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Put your presidential knowledge to the test this Election Day with The Post's commander-in-chief quiz.Today the country votes to elect the 47th president of the United States. Whether you cast a...
The 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state ...
Election Day in the United States is the annual day for general elections of federal, state and local public officials.With respect to federal elections, it is statutorily set by the U.S. government as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November" [1] of even-numbered years (i.e., the Tuesday that occurs within November 2 to November 8).
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.
The deadlines for states to certify the official vote tallies are staggered. Delaware comes first, and must certify its votes by Nov. 7, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. [a] The Republican Party's ticket—Donald Trump, who was the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and JD Vance, the junior U.S. senator from Ohio—defeated the Democratic Party's ticket—Kamala Harris, the incumbent vice president, and Tim Walz, the 41st governor of Minnesota.
6:00 PM: Polls close in parts of Kentucky and Indiana located in the Eastern Time Zone. [2] [3]7:00 PM: Polls close in: [3] Parts of Florida located in the Eastern Time Zone. [2]
On January 7, 1789 the first presidential election took place in the United States of America naming George Washington the first president. ... This Day in History, January 7, 2016.