More than 1,800 people who served in the U.S. Congress ... of slavery in the northern half of the country, the House and Senate contained a nearly equal number of slaveholders and non-slaveholders ...

The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period ...

Still, the Campaign Liar of 1800 did very well for a beginner ... to defeat the Presidential election by an act of Congress declaring the right of the Senate to name a President of Senate ...

The US is not unaccustomed to contentious elections, but they rarely result in violence. However, an electoral tie and a ...

John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824, with both again representing the Democratic-Republican Party. Jackson had ...

in 1800, although the rules were a bit different then. If no candidate reaches the 270 votes needed to win the election, the new Congress would pick the president and the Senate would pick the ...

Democrats entered Election Day just one seat shy of a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate to match ... candidate in House ...

McMillan's lead as of 8 a.m. Thursday was 1,537 votes, slightly less than it was 24 hours ago when she held a lead of more ...

Incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani has once again taken a narrow lead over former Democratic state legislator ...

While the 2024 election is over, the implications of the vote will play out in Congress, the statehouse, and county boards ...