This is a page that aims to document commonly-used map colors for election maps of US elections, so maps have consistent coloring.

New proposals

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See /proposals

Presidential

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  1. ^ running in 1944, 1956, 1960, 1964

Downballot

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  1. ^ 2021 Buffalo mayoral election, 2020 Washington lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2010 United States Senate election in Alaska, 1954 United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1913 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
  2. ^ Can also be used for elections like 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia
  3. ^ 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia - the second place Republican in jungle primaries
  4. ^ Used when for some reason there are no votes in a voting area (for example, a statewide ballot measure that wasn't on the ballot in a county, or a precinct that had no votes cast).

Seat control

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Other info

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For maps of future elections, "hold" is used for "incumbent intent is known and is eligible, or incumbent is running for re-election", whereas "gain" is used for "incumbent is retiring/term-limited". Following this, there is an additional color used, which is also used when an election has taken place but not been called yet.

Hex code Status
#808080      Unknown incumbent/result

Proposal support levels

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These colors were specially selected to cause no difficulty for most colorblind readers.[1]