AP is the leading provider of accurate, nonpartisan and timely U.S elections data to businesses, governments and nonprofits around the world.
In special, primary and general elections, we help our customers use live elections data to enrich their models and strengthen their decisions.
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Trusted results
The only reliably accurate source of vote counts for U.S. elections
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Live data
Real-time and historical results data via API or secure portal
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Expert support
Access to market-leading technical and subject matter support
Analyze voter patterns
Understand the decisions of the U.S. electorate and their implications for the issues and topics that matter to your organization.
Improve forecasting models
Give your organization a competitive edge by integrating live and historical voting data into your predictive models.
Monitor outcomes as they happen
Better manage risks and discover new opportunities, by tracking the results of elections that matter most to your organization.
The most complete and accurate elections data source.
- Rich metadata context
- Structured, machine-readable schema
- Machine- and human-verified
- Real-time API
- Direct download
- Easy to integrate into your workflows
How will you leverage elections opportunities?
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Analyze
AP Elections data helps you understand the choices made by the U.S. electorate and their implications for the country, the world — and your organization.
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Forecast
AP Elections data helps you find patterns and improve forecasts by bringing real-time and historical U.S. voting into your models.
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Monitor
AP Elections data helps you track and monitor U.S. elections results, so you can better manage risks and find opportunities.
AP’s role in the U.S. elections
In the American system of government, elections are administered most directly by local officials. There is no single governmental agency or federal commission that tallies those results and says who has won. That’s a role AP has filled in the democracy since 1848.
AP starts the work of counting the vote with a network of local reporters who have first-hand knowledge of their territories and trusted relationships with county clerks and other local officials. These reporters collect vote results at the source: voting precincts and county election offices. We match those results to data posted on county and state websites and provided via electronic data feeds, conducting an intense series of checks and verifications to ensure the numbers we publish are unfailingly accurate.
AP’s Decision Team starts with research — from voter demographics, to details on early and advance ballots cast, to a review of political issues and candidate backgrounds — that might affect the outcome of a race. After polls close, we follow with in-depth analysis of AP’s vote count. Only when completely confident the leader cannot be overtaken by trailing candidates will AP declare a winner.
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