president-elect

Examples of president-elect in the following topics:

• The 20th Amendment

  • The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices.
  • It also deals with scenarios in which there is no President-elect.
  • The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
  • If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President.
  • If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

• The 22nd Amendment

  • The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to the office of President.
  • Bush and Barack Obama have been elected president twice.
  • Kennedy was assassinated, served the final 14 months (less than two years) of Kennedy's term, was elected president in 1964, and could have been re-elected in 1968 but chose to withdraw from the race.
  • Ford, who lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976 would have been eligible to be elected in his own right only once.
  • No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

• The Election of 1824

  • John Quincy Adams was elected president by the House of Representatives in 1824, despite not winning the popular vote.
  • 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.
  • He dropped out of the presidential race to run for vice president.
  • Adams's victory shocked Jackson who, as the winner of a plurality of both the popular and electoral votes, expected to be elected president.
  • Adams, despite not winning the popular vote, won 54 percent of the House votes and was elected president in 1825.

• The Executive Branch

  • The President and the Vice President are elected every four years; they are elected as running mates by the Electoral College.
  • If the President has already served two years or more of a term to which some other person was elected, he may only serve one more additional four-year term.
  • The people indirectly elect the President to a four-year term through the Electoral College; the president is one of only two nationally elected federal officers.
  • The Twenty-second Amendment, adopted in 1951, prohibits anyone from being elected to the presidency for a third full term.
  • It also prohibits anyone who has previously served as President for more than two years of another person's presidential term, or who has acted as President, from being elected to the presidency more than once .

• The Nomination Campaign

  • The modern presidential campaign begins before the primary elections.
  • Presidents are elected indirectly in the United States.
  • The vote of the electors is opened by the sitting vice president, acting in his capacity as President of the Senate, and is read aloud to a joint session of the incoming Congress, which is elected at the same time as the President.
  • This date, known as Inauguration Day, marks the beginning of the four-year term of both the President and the vice president.
  • Describe the procedure by which the Electoral College indirectly elects the President

• The Election of 1796

  • The election of 1796 was the first contested presidential election between two distinct political factions in the nation's history.
  • The election of 1796 was the first contested American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets.
  • There was no way for the electors to cast one vote for president and one for vice president—the electors simply voted for two different people, and the candidate with the most votes became president while the candidate with the second-highest number became vice president.
  • Jefferson received the second-highest number of electoral votes and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral college voting.
  • The 1796 election provided the impetus for the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S.

• The Vice Presidency

  • Constitutionally, the Vice President is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term of office.
  • The vice president, together with the president of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term of office.
  • This process occurs in the presence of both houses of Congress, generally on January 6 of the year following a U.S. presidential election.
  • In this capacity, only four vice presidents have been able to announce their own election to the presidency: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H.
  • By contrast, Richard Nixon presided over the process but also officially announced the election of his 1960 opponent, John F.

• The Election of 1856

  • The election of 1856 demonstrated the extremity of sectional polarization in U.S. national politics.
  • The election of 1856 demonstrated the extremity of sectional polarization in national politics during this era.
  • The American Party (known as the Know-Nothing Party) nominated former president Millard Fillmore, who largely ignored the slave issue in favor of an anti-immigrant platform.
  • Buchanan won the election of 1856 with the full support of the South as well as five free states.
  • Democratic candidate for president in 1856 and fifteenth president of the United States.

• Candidates for Congressional Elections

  • 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.
  • This may be because the President's popularity has slipped since election, or because the President's popularity encouraged supporters to come out to vote for him in the presidential election, but these supporters are less likely to vote when the President is not up for election.
  • 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.
  • (as elected in the biennial elections) Occasionally terms are applied in a slightly anachronistic way, such as for Federalists and Democratic-Republicans in the first few years on the Congress, or for Whigs during Jackson's presidency.

• Types of Elections

  • Political careers are often made at the local level: Boris Yeltsin, for instance, as the top official in Moscow, was able to prove his effectiveness and eventually become President of Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
  • 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.
  • Political careers are often made at the local level: Boris Yeltsin, for instance, as the top official in Moscow, was able to prove his effectiveness and eventually become President of Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
  • A primary election is an election that narrows the field of candidates before the general election.