The election atlas, rebuilt
Every vote. Every county. Since 1868.
165 years of U.S. election results — presidential, Senate, Governor, House, state legislative, primaries — in one atlas, with an API underneath. Built for the election-data community and everyone who reads them.
Scrub 165 years on one map — state, county, district, precinct.
Ask the Historian anything; every answer is auditable SQL.
Pull any row from the API. Embed any chart with one line.
Find your elections
The Cartographer
165 years. One scrubber. Every county.
A full-screen interactive atlas of American elections. Scrub from 1868 to 2024. Paint the map six different ways. Drill from the state down to 163,000 precincts and eight million Census blocks. Export the frame as PNG, CSV, or a shareable URL.
Six color modes
Margin
Swing
Turnout
Chamber
Demographics
County-override
Drill to precinct
VEST 2016, 2020, and 2024 + NYT 2024 — 163,926 precincts with real geometry. Zoom past the county line.
Block-level disaggregation
17 million results over 8 million Census blocks in 50 states. Paint any polygon you can draw.
Ship the frame
PNG export. CSV export. Shareable URL with full map state baked in. Embed on any page with one line.
Place Pages
A dossier for every geography that decides an election.
Every place in American politics — state, county, district, metro, media market, city, or state legislative seat — gets its own page. Same data layer. Same sources. Same provenance. Built to be bookmarked, linked, and cited.
43,834 dossier pages across 8 geography families
What’s in every dossier
Timeline
Every election since the first one on record
Presidential margins back to 1868. Senate to 1908. Governor to 1865. House to 1789 — with county-level data even for the pre-1826 era.
Demographics
Census + ACS joined in
PL 94-171 block-level race and population. ACS 2024 5-year education, income, and ancestry (European, MENA, African, Latino, Asian, AIAN, NHPI).
Similar places
pgvector K-NN over 32 features
Find the 10 counties most like yours — or unlike. Backed by HNSW index on 3,143 county embeddings and a 12-cluster K-means segmentation.
Precinct drill-down
Sub-county vote splits
Every precinct that reports, including the ones your local SoS only publishes as a PDF. Pro+ tiers unlock the drill view.
Compare
Two places, side by side
Margins, demographics, swing, turnout, ancestry, religion — paired head-to-head with an explicit benchmark column.
Smart Insights
Auto-generated narrative analysis
Not a chatbot — a curated reading of the place against its peers and the nation. Prophet+ tier.
The Historian
Ask it anything. In plain English.
The Historian turns a question into a parameterized SQL query, runs it against the same data layer that ships every page on this site, and streams back narrative, tables, mini-maps, and follow-ups. Every answer is auditable — view the SQL, export the rows, save the workspace.
Things people are asking
- ›Every county that voted for Bryan in 1896 and Reagan in 1984
- ›Biggest one-cycle governor swing, 1865–present
- ›Counties where Latino ancestry grew >5pts and margin moved right
- ›Rust Belt counties that voted Obama twice and Trump three times
- ›Safest House seats held by freshman Democrats since 2018
- ›Every precinct in Maricopa County by 2020 margin
What you get back
- Streaming narrative with inline citations to source_id and vintage.
- Data tables with export buttons — CSV at Pro, JSON/XLSX/PDF at Prophet+.
- Mini-maps rendered from the same vector tiles the Cartographer uses.
- Follow-up chips that extend the thread without retyping context.
- “View SQL” on every response — parameterized, logged, reproducible.
- Save any answer as a shareable artifact workspace with a permalink.
Live 2026
The board is live. So is the data underneath it.
Senate, Governor, and House forecasts with ratings, competitive race counts, and featured candidates — all rebuilt from the same data layer that ships every page.
2026 Forecast at a Glance
2026 hub →2026 Featured Candidates
View all races →It's not the old atlas
The election data site you've been waiting for.
We grew up on Leip, MEDSL, and hand-built CSVs. This is what we wanted the whole time — one source of truth, every geography, every race, with an API underneath.
| Legacy election atlas | Akashic Edge | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Presidential county-level; limited downballot | President, Senate, Governor, House, State Legislative, Statewide Exec, Primaries |
| Precinct data | Rare, paywalled, or PDF-only | VEST 2016, 2020, 2024 + NYT 2024 — 163,926 precincts with geometry |
| Block-level | None | 17M disaggregated results over 8M Census blocks (50 states) |
| Ask a question | Ctrl-F the table | The Historian — streaming NL→SQL with sourced answers |
| API | None | 13 REST endpoints, OpenAPI 3.1, versioned |
| Embeds | Screenshot the PNG | 6 live widgets with copy-paste snippets |
| Sources | Opaque or inherited | VEST · MEDSL · Klarner · ICPSR · Algara-Amlani · ACS · Census |
Nothing against the old atlas. This is the one we wanted. Read the switcher guide.
The API
The same data layer, under every page.
Every page on this site is rendered from the same 13 REST endpoints that the public API exposes. No scraped CSVs, no “we'll get back to you” — the data layer and the product layer are one thing.
Request
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ak_live_…" \
"https://akashicedge.com/api/v1/elections/swing\
?from_year=2020&to_year=2024&geo=county"Response
{
"data": [
{ "fips": "17031", "name": "Cook, IL",
"from_margin": 50.51, "to_margin": 45.67,
"swing": -4.84 },
{ "fips": "39035", "name": "Cuyahoga, OH",
"from_margin": 32.14, "to_margin": 24.12,
"swing": -8.02 },
...
],
"meta": { "source_ids": [11, 46],
"vintage": "2024-12-01" }
}13 endpoints
Elections, results, swing, time-series, counties, states, districts, compare, similar, candidates, primaries, demographics, clusters.
6 live embeds
Margin bar, timeline, county card, election table, comparison, similar counties. Copy a snippet, paste into any CMS.
Versioned · Rate-limited · OpenAPI 3.1
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The election data site you’ve been waiting for
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