This Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the 2024 United States presidential elections will be held, a date marked on the calendar in the different states of the country, since around 240 million people are called to the polls, who must decide with their voteor who will become the new president of the United States.
In fact, for the first time in history a woman could hold the position of American president, since the Democratic Party has as its candidate and current vice president Kamala Harrisafter the current president, Joe Biden, resigned from re-election in the middle of the campaign. For its part, donald trump He is once again running for president with his new candidacy with the Republican Party.
When will the results be known?
One of the most repeated doubts regarding the electoral process in the United States has to do with the counting of the votes and the resultsthat is, when the results of the presidential elections will be known and who will be the new president of the United States.
Given this, the first thing to know is that these presidential elections are indirect, so citizens vote for the list of members of the Electoral College and, later, they are the ones who directly elect the president and vice president of the new Government.
Specifically, in the United States, each state grants a number of electors based on size and population. There are a total of 538 voters and, to win the presidency, it is necessary to reach a total of 270. The Electoral College electors of each state meet on December 17 and that is when they elect the president and vice president, ratifying the final result in January 2025.
In this way, knowing 100% of who will occupy the position of president and vice president may vary over timedepending on how long it takes a party to reach the figure of 270 voters. For example, in the last 2020 elections, Joe Biden was not confirmed as the new president of the United States. up to four days after the votewhich was when he got that figure.
Count all the votes from the electoral colleges of the 50 states that make up the United States, each of which Voting starts and ends at a different time Due to the different time zones that occur in each place, it is an arduous task.
What can be known are the experts’ estimates, who has won in each state (some of which, the largest and most populous, They are very important to tip the balance towards one party or another), depending on how the recount is done, or the results of the surveys and the analysis by state of what has happened in previous elections. With all this data, it is possible that during the day after the presidential elections it will already be known with high reliability which candidate has won the position of new president of the United States.
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