Vice President-elect of the United States
Elected candidate for vice president of the US in the time before inauguration / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The vice president-elect of the United States is the candidate who has won election to the office of vice president of the United States in a United States presidential election, but is awaiting inauguration to assume the office.
There is no explicit indication in the U.S. Constitution as to when that person actually becomes vice president-elect, although the Twentieth Amendment uses the term "Vice President-elect", thus giving the term constitutional justification.
The term corresponds to the term "president-elect of the United States", used for those elected president of the United States for the same period between their election and inauguration.
Incumbent vice presidents who have won re-election for a second term are generally not referred to as vice presidents-elect, as they are already in office and are not waiting to become vice president.