Mississippi cast two electoral votes for the Democratic-Republican candidate and incumbent PresidentJames Monroe, as he ran effectively unopposed. The electoral votes for Vice president were cast for Monroe's running mateDaniel D. Tompkins from New York. Each state elector was chosen by the voters statewide. However one elector died before the electoral votes were cast and was not replaced, therefor only two votes were cast for Monroe and Tompkins instead of three.[2]
This election is one of three occasions where only two electoral votes were cast by a place in a presidential election: the others were in Washington, DC in 2000, as one of the district's three electors abstained, and in Nevada in 1864 due to one of the electors getting snowbound and there being no law to replace him.[3]
