Congressional-District Method

Congressional District Method

The Congressional-District Method is a procedure for appointing Presidential Electors. Two Electors At Large and one Electors for each Congressional District are pledged to each Presidential/Vice-Presidential ticket (the Electors' names may or may not appear on the ballot). The At-Large Electors pledged to the ticket having received the plurality of votes state-wide are chosen. The Elector pledged to the ticket having received the plurality of votes within each Congressional District is chosen.

Trivia

• This method was used by Michigan in the 1892 Election, splitting electors Rep 9 to Dem 5
• Maine adopted this method in 1969 (first used in 1972), but has yet to split any electors
• Nebraska adopted this method in 1991 (first used in 1992), but has yet to split any electors