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Blerpiez
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« on: June 01, 2004, 07:08:50 PM »
In 1839, Marcus "Landslide" Morton was elected governor of Massachusetts by one vote.  In those days, the governor had to recieve a majority of the vote.  Landslide recieved 51034 of 102066 votes cast.  One less, and the election would have been thrown to the state legislature
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Blerpiez
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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2004, 02:36:57 PM »
Quote from: Gustaf on June 02, 2004, 03:24:19 PM
Quote from: blerpiez on June 01, 2004, 07:08:50 PM
In 1839, Marcus "Landslide" Morton was elected governor of Massachusetts by one vote.  In those days, the governor had to recieve a majority of the vote.  Landslide recieved 51034 of 102066 votes cast.  One less, and the election would have been thrown to the state legislature

IIRC, the crazy bastard did it TWICE! Smiley

In 1842, the election was thrown to the legislature, where Landslide won by one vote
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