US Election Procedure- Part2
For filling a vacancy, special elections take place which are broken up into three types Primary (Called the Primaries),general and the local elections.
Primary Election : In the congressional election process if more than one candidate from the same party seeks to fight then primary election is held. Where candidates are nominated by political parties and then votes are given. There are two types of Primaries election. Open election and Closed election. In open election any eligible voter can vote regardless of which party he represents where as in close election only members of the respective party can vote. Primary elections start in January and last until June in the election year.
General Election : This election is held to choose the final candidate which are nominated by parties running as independents or Write-In-candidates. In addition where the division of party candidates is not decided in the primary the runoffs take place in general election. A General election is held on the first Tuesday of November in even-numbered years called the Election Day. The candidate getting the highest number of votes wins.
In presidential elections, electoral votes are allotted equal to the sum of US representations and senators from that state. District of Columbia has three electoral votes even though it is not a state.
The presidential candidate who wins more number of votes wins that state’s electoral votes. Once the elections in states are certified, the votes won by each candidate are counted,
If a candidate receives at least 270 electoral votes out of 538 then he is declared as the winner and if no one wins with a majority then House of Representatives choose a winner, with one vote each for states.
So this is the entire election process which is carried out in USA. Now its time watch the show of this years Presidential election. Obama , Hillary Or McCain??Its a billion dollar question.
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