| Margarette Leach | |
| State Delegate: | West Virginia |
| District: | 15th |
| Term Start: | January 1993 |
| Term End: | January 2007 |
| Successor: | Carol Miller |
| Birth Date: | 4 December 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Goodwill, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Huntington, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Residence: | Huntington, West Virginia, U.S. |
Margarette Faye Riggins Leach[1] [2] (December 4, 1926 – December 23, 2007) was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia, best known for being a faithless elector during the 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.[3]
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.