Short, timestamped items on elections in progress: filings, withdrawals, certified counts, recount triggers, registration deadlines and emergency court orders affecting how a vote is run. Context is limited to what changed. Built for campaign teams, election officials and reporters working against a deadline.
Short, timestamped items on elections in progress: filings, withdrawals, certified counts, recount triggers, registration deadlines and emergency court orders affecting how a vote is run. Context is limited to what changed. Built for campaign teams, election officials and reporters working against a deadline.
Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania shared the cycle's biggest primary date so far, running the same democratic function through a closed-primary, all-mail and hybrid system respectively.
Ohio's open governor's race — Republican Mike DeWine is term-limited — tops a two-state primary slate that begins the competitive core of the 2026 midterm calendar.
Court of Appeals Judge Chris Taylor defeated Judge Maria Lazar in the April 7 election, moving the court's balance from 4–3 to 5–2 as county canvasses certify the spring results.
The March 17 primary — the nation's first partisan contest of the midterm year — set November's House fields in the state and gave both parties their first read on the 2026 electorate.
The state's nonpartisan primary narrowed the field for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race and local judicial contests ahead of the April 7 election — the first statewide administration test of the midterm year.