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# 2026

Changelog of new Votes features and data releases in 2026

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{% update date="2026-08-29" %}

## New Feature

### Election Pages

* **Vote Goals** — Live, county-by-county benchmarks of the votes each candidate needs to win
* **County-Level Demographics** — Ethnicity and party-affiliation breakdown for every county
* **Results by Designated Media Area (DMA)** — Election results grouped by media market instead of just state or county
* **Early Voting** — Early and absentee vote data for federal and major statewide elections, with county-level demographic breakdowns where available
* **Vote Drop Tracking** — Every vote batch as it lands, with timing, breakdown, and county of origin
* **Vote Method Breakdown** — See whether a reported batch was absentee, early, or Election Day

### Election Signals

* **The Pulse** — A live, post-polls-closed model that interprets vote drops in major statewide elections
* **Prediction Markets Vault** — A catalogue of relevant prediction markets by race, archived back to 2025

### Watchlists

* **Decision View (Dashboard)** — A fully customizable live election-night dashboard with widgets for results, vote drops, polls, markets, and maps
* **Shared / Collaborative Watchlists** — Share a watchlist and track elections together in real time

### Data Export

* **CSV Export** — Download any result as a CSV, including absentee and early-vote splits
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{% update date="2026-07-15" %}

## New Feature

* **2026 House and Senate Forecast**
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{% update date="2026-05-13" %}

## New Feature

* **National Precinct Maps**
* **2024 Precinct Map: President, US Senate, US House, Governor**
* **2022 Precinct Map: US Senate, Governor**
* **2020 Precinct Map: President, US Senate, Governor**

### Precinct Map Views

* **Margin: How big each precinct's win was**
* **Margin/km²: How each precinct compares to its county**
* **Margin vs. State: How each precinct compares to its state**
* **Margin vs. Nation: How each precinct compares to the nation**
* **Custom Pop. Vote: How big each precinct's win would be in a custom national environment**
* **Compare to a race: How each precinct compares to another race**
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{% update date="2026-03-03" %}

## Features and data at launch

* **Historical Election Results** — Access state and federal election data going back to 2000, revealing patterns and shifts across cycles and races
* **Local Race Coverage** — Explore results across the entire ballot, including local races at the state, county, and community level
* **Interactive Maps** — View results, margin, and swing maps to uncover regional differences and geographic patterns
* **Poll Averages** — Comprehensive polling averages built on a transparent, straightforward methodology that includes all AAPOR-compliant polls with published methodology, field dates, and sample size
* **Crosstab Data** — Demographic and subgroup breakdowns averaged across all available polls that meet quality standards
* **Prediction Market Signals** — See prediction market data alongside official results for additional context
* **Multi-Geography Exploration** — Dive into election data across time, geography, and perspective in a single interactive platform
* **Votes Broadcast** — All the features and data as Votes but in a tool optimized for streaming and linear TV applications.
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