Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in the U.S.A., Part I

The United States of America holds congressional elections on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, to fill all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 37 of 100 seats in the Senate. The mid-term election will be the first nationwide vote since 2008, when Barack Obama made history by becoming the first African-American elected to the presidency.

Nationwide and state-level results are available here for the following general elections:

	President

November 4, 2008	Results	Election Map	Election Map	Election Map

November 7, 2006			Election Map	Election Map

November 2, 2004	Results	Election Map	Election Map	Election Map

November 5, 2002			Election Map	Election Map

November 7, 2000	Results	Election Map	Election Map	Election Map

November 3, 1998			Election Map	Election Map

November 5, 1996	Results	Election Map	Election Map	Election Map

1996 to 2004 election statistics presented in this space come from reports and data files issued by the Federal Election Commission, while the 2008 figures come from official results published by the electoral agencies of the fifty states and the District of Columbia.

Part II of this presentation will describe the electoral system used to choose the President of the U.S. and members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.