State of the Race

• Called this year
• Not on the ballot
• Independent or other
• Not called yet
• Changed party

The race-by-race boards

How this page works

• Every Senate, House and governor call here is civicAPI's own decision desk, as are legislative calls wherever civicAPI has results. A call appears only after it has stood unchanged for 15 minutes; if a call is taken back, it disappears here at once. civicAPI's calls are not this site's projections; the boards below make their own.
• Seats not on the ballot this year, and the before-the-election picture, come from the sources listed below.
• Legislative control counts each chamber's called seats, plus seats not up this year and seats with only one candidate on the ballot (counted before any vote, as the candidate lists stand). A chamber is settled once one party reaches a majority. Alaska's chambers are run by bipartisan coalitions, so they are not called by seat counts. A chamber where no party reaches a majority is not called here.
• For states where civicAPI has no legislative results, this page reads the state's own election-night results site and calls a district itself, by a published rule: every precinct reported and a lead of at least 3 points, or at least 90% of precincts reported and a lead of at least 20 points (in a district electing two, the lead is between the second and third candidates, in points of all votes cast). These are this page's calls, not civicAPI's or the state's, and they also stand 15 minutes. Select a state to see where its calls come from. Chambers with no live results at all are hatched; they are settled only if seats not up plus unopposed seats already give a party a majority.
• On the night a call may be set by hand (for example from network calls where no feed exists, or to hide a call that looks wrong). Those are marked "set by hand", with the reason.
• The page checks for new calls every 30 seconds. Times are in your time zone.