Talk:List of people who received an electoral vote in the United States Electoral College

message: Why does this not include Aaron Burr in the U.S. presidential election, 1800?  Burr got 73 EC votes (53%) but was not elected President, either by the Electoral College or (after 35 ballots) by the House of Representatives.  By the end he was certainly a candidate.  --Henrygb 03:33, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Burr in 1800

message: I'd asked over at Talk:Faithless elector about Belva Ann Lockwood who supposedly claimed to have won Indiana's electoral votes, just wanted to mention it here too.  If you know more, post at Faithless elector to keep the discussion centralized, thanks. Шизомби 18:49, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lockwood in 1884?

message: "Presidents who failed bids at reelection are not included. "
In line with that construction, I am removing Van Buren in 1840; Cleveland 1888; Benjamin Harrison 1892; Taft in 1912; and Ford in 1976.
Edit Feb. 25, 2007: power went out before the edit of the page was complete.  I am re-thinking this.  I think a list of presidential candidates who received votes in the Electoral College by election year is a better idea.  I will see if I can make time to do that 
Justus R 20:32, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presidents who failed bids at reelection 

message: Under 1872, it says that Charles Jenkins and David Davis earned 2 and 1 electoral votes respectively, but the percentage for both is 0.5%.  This is obviously incorrect, but I don't know what is.  Can someone please fix that?  Reywas92Talk 18:56, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: Why are Vice Presidents included on this list if the title of the article is "List of candidates for PRESIDENT of the United States who received at least one electoral vote"?  174.57.199.184 (talk) 01:29, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Per the intro, it's supposed to be (and is) a list of every person in the United States that received an electoral vote. The page should probably be moved to something like "List of people who received an electoral vote by the United States Electoral College" or something, since some of the people here (Walter Jones, Harry Byrd) were never really candidates at all and were the result of faithless electors.--173.161.113.17 (talk) 11:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Veeps 

message: Shouldn't there be some kind of explanation of what the various row colors in the table mean? Because there isn't.
IAmNitpicking (talk) 13:57, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colors mean what? No legend. 

message: In the early elections, electors cast two votes each. Perhaps the percentages should not be based on the total number of votes, but on the maximum number of votes a candidate could receive. For example, in the first election, 69 electors voted; the total number of votes was 138, but as one could not cast two votes for the same person, the maximum number of votes a candidate could get was 69. Hence, George Washington won with an astounding 100%, not 50%. Bever (talk) 02:16, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is a great idea, and came here to suggest it myself. Perhaps a parenthetical would be the best way to do this. So Washington would be either read 100% (50%) or 50% (100%) depending on which number we wanted it to be more consistent with.  (That is, he got 50% of the overall "votes for President," but he got 100% of the number of votes he was eligible to receive.) The reason and meaning of the parentheticals would be explained clearly in the introduction, which already notes that there was a change in 1804. And since it is widely known that Washington was elected unanimously, it seems strange (and perhaps incorrect, to some people) to show him at just 50%. ---38.104.29.62 (talk) 15:46, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentage