For most of those, I was able to get the updated (obviously lopsided) vote counts from.

Results were missing for a handful of races, where the incumbent candidate was uncontested and therefore won by default. I focused on US house races for the most part. The aforementioned JSON file, which contains results for all races (US house, US senate, state governors, propositions) that took place on November 11, 2016. The data used here comes from the NYT and the US Census website. This time, I made a point to try to follow best practices and work within Dataframes. In my previous analysis, I was a beginner with (geo)pandas and for the most part extracted all data into separate variables to work with. How so? The data for the interactive visualization is pulled from a publicly accessible JSON file!Īs always, you can follow along with the Jupyter notebook on my Github. Public availability of election data has not improved greatly since the last time I checked, but luckily I was able to conveniently get all (well, most) results from the New York Times results page, without any time-consuming scraping. The following tables show state legislative chambers, gubernatorial offices, attorney general offices, and secretary of state offices that changed party control as a result of the 2018 elections.Another post related to US elections and mapping! After my previous analysis of the 2016 presidential elections, it just makes sense to come back to this topic after the recent midterms. State legislative chambers and offices changing party control 2018 election analysis: Incumbent win rates by state.2018 election analysis: Notable Ballot Measure Results.2018 election analysis: Control of the U.S.2018 election analysis: Partisan balance of state legislative chambers.2018 election analysis: Was 2018 a wave election?.2018 election analysis: Partisan balance of governors.2018 election analysis: State government trifectas.Senate elections because Republicans had a 52-48 majority after the 2016 elections and a 53-47 majority after the 2018 elections. For example, the Republican Party is listed as gaining one seat in the 2018 U.S. The chart compares the result of a midterm election with the result of the election that immediately preceded it, accounting for the results of off-year elections, special elections, and appointments that occurred between the two elections. The chart below compares the gains and losses for the Democratic and Republican parties in 2018 with their gains and losses in three previous first midterms for newly-elected presidents: 2010 ( Obama), 2002 ( George W. The second map shows the status of state government trifectas before the 2018 elections. The map below shows the status of state government trifectas as a result of the 2018 elections. Results summary State government trifectas 3 Statewide ballot measure election results.2 State legislative chambers and offices changing party control.Links to further analysis of the 2018 elections.A guide to the types of elections within Ballotpedia's coverage scope.Results of statewide ballot measures that were voted on in 2018.A list of each state legislative chamber and top-of-ballot executive office that changed partisan control in 2018.A detailed breakdown of election results.A summary of top-level election results.Democrats flipped control of five legislative chambers from Republicans, leaving the new state legislative chamber count at 61 chambers under a Republican majority, 37 under a Democratic majority, and one under split control. In state legislative elections, Democrats had a net gain of 308 state legislative seats and Republicans had a net loss of 296 seats. The remaining six states-Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wyoming-all elected Republican governors for the third straight time. In 2018, five of the remaining 11 governorships flipped back to Democrats: Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, and Wisconsin. They held 11 of those offices-all but Pennsylvania-in 2014. In 2010, Republicans won control of 12 governorships from the Democratic Party. Democrats had a net gain of five state government triplexes and Republicans had a net loss of four. After the 2018 elections, there were 36 trifectas nationwide just below the 37 trifectas that existed in 20, the most in recent history. In state elections, Democrats won control of seven governors' offices from the GOP and the trifecta status of 10 states changed. Senate as Democrats won control of the U.S. Senate, and 36 of the country's 50 governorships up for election.Īt the federal level, the 2018 elections saw Republicans expand their majority in the U.S.

Elections were held in all 50 states, with all 435 seats in the U.S. This page outlines the results of the November 6, 2018, general elections at each level of government.

2018 midterm elections map