Category: 2025 elections
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The average margin of victory across 2025’s state legislative elections was 24.7%, down from 28.7% in 2023
The average margin of victory across 2025’s 180 state legislative elections was 24.7%. This is the second-lowest average margin of victory in odd-year elections since 2019, and down from 28.7% in 2023. The Nov. 4, 2025, state legislative elections included all 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates and all 80 seats in the…
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Just one minor party candidate received more votes than the margin of victory in 2025
In 2025, just one minor party candidate received more votes than the margin of victory in an election. This is the smallest number in any election since 2020. In the three odd-year elections Ballotpedia has covered, five minor party candidates received more votes than the margin of victory in 2021, and three candidates did so…
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2025 sees increase in number of recall efforts from 2024
In 2025, Ballotpedia tracked 276 recall efforts against 388 elected officials. This marked an increase in the number of recall efforts and a slight increase in the number of officials targeted for recall compared to 2024, when Ballotpedia covered 248 recall efforts against 387 officials. A total of 44 officials, or 11% of those targeted…
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Georgia House seat is the eighth to change partisan control in state legislative special elections this year
Georgia Democrat Eric Gisler won the special election for state House District 121, gaining partisan control of the seat from Republicans. According to CNN’s Ethan Cohen, President Donald Trump (R) won the district by a 12-point margin in the 2024 presidential election. Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin said, “Fresh off the resounding victories in…
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Incumbent Tim Keller defeated Darren White in the general election runoff for mayor of Albuquerque
Incumbent Mayor Tim Keller defeated Darren White to win the nonpartisan election for mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a Dec. 9, 2025, runoff. Keller earned 58.4% of the vote, and White earned 41.6% in the runoff. The two candidates advanced to the runoff after Keller earned 36.6% of the vote in the general election,…
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Partisan control shifted 10 percentage points toward Democrats in the 2025 state legislative elections
As a result of the Nov. 4, 2025, elections, the partisan composition of the 180 state legislative seats up for election changed by 10 percentage points. That is compared to a one percentage point shift following the 2023 elections. Democrats had a net gain of 18 seats, representing 10% of the 180 seats, and Republicans…
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Trump has issued a total of 196 midterm endorsements so far
As of Dec. 8, 2025, President Donald Trump has issued a total of 196 endorsements in 2026 primary races. Ninety-four percent (184) of these endorsements are for incumbent Republican officeholders, 5% (10) are for Republican candidates running in open races, and only 1% (2) are for Republican candidates running to challenge an incumbent. Trump has…
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Election results from Dec. 2, 2025
On Dec. 2, 2025, elections were held in six states for 17 offices. The following states held elections: Georgia, Maine, Mississippi, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Tennessee. Georgia: In Georgia, elections took place for the Georgia House of Representatives, Atlanta City Council, and Atlanta Public Schools school board. In the special general election runoff for…
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Seventeen Republican incumbents lost in the 2025 state legislative general elections
Seventeen incumbents—all Republicans—lost in the 2025 state legislative elections in New Jersey and Virginia. That’s the most general election incumbent defeats in an odd year since 21 were defeated in 2011. Twelve Republican incumbents lost re-election in Virginia, where Democrats expanded their majority by 13 seats, going from 51 to 64 seats in the 100-member…
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Matt Van Epps (R) won the special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District
Matt Van Epps (R) won the special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District on December 2, 2025. Van Epps received 53.8% of the vote to Aftyn Behn's (D) 45.2%. Van Epps, Behn, and four independent candidates ran in the election. The special election filled the vacancy created when the former incumbent, Rep. Mark Green (R),…