Decision Desk HQ’s proprietary results collection and reporting technology, combined with a diverse stable of political and election experts enable us to speed the collection and reporting of accurate election results at any level from presidential to local school board.
In 2016 we became the first organization to successfully compete with the Associated Press to collect, analyze, and report election night in over 50 years. In addition to being the first organization to declare Donald Trump the winner of key states, DDHQ Executive Director Brandon Finnigan was the first election night analyst to call the 2016 presidential election for Republican Donald Trump. Finnigan made his call on the Buzzfeed/Twitter election night webcast (watched by over 6 million viewers).
In addition to our election night coverage, we provide daily campaign and election news and analysis at decisiondeskhq.com.
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It's election night, and we're following 70+ elections across Georgia, Florida, Iowa, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.
The marquee race is the runoff special election in Georgia's State Senate District 18, a seat Republicans are likely to hold.
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Tonight, we're tracking 121 elections across the country - including 108 in Oklahoma alone.
There are three state legislative special elections tonight, two in northern Virginia and one in Oklahoma.
Follow all of them at the link below:
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2026-02-10
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Decision Desk HQ is retracting its projection in the NJ-11 Democratic primary.
We have deleted the race projection tweet.
At the time of our initial projection, all absentee and early vote had been recorded in all three counties, and we had 66/240 precincts in Essex County (expected to be Analilia Mejia strongest) that had reported election day vote & two election day vote drops in Morris County (expected to be Thomas Malinowski’s strongest).
Malinowski had a 4,900 raw vote lead, and the margin he was losing the election day vote in Essex combined with the margin he was winning the election day vote in Morris, provided him a sizable cushion. Even if Mejia’s projected margins were doubled, Malinowski was still projected to win by more than 1,000 votes.
As the night progressed, margins in Morris County quickly tilted toward Mejia; Mejia began winning drops by 20%-30%, representing a swing of 65 points compared to the absentee vote.
This trend reversal prompted us to re-examine our race projection and ultimately retract it.
Our apologies for the inaccurate projection on this race, and we hope our swift retraction and transparency are seen as a sign of our intent to be quick and accurate in all things elections now and going forward.
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We're following tonight's Democratic primary in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District. Fmr. Rep. Tom Malinowski leads in fundraising & limited polling. But he's been the target of sizable spending.
Other notable candidates include Essex Co. commissioner Brendan Gill, former Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way & activist Analilia Mejia.
The winner will be the favorite to hold this Harris+8 district in April's special election. Follow along tonight at the link below:
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Tonight, we're tracking eight elections in Texas.The marquee race is the runoff election in Texas's 18th Congressional District. Two Democrats vying to replace the late Sylvester Turner in this Houston-based district.
We're also tracking the special election in Texas's 9th State Senate District, based in Tarrant County. This district voted for Trump by 18 points in 2024.Ennis, Texas is holding special elections for both Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore.
In Frisco City, Texas, we're tracking special elections for two city council positions. We're also following an at-large special election for city council in Grand Prairie, and a city council runoff in Schertz City.
Find all the results at this link: election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2026-01-31
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Tonight, we're tracking six elections across the United States.
In Minnesota, a special election is being held in State House 64A. Democrats are heavily favored to win, which would return the State House to a 67-67 tie.
We're also tracking a number of local elections, including city commission and mayoral elections in Florida City, FL, a school district funding referendum in Lagunitas School District, CA, and a city council election in Los Fresnos, TX.
Follow live here:
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2026-01-27
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