Mid-term elections are being voted on
Tuesday, November 8 in the United States (but 20 million have already used early voting).
They take place every four years in the middle of the presidential term - in this case two years after Joe Biden's election - and American citizens are called upon to renew much of Congress, thus determining the fate of the White House agenda over the next two years. before the new presidential elections.
In particular, the entire House of Representatives (435 deputies) and a third of the Senate (33 or 34 senators out of 100) vote with the Midterms.
In the case of the lower house, the vote reflects more popular will, with each state electing a number of deputies proportional to its population (leading California with 53 elected representatives).
For the upper house, on the other hand, each state (even on different dates) elects two senators.
For midterms in many US states, voters also go to the polls to renew elective assemblies, elect governors (in 36 states out of 50) and speak out on a series of referendums, such as those on semi-automatic weapons and the use of marijuana in Wisconsin. on workers' rights in Illinois, on taxation in Georgia.
Currently both branches of Congress have a Democratic majority: 50 to 50 in the Senate (but the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris breaks the parity in favor of the dem) and 222 to 212 in the House (one seat is vacant).
A situation resulting from the mid-term elections of November 4, 2018, when Donald Trump was in the White House.