Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota announced Thursday she won't seek re-election in 2026, forcing the Democratic Party to defend another open seat in next year's midterms.

Ms. Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota, will leave open another seat for her party to defend next year as it confronts an uphill battle to retake the Senate.

Minnesota’s Democratic Sen. Tina Smith announced Thursday that she will not seek reelection in 2026, a decision that could open up a competitive Democratic primary as the party faces a challenging ...

Legal analyst and democracy activist Marc Elias warns that an upcoming April 1 election in Wisconsin could determine the ...

Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) also announced he will not run for another term in Michigan, a perennial battleground.

Three new bills have been filed in the State House to change how district elections and voting cycles operate. The Fair Maps Act proposes the creation of an independent group to draw legislative ...

The Mississippi House approved a resolution that would allow five seats in the chamber to be re-decided in a special election ...

Sonoma chose to switch to city council districts to stave off threatened litigation by a Southern California activist ...

Cobb was forced to hold the special elections after a protracted legal dispute over county commission district lines that ultimately caused a do-over of last year’s election.

The U.S. Supreme Court scheduled a March 24 hearing to determine whether Louisiana will have one or two majority-Black ...

“There are blue precincts that are getting bluer by the minute, red precincts that are getting redder by the minute and an incredibly small number that cross over between the two,” Cooper said.

A judge has found the election district map for state utility regulators to be constitutional, despite being drawn in a way that favors Republican candidates.