January of the year following the election.
President-Elect
January 20th
Not until Inauguration Day, the current Vice President would become President
The Speaker of the House would become acting President. (Depending on the circumstances, the inauguration could be advanced to allow the President-elect to be sworn in earlier, but this has never occurred historically.)
well someone has to elect you i think
Yes. If the President is running for re-election and loses to the candidate from the other party, both names appear on the same ballot. The winner becomes the president-elect and the President is still the President, until January 20. This happened most recently in November, 1992, when Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush.
When George bush was elected president.
US Constitution, Amendment XX, Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President....
The vice president would become the acting president.
Vice President-elect Joseph Biden will be sworn in prior to President-elect Obama.
President Elect
The possessive plural of "president-elect" is "presidents-elect."