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Senate control Sample
How to read this: the ring and the big number are the chance each party controls the Senate. The bar is all 100 seats: called seats are solid, seats where a candidate leads are striped, and gray seats have no votes yet. Seats not on the ballot count for the party that holds them. A party needs 51 seats for control, or 50 when the Vice President, who breaks a tie, is its own.
How to read this: the ring and the big number are the chance each party controls the Senate. The bar is all 100 seats: called seats are solid, seats where a candidate leads are striped, and gray seats have no votes yet. Seats not on the ballot count for the party that holds them. A party needs 51 seats for control, or 50 when the Vice President, who breaks a tie, is its own.
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Races
How to read this: one tile per race, in the order the polls close, so tiles never move. The big number is the leader's margin in points. The five dots are the race's bellwether places: a dot fills when a place has counted 95% of its vote. Every other race is under States in the header.
The night so far
Your races firstCalls come from Pollitrack's editor, never from the desk. Margins are in percentage points.
How the night works
Three steps, from 7 pm Eastern to the last call.
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Polls close
The board lights up state by state, from 7 pm Eastern to midnight.
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Bellwethers report
Each race has five bellwether places. A dot fills as each one reports, and we check it against its tie line.
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The editor calls it
Pollitrack's editor calls a race when the vote left to count can't change the winner. The desk reads calls; it never makes them.
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