How a candidate for president is chosen?

Answer 1

Presidential candidates are officially selected by their political parties in national conventions that meet every four years. This convention is consisted of delegates from each state that are pledged to vote for the state's desired candidate.

Nowadays, so many states hold binding primary elections or caucuses that it is possible to have the nomination virtually secured before the national convention, and that is what has happened recently. The primaries are held at different times and the losers of the early primaries tend to drop out one by one , eventually leaving just one still standing.

If the primaries did not produce a clear winner, the convention delegates at the national convention would vote to choose the nominee.

Occasionally a protest candidate , with some help from friends, will form his own party. In other words , the party is formed to support one particular person as nominee.

Answer 2

Presidential candidates are self-declared, meaning they decide to run on there own. During primaries, many candidates from each party, Democratic and Republican, run for the nomination. Each one of the 50 states have either a Caucus or a primary election. In a primary election, people go to the polls and vote for the best candidate in the party they are registered for. If you are a registered republican then you vote for the best republican candidate and visa-versa. In a caucus, a group of democrats and a group of republicans from the state meet at a certain place in the state, usually a school, town center, or lecture hall. The groups are then spilt up into smaller groups for what candidate they support. When this is all done, a mediator counts the heads for each person in a group and the candidate with the most people in his or her group wins the nomination for that state. In the national election, each state votes on the first Tuesday in November. This race is between one republican, one democrat and sometimes a third party candidate. If a candidate gets the most votes in a state then the electoral college awards that candidate how ever many votes that state carries. For example, Massachusetts has 12 electroral votes. If Barrack Obama wins the most votes in MA then he will be awarded 12 electoral votes. A candidate needs 270 out of 538 votes to win the presidency. And that is the process.

Answer 3

Presidential candidates are officially selected by their political parties in national conventions that meet every four years. This convention is consisted of delegates from each state that are pledged to vote for the state's desired candidate.

Nowadays, so many states hold binding primary elections or caucuses that it is possible to have the nomination virtually secured before the national convention, and that is what has happened recently. The primaries are held at different times and the losers of the early primaries tend to drop out one by one , eventually leaving just one still standing.

If the primaries did not produce a clear winner, the convention delegates at the national convention would vote to choose the nominee.

Occasionally a protest candidate , with some help from friends, will form his own party. In other words , the party is formed to support one particular person as nominee.

Answer 4

In the US, presidential candidates are chosen by political parties via primary elections, caucuses or state conventions and a national convention. Since 1860, either the Republican or the Democratic party candidate has won the election, although there have been third-party candidates from time to time that influenced the outcome of the election to varying degrees. In recent years, the nomination has been decided by primaries and caucuses prior to the national convention.

Answer 5

the presidential and vice presidential candidates are chosen through direct and national election.But the vice president always come a a ballot with the president,which means that if for exampe you vote for a democrat president,if that presiden get elected then the person who was a democratic vicepresidential candidat also gets elected if the president choose to take him.

Answer 6

The Democrats and Republicans have primaries in the spring and the people in the party vote for the candidate of their choice. The one who gets the most votes is the nominee of the party in November. If by the end of the primaries, no candidate has a clear majority of votes, then the candidate for the party is chosen by the party at their convention held during the summer before the November election, (and after the primaries held during the winter and spring before the convention).

Answer 7

Each state selects delegates to the nominating convention for each party. These delegates are chosen either by a primary election, caucuses or at a state convention. The party may have some super-delegates who hold automatic appointments. Delegates elected by primary or caucuses are committed to one candidates in the first ballot at the convention. If no candidate wins in the first ballot, the delegates wheel and deal and vote again and again until a candidate gets a majority and wins.

Answer 8

Political parties select their candidates via caucuses, primary elections, state conventions and a national convention. The details vary from state to state and year to year.