A slight majority of the more than 3,000 counties in the United States have voted the same way over the past seven elections; at the county level, the current red-versus-blue map was mostly ...

During the weeklong Election Day, The New York Times electoral map was permanently open as a tab on my computer. I stared and refreshed. Eventually, the white-outlined states turned to gray as votes ...

Come the evening of Nov. 8, every news outlet in America will broadcast the same map as it is divided into red and blue states. As the votes pour in, these primary colors will slowly reveal our ...

The continuity of red and blue designations over time reflects some level of partisan stability. From 2016 to 2020, for example, only five states switched parties in the presidential election, and ...

On Nov. 7, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump posted on Truth Social an image of a map showing American counties, each displaying either a red or blue color.Red — the color associated with ...

Electoral maps are all the rage in presidential election coverage, with NBC going so far as to turn the Rockefeller Center ice rink in New York City into a map of the U.S. on Election Day.

Each election cycle, we’re confronted with a familiar image: the electoral map, with Republican-majority states displayed in bright red, Democratic states in blue, and states that have yet to be ...

What's a ‘red' and ‘blue mirage,' and how election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win A big lead at some point on election night doesn’t always mean a candidate will win.

What are red and blue 'mirages,' and how election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win. Stephen Pettigrew and Andrew Arenge and John Lapinski. Updated November 5, 2024 at 2:12 PM.

If you need something to do while you await the results of the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, check out our animated interactive map. It shows the results, by parish, of ...

Why 'Red State' and 'Blue State' Labels Don't Always Apply to Governor Races A handful of firmly Republican or Democratic states have sitting governors from the minority party.