2020 United States general election (Archive)

2020 United States general election

February 22, 2020
All 1998 seats to the United States Congress 1000 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	90.59%
First party Second party Third party   Leader John Fetterman Mitt Romney Kyrsten Sinema Party Social Democratic Party/Southern Social Democrats Democratic Republican Party Free Democratic Party U.S. Leader since March 6, 2017 January 19, 2016 June 20, 2018 Leader's seat Stern, PA Swenson, UT Arizona at-Large Seats before 891 663 105 Seats won 783 618 154 Seat change 108 45 49 Popular vote 87,718,388 69,179,636 17,899,640 Percentage 37.43% 29.52% 7.64% Swing 5.42% 2.61% 2.30   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Ted Cruz Lynne Serpe Jon Tester Party Christian Conservative Union Greens Party U.S.A. Farmers Federation Leader since November 2, 2014 July 2, 2017 August 8, 2013 Leader's seat Texas at-Large New York at-Large Haskell, MT Seats before 106 126 76 Seats won 137 145 102 Seat change 21 19 26 Popular vote 17,210,894 16,648,502 13,143,201 Percentage 7.34% 7.10% 5.61% Swing 1.55 0.61 1.23
Chancellor before election John Fetterman [[SDP (SDP/SSD-GRN Coalition)|SDP (SDP/SSD-GRN Coalition)]] Chancellor John Fetterman [[SDP (SDP/SSD-GRN-FFA Coalition)|SDP (SDP/SSD-GRN-FFA Coalition)]]

The 2020 United States general election was held on February 22, 2020 to elect members of the 53rd Congress of the United States. The election was called following the dissolution of the 52nd Congress elected at the 2015 general election. All 1998 seats of the Congress were up for election.

The second-term SDP-led government was able to enter a historic third-consecutive term by entering into a "Red-Green-Green" coalition with the Greens and Farmers Federation. Without the Farmers Federation, the SDP/SSD-Greens coalition would have been unable to form government as the collective coalition lost a net of 89 seats. Despite this, the SDP/SSD remained the largest parliamentary voting bloc, with a joint 783 seats between them. This was followed by the Democratic Republican Party which saw it's third consecutive election with losses, continuing a decade of losses.

The electoral system in the United States enforces compulsory voting, and uses full-preferential voting for single-member constituency seats with first-past-the-post voting to award at-Large balancing seats. The election was administered by the Federal Electoral Commission.

On election night the result was seen as an aberration as opinion polling had been unable to capture the strong increase in support for non-major parties. Polling had accurately predicted the SDP/SSD would remain the largest party, but had been unable to forecast the full scale of support gained and lost in various states. Opposition Leader Mitt Romney indicated his desire to fight to remain leader of the DRP, but within days a competitive race has emerged to decide the new leader of the DRP. Chancellor John Fetterman indicated he would attempt to form coalition with either the Free Democrats or Farmers, and was able to announce the formation of a coalition six weeks later.

Results

Government (1030)
Coalition
  Social Democratic Party (657)
  Southern Social Democrats (126)
  The Greens (145)
  Farmers Federation (102)

Opposition (618)
  Democratic Republican Party (618)

Crossbench (319)
  Free Democratic Party (154)
  Christian Conservative Union (137)
  National Freedom Party (33)
  Socialist Party (28)
 

Party			Votes	%	Swing (pp)	Seats			Change (seats)
						C	A	T
	Social Democratic Union
		Social Democratic Party	73,779,189	31.48	−5.26	424	233	657	105
		Southern Social Democrats	13,939,199	5.95	−0.16	81	45	126	3
	Union Total		87,718,388	37.43	−5.42	505	278	783	108
	Democratic Republican Party		69,031,326	29.45	−2.68	365	251	616	47
	Free Democratic Party		17,899,640	7.64	+2.30	9	145	154	49
	Christian Conservative Union		17,210,894	7.34	+1.55	51	86	137	31
	The Greens		16,648,502	7.10	+0.61	20	125	145	19
	Farmers Federation		13,143,201	5.61	+1.23	46	56	102	26
	Socialist Party		6,764,540	2.89	−0.13	1	27	28	3
	National Freedom Party		5,952,839	2.54	+2.54	2	31	33	33
Turnout			234,369,207	90.59	+0.04	–	–	–	–
Registered voters/turnout			258,715,972	–	–	–	–	–	–