Us Election 2024: Votes are to be cast for the presidential election in America today. Shortly from now, when it is morning in America, millions of Americans will go out of their homes to cast their votes. Know every news related to the time set for voting in the presidential election, counting and results in easy language.Voting for the presidential election is about to take place in America on Tuesday. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are in the electoral fray from America’s two most prominent political parties, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. There is going to be a close contest between the two candidates, so the election results can also be quite surprising.Amidst all this, the question arises that what is the process of American Presidential election? Voting for the presidential election takes place on the first Tuesday of November, but why is the official announcement of the new President made in January? There are many such questions which make the American election a puzzle.Many political observers described the unexpected race for America’s 47th president as the most important in decades, while painting a grim picture for the country’s future under a Trump presidency.
What is the voting time in US Presidential election?
Voting for the US Presidential election will start between 7 am and 9 am according to the local time of different states. This will be from 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm according to Indian time.
Talking about the last time for voting, most of the voting centers can continue from 6 pm till late night. That means by the time voting ends in America, the next day will start in India. That is, voting in America can end by 4:30 am on Wednesday as per Indian time. This time can be more in many states because the states of America are divided into many different time zones.
When will the US Presidential election results come out?
Counting of votes will begin as soon as the voting for the presidential election in America is over. After the counting is over, the winner of the vote (public vote) will be declared, but it is not necessary every time that the candidate who has got the most votes is the winner of the presidential post. Because in America, the President is actually elected not by popular votes but by the Electoral College. Apart from this, it may also happen many times that the projected winner is being declared in a state while voting is going on in another.
Sometimes it takes a day or two to get accurate results. At the same time, after the voting of the electors in December, all the electoral certificates are handed over to the President of the Senate by December 25. After this, on January 6, 2025, the votes of the electors are counted in the joint session of the Congress, on this day Vice-President Kamala Harris announces the name of the winner in the House.
What is the Electoral College?
The Electoral College process includes the selection of electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.The role of the Electoral College is very important in the US Presidential election. The Electoral College is the number of electors fixed for each state of the US. Any candidate has to win 270 out of 538 Electoral Colleges to win the election. Every state gets electors according to the number of its representatives in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
Currently, the state of California has the highest number of 55 electors and the lowest number of electors is 3 which are in 6 states of the US including Wyoming. However, the 7 swing states are of the greatest importance because unlike most states, their stance is not clear in advance, and this is the reason why these swing states are called the main ‘battleground’.
Know how electors are selected?
Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors (known as a slate).
In most states, the presidential candidate with the most votes gets all the electors, even if the candidate wins by a slim margin. Only in Maine and Nebraska, the number of electors is proportional to the number of votes a candidate receives.
How many presidential candidates are there in the US?
In the US presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris is the presidential candidate from the ruling party, while former President Donald Trump is in the electoral fray from the main opposition Republican Party. Apart from these two main rivals, 3 other candidates are also trying their luck.
The most prominent name in this is the 74-year-old female candidate of the Green Party, Jill Stein. Jill has contested the presidential election twice before. The Liberal Party has fielded the youngest candidate Chase Oliver. Oliver is 39 years old and is one of the political activists opposing the Iraq war.Apart from this, 71-year-old independent candidate Colonel West is also in the presidential race. Colonel West has promised that if he wins the election, he will press Israel for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories.
