Polling in off-year election cycles is challenging because it’s hard to know who will turn out to vote. This year, the polls significantly overestimated the Republicans in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, which both had particularly high turnout for an off year. In 2021, polls had the opposite problem, as they overestimated Democrats.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) called the alleged election rigging during the 2020 presidential election as the "biggest scandal in American history", and sought an investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) into the matter.

The biggest lesson of this month’s sweeping Democratic election victories is that President Donald Trump is continuing to cast an outsize shadow over every other election during his presidential term. Over the past several decades, the general trend has ...

Leiden University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Americans voted in elections on November 4 in the first major test of whether Republicans can hold together the coalition of voters that propelled Donald Trump to the White House in ...

Democratic presidential hopefuls have visited key early or battleground states. One year out from the 2026 midterms, major Democratic Party names have been taking the show on the road, saying that they’re helping the party lay the groundwork to battle ...

In this Forum installment, we wanted you to focus on elections – not the New York City mayoral race and other contests that have recently dominated headlines – but the one that made history in 2024, pitting then-Vice President Kamala Harris against ...