The Maryland State Board of Elections has published a book on the History of Maryland's College Meetings 1789-2016. Want to learn more about the Electoral College and Maryland's role in the formation of the Electoral College. For historical information on the presidential Electors of Maryland see the Maryland State Archives's list of the presidential Electors in Maryland from 1789 to 2016. More information about the electoral college is available on the Federal Election Commission website. There are a total of 538 electoral votes 270 are required to elect the President. The electoral votes are then sealed and transmitted from each State to the President of the Senate who, on a designated date, opens and reads them before both houses of Congress. Once elected, the presidential electors must take an oath before the Clerk of the Court of Appeals before casting their votes for the candidates for President and Vice President who received the plurality of the votes cast in the state. The major parties usually select these individuals in their State party convention while third parties and independent candidates merely designate theirs. In Maryland, political parties (or independent candidates) submit to the State's chief election official a list of individuals pledged to their candidate for President and equal in number to the State's electoral vote. As established by Federal Law, on the first Monday after the second Wednesday of December after a Presidential General Election, each State's Electors will meet in their respective State capitals and cast their electoral votes - one for President and one for Vice President.Įach State is allocated a number of Electors equal to the number of Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.
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