About
Land does not vote. People do.
A flat election map is mostly empty country. Votescape stands every county up as a tower, as tall as the votes cast there, so the places where most people live are the places you see.
Height
A tower's height is the number of votes cast in that county for the office shown. Los Angeles County towers over the map because close to three million people voted there.
Switch height to votes per square mile to compare places by how closely packed their voters are. That view uses a square-root scale, or Manhattan alone would be all you could see. The labels always give the real figure.
Colour
Colour is the margin between the Democrat and the Republican, as a share of the votes for the two of them. Deep blue and deep red are leads of fifty points or more. The pale middle is a close race.
Grey towers are places where votes were cast, but not between a Democrat and a Republican, so there is no margin to show. Flat ground is a place with no race for that office.
The four views
- House
- The only office on every ballot in the country. Where a county is split between districts, its districts are added together.
- Senate
- The 35 states with a Senate race, including the special elections. The rest lie flat.
- Governor
- The 36 states that chose a governor.
- Top of ticket
- Each state by its most prominent race: Senate where there was one, otherwise governor, otherwise the House.
How places are counted
- Alaska is drawn by its 40 state house districts, which is how its results are reported. Its boroughs are not.
- Connecticut is drawn by its nine planning regions, which replaced its counties. Town results are added up into them.
- Uncontested and one-party races. Where most of a county's House votes were cast in a district without both a Democrat and a Republican, the county is grey.
- A missing major party. In a statewide race with no Democrat or no Republican, the leading candidate against the other party takes that side, and is named.
- Ranked-choice voting in Alaska and Maine is shown by first choices.
- Louisiana voted in all-party primaries. Each side is its party's total.
The numbers
These are unofficial results, and they will change. Some races are not called, a few go to runoffs, and no state has certified its count. The map says when its numbers were last updated, in the legend.
The shapes are the U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 cartographic boundary files, laid out in the Albers USA projection, with Alaska and Hawaii moved and resized to fit.
How it is made
The map is drawn in your browser by ts-maps, an open source mapping library, as 3,154 extruded shapes over a single layer of data. The site is built with Stacks.