2020 United States federal election

The 2020 United States federal election was held on Tuseday, May 5, 2020. It resulted in a hung parliament, where no party obtained a sufficient majority. Eventually resulting in the emergance of a New Democratic-Progressive-Blue Dog coalition, leading to the reelection of incumbent Prime Minister, Hillary Clinton.

After the emergence of Donald Trump as Freedom Party leader in 2016, the right-wing populist party made historic gains, almost winning the majority, however, after an anti-Trump agreement was reached between the Main Street and New Democratic parties, Hillary Clinton was elected as Prime Minister, succeeding Barack Obama. In her term as Prime Minister Clinton made an effort to contain Russian aggresion in Eastern Europe, expanded medical coverage via the Health and Protective Services Act of 2020 and passed three stimulus packages in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The New Democrats won 133 seats, gaining among some of the Rust Belt seats flipped by the populist Freedom and Progressive parties. The Main Street party won 124 seats, flipping back some of the constituencies lost to Trump in 2016. The Republican party under the leadership of Tim Scott gained 16 seats, the most out of any parties in Parliament. While the remaining Progressive, Blue Dog and Freedom parties all lost seats.