First Election In Usa

Leads in individual states may change from one party to another as all the votes are counted.

First election in usa. Presidential election that spanned two calendar years 1788 and 1789. These electors then cast direct votes known as electoral votes for president. Results of us election 2020.

If biden is successful in arizona he would then need to win two of the three. It was held from monday december 15 1788 to saturday january 10 1789 under the new constitution ratified in 1788. George washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president and john adams became the first vice president.

Arizona appears to be leaning towards biden and it would be the first time since 1996 that a democrat won there. Presidential election congress sets january 7 1789 as the date by which states are required to choose electors for the country s first ever presidential election. The election of the president and the vice president of the united states is an indirect election in which citizens of the united states who are registered to vote in one of the fifty u s.

In the tiny township of dixville notch new hampshire on the us canada. The 1788 1789 united states presidential election was the first quadrennial presidential election. This was the only u s.

4 1789 in which george washington was unanimously chosen as the first president of the united states by electors from 10 of the 13 extant states. Two small communities in the state of new hampshire have upheld a long standing tradition by being the first to cast and count their ballots in the us presidential election. See maps and real time presidential election results for the 2020 us election.

A month later on. The results in dixville.