Source: U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on the Judiciary; hearings before a subcommittee, Nomination and Election of President and Vice President, 83d Cong., 1st sess., 1953, pp. 183-184. Under the proportional system other candidates would have recieved 9, 100 electoral votes. State-by-State outcome under the District system is not available. Republican Democratic (Dewey) Rights Progressive Repub- Demo- States Repub(Truman) (Thurmond) (Wallace) lican cratic Rights lican Demo- States Progrescratic Rights Repub sive fican Democratic Other Uncertain Source: U.S. Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary, hearings before Subcommittee No. 1, "Amend the Constitution with Respect to Election of President and Vice President," 81st Cong., 1st sess., 1949, pp. 44-45 for tabulated results except those listed under the district plan, District plan results from following source Senate Committee on the Judiciary, hearings before a subcommittee, "Nomination and Election of President and Vice President," 83d Cong., 1st sess., 1963, p. 237. [Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service] TABLE I.-Contingent election of the President by the House of Representatives number of State congressional delegations with Democratic or Republican majorities, or evenly divided1 1 Reflects the composition of the House of Representatives on January 3 next following the presidential election. Sources: Congressional Directories, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1961, 1965; New York Times, November 8, 1969, p. 27. TABLE II.-Contingent election of the Vice President by the Senate' 2 Reflects the composition of the Senate on January 3, next following the presidential election. Sources: Congressional Directories, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1961, 1965; New York Times, November 8, 1968, p. 27. 57 43 100 TABLE III.-Comparative contingent election of the Vice President by the Senate (Each Senator having 1 vote) NOTE. The dates shown beneath the Second Sessions of the outgoing Congresses are from the convening of the electoral college to the convening date of the incoming Congress. Were an outgoing Congress to determine a contingent election under present conditions, this is the hypothetical period in which it would have to meet and make that determination. Accordingly figures for Democratic and Republican Senators have been calculated for those time periods shown. SOURCE: Congressional Directories, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968; and New York Times, November 8, 1968, p. 27. |