election

Examples of election in the following topics:

• Candidates for Congressional Elections

  • Senators are elected by their state as a whole.
  • House elections are first-past-the-post elections that elect a Representative from each of 435 House districts which cover the United States.
  • House elections occur every two years, correlated with presidential elections or halfway through a President's term.
  • Typically, when a House election occurs in the same year as a presidential election, the party of the presidential winner will gain seats.
  • An increasing trend has been for incumbents to have an overwhelming advantage in House elections, and since the 1994 election, an unusually low number of seats has changed hands in each election.

• Types of Elections

  • In a parliamentary system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen .
  • The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.
  • A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections.
  • A primary election is an election that narrows the field of candidates before the general election.
  • Primary elections are one means by which a political party nominates candidates for the next general election.

• Nominating Candidates

  • Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for election to office.
  • To nominate candidates, political parties hold primary elections.
  • Primary elections are used to narrow the field of candidates for the general election.
  • In the general election, nominees from each party compete against each other to be elected to office.
  • Describe the steps by which a candidate appears on the ballot in a general election

• The General Election Campaign

  • A general election day may also include elections for local officials.
  • In U.S. politics, general elections occur every four years and include the presidential election.
  • There is no analogue to "calling early elections" in the U.S., however, and the members of the elected U.S.
  • Senate face elections of only one-third at a time at two year intervals including during a general election.
  • All federal elections including elections for the President and the Vice President, as well as elections to the House of Representatives and Senate, are partisan.

• The 17th Amendment

  • The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
  • The malapportioned state legislatures would have given the Republicans control of the Senate in the 1916 Senate elections.
  • With direct election, each vote represented equally, the Democrats retained control of the Senate.
  • This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
  • State the change in the manner of electing Senators effected by the 17th Amendment

• Congressional Campaign Committees

  • Congressional Campaign Committees exist for both Democrats and Republicans, and work to elect candidates from each party to the House of Representatives.
  • Emanuel led the Democratic Party's effort to capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections.
  • After Emanuel's election as chairman of the Democratic Caucus, Chris Van Hollen became committee chair for the 110th Congress, and thus for the 2008 elections.
  • He continued through the 2010 elections.
  • The Chairman is elected by the House Republican Conference after each Congressional election.

• Types of Ballots

  • Ballot design can aid or inhibit clarity in an election.
  • In the simplest elections, a ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on which each voter writes in the name of a candidate, but governmental elections use pre-printed ballots to protect the secrecy of the votes.
  • Depending on the type of voting system used in the election, different ballots may be used.
  • Clear sided ballot boxes used in the Haitian general election in 2006.
  • Compare and contrast the different types of ballots used for elections

• Electing Candidates

  • An election is a decision-making process used in a democracy to choose public office holders based on a vote.
  • Generally, elections consist of voters casting ballots at polling places on a scheduled election day .
  • Electoral systems then determine the result of the election on the basis of the tally.
  • The question of who may vote is a central issue in elections.
  • Most national elections require that voters are citizens, and many local elections require proof of local residency to vote.

• The 2008 Presidential Election

  • The 2008 U.S. presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election.
  • Barack Obama won the election by a historic majority vote .
  • The 2008 presidential election was exceptional in many ways.
  • It was the first U.S. presidential election in which an African American was elected president, having also been the first African American to be nominated by a major party.
  • The 2008 U.S. presidential election took place on November 4, 2008.

• The General Election Campaign

  • In the United States, a presidential election is held every four years and includes both a primary season and a general election.
  • Under this system, statewide elections take place in which voters cast ballots for candidates.
  • Because candidates in the general election must appeal to vast numbers of voters across a large geographic range, general elections are immensely expensive.
  • Since the president is the most visible elected official in the country, the election season is so long, and so much money is spent on advertising, the presidential general election has greater voter turnout than any other U.S. election.
  • In some cases, voter turnout strongly impacts the outcome of elections.