How TAQ Elections works
TAQ Elections is a service of The American Quorum. It is not a government website. We combine direct state-agency feeds with nationwide results supplied by civicAPI, an independent public election-data aggregator. civicAPI says it collects from state and county election authorities. Each race identifies its data route and links to the responsible election office. A civicAPI record is not a direct TAQ connection to that agency.
Coverage, in plain language
The nationwide integration covers all 435 voting House districts, all 35 Senate contests, including the Florida and Ohio special elections, and all 36 state governor contests on November 3. All 506 individual civicAPI race records were fetched and checked on October 28, 2026. Candidate rosters are supplied by the provider and can change. Coverage of territories, additional special elections for outgoing terms, state legislatures, and local offices is not comprehensive. Direct agency integrations remain available for California, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, and South Dakota. The status table distinguishes configured races from feeds reached in the latest refresh; neither means votes have been reported.
Map colors and current officeholders
The geographic map compares Democratic and Republican seat counts for each state and selected office. More Democratic seats are blue; more Republican seats are red; an equal split is purple. For balance-of-power comparisons, independents follow their recorded caucus. House caucus information comes from the Clerk’s official member data; the Senate’s two independents caucus with Democrats. Vacancies stay unassigned. The Current map is an officeholder snapshot, separate from incoming 2026 election returns.
Count so far combines seats not on the ballot with fresh reported leaders. Incomplete states remain neutral unless one major party already leads in more than half of all the state’s seats. An equal partial count is not colored purple. House colors reflect the delegation’s seat counts, not statewide vote totals; the district selector explores individual contests without changing the statewide balance rule.
Leading is not winning
Election-night results are unofficial. A lead can change as additional ballots are counted. TAQ does not project winners. Precincts reporting is not the percentage of ballots counted. We do not turn 100% precinct reporting into a race call.
Current versus count so far
Current shows the party affiliations of officeholders at the baseline date, including independents and vacancies. Count so far combines seats not on the November ballot with current unofficial leaders from connected feeds. Every other contested seat stays unresolved. It is a provisional view of the available count, not a prediction, a race call, or a certified outcome.
The Senate starts with 32 Democrats, 31 Republicans, and two independents whose seats are not on this ballot, with 35 seats contested. Governors start with six Democrats and eight Republicans whose offices are not on this ballot, with 36 offices contested. All 435 House seats are contested. Tied races and sources that are unavailable, delayed, still testing, or not connected remain unresolved. Other-party leaders appear with independents. Independents remain separate even when they caucus with a major party.
No nationwide control declaration is made from incomplete returns. Certification is a separate official process; this release does not automatically import certified outcomes.
Timing and rehearsal data
We suppress totals before a conservative statewide poll-close gate, before the provider’s poll-close time if later, and when the source is testing or lacks a valid post-close update timestamp. Pre-election zero files are not displayed as election returns. Provider timestamps can differ from an election authority’s publication time. Data more than one hour behind is marked delayed and excluded from the provisional balance. The state gates are for publication safeguards, not polling-place advice; local hours may differ.
Refreshes and interruptions
While visible, this page checks about every two minutes. Before polls close, server caching may reuse a successful read for up to ten minutes; during counting the shared cache is two minutes. Requests run in small batches and read stable race IDs rather than repeatedly downloading every local contest. An available direct agency count takes precedence; civicAPI supplies national coverage and a fallback when direct data is unavailable. We use one complete source record per race and never add two providers’ counts together. If an individual feed fails, that race is marked unavailable while the remaining races continue. Feed reachability, provider reporting percentage, and actual ballots counted are different. A successful check does not mean new votes were published. civicAPI race calls and winner flags are not imported as certified results.
No account required
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Corrections
Always compare disputed numbers with the linked election authority. Source corrections may increase or decrease published totals; a decrease alone does not indicate misconduct.
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