United States presidential election, 2016

Elections for the President of the United States in 2016, scheduled on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, will be the 58as United States presidential election quadrennial. The voters will select presidential electors, who in turn elect a new president and vice president through the Electoral College. Limit periods set in the Twenty Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the incumbent president, Barack Obama, is elected for a third term in office.

The primary elections will take place between February 1 and June 2016, ranging from 50 states, the District of Columbia and US territories This electoral process is also an indirect election, where voters cast their ballots for a list of delegates to a convention to nominate a political party, who then elect the presidential nominee of his party.

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