The President and Vice President are currently elected by the Electoral College via two separate ballots. The result of this is that candidates for President choose a running mate for Vice President. Voters vote for candidates as a pair, not individually. Is this a unique system? Are there any other offices in the world where one votes for a set of candidates, rather than an individual?
In Illinois, I think the Governor and Lieutenant Governor are elected as a pair.
Lots of states operate this way.
Lots of countries have ticket voting systems in parliamentary elections. The party nominates a list of candidates,; voters vote for the list they prefer; the number of candidates elected from each list is a function of the proportion of the total vote which that list gets.
Brazil and Argentina both elect their president and vice president as a ticket. There are probably other presidential systems in South and Central America that do this.
Most MPs in Singapore are elected from “group representation constituencies,” where a number of candidates all run together and are elected as a group.
Thanks for the responses, all. The Governor and Lt Governor are elected separately here in California, so I didn’t think of that. It’s always interesting to hear about other countries’ election systems, too.
In Pennsylvania the Governor and Lieutenant Governor run on the same ticked in the general election, but run separately in the primary.
In Panama, the President and Vice President are elected as a ticket, but because of coalitions may be of different parties.
An odd result of this was that in the previous administration, the President dissolved the coalition with the Vice President’s party about two years into his five-year term. That meant the VP was out of the government, but remained VP.
He got the last laugh, however, since in the last election he was elected President, defeating the candidate the previous President had picked as his successor.
French representatives to the parliament are elected on a ticket (the president, on the other hand, isn’t. If he dies, is incapacited, etc…new elections are held).
New Jersey changed the state constitution fairly recently to include a Lieutenant Governor. Prior to 2010 there was no such post. Several incidents in the recent past left the governor unable to govern. Christie Whitman resigned to take a cabinet post. Jim McGreevey resigned to become a Gay American. Jon Corzine was incapacitated by a bad car accident (he was not officially replaced but he probably would have if there was a LT Gov at the time).
The state constitution said that the President of the Senate would be acting governor until the next election and keep his seat in the senate. Now Governor in New Jersey is one of the most powerful state executive positions in the country. Governor is the only state wide elected office. There is no election for attorney general or comptroller or any other cabinet position. They are appointed by the governor.
Now there is a Lieutenant Governor which allows our governor to run around the country and campaign for president or to campaign for others while his running mate is back home working. At election time the we vote on the combined governor/lieutenant governor ticket.
I don’t think you got that right. Voters in the United States vote for each office separately.
On every presidential ballot I have cast, the presidential candidates were paired as single selections with their running mates. You couldn’t vote for president and go separately.
Presidential electors are elected on a ticket. And in most states, they don’t even print their names on the ballot. Maybe all now, but there definitely used to be exceptions to that, and I think there were once states that only printed the elector candidates’ names. (Maine and Nebraska do a weird thing where a single vote counts towards the election of two statewide electors and one elector from the voter’s congressional district.)
I lave never seen electors" names on the ballot. It was either just the candidates" names or “(electors for)” the candidates.
isn’t it that the Electors vote separately for each office, but the slate of Electors put forward by each party are of course pledged to vote for the parties’ two candidates for Prez and Veep, so they’re listed together on the ballot?
Wiki, of course, has a detailed list of which states have paired tickets for Gov / Lt Gov, and which elect them separately: