The 2024 Election Cycle Begins in Three Weeks
But the point is that for the average voter, whose democratic engagement is limited to perhaps researching, but certainly marking and casting a ballot, an election cycle might last only a few days, perhaps weeks if there are debates to pay attention to.
For political organizers, our experience is much different. For those of us who organize here in the United States, the General Election cycle runs slightly more than two years. It begins the moment the polls close on the preceding election cycle. It continues past the date that the polls close on the next election cycle. An election cycle ends only once the results of that election have been certified and the judicial challenges to those results have been resolved.