The US election in numbers

WASHINGTON - The race for the White House continues to break new ground and set records in 2020 - on early voting, ad spending and more. These figures break down the campaign in numbers:Nov 3: That's the date for the US presidential election, congressional races, Senate contests and several state and local races. Election Day is traditionally set for the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

And polls show that Mr Joe Biden could disrupt Republican electoral power in Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina and Texas this year.Besides voting for president, millions of American voters will also be choosing members of the country's 117th Congress. There are 35 Senate seats up for grabs, as are all 435 in the House of Representatives.

If Mr Biden is elected president and Democrats take control of the Senate, the party will have its hands on all of the biggest levers of federal power in Washington for the first time since the early days of Mr Barack Obama's presidency.American democracy is executed through a unique mechanism on the national level: the Electoral College.

To win the White House, a candidate must take an absolute majority of electoral votes, making 270 the magic number.

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