The US presidential election will take place on November 5 after months of campaigning. The key moment of this Democratic caucus, the start of the Republican primaries – which will determine which candidate the party will field to face incumbent Joe Biden – took place this Monday. An opportunity to evaluate America’s votes.
November 5, 2024
Scheduling an appointment November 5, 2024 It is the date of the US presidential, legislative and senatorial elections, which are traditionally held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The 2020 election, which pitted Joe Biden against Donald Trump, saw record turnout with more than 157 million voters.
Primary
The two main parties will each choose a candidate at national conventions to be held after the process primaries and clubs, state by state, which will begin on January 15 in Iowa. Important dates include “Super Tuesday” is scheduled for March 5 and during which fifteen states, including Texas and California, hold primaries simultaneously.
On the democratic side, Joe BidenThe incumbent and re-election candidate is expected to make an effortless appearance at the Democratic National Convention in August in Chicago, Illinois.
On the Republican side, the candidate will be nominated in July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and former Pres Donald Trump he is considered the ultra favorite, despite four criminal charges against him, some of which threaten him with prison.
270 to win
American voting takes place in single-district indirect universal suffrage and the game is played according to a certain mechanism. Americans vote by choice 538 voters, which determine the president. To win the election, a candidate must win an absolute majority of voters, the magic number of 270.
Each state has as many electors as elected representatives in the House of Representatives and the Senate. California, the most populous state in the country, has the largest number of electors (54). Delaware, Wyoming, and the capital Washington have only 3. In all but two states, the candidate who wins the majority of the popular vote wins all of the state’s electors. In Nebraska and Maine, these electoral votes are distributed proportionally.
Key states
Some states are historically democratic, others staunchly republican. With regard to the voting method, the candidates therefore concentrate on a dozen countries that can swing to one side or the other and have an influence on the outcome of elections: the famous “swing states”. The most important are those with the most electors, such as Pennsylvania (19), Ohio (17) or Georgia (16). But Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada also promise to be in high demand. Depending on the elections, “swing states” can change.