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George Washington won 69 votes. However, since the only people who voted were the members of the Electoral College, and since there were 69 members, George Washington is the only president who won by Unanimous Vote.
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Technically 35 (in the first election), which would have been a majority of the electoral college and one more than was received by John Adams.
In the second election, 78 would have been sufficient for him to surpass Adams, who again had the second-highest total.
(Washington actually received 69 and 132 electoral votes in the first and second elections respectively.)
If you mean popular vote... it's hard to say, because they didn't do elections the same way then that we do now. States are constitutionally allowed to choose their electors however they like, and in the first election, only 6 of the states used a popular vote to select the electors (in the other 7, they were mainly picked by the state legislature).
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George Washington slogan?
George Washington did not have a slogan. He is the only president to receive 100 percent of the electoral votes. In fact, he received 100 percent twice.
What year did electoral votes start?
George Washington won the first electoral election in 1789 with 69 electoral votes.
How many electoral votes did President George Washington have in 1789?
69
When congress counted the votes for president the tally showed that george Washington was?
unanimous
Did Washington receive the unanimous vote of the electors in his first election as president?
Yes, There is a good summary on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1789 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1792 In the 1789 election, each elector cast 2 votes for the president and vice president. George Washington received a vote from EVERY elector for a unanimous election. John Adams received the majority of the Vice President votes and thus became vice president. In 1792 George Washington also received 100% of the Presidential votes, becoming the first and only president to ever receive 100% of the electoral votes.
