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Midterm Elections 2018

Coverage of the 2018 midterm elections: the House, Senate, ballot initiatives, and more.

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The 2018 midterm elections, explained

The 2018 midterms could be pivotal for the future of the Trump administration. Here’s everything you need to know.

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The special election in a scandal-plagued North Carolina House district, explained

By Dylan Scott

Young people, women, voters in cities: how Democrats won in 2018, by the numbers

By Tara Golshan

Watch: Netflix’s Knock Down the House trailer is here to make politics feel a little more hopeful

By Alissa Wilkinson

A court just blocked Wisconsin Republicans’ lame-duck power grab

By Tara Golshan

House Democrats have launched an investigation into voter suppression in Georgia

By P.R. Lockhart

Republican operative indicted in ballot fraud scandal that led to new House election

By Dylan Scott

Republican Mark Harris won’t run again after new House election called in ballot fraud case

By Dylan Scott

North Carolina elections board orders new House election after ballot tampering scandal

By Dylan Scott

North Carolina’s election fraud scandal is heading toward a dramatic resolution

By Dylan Scott

How Republicans turned voter suppression into a high art

By Sean Illing

Judge refuses to certify GOP victory in contested North Carolina Congress race

By Dylan Scott

Federal judge strikes down Wisconsin Republicans’ lame-duck early voting rollbacks

By Tara Golshan

Why the suburbs abandoned Republicans in 2018

By Dylan Scott

Court dissolves North Carolina elections board with election fraud scandal still under investigation

By Dylan Scott

More evidence piles up in North Carolina GOP election fraud scandal

By Dylan Scott

Republican Martha McSally lost Arizona’s Senate race. She’s being appointed to the Senate anyway.

By Li Zhou

How Republicans are trying to strip power from Democratic governors-elect

By Tara Golshan

North Carolina GOP admits a new House election is probably needed after election fraud scandal

By Dylan Scott

House Republicans don’t agree on why they lost the 2018 midterms

By Tara Golshan

There’s election fraud in North Carolina. That’s not the same thing as voter fraud.

By Dylan Scott

The 2018 midterms had the highest turnout since before World War I

By Ella Nilsen

The somewhat absurd controversy over Maine’s ranked-choice voting system, explained

By Rachel Withers

What we know about the alleged election fraud plot in North Carolina

By Dylan Scott

Republican Brad Raffensperger wins Georgia secretary of state runoff

By P.R. Lockhart

Live results for Georgia’s secretary of state election

By P.R. Lockhart

The Georgia secretary of state runoff election, explained

By P.R. Lockhart

The bizarre allegations of ballot tampering in one of 2018’s closest House elections

By Dylan Scott

Brenda Snipes says she won’t resign as Broward County election supervisor after all

By Jane Coaston

How Kevin McCarthy led California Republicans astray

By Tara Golshan

Why racist politics appeals to white women, explained by American history

By Anna North

Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith wins Mississippi Senate election

By Dylan Scott

Live results for the Mississippi Senate election

By Dylan Scott

Mike Espy’s path to an upset victory in the Mississippi Senate runoff

By Dylan Scott

Democrats could pull off another Senate upset this week in Mississippi

By Dylan Scott

All the House seats Democrats have flipped in the 2018 elections

By Dylan Scott, Ella Nilsen, and 1 more

The data is clear: nobody actually fights about politics at Thanksgiving dinner

By Dylan Scott

Bernie Sanders’s new plan to bring down drug prices, briefly explained

By Dylan Scott

Martha McSally just lost the Arizona Senate race. She could still be a senator next year.

By Li Zhou

Cindy Hyde-Smith called for a “front row” seat at a lynching. Now donors want their money back.

By Stavros Agorakis

2018’s record-setting voter turnout, in one chart

By Emily Stewart