The 2024 Cookie Election winner… Sugar Cookie
This year’s Cookie Election was close enough to have many of us hanging on the edge of our seats. With 100% of precincts reporting, a winner has emerged: Sugar Cookie wins Ballotpedia’s 2024 Holiday Cookie Election with 29.5% of the vote.
Here are the final results as of poll closing time on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 5 pm ET:
- Sugar Cookie: 29.4%
- Gingerbread Cookie: 25.9%
- Snickerdoodle Cookie: 24.7%
- Chocolate Chip Cookie: 20%
Partisan control of Wisconsin Supreme Court at stake in 2025
Both major parties will compete for control of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court in 2025. Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel are running for a 10-year term. Incumbent Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, one of the court’s liberal members, is retiring.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court elections are officially nonpartisan, but it currently has a 4-3 liberal majority. In the 2025 election, Crawford is endorsed by the state’s Democratic Party, and Schimel is the former Republican attorney general.
Mayorship in six of the 100 largest U.S. cities changed party control this year
Mayors’ offices in six of the 100 largest U.S. cities will change party control due to the 2024 elections, for a net gain of one for Democrats and a net loss of one for Republicans. This means Republicans will head into 2025 holding 25 mayoral offices, the fewest since we began following mayoral partisanship in 2016.
The number of special legislative elections hit a decade low this year
There were 52 special elections for state legislative seats in 22 states this year, the fewest since 2014, when there were 40.
Take a closer look at how these special elections happened:
- 31 happened because an incumbent resigned
- 11 happened because an incumbent was appointed, elected, or sought election to another position
- Four happened because an incumbent died
- Six happened because of redistricting