Today there will be mid-term elections in the USA, and if you want to know how the voting and how the representatives are chosen, this is the mechanism: two elections are held, one is the House of Representatives and the other is the Senate, where the people choose their representatives 1- The House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower part of Congress, which is divided according to the population of each state. All 435 seats will be put to the vote and any party that can win at least 218 seats will win the elections. The current state before the election is this: Republicans have 218 seats and Democrats have 214 seats.
The basis of elections is that each state is divided into small electoral districts called congressional districts. The people of each district vote only for their district representative and the representatives are elected for two-year terms (in both presidential and mid-term elections, the entire parliament is re-elected). 2- The Senate is the upper part of Congress and unlike the House of Representatives, the population of the states does not influence it. Each American state (whether small or large) has 2 senators in Washington (making a total of 100).
In the mid-term elections, all of its seats, i.e. 100 seats, are not put to the vote and only one third of the seats (usually 33 to 34 seats) are put to the vote. The current situation before the elections is this: the Republicans have 53 seats and the Democrats 47 seats. The method of counting and winning is that the voting is done at the level of an entire state and all residents of that state can vote for a candidate. The current party (Republicans) only needs to reach 50 seats, because in the event of a tie, i.e. 50-50, according to the US constitution, the vice president is the official president of the senate, and he gives the final vote, which declares the current party, which is himself, the winner.
Senators are elected for a period of 6 years. In order to keep the composition of the Yehobai Senate from changing, its structure is divided into three groups, the elections of each group are held two years apart from each other.