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The only election which changed party hands (from Republican to Democratic) was in New York's 23rd congressional district. Also, a primary election was held in Massachusetts on December 8, 2009, for the senate seat left open by the death of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy ; the general special election for that later seat occurred on January 19, 2010.
Since then, 19 presidential elections have occurred in which a candidate was elected or reelected without gaining a majority of the popular vote. [4] Since the 1988 election, the popular vote of presidential elections was decided by single-digit margins, the longest streak of close-election results since states began popularly electing ...
Despite multiple court challenges by the Gore campaign after a recount in Florida, the Supreme Court upheld the election; Bush won the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote by 0.51%. [19] The 2000 election remains the only presidential election since President Truman's upset re-election in 1948 in which the final pre-election polls ...
A pair of polls from USA TODAY/Suffolk University this week found Trump in a stronger "blue wall" position than the CNN polls: leading Harris 48%-47% in Wisconsin and tied with Harris at 47% in ...
Just under 70% of voters turned out in 2016, with just under 75% in 2020.
Exit polls reach far more people than the average pre-Election-Day poll, which typically only includes 1,000-2,000 people. Edison Research reached more than 100,000 voters in the 2020 general ...
A map of voter turnout during the 2020 United States presidential election by state (no data for Washington, D.C.) Approximately 161 million people were registered to vote in the 2020 presidential election and roughly 96.3% ballots were submitted, totaling 158,427,986 votes. Roughly 81 million eligible voters did not cast a ballot. [3]
The debates, campaigns, primaries, and conventions occurred several months before Election Day. The new president and vice president were sworn on January 20, 2009. It was the first presidential election lacking an incumbent president or vice president since 1952, and was projected to be the largest and most expensive election in U.S. history.