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Bernadette Ferrara, Van Nest Neighborhood Alliance president and candidate for the 15th district in the 2021 special and regular elections John Perez, Army veteran and candidate for New York's 34th State Senate district in 2022 [5]
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
There were several special elections for seats vacated in 2020 and early 2021; these special elections were the first to use ranked-choice voting in city council elections after it was approved by a ballot question in 2019 and the second to use ranked-choice voting since New York City repealed PR-STV in 1945.
The NYCCLC is governed by a President, a Secretary-Treasurer, and Executive Council, made up of representatives from its affiliated unions. Prominent national labor leader Harry Van Arsdale, was the first President of the New York City Central Labor Council. He held this post from its formation in 1959 until his death in 1986.
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote. However, the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation's ...
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence. [9]
United States presidential elections in New York. New York state is one the of initial 13 states of America, but due to a deadlock in the state legislature, it did not join the first presidential election in 1788–89. [ 1][ 2] However, apart from this election, New York State has participated in all 58 other elections in U.S. history.
As of the 2020 election, when there was an incumbent president running for re-election and key 3 was true, the president was re-elected on 17 of 25 occasions. Of the 16 open seat elections (when key 3 was false), the incumbent party was defeated on ten occasions (the exceptions were in 1868 , 1876 , 1880 , 1908 , 1928 and 1988 ).