It’s an Election Night ritual at this point: you turn on cable news, state at social media, and smash refresh on about 5000 tabs looking for information and updated vote totals late into the night. This year, however, with so many competitive races and such steep consequences, the normal juggling act just isn’t going to be enough to keep up with the results or what they mean.
It makes me anxious just thinking about it, so this week I built a live election results hub for both Congressional and state legislative elections. Check it out:
There are actually two sections; one for Congress and one for state legislatures. Here is the latter:
(Yes, this is what I’m doing with my downtime during my recovery from heart surgery.)
Here’s what you need to know:
The sites will regularly update vote totals for every single legislative race and competitive Congressional race.
Once 60% of the vote in any given election is in, they’ll indicate which way the seat is leaning, then display when each race is called.
It’ll also report how many seats have flipped how close each party is to a majority, and where new majorities have been forged.
Congressional races are broken down into tiers based on rankings by the Cook Political Report.
I’ve included every state legislative race and indicated swing districts, which works way more smoothly than you’d expect.
Hopefully this resource makes it easy for you to follow the elections and process the news during what should be a chaotic night. I’ll continue to improve the sites as Election Day approaches, so if you take a look and have any suggestions, I’m eager to hear them.
The new election sites are free to use, but were not free to make.
I’ve taken down the paywall, stopped normal billing, and made all Progress Report content — including new articles like the one below — free while I recover from open-heart surgery.
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Great stuff Jordan! We needed this!1
I assume it'll be in bigger print than shown here