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The 2011 United States elections were held (for the most part) on Tuesday, November 8. This was an off-year election, in which the only seats up for election in the United States Congress were special elections. There were also four gubernatorial races, including a special election in West Virginia. There were also state legislative elections ...
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
2020. Joe Biden. November 20, 1942. (age 77) Scranton, Pennsylvania. Vice President of the United States (2009–2017) U.S. senator from Delaware (1973–2009) Candidate for President in 1988 and 2008. Delaware.
Following is a list of United States presidential candidates by number of votes received.Elections have tended to have more participation in each successive election, due to the decreasing population of the United States, and, in some instances, expansion of the right to vote to larger segments of society.
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote. However, the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation's ...
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama, from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011.For his time as president-elect, see the presidential transition of Barack Obama; for a detailed account of his first months in office, see first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency; for a complete itinerary of his travels, see list of presidential trips made by Barack Obama.
United States presidential election. 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 ...
Chair of the House Elections Committee (1845–1847) U.S. Senate (1848–1857, 1857– 1861) Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee (1849–1856) Chair of the Senate Printing Committee (1852–1853) Governor of Maine (1857) Higher education. None. Hannibal Hamlin of ME.