§ 7. — Time of election.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC7]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 1--ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 7. Time of election
The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even
numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of
the States and Territories of the United States, of Representatives and
Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d day of January next
thereafter.
(R.S. Sec. 25; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, Sec. 6, 18 Stat. 400; June 5,
1934, ch. 390, Sec. 2, 48 Stat. 879.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 25 derived from act Feb. 2, 1872, ch. 11, Sec. 3, 17 Stat.
28.
The second sentence of this section, which was based on section 6 of
the act Mar. 3, 1875 and made this section inapplicable to any State
that had not yet changed its day of election and whose constitution
required an amendment to change the day of election of its State
officers, was omitted.
Amendments
1934--Act June 5, 1934, substituted ``3d day of January'' for
``fourth day of March''.
Constitutional Provisions
The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides:
``The terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the
3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if
this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors
shall then begin.''
Time for election of Representatives, see Const. Art. I, Sec. 4, cl.
1.
