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Live Results
See the maps below for the latest results for U.S. House and Senate races. The data updates automatically as polls close and votes are tallied. Click or tap on a state for more detailed county-by-county or district-level results. (Source: Decision Desk HQ)
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Top Story
Abortion Ban Fails in Small Nebraska Town; Others Pass, Some Narrowly
A surprising result for a conservative community shows the potential limits of politicizing reproductive rights.
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Rural Gun Deaths Exceed Urban Rates by 28%
Rates of rural gun deaths exceed urban rates because of increased suicide rates. But experts say that waiting periods and red flag laws can reduce the disparity.
Rural and Urban Counties with the Highest Gun Death Rates
Rural counties have higher gun death rates than the rest of the nation, which experts attribute to increased suicide rates.
Republicans Win Wis. Senate Seat with Help from Big-City Suburbs and Rural Voters
Suburban Milwaukee and rural voters were critical parts of Republican Ron Johnson’s win in the Wisconsin Senate contest.
Analysis: Democrats Have Issues that Rural Voters Love. Maybe They Should Talk about Them.
It’s not a foregone conclusion that rural voters pick Republican candidates. But addressing Democrats “rural problem” means they need to show up, pay attention, and talk about working-class issues.
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Everywhere Radio: Rural America and the Midterm Elections
The final outcome of the 2022 midterm election is still coming into focus, but we’ve got some initial takeaways on high-profile candidates, key issues, and the state of rural voters.
Dem Gains with Rural Voters Add up to Senate Victory in Penn. but not Ohio
John Fetterman improved the Democratic performance with rural voters as part of winning Pennsylvania’s Senate race. But in Ohio, Democrat Tim Ryan’s similar advance against Republican J.D. Vance did not affect the bottom line. Republicans won the rural vote in both states by about 2 to 1.
Reports Look At Climate Resiliency In Rural Communities
Two new reports from the Center for American Progress examine how rural communities can access federal grant funding to build climate resiliency.
Daily Yonder Rural Voter Poll: Worries over Inflation Dominate Midterm Election
Rural voters in battleground states are gloomy about the economy and appear ready to support Republican congressional candidates by wide margins.
Analysis: In Pennsylvania and Ohio, Democratic Senate Candidates Take Different Routes to Woo Rural Voters
Ohio’s Tim Ryan and Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, Democratic Senate candidates, both want to improve their margins with rural voters. Their very different approaches to doing just that offer insights on rural America’s working-class vote.
Conspiracy Theorists and 16-Hour Days: Inside the Stress Elections Officials Face Ahead of the Midterms
Running elections in Texas has never been easy. But since 2020, the scrutiny elections administrators face has grown — even in small Republican-controlled counties that former President Donald Trump carried.
International Movement to Clean Up Chemical Weapons Counts on Small-Town Leadership
The last remaining stockpile of chemical weapons in the United States will soon be gone, destroyed using a process that the military and local residents agreed was safer than originally proposed. Tireless advocacy made the change possible.
Senate Turns Its Attention to Rural Housing
Two congressional hearings focused on proposed legislation aiming to preserve already strained access to subsidized housing for rural residents.
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Looking Back
2020: The Rural Vote
Trump Maintains His Large Rural Margin; Democratic Vote Grows the Most in Mid-Sized and Large Metros
A big drop in third-party votes means both the Democratic and Republican candidates get a larger share of the total vote than they did in 2016.
Breaking Down the Battleground States
In Georgia, Atlanta Suburbs Deliver for Biden, But Extra Rural Votes Are Part of His Lead
Biden did slightly better with rural voters than Hillary Clinton did in 2016, contributing to his narrow lead over Trump. But Trump won rural voters 2 to 1.
Major-Metro Suburbs Give Biden His Margin of Victory in Pennsylvania
Biden got beat 3 to 1 among rural voters. But he improved his rural turnout enough to allow his metropolitan advantage to give him the win.
Modest Gains in Rural Votes Help Biden Flip Michigan and Wisconsin
In Ohio, where Donald Trump maintained a nearly 50-point advantage with rural voters, the president won the race statewide by 8 points.
The Presidential Campaign: The Race for Rural Votes
Electoral Patchwork: Both Parties Look for Success in a South That Is Less Monolithic
Democrats are betting that demographic and economic change will improve their chances of success. Republicans are trying to preserve a Southern firewall.
Electoral Patchwork: The Midwestern Path to the White House
Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota are once again at the center of the presidential race. Joe Biden holds a steady lead, but many experts believe the vote is still in flux.
Electoral Patchwork: Where Does the Rural Vote Fit in National Elections?
Could a decrease in rural support be part of a disappointing season for Republican candidates? The Daily Yonder looks at presidential and congressional races in three states: Pennsylvania, Maine, and Montana.
Analysis and Data
If Trump’s Rural Edge Has Eroded, What Does that Mean for Electoral Math?
The latest Fox News poll suggests Donald Trump’s rural advantage has dropped by two-thirds since 2016.
Distance and Density, Not Just Demographics, Affect Urban-Rural Vote
Are two people who are demographically identical likely to have different political preferences if one lives in a rural area and the other in an urban one? This study says yes.
What can we learn from prior Elections?
The Rural Buzz – A Special Series on Rural Social Media Activity During the 2020 Election
This Yonder-exclusive series analyzes the political sentiments of rural social media users in six battleground states.
The Rural Campaign Trail
How the Party Conventions Dealt with Rural America
High-profile speeches made limited mention of rural policy concerns, but new formats elevated stories from rural people and places.
Deep Canvassing: National Network Says Technique Offers a Way to Engage Rural Voters
A report from People’s Action says its “deep canvassing” project could have an impact on the 2020 election.
Commentary: In Wisconsin, a Democratic Plan to Reach Rural Voters Started with Listening
The party’s environmental caucus is helping candidates connect with rural voters by
fighting large-scale agricultural waste that they say harms communities.
Analysis: How Iowa Prepped the Field for Winning Back Rural Voters
This year’s Democratic candidates have better policies with which to court America’s rural voters. You can thank Iowa.
Book Review: ‘Harvest the Vote – How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America’
The book by the head of the Nebraska Democratic Party makes strong arguments why Democrats should reach out for rural voters. The question is whether anyone will listen.
The 2020 Presidential Primary
2016 in Retrospect
The 2018 Midterms
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