Ballotics: Elections, Politics

Ballotics: Election Data & Map
The numbers behind American democracy — beautifully presented.

Ballotics 3.0 is a complete redesign. Cleaner. Deeper. More honest about what the data actually says. Whether you're tracking the 2026 midterms, replaying history back to 1788, or building your own 2028 electoral scenario, Ballotics gives you the tools serious observers use — without the spin.

WHAT'S NEW IN 3.0

NEW LOOK, BUILT FROM SCRATCH
A refined editorial aesthetic inspired by data journalism. Clean typography, an ink-on-parchment palette, and information-dense layouts that respect your intelligence. Less dashboard, more newsroom.

2026 MIDTERMS POLLING HUB
The most comprehensive midterm tracker we've built. Live polling averages for every Senate, House, and Governor race — updated nightly. Margin charts, poll-by-poll tables, battleground heat maps, and trend lines for every major contest. See where the map is moving.

FEC CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Follow the money. Ballotics integrates Federal Election Commission data directly into the race view. See total raised, cash on hand, and spending for every major candidate. Compare fundraising by state on a live choropleth map. Available for elections 2000–2026.

PRESIDENTIAL POLLING HUB
A dedicated screen for presidential approval polling — 30-day rolling averages, individual poll tables, historical approval arcs across administrations, the 2024 election polling arc, and the House generic ballot. Everything in one place, updated from real data nightly.

EVERYTHING ELSE

HISTORICAL ELECTION MAPS (1788–2024)
Every presidential election, color-coded by winner. Split electoral votes for Maine and Nebraska. County-level results for 2000–2024. Tap any state for its full result and electoral vote breakdown.

Switch to Census mode on any county map to layer demographic context directly over the results — median household income, college education rates, population, and median age from ACS estimates. See what kinds of places vote which way, and why.

INTERACTIVE 2028 MAP
Build your own path to 270. Tap states to assign electoral votes, watch the scoreboard update in real time, save multiple scenarios, and — if you build a 269–269 tie — explore exactly how a contingent House election would unfold under the Twelfth Amendment.

CONGRESS — LIVE AND IN DEPTH
Live chamber composition for both the House and Senate: seat counts by party, a majority threshold indicator, and an interactive chamber floor map or geographic district view that updates with current data.

Profiles for all 535 members of Congress — committee assignments, sponsored and cosponsored legislation, roll-call voting record, and full FEC fundraising detail: total raised, cash on hand, top individual contributors, top PAC contributions, and campaign disbursements. Leadership is pinned at the top of every member list so the Speaker, Majority Leaders, and Whips are never buried.

Enter your address once and Ballotics finds your two senators and your representative automatically, with direct links to call or write them.

NON-PARTISAN BY DESIGN
Ballotics presents data. It does not editorialize, predict, or push a viewpoint. Republican numbers and Democratic numbers get the same treatment. The data speaks; we just make it readable.

Ballotics (ba·luht·tiks). Read the numbers, not the noise.

VERSION 3.0 — THE REDESIGN

DESIGN

The entire app has been rebuilt with a new editorial aesthetic — data journalism, not dashboard software. Two typefaces define the look: Fraunces (a variable serif) for display text and big numbers, JetBrains Mono for every data label and statistic. The palette is warm and deliberate — ink on parchment, crimson for Republican, navy for Democrat, ochre for tossups — consistent across every screen.

Every screen is organized around information hierarchy, not chrome. Cards are sized by importance. Sparklines use Swift Charts with monotone interpolation. The election map runs on Canvas with hardware-accelerated CGPath rendering and a geometry cache that eliminates per-frame recalculation. iPad layouts expand into wide two-column arrangements; the data never just scales up — it reorganizes.

FEC FINANCE — ELECTIONS

A Money view now sits alongside Results and Counties for every election 2000–2026. A state choropleth maps fundraising geography using a diverging color scale — light to fully saturated party color — so winner and margin read simultaneously. Hero fundraising cards show total raised, cash on hand, burn rate, and itemized donor count for the top candidates. A full per-state receipts table below, sourced directly from OpenFEC Schedule A filings.

FEC FINANCE — MEMBER PROFILES

Every member of Congress has a new Fundraising tab: total raised, spent, cash on hand, and last report filed — plus a source breakdown across individual donors, small-dollar contributions, party committees, and PACs. Below that: top 12 individual donors with employer and occupation, top 12 PAC contributions, and top 12 campaign disbursements. All cached locally so repeat visits are instant.

CONGRESS — MEMBER PROFILES

Profiles now have three content tabs. Legislation: sponsored and cosponsored bills with policy area, introduced date, latest action, and a link to the bill text. Voting Record: the member's recent roll-call votes and results. Committees: full and subcommittee assignments, live from the data sync.

The profile header shows leadership role as a badge, senate seniority (Senior or Junior Senator), and senate class.

CONGRESS — CHAMBER VIEW

Live seat counts by party, a majority threshold bar, and an interactive floor map or geographic district map for both chambers. Leadership is pinned at the top of every member list — Speaker, Majority and Minority Leaders, and Whips are never buried alphabetically.

COUNTY MAPS

Three render modes for every county map. Fill uses a custom diverging color ramp — light pink to deep crimson for Republican, light blue to deep navy for Democrat — where intensity encodes margin strength directly, not a flat party fill. Dot scales each county circle by total votes cast so population weight reads correctly: Los Angeles is larger than Wyoming, as it should be. Shift overlays directional triangles showing how each county moved relative to the prior election.

Census mode layers ACS demographic data directly over the results — median household income, college education rates, population, and median age, from 2023 ACS 5-year estimates. See not just how a county voted, but what kind of place it is.

POLLING & OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

Full 2026 midterms polling hub: live nightly averages for Senate, House, and Governor races with margin charts, heat maps, and poll tables. Presidential approval screen shows 30-day rolling averages, individual poll breakdowns by pollster, historical approval arcs across multiple administrations, the 2024 polling arc, and the generic ballot.

The 2028 map now includes a Contingent Election explorer for 269–269 ties. Scenario library rebuilt with named saves and swipe-to-delete. Election year selector is now a color-coded timeline bar.

Ballotics (ba·luht·tiks). Read the numbers, not the noise.