query: member_of_political_party margarette leach
supports: Margarette Faye Riggins Leach ( December 4 , 1926 -- December 23 , 2007 ) was a United States Democratic politician from West Virginia , best known for being a faithless elector during 1988 United States presidential election . She pledged to vote for Michael Dukakis for President of the United States and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President of the United States . However , she cast her vote for Bentsen as President and Dukakis as Vice President as a form of protest against the electoral college 's winner - take - all system . Leach was later a seven - term member of the West Virginia House of Delegates , representing the 15th district . She won the Democratic primary for an additional term , but lost the general election in 2006 . Leach died December 23 , 2007 . Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States. West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the north (and, slightly, east), and Maryland to the northeast. West Virginia is the 41st largest by area, the 38th most populous, and has the second lowest household income of the 50 United States. The capital and largest city is Charleston. In United States presidential elections, a faithless elector is a member of the United States Electoral College who does not vote for the presidential or vice-presidential candidate for whom they had pledged to vote. That is, they break faith with the candidate they were pledged to and vote for another candidate, or fail to vote. A pledged elector is only considered a faithless elector by breaking their pledge; unpledged electors have no pledge to break. In United States presidential elections, an unpledged elector is a person nominated to stand as an elector but who has not pledged to support any particular presidential or vice presidential candidate, and is free to vote for any candidate when elected a member of the Electoral College. Presidential elections are indirect, with voters in each state choosing electors on Election Day in November, and these electors choosing the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in December. Electors today are elected in every state by popular vote, and in practice have since the 19th century almost always agreed in advance to vote for a particular candidate  that is, they are said to have been "pledged" to that candidate. In the 20th century, however, several elections were contested by unpledged electors, who made no pledge to any candidate before the election. These anomalies largely arose over fissures within the Democratic Party over the issues of civil rights and segregation. There have been no unpledged electors in the Electoral College since 1960, and no serious general election campaign has been mounted to elect unpledged electors in any state since 1964.
candidates: democratic party union
answer: democratic party