Analysis

• Measured

  One seat covers 34 square kilometres. One seat covers 1,713,379.

  New York's 12th and Alaska's at-large seat each elect one member of the House. On the ground, one is fifty thousand times the size of the other.

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• Structure

  In five states, the House race is the entire federal ballot in 2026

  Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah and Washington have no Senate or governor race in 2026. Thirty-two House contests are the entire federal ballot.

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• Corrections

  Two things this site gets wrong about Connecticut and Alaska

  A standing corrections note. Our Connecticut county names are decades out of date, and Alaska's at-large district is missing a census area it must contain.

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• Case study

  Ten whole congressional districts fit inside Los Angeles County

  Seventy-nine of the 435 districts sit entirely within a single county. Ten of them are in one county in California.

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• Portrait

  Nebraska's 3rd district contains 79 counties. Forty-four states contain fewer.

  A portrait of the most county-dense district in the country, and what a 79-county constituency does to the arithmetic of campaigning.

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• Contrarian

  Alabama has the most evenly sized congressional map in the country

  Every redistricting argument is about the extremes. Here is the opposite: the state whose seven districts land within a factor of three of each other.

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• Structure

  Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026

  The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.

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• Arithmetic

  The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states

  Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.

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• Short

  Election night is reported in 3,142 counties and decided in 435 districts

  The unit America counts votes in and the unit America allocates House seats in are different shapes, and they do not nest inside each other.

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• Short

  Six states have exactly one representative, and they are not alike

  Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming each elect a single at-large member. The largest is 266 times the smallest.

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• Methods

  How the county lists on this site are computed, and where the method breaks

  A methods note. Two public boundary files, one point-in-polygon test, 436 districts, and five cases where it returns nothing.

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• Editorial

  Why this site runs simulations and refuses to call them forecasts

  A simulation with no polling input cannot be a forecast, and dressing one up as the other is the most common way election tools mislead people.

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Who writes this

Electorate HQ is built and edited by Sahil Manwani, a biomedical engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing a minor in entrepreneurship.

Corrections go to the contact page, and the standards these pieces are held to are on the editorial standards page.