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, ravenous for updated vote totals late into the night. But this year, with so many competitive races, the normal juggling act just isn’t going to be enough to keep up with the results or what they mean.
So, I’m doing something about it.
This weekend I soft-launched a live election results hub for both Congressional and state legislative elections. It’s a site that includes every important election result in one easy-to-navigate place. Since Saturday, I’ve moved it to a new domain name — ElectionHub.org — and added even more functionality and information, including governors’ races, district history, and control scoreboards.
Check it out:
There are actually two sections; one for federal elections and one for state elections. Here is the latter. Literally every state legislative election is included in the latter, along with key governors races:
(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 gubernatorial, Senate and House race. The closer the race, the more frequent the update. Senate, governor, and competitive House races will update every 15 minutes.
Once 60% of the vote in any given election is in, it’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.
To put the race into context, each election includes partisan district lean.
Congressional races are broken down into tiers based on rankings by the Cook Political Report. I’ve added a few other races as well.
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.
You’re invited support this work via donations to the newsletter’s GoFundMe, and every donation is very appreciated.
OMG wow!! This is above and beyond especially coming back from major surgery, thank you so much this will be a great tool!
Exciting stuff Jordan!