Track the 2026 Senate election with a red/blue map of the US updated daily using the latest state polls.
Track the 2026 Senate election with a red/blue map of the US updated daily using the latest state polls.
The process they will follow is largely the same as the one that guided past quadrennial gatherings, though a new law called the Electoral Count Reform Act, passed in the aftermath of the 2021 insurrection, will make it more difficult for dissident lawmakers to raise objections to any state’s...
After Election Day, all the votes are counted and then certified by each state. According to the2022 Electoral Count Reform Act, the deadline to certify the results is set at six days before the electors are scheduled to meet, traditionally on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in...
Each state was allotted two delegates perelectoralvote, and territories were granted from two to six delegates. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The currentelectoralvotedistribution was determined by the 2010 census. From Wikipedia This exam...
Even if a state race is extremely close, the winner receives all of the state's Electoral Votes. In 2000, one little-known fact is that Gore won more of the closest states than Bush did - five of the top seven closest states, or six of the top seven if you count Florida. This is...
What about the millions of votes that don’t count; the actual votes of legitimate voters? Oh, I’ve heard it before…”My vote won’t be worth as much if the electoral college is removed.” What about my vote? Worth as much? How about fucking ZERO?! That’s what my vote is wort...
(Twice, a Chief Minister took office for a few days but then resigned because he did not have a legislative majority. We do not count these as instances when a party came to power). In another 5% of cases, the party that took office as the Chief Minister was the largest party in ...
are counted separately but do not count as valid votes. According to article 258 of the Constitution, an election must be repeated if there is a plurality of blank votes (prior to the 2009 political reform, it required an absolute majority of blank votes). In the event that a congressional...
Parametrically, we set k equal to 15 % of the total municipal vote count and repeat the resampling process K=1,000 times for each municipality and election term. These parametric choices should not qualitatively influence the resulting forcing variable, as K=1,000 was sufficient for the converge...