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5. Conventions finalize a party's choice for presidential and vice-presidential nominees. To become the presidential nominee, a candidate typically has to win a majority of delegates. This usually happens through the party's primaries and caucuses.
6. To win the election, a candidate must receive a majority of electoral votes. In the event no candidate receives a majority, the House of Representatives chooses the president and the Senate chooses the vice president.
7. An election for president of the United States happens every four years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The next presidential election will be November 3, 2020.
8. Electoral votes are allocated among the States based on the Census. Every state is allocated many votes equal to the number of senators and representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its senators in the U.S. Senate plus some votes equal to the number of its Congressional districts.
9. There are currently 538 electors, and an absolute majority of electoral votes—270 or more—is required for it to elect the president and vice president.
10. The inauguration of the president of the United States is a ceremony to mark the commencement of a new four-year term of the president of the United States. In those years, the presidential oath of office was administered on that day privately and then again in a public ceremony the next day, on Monday, January 21.
