Election night: where the numbers come from
Every number on television tonight starts on a county or state election office page. This page links those pages and explains why they move.
Why results change
- Counties report in batches: election-day precincts first in some states, mail ballots first in others. Early leads can flip either way without anything being wrong.
- Mail ballots postmarked by election day are still counted after it in several states, by their own law.
- Provisional ballots are checked and added later.
- "Called" races are projections by news organisations, not official outcomes. The official outcome is the certified count.
Official results pages by state
- Alabama: sos.alabama.gov
- Alaska: elections.alaska.gov
- Arizona: results.arizona.vote
- Arkansas: sos.arkansas.gov
- California: electionresults.sos.ca.gov unverified today
- Colorado: sos.state.co.us
- Connecticut: portal.ct.gov
- Delaware: elections.delaware.gov
- District of Columbia: electionresults.dcboe.org
- Florida: results.elections.myflorida.com
- Georgia: results.sos.ga.gov
- Hawaii: elections.hawaii.gov
- Idaho: voteidaho.gov
- Illinois: elections.il.gov
- Indiana: enr.indianavoters.in.gov
- Iowa: electionresults.iowa.gov
- Kansas: ent.sos.ks.gov
- Kentucky: elect.ky.gov
- Louisiana: voterportal.sos.la.gov
- Maine: maine.gov
- Maryland: elections.maryland.gov
- Massachusetts: sec.state.ma.us unverified today
- Michigan: michigan.gov
- Minnesota: electionresults.sos.mn.gov unverified today
- Mississippi: sos.ms.gov
- Missouri: sos.mo.gov
- Montana: sosmt.gov
- Nebraska: electionresults.nebraska.gov
- Nevada: silverstateelection.nv.gov unverified today
- New Hampshire: sos.nh.gov unverified today
- New Jersey: nj.gov
- New Mexico: sos.nm.gov
- New York: elections.ny.gov
- North Carolina: er.ncsbe.gov
- North Dakota: results.sos.nd.gov
- Ohio: ohiosos.gov
- Oklahoma: oklahoma.gov
- Oregon: sos.oregon.gov
- Pennsylvania: electionreturns.pa.gov
- Rhode Island: ri.gov
- South Carolina: scvotes.gov
- South Dakota: electionresults.sd.gov
- Tennessee: elections.tn.gov
- Texas: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
- Utah: electionresults.utah.gov
- Vermont: sos.vermont.gov
- Virginia: elections.virginia.gov
- Washington: results.votewa.gov
- West Virginia: sos.wv.gov
- Wisconsin: elections.wi.gov
- Wyoming: sos.wyo.gov
Each link is the state's own page. Where a state publishes election-night results on a dedicated site, that is linked; otherwise the agency's results index is.