Election Day (politics)

The day is referred to as polling day at which the population is called for elections within a democratic system of government. In some countries the election day falls for each term on the same day or the same week a year. In others, only the day of the week is set.

In countries with a federal structure of government elections will take place on multiple levels of government, for example, as parliamentary elections at the federal and state level and as local elections in the cities and towns.

Voting and election day - In Switzerland, see the votes, and from time to time elections, held every year before and up to a four voting dates.

Election Day in Germany

Since the November Revolution of 1918, the election day must be a Sunday or public holiday in Germany. The elections to the people's representatives at federal, state, local government and the European Parliament are not necessarily on the same day.

Voting and election date in Switzerland

Elections and voting place in Switzerland in the weeks before a " vote Sunday " instead (also " ballot "). Early voting is available in approximately four ( or five ) weeks before the rule, mostly as a postal vote ( absentee ballot ). On Sunday, the traditional ballot voting and polling stations close at 12 clock. The results count out the citizens using their offices, are usually already on the same day before in the afternoon or early evening.

At the federal level, the National Council and the Councillors every four years, are elected in the weeks before the second last Sunday in October, together with one of four voting dates that are reserved for the referenda, and elections, per year - in February / March, May / June, September / October and November (see list 2020 ).

Voting and election dates at the cantonal and communal levels are indeed cantonal, and communal, set, see, however, almost always, in conjunction with federal votes held.

Election Day in the United States

In the United States, see the congressional and presidential elections since 1845 to Tuesday instead of falling (literally, between the 2nd and 8th of November: "first Tuesday after the first Monday in November," " on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November "). This day was chosen so that the election day falls on All Saints' Day. A Tuesday was chosen in order to keep the Monday for a journey to the first only scattered nearby polling stations - not Sundays drove many of the regular horse-drawn carriages.

In some states, election day is a legal holiday. In some other voters have the right to leave for the purpose of choosing the place of work to get one but without pay. There were repeated legislative proposals in Congress introduced that would explain the nationwide election day a national holiday. In order to increase the turnout, although the choice during the work week takes place, some states have begun to allow their citizens the vote even before the election day. The postal voting is possible in all states.

Most states have coordinated their legislative and gubernatorial elections, with the election of federal elections, but the elections at different times often take place.