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A presidential election ballot in the state of Nevada in 2016.

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. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College. These electors then in turn cast direct votes, known as electoral votes, for president, and for vice president. The candidate who receives an absolute majority of electoral votes (at least 270 out of a total of 538, since the Twenty-Third Amendment granted voting rights to citizens of D.C.) is then elected to that office. If no candidate receives an absolute majority of the votes for president, the House of Representatives chooses the winner; if no one receives an absolute majority of the votes for vice president, then the Senate chooses the winner.

Recent presidential election results[]

Year Party Presidential candidate Vice presidential candidate Electoral vote
1988 Stevenson
270+/268-
1992 Stevenson
270+/268-
1996 POTUS 42
270+/268-
2000 POTUS 42
270+/268-
2004 Opposition POTUS 43
483+/55-
Main Blake Stewart
2008 Opposition POTUS 43
270+/268-
Main
2012 Main Stuart Hughes Selina Meyer
270+/268-
Opposition ??? Abraham Buttrick
2016 Opposition Bill O'Brien Laura Montez
269/269
Main Selina Meyer Tom James
2020 Main Selina Meyer Jonah Ryan
270+/268-
Opposition Laura Montez ???
2024
270+/268-
2028
270+/268-
2032
270+/268-
2036
270+/268-
2040 Main Richard Splett
270+/268-
2044 Main Richard Splett
~400+/~100-
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