Examples of general elections in the following topics:
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- The 2012 campaign between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama is an example of a general election for president.
- In the United States, a presidential election is held every four years and includes both a primary season and a general election.
- The winner of a presidential general election is not simply the person who receives the majority of votes nationwide.
- 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.
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- Primary elections are used to narrow the field of candidates for the general election.
- In a primary, several members of the same political party campaign to become their party's nominee in the general election.
- In the general election, nominees from each party compete against each other to be elected to office.
- In a case where an independent, or unaffiliated, candidate receives sufficient signatures, his or her name will appear on the ballot in the general election.
- Describe the steps by which a candidate appears on the ballot in a general election
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- ., general election campaigns promote presidential candidates running for different parties.
- In general elections citizens can actively participate in campaigning for their preferred political party.
- 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.
- Senate face elections of only one-third at a time at two year intervals including during a general election.
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- From the broad and general to the small and local, elections are designed to serve different purposes for various political voting systems.
- In a parliamentary system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen .
- 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.
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- 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.
- The electorate, or the group of people who are eligible to vote, does not generally include the entire population.
- Most national elections require that voters are citizens, and many local elections require proof of local residency to vote.
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- 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.
- In the United States today, the term ballot reform generally refers to efforts to reduce the number of elected offices .
- Clear sided ballot boxes used in the Haitian general election in 2006.
- Compare and contrast the different types of ballots used for elections
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- There have been several Independents elected to the United States Senate throughout history.
- Some officials have been elected as members of a party but became an Independent while in office (without being elected as such), such as Wayne Morse of Oregon or Virgil Goode of Virginia.
- Norris won re-election as an Independent in 1936, but later lost his final re-election attempt to Republican Kenneth S.
- In the 2008 general elections, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Jeffrey Wood left the Republican Party and won reelection as an Independent.
- In November 2005, Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami, Florida as an Independent.
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- Senators are elected by their state as a whole.
- In most states, a primary election is held first for the Republican and Democratic parties, with the general election following a few months later.
- 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.
- 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.
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- 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.
- Social media sites joined traditional forms of campaign activity to generate increased election interest.
- In general, the Obama campaign was much more adept at emphasizing the change and experience Obama would bring to the presidency, and distancing itself from the Bush administration, than was the McCain campaign.
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- John Quincy Adams was elected president on February 9, 1825, in the United States presidential election of 1824, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives.
- The presidential election of 1824 is notable for being the only election since the passage of the Twelfth Amendment to have been decided by the House of Representatives.
- In general, the candidates were favored by different sections of the country, with Adams strong in the Northeast; Jackson in the South, West, and mid-Atlantic; Clay in parts of the West; and Crawford in parts of the East.
- For the first time, the popular vote mattered in a presidential election.
- Calhoun secured a total of 182 electoral votes and won the vice presidency in what was generally an uncompetitive race.