The United States presidential election of 2020, took place on November 3, 2020 and was the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Voters selected presidential electors who in turn elected a new president and vice president through the electoral college. The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses were held during the first six months of 2020. This nominating process is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots selecting a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's presidential nominee.