Covers 2000–2024. Earlier elections are not yet loaded.
Select a state — on the map or in the table — to see its record.
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Who the electors were, how they voted, and how that compared to the public vote — from official records.
Ballots cast by voters nationwide.
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Votes cast by electors. This is what decides the presidency.
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Source: National Archives, 2024 Electoral College and state canvassing boards.
Covers 2000–2024. Earlier elections are not yet loaded.
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The record ends here. What follows is this site’s argument.
Everything above is the documentary record: official certificates, verifiable, taking no side. This section is the author’s position. It is kept separate so you can use the record without adopting the argument.
Electoral votes are not handed out in proportion to people. Every state gets two regardless of size — the same bonus for Wyoming as for California. Divide each state’s population by its electoral votes and the gap is plain:
| State | Residents per electoral vote | Compared with the national average |
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National average: 616,077 residents per electoral vote. Every state and D.C. is in the full table — .
In 2000, Al Gore received 50,999,897 votes to George W. Bush’s 50,456,002 — and Bush became president. In 2016, Hillary Clinton received 65,853,514 to Donald Trump’s 62,984,828 — and Trump became president. Both results followed the rules exactly. That is the point: the rules permit it. Slide the timeline above to either year and the record shows it.
The president is not chosen by the national count. It is chosen by 538 individuals, named above, selected by state parties rather than elected by name. In Chiafalo v. Washington (2020) the Supreme Court held unanimously that a state may enforce an elector’s pledge. It did not hold that a state must.
So the protection varies. Some states cancel a faithless vote and seat a replacement — Colorado did exactly that to Micheal Baca in 2016, and his vote never counted. Some impose a fine and let the vote stand, which is what Washington did to four of its electors the same year. Some have no penalty at all. Which of those applies to you depends on your state, and most voters have never had reason to find out.
No faithless elector has ever changed a presidential outcome. The seven in 2016 changed nothing. But seven is not far from the margin of a close election, and the rules governing them were written state by state, for a system nobody expected to be tested.
Amending the Constitution requires two-thirds of Congress and three-quarters of the states. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact takes a different route. Article II leaves it to each state to decide how it appoints its electors. Member states agree to award theirs to whoever wins the most votes nationwide — and the agreement only takes effect once members hold at least 270 electoral votes, enough to decide the outcome. Until then, nothing changes.
48 short. Enacted by 18 states and the District of Columbia.
If you are going to repeat the argument above, you should know what people say back. These are real objections, not strawmen:
Supporters answer each of these. The point of listing them is that you should be able to.
Does our state legally bind its presidential electors to the statewide vote result, and what happens if an elector breaks that pledge?
Back to the record
Everything on this site can be checked against a primary document. This section explains where each figure came from, how it was verified, which judgment calls were made, and what is known to be incomplete. If you intend to cite this work, read this part first.
Every elector list was read directly off the certificate, then checked against an independent number: the state’s electoral vote count. Pennsylvania’s certificate must yield exactly 19 names, California’s exactly 54. A roster that does not match its state’s count is not published.
All 51 jurisdictions match. The 538 names on this site correspond one-to-one with the 538 electoral votes cast in 2024.
Where a certificate names its electors more than once — many do, once in a canvass table and again in the governor’s declaration — both lists were compared.
Replace the access date with the day you read it.
Citing a specific elector? Cite the certificate, not this site. Each state panel links to the governor-signed original at the National Archives, which is the primary source. This site is a finding aid; the certificate is the evidence.
The full 2024 record is downloadable. No attribution required, though a link back helps people check your work.
CSV is one row per elector — 538 rows, with state, electoral votes, winning ticket, elector name and certificate URL. JSON keeps the same data grouped by jurisdiction.
Check the work. This whole site is a single public file. Every name, every source note and every link is readable in the source, and the full revision history shows what changed and when. View the repository on GitHub. Found an error? It is reproducible, so it is fixable.
This site was built to be usable without a mouse, without sight, and without fine motor control. That was a design requirement from the first version, not an afterthought.
If something here is hard to use with your assistive technology, that is a defect worth reporting.
If a name here does not match the certificate it is drawn from, that is an error and it will be fixed. Point to the state, the name, and the certificate.
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Last reviewed: . Record covers the 2000 through 2024 presidential elections; elector names complete for 2024.