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Special elections tend to have lower voter turnout compared with regularly scheduled elections.
October 08, 2025 high general
General observation about electoral dynamics used to interpret outcomes of one-off contests.
As of 2025, Tennessee's 9th Congressional District is the state's only congressional district that leans Democratic under the congressional lines drawn by Tennessee Republicans.
October 08, 2025 high political
Partisan lean of Tennessee's congressional districts under the current (2025) map.
Steve Cohen is a 10-term U.S. Representative from Tennessee who has won nearly every election with more than 70% of the vote.
October 08, 2025 high biographical
Summary of incumbent electoral history and tenure.
Turnout gaps between White voters and voters of color often increase in off-year elections.
January 01, 2025 high temporal
A commonly observed pattern in U.S. electoral turnout across federal and state election cycles.
Donald Trump carried Tennessee's 7th Congressional District by roughly 20 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election.
November 05, 2024 high temporal
Presidential election performance in a specific congressional district.
In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump carried Tennessee's 7th Congressional District by roughly 20 percentage points.
November 05, 2024 high statistical
Result from the 2024 presidential election at the congressional-district level.
Suburban areas surrounding New York City were cited as influential to Republican performance in U.S. House elections in 2022 and 2024.
November 05, 2024 medium temporal
Observation about electoral geography and its impact on Republican House results in the 2022 and 2024 election cycles.
In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, 13 congressional districts voted for Donald Trump for president while electing a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives.
November 05, 2024 high temporal
National-level split-ticket outcomes observed in the 2024 presidential and House elections.
New Jersey experienced a decline in voter turnout between the 2020 and 2024 elections, with larger turnout declines among Latino voters and among registered Democrats.
November 05, 2024 high temporal
Observed changes in turnout by demographic groups in New Jersey across two presidential election cycles.
Passaic, New Jersey, which has an approximately 70% Latino population, voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election and saw Trump's vote margin there increase by over 30 percentage points from 2020 to 2024.
November 05, 2024 high temporal
Example of large Republican gains in heavily Latino municipalities between the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections.
Justice Democrats is a progressive political organization that targets longtime incumbents and helped elect Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the progressive 'Squad' in U.S. House primaries.
January 01, 2024 high temporal
Describes the mission and past influence of the Justice Democrats organization in U.S. House primary elections.
There is a generational debate within the Democratic Party in which younger Democrats are increasingly mounting primary challenges to older, long-serving Democratic incumbents.
January 01, 2024 high temporal
Describes an observable trend in intra-party challenges and discussions about generational change.
In 2020, California voters removed the state legislature's authority to draw legislative and congressional district maps and established an independent redistricting commission.
January 01, 2020 high temporal
State-level change to redistricting authority implemented via ballot measure in California.
Redistricting of legislative and congressional districts in the United States is typically conducted after each decennial census.
January 01, 2020 high temporal
Standard timing for redrawing electoral district boundaries in the U.S.
Abigail Spanberger was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm election.
November 06, 2018 high temporal
Spanberger began her congressional service following the 2018 midterm elections.
The 2018 U.S. midterm elections resulted in the Democratic Party flipping control of the U.S. House of Representatives and gaining 40 seats.
November 06, 2018 high temporal
The 2018 midterm cycle is commonly described as a significant Democratic gain in the House.
Democratic candidates won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections.
November 06, 2018 high temporal
Outcome of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.
Winsome Earle-Sears serves as the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
high temporal
Statewide elected official in Virginia government.
Jay Jones is a Virginia politician who previously served as a state delegate from Norfolk and has been a candidate for Virginia attorney general.
high temporal
Background roles and candidacy status for Virginia statewide office.
Virginia and New Jersey are among the few U.S. states that hold statewide elections in the year after U.S. presidential elections, and gubernatorial contests held in those off-year cycles are often treated as referenda on the newly elected president.
high electoral
Explains the timing of statewide elections in Virginia and New Jersey and how those contests are commonly interpreted.
In U.S. federal practice, special elections are used to fill vacant U.S. House of Representatives seats when a sitting representative resigns or dies.
high temporal
General procedural rule for filling vacancies in the U.S. House.