At the time, Alabama listed all the electors on the ballot but not the presidential candidate, so Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey was supported by the National Democratic slate (whose most popular elector won 54,144 votes) and an "Alabama Independent Democrat" slate (whose most popular elector won 142,435 votes).
[2] During the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election, John Cashin ran as the NDPA candidate for governor against George Wallace,[3] getting 15% of the vote.
[6][7] The NDPA was able to get around a hundred local officials elected, especially in the western part of the state.
[8] The importance of the NDPA must be viewed in terms of the impact that it had on politics in the Alabama Black Belt.
A number of elected officials credited Cashin and the NDPA for their success including Probate Judge William McKinley Branch,[9] Sheriff without a Gun Thomas Gilmore[10] and Peter Kirksey.