Generally, the parties either nominate slates of potential electors at their State party conventions or they chose them by a vote of the party's central committee. ... When the voters in each State cast votes for the Presidential candidate of their choice they are voting to select their State's electors.Dec 23, 2019
Since the Civil War, all states have chosen presidential electors by popular vote. ... In those states, the winner of the popular vote in each of its congressional districts is awarded one elector, and the winner of the statewide vote is then awarded the state's remaining two electors.
The United States elections of 1788–89 were the first federal elections in the United States following the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In the elections,
George Washington was elected as the first
president and the members of the
1st United States Congress were selected.
Formal political parties did not exist, as the leading politicians of the day largely distrusted the idea of "factions." However, in the years after the ratification of the Constitution, Congress would become broadly divided by the economic policies of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, with the Pro-Administration faction supporting those policies. Opposing them was the Anti-Administration faction, which sought a smaller role for the federal government.[3] In these elections, the Pro-Administration faction won majorities in both houses of Congress.
Meanwhile, General George Washington was elected as the country's first president, while John Adams, who finished with the second largest number of electoral votes, was elected as the first vice president.
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