Because the U.S is the world power, everybody is interested to know every step they take because they are the leading country every country would love to be like. In that case, the U.S Election 2020 has become a concern to every country. What does the election have to say this time around? You get to know a whole lot following the below set of information.
U.S. Election 2020
The United States has built itself over the years to have attained such a level of greatness and has become a role model of many countries. The election is forthcoming and everyone wants to be fully involved to see that it works out properly.
Original Date for the U.S. 2020 Election
According to history, the upcoming presidential election of the United States in 2020 will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election to be held.
However, the election date was scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020. It is mapped out as the official date that the mass will vote for presidential electors in their state. Then these Electors should be in support of the candidate they want. the commencement of the vote from the Electors will be on the 14th of December 2020. Then will they vote for who they want as the president? Each candidate must belong to a political party.
Qualifications of Voters in the U.S
An eligible voter in the United States is a person who is established both through the United States constitution and by the state law. This means that the constitution and the state law will approve you as an eligible voter. However, the voting right is not restricted to race, color, sex. As long as you are above the eligible age (18), you are qualified to cast your vote when necessary in absence of federal law and constitutional provision. However, each state is given a set of discretion to establish over the election in their jurisdiction. Thus it is the established discretion in a jurisdiction or state that qualifies the election systems.
About Electoral College
The Electoral College simply states the presidential electors. Earlier on, we made mention that electors are to elect a new president and vice on 14th December 2020. The Electoral College is made of five hundred and thirty-eight Electors which is the electors is determined by the populations from the 2010 census. The essence of this body is to select the president and vice president of the United States.
There are fifty-two (52) states in the United States and each state is entitled to have Electors with respect to its representation in congress. The most populated gets the higher Electors. California as the most populous has the highest Electors of about 55. Let’s look at the number of various states with respect to their Electors.
- Alabama – 9
- Alaska – 3
- Arizona – 11
- Arkansas – 6
- California – 55
- Colorado – 9
- Connecticut – 7
- Delaware – 3
- District of Columbia – 3
- Florida – 29
- Georgia – 16
- Hawaii – 4
- Idaho – 4
- Illinois – 20
- Indiana – 11
- Iowa – 6
- Kansas – 6
- Kentucky – 8
- Louisiana – 8
- Maine – 4
- Maryland – 10
- Massachusetts – 11
- Michigan – 16
- Minnesota – 10
- Mississippi – 6
- Missouri – 10
- Montana – -3
- Nebraska – 5
- Nevada – 6
- New Hampshire – 4
- New York – 29
- North Carolina – 15
- New Jersey – -14
- New Mexico – 5
- North Dakota – 3
- Ohio – 18
- Oklahoma – 7
- Oregon – 7
- Pennsylvania – 20
- Rhode Island – 4
- South Carolina – 9
- South Dakota – 3
- Tennessee – 11
- Texas – 38
- Utah – 6
- Vermont 3
- Virginia – 13
- Washington – 12
- West Virginia – 5
- Wisconsin – 10
- Wyoming – 3
Major parties in the U.S
There are two major political parties in the United States and they are the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. There have been the dominating parties ever since 1850 in the United States, dealing with laws, party rules, and customs. In as much as they are the dominating parties, there are some other parties that have also won significant offices at the state level.
Red states, Blue states, and the Swing States: some states are dominated by the Republican Party and others are dominated by the Democratic Party while some are neutral. The Red states are dominated by the republicans; the Blue states are the democratic states while the swing states are neutral. They can change their hands according to the candidate of their choice.
Candidates for 2020 U.S Elections | Dropped out Candidates
Qualifications for candidateship of 2020 U.S Election: the candidate must at least be up to 35 years aged, must have life for 14 years in the U.S and must be born in the United States. this is the simple criteria that qualify a candidate for the U.S election.
There are several candidates that are contesting for the office of the president of the United States of America. At first, there were about 32 runnings for the office including the current president, 28 democrats and four republicans for the office of the president. But now, there are just five candidate and others are the Dropped out candidates. They are
- Donald J. Trump
- William F. Weld
- Joseph R. Biden
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Bernie Sanders.
Trump, Weld, Walsh, and Sanford are the only Republicans on the list.
The rest are as follows: Dropped out Candidates
- Elizabeth Warren
- Michael R. Bloomberg
- Amy Klobuchar
- Pete Buttigieg
- Tom Steyer
- Deval Patrick
- Andrew Yang
- Michael Bennet
- John Delaney
- Cory Booker
- Marianne Williamson
- Julian Castro
- Kamala Harris
- Steve Bullock
- Joe Sestak
- Wayne Messam
- Beto O’Rourke
- Tim Ryan
- Bill De Blasio
- Kristen Gillibrand
- Seth Moulton
- Jay Inslee
- John Hickenlooper
- Eric Swalwell
- Richard Ojeda
- Joe Walsh
- Mark Sanford
Get more details from the following channels
- BBC
- CNN
- Aljazeera
- The New York Times
- Odds Shark
- DW News
- NBC News
