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Us elections kaiserreich. It is the 59th quadrennial presidential electionvoters select presidential electors who in turn will vote on december 14 2020 to either elect a new president and vice president or reelect the incumbents donald trump and mike pence respectively. A month later on february 4 george washington was. The 100 members in the united states senate are elected to six year terms with one third of them being renewed every two years.

Congress sets january 7 1789 as the date by which states are required to choose electors for the countrys first ever presidential election. The 2020 united states presidential election was held on tuesday november 3 2020. These electors then cast direct votes known as electoral votes for president.

By 1792 federal law permitted each state to choose presidential electors any time within a 34 day period before the first wednesday in december. Americans first began the custom of weekday voting in 1845 when congress passed a federal law designating the first tuesday following the first monday in november as election day. States or in washington dc cast ballots not directly for those offices but instead for members of the electoral college.

The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses were. Since its admission to statehood in 1788 georgia has participated in every us. A november election was convenient because the harvest would have been completed but the most severe winter weather impeding transportation would not yet have arrived while the new election results also would roughly conform to a new year.

This page links to the results of those historical elections including a larger map results and synopsis of the race. Each of the 435 seats in the united states house of representatives are elected to two year terms. Through 2016 there have been 58 presidential elections.

4 1789 in which george washington was unanimously chosen as the first president of the united states by electors from 10 of the 13 extant states. Following is a table of united states presidential elections in georgia ordered by year. The election of the president and the 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 us.

Winners of the state are in bold. The united states holds its federal elections on the first tuesday after the first monday in november. Turnout was high on election day 784 percent but the result was one of the closest in history.

Presidential election except the election of 1864 when it had seceded in the american civil war.