Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2018
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Tens of thousands of elections took place in 2018 across the United States, including primary and general elections at the federal, state, and local levels. Within these elections, there were a variety of different trends and patterns that relayed a certain level of political significance. In 2018, we identified and followed a series of narratives—big picture stories—up-and-down the ballot and across the country throughout the year. This page presents Ballotpedia's research and curation on the 2018 elections in the United States.
Federal politics
All 435 U.S. House seats and 33 U.S. Senate seats were up for regular elections in the 2018 midterms. Heading into the election, the Republican Party held a majority in both chambers.
State politics
In November 2018, seats in 87 of 99 state legislative chambers, plus 36 gubernatorial seats, 30 lieutenant gubernatorial seats, 30 attorney general seats, and 27 secretary of state seats were up for election.
Local elections
In 2018, Ballotpedia covered elections for mayor, city council, and all other city officials in the 100 largest cities by population in the United States, as well as elections for county officials whose jurisdictions overlapped with those cities.
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| Partisanship in United States municipal elections (2018) |
Wave elections
Ballotpedia published an exclusive report that examined the results of the 50 election cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson's (D) second midterm in 1918 to Trump's first presidential election in 2016. In it, we seek to answer the question, "What constitutes a wave election?"
Primary elections
Primary elections took place in all levels of government throughout 2018, beginning with statewide primaries in Texas on March 6, 2018, and concluding with state-level primaries in New York on September 13, 2018.
Election coverage by office
Election coverage by state
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See also: Elections by state and year.