge Alessandri, a former president, with 27. 8 percent going to a third candidate ( Radomiro Tomic ) of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ), whose electoral platform was similar to Allende's.

During this time he also led Convergència i Unió ( Convergence and Unity, CiU ) a center-right Catalan nationalist electoral coalition consisting of his own Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya ( Democratic Convergence of Catalonia, CDC ) and the smaller and more conservative Unió Democràtica de Catalunya ( Democratic Union of Catalonia ).

It was enough to stop Hubert Humphrey, and Nixon's ground breaking success as a Republican winning electoral votes from Democratic southern states, was partly due to Democrats not voting for the Democratic ticket.

* SDP-Liberal Alliance, electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in the United Kingdom that operated from 1981 to 1988

* United People Alliance, electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party or PCP and the Portuguese Democratic Movement or MDP

Since the passage of this amendment, the District's electoral votes have gone towards the Democratic candidates in every presidential election.