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Article: Elections, Presidential
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ELECTIONS, PRESIDENTIAL
This entry contains 48 subentries, comprising an overview and brief accounts of each election from 1789 to 2000.
Overview
Presidential elections have taken place in the United States quadrennially, beginning in 1789. T
hey include both the process of candidate nomination and the subsequent campaign for election. Since the 1830s, nomination has centered on national party conventions called to choose individuals to run for president and vice president and to adopt the party's platform. Delegate selection for these c
onventions was for a long time wholly extralegal and determined by local party traditions. Early in the twentieth century, some states set up ...