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NEW YORK's STATE LAWS REGARDING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

  • Electoral College Votes Count: 29
  • Alocation Type: winner-takes-all
  • Electors Must Pledge: no

Elector Pledge and Electoral College Votes Allocation​

New York is one of the 48 states that have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state’s Electoral votes.New York is one of the states that do not require their electors to vote as pledged.

Election Code: N.Y. Election Law §§ 12-104, 12-106, 6-102, 6-142

How Does New York Select Its Electors?​

  • Party nominations of candidates for the office of elector of president and vice president shall be made by the state committee.

When Do The Electors Vote?​

  • The electors shall convene at the state capitol upon notice from, and at a place fixed by the secretary of state on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their election. Those of them who shall be assembled at twelve o'clock noon of that day shall immediately at that hour fill, by majority vote, all vacancies in the electoral college occasioned by the death, refusal to serve, or neglect to attend at that hour, of any elector, or any vacancies occasioned by an equal number votes having been given for two or more candidates. The electoral college being thus completed, they shall then choose a president and one or more secretaries from their own body.

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