Five: November 5 – Election Day, traditionally held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
Seven: The number of swing states – those that don’t clearly favor one party over the other, meaning they’re up for grabs. Harris and Trump are courting voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, focusing their campaign efforts there to secure victory. In a close election, only a handful of votes in any of these states could decide the outcome.
34 and 435: Voters will not only decide who occupies the White House on Election Day, they will also address the US Congress. Thirty-four seats in the Senate and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for grabs.
538: Welcome to the Electoral College, the indirect system of universal suffrage that governs presidential elections in the United States. Each state has a different number of electors, calculated by adding the number of its elected representatives in the House, which varies by population, to the number of senators (two per state). Rural Vermont, for example, has only three electoral votes. Giant California, meanwhile, has 54. There are 538 voters in total spread across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. To take the White House, a candidate must win 270 votes.
774,000: the number of poll workers who ensured the 2020 elections ran smoothly, according to the Pew Research Center. There are three types of election workers in the United States. The majority are election workers, recruited to greet voters, help them with languages, set up voting equipment and check voter ID cards and registrations. Election officials are elected, hired or appointed to perform more specialized tasks such as training poll workers, according to Pew.
75 million: As of November 2, more than 75 million Americans had voted early, according to a University of Florida database.
244 million: this is the number of Americans who will have the right to vote in 2024, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.
