Swing states, electoral faculty votes, candidates up and down the poll, and tens of millions of potential voters: Here is the US election, damaged down by numbers.

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Two

Several independents ran – and a minimum of one, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, stumbled into a variety of eyebrow-raising headlines.

But in the long run, the presidential race comes all the way down to a binary selection, with the 2 candidates from the foremost events – Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump – searching for to guide a polarised America.

Five

November 5 – Election Day, historically held on the Tuesday following the primary Monday in November.

Seven

The variety of swing states – these which don’t clearly favour one occasion over the opposite, which means they’re up for grabs.

Harris and Trump are courting voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, concentrating their marketing campaign efforts there in a push to make sure victory.

In a razor-tight election, only a handful of votes in any of these states may resolve the end result.

34 and 435

Voters received’t simply resolve the White House occupant on Election Day – they will even hit refresh on the US Congress.

Thirty-four Senate seats and all 435 spots within the House of Representatives are up for grabs.

In the House, members serve a two-year time period. Republicans at the moment have the bulk, and Harris’s Democrats can be hoping for a turnaround.

In the Senate, 34 seats out of 100 can be found, for a six-year time period. Republicans are hoping to overturn the slim Democratic majority.

538

Welcome to the Electoral College, the oblique system of common suffrage that governs presidential elections within the United States.

Each state has a distinct variety of electors – calculated by including the variety of their elected representatives within the House, which varies in accordance with inhabitants, to the variety of senators (two per state).

Rural Vermont, for instance, has simply three electoral votes. Giant California, in the meantime, has 54.

There are 538 electors in whole scattered throughout the 50 states and the District of Columbia. To take the White House, a candidate should win 270 votes.

774 000

The variety of ballot employees who made certain the 2020 election ran easily, in accordance with the Pew Research Center.

There are three kinds of election workers within the United States.

The majority are ballot employees – recruited to do issues like greet voters, assist with languages, arrange voting gear, and confirm voter IDs and registrations.

Election officers are elected, employed or appointed to hold out extra specialised duties reminiscent of coaching ballot employees, in accordance with Pew.

Poll watchers are normally appointed by political events to watch the poll rely – anticipated to be significantly contentious this 12 months, due to Trump’s refusal to conform to unconditionally settle for the end result.

Many election employees have already spoken to AFP in regards to the strain and threats they’re receiving forward of the November 5 vote.

75 million

As of November 2, greater than 75 million Americans had voted early, in accordance with a University of Florida database.

Most US states allow in-person voting or mail-in voting to permit individuals to take care of scheduling conflicts or an lack of ability to forged their ballots on election day itself on November 5.

244 million

The variety of Americans who can be eligible to vote in 2024, in accordance with the Bipartisan Policy Center.

How lots of these will really forged their poll stays to be seen, after all. But the Pew Research Center says that the midterm elections of 2018 and 2022, and the presidential vote of 2020, produced three of the best turnouts of their sort seen within the United States in a long time.

“About two-thirds (66 percent) of the voting-eligible population turned out for the 2020 presidential election – the highest rate for any national election since 1900,” Pew says on its web site.

That translated to almost 155 million voters, in accordance with the Census Bureau.

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