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Elections in the United States gives information on election and election results in the United States. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.
The United States elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president and the vice-president is elected for a four year term by a popular elected electoral assembly, its members separately elected in each of the states. Congress has two chambers. The House of Representatives has 435 members, elected for a two year term in single-seat constituencies. The Senate has 100 members, elected for a six year term in dual-seat constituencies with one-third being renewed every two years. The United States has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties , with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
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