Presidential Election - Navo

• Presidential elections have taken place in the United States quadrennially, beginning in 1789. They include both the process of candidate nomination and the subsequent campaign for election.
•  Since the 1830s, nomination has centered on national party conventions called to choose individuals to run for president and vice president and to adopt the party's platform. 
• Delegate selection for these conventions was for a long time wholly extralegal and determined by local party traditions. 
• Early in the twentieth century, some states set up presidential primaries to choose delegates and record voter preferences among the aspiring candidates. In the late 1960s, a further reform movement began to broaden the ability of party members to participate in delegate selection and to reduce the influence of party organizations.
• By the end of the twentieth century the party primary system dominated the nominating process, with party conventions reduced to a merely symbolic role.