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Editorial Team

Elections and democracy reporter
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee for Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's choice to be director of the FBI, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Escape from Washington? Senators look to start new chapters as governors
U.S. senators are increasingly looking to leave Washington for leadership roles in their home states.
 
Tracking U.S. House retirement announcements
Legislators are announcing they won’t run for reelection earlier in the cycle, putting Congress on track for record turnover, according to an Associated Press analysis.
 
The U.S. Capitol is seen shortly before sunset, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Tracking the retirement announcements of members of Congress
More House seats are opening up as more members announce their upcoming departures. Republican Harriet Hageman says she’s running for Senate, winning President Donald Trump’s endorsement swiftly after making her intentions public.
 
Virginia House of Delegates, Del.-elect, Nicole Cole, left, speaks with constituent Kaitlyn Sapp at a convenience store Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, in Fredericksburg, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Voters in Virginia and New Jersey send a message: It’s Trump’s economy now
The economy and rising prices were high on the minds of voters on Election Day, and those concerns contributed to a Democratic sweep of statewide offices in Virginia and New Jersey.
 
Takeaways from the 2025 general election, in charts
After voters swung toward Republican Donald Trump during last fall’s presidential election, states like Virginia and New Jersey swung back towards Democratic candidates at nearly the same velocity as 2024’s shift, an Associated Press analysis of election data from this week found.
 
Mapping how Mamdani won New York City mayor, in detail
 
2025 Election Results
See live results for the 2025 general election, including key races in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and California.
 
People walk past a "vote" sign on the first day of early voting in the general election in Miami, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
AP has declared winners in elections for nearly 180 years. This is why and how race calls are made
The Associated Press will compile votes and declare winners in elections across the U.S. on Tuesday, just as the news organization has done for nearly 180 years.
 
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, center, speaks during a mayoral debate with independent candidate former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, Pool)
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York on Election Day
The nation’s biggest city will pick its next mayor on Tuesday in an election that has sparked debate over the future of the Democratic Party.
 
A sample ballot is pictured before early voting starts in California's statewide special election, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Paula Ulichney-Munoz)
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in California’s special election
California voters head to the polls on Tuesday with just one yes-or-no question on the ballot. Passing Proposition 50 would implement a new congressional map, which passed the state legislature in August, for the next three election cycles.
 
Dusk falls as children play at a temporary tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
How American views on Israel and antisemitism have changed since Oct. 7
Nearly two years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel and the county’s ensuing invasion of the Gaza Strip, Americans are more divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than they were before the war – and concerns are mounting about the safety of Jewish communities at home.
 
Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs runs with the ball as Washington Commanders cornerback Trey Amos (23) defends during the second half of an NFL football game Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Many sports fans are unhappy with how much it costs to watch their games, an AP-NORC poll finds
A new poll finds sports fans are likelier to use a combination of streaming services and traditional TV options to access their favorite teams.
 
FILE- This combination photo shows on left, Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo speaking during a Democratic mayoral primary debate, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in New York and on right, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani talking to people after the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary Debate at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater on Thursday, June 12, 2025 in New York City. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, file and Vincent Alban/The New York Times via AP, Pool, file)
What past elections tell us about the New York City mayoral race
Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams have won support from the same coalition of voters in their bids to lead New York City, setting them on a collision course that could help Zohran Mamdani in his bid to become the next mayor, an Associated Press analysis of recent election results found.
 
Precinct level of New York City displaying election results.
See how every neighborhood in New York City voted in the mayoral primary
 
How ranked choice voting works
 
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) plays against the Dallas Wings in the second half of a WNBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
Do fans of men’s sports also watch women’s sports? What a new AP-NORC poll shows
A new poll finds about 3 in 10 U.S. adults follow women’s sports at least “somewhat” closely, lower than the share who follow men’s sports.
 
The push alerts of the first 100 days of the Trump administration
 
Utah's Grace McCallum completes on the floor exercise during the NCAA women's gymnastics championships, April 14, 2022, in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, file)
Picking a team from bars to beam and hoping for 10s: Fantasy leagues in gymnastics are a thing
Interest in gymnastics traditionally peaks with the Olympic cycle, but the sport is popular all year round on the “gymternet,” an online global community for devoted fans.
 
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel makes his concession speech to a crowd at his election night party Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Pewaukee, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
Wisconsin and Florida elections provide early warning signs to Trump and Republicans
Three spring elections have provided early warning signs to Republicans and President Donald Trump. The conservative Wisconsin judge endorsed by Trump and backed by Elon Musk and his groups to the tune of $21 million lost by a significant margin in a state Trump won in November.
 
Cartogram displaying how Democrats and Republicans gained or lost votes in each state relative to the 2020 presidential election.
Trump won about 2.5M more votes this year than he did in 2020. This is where he did it
Republican Donald Trump’s support has grown broadly since he last sought the presidency. In his defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris, Trump won a bigger percentage of the vote in each one of the 50 states, and Washington, D.C., than he did four years ago.
 
Andrew Chen sorts ballots at San Francisco Department of Elections in City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Many uncalled House races are in California. This is why it takes the state weeks to count votes
Control of the U.S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined.
 
FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Louisiana on Election Day
Louisiana voters will decide which presidential candidates will receive their eight electoral votes in the Nov. 5 election. Also on the ballot are races for the U.S.
 
John Olsen, of Ankeny, Iowa, stands in line for early voting at the Polk County Election Office, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Iowa on Election Day
Iowa has a long history as a presidential battleground state, but when voters cast their ballots in the general election on Nov. 5, it’s the races further down the ballot that may get the most attention.
 
Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester speaks during the reopening of the St. George's bridge after its been closed for 18 months in New Castle County, Del., on Friday Oct., 11, 2024. (Tyger Williams/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Delaware on Election Day
Delaware voters will select replacements for some of the state’s most prominent elected officials in the Nov. 5 general election.
 
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in South Carolina on Election Day
South Carolina voters will cast ballots for president in the Nov. 5 general election, but with less fanfare than when they helped kick off the presidential campaign season in February with a pair of first-in-the-South primaries.
 
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Hawaii on Election Day
Hawaii voters will be among the last in the country to cast their ballots on Election Day, when they’ll weigh in on the races for president, U.S.
 
FILE - Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Postal Service on Capitol Hill, Aug. 24, 2020, in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool Photo via AP, File)
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in North Dakota on Election Day
Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will compete for North Dakota’s three electoral votes in the Nov. 5 presidential election.
 
FILE - Shomari Figures, who is running for Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, speaks during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Alabama on Election Day
Alabama voters head to the polls on Nov. 5 with a newly drawn congressional district and a long history of Republican dominance in the state on the line.
 
FILE - Jim Smith steps out of a voting booth after marking his ballot at a polling site for the New Hampshire primary, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New Hampshire on Election Day
New Hampshire has backed Democrats in seven of the last eight presidential elections, though it has been a battleground state in many of those years due to the tight margins of victory.
 
FILE - A man tallies the votes from the five ballots cast just after midnight, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Dixville Notch, N.H. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen, File)
Not all elections look the same. Here are some of the different ways states run their voting
The U.S. general election on Nov. 5 is far from a nationally administered contest. The 50 states and the District of Columbia run their own elections, and each does things a little differently.
 
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