Presidential Election Votes By Year, Historical Presidential Election Map Timeline

Senate seats are up for election once every six years.

Election polls 2020 new brunswick. There is actually one way to win the presidency without getting 270 electoral votes. The 100 members in the united states senate are elected to six year terms with one third of them being renewed every two years. Senate balance of power.

The united states holds its federal elections on the first tuesday after the first monday in november. Year presidential candidate party electoral votes popular votes vice presidential candidate and party. Democratic dem liberal rep.

Each of the 435 seats in the united states house of representatives are elected to two year terms. The candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular votehowever the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nations president or vice president. 2 in early elections electors were chosen by legislatures not by popular vote in many states.

The president of the united states is elected to a four year term. Year candidate political party electoral votes 1 popular votes 2 popular percentage 3. Republican dem liberal rep.

The winners of the state election are in bold and shown with the colour of their political party. Gratz brown charles j. Through 2016 there have been 58 presidential elections.

An interactive version of each map is also available letting you change history. 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. States or in washington dc cast ballots not directly for those offices but instead for members of the electoral college.

In a united states presidential election the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and washington dc. There are 35 seats up for this years senate elections including special elections in arizona and georgia. 1 in elections from 1789 to 1804 each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which was to be vice president.

Following is a table of united states presidential elections in arizona ordered by yearsince its admission to statehood in 1912 arizona has participated in every us. Thats led to many efforts to reform the electoral college over the years. Winning the national popular vote doesnt matter as we saw most recently in the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections where the winner of the popular vote actually lost the election.

See maps and real time presidential election results for the 2020 us election. These electors then cast direct votes known as electoral votes for president. Grant horace greeley thomas a.