---
kind: "section"
citation: "3 U.S.C. § 4"
title: "3"
title_heading: "The President"
number: "4"
heading: "Vacancies in electoral college"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/3/4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Presidential Elections and Vacancies"
---

# §4. Vacancies in electoral college


Each [State](/usc/3/21.md?p=2) may, by law enacted prior to [election day](/usc/3/21.md?p=1), provide for the filling of any vacancies which may occur in its college of electors when such college meets to give its electoral vote.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 673; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5234.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–328 inserted “enacted prior to election day” after “by law”.