Top issues in elections and redistricting for 2025 legislative sessions include artificial intelligence; noncitizen voting, ranked choice voting and anything related to election officials. Forecast ’25

Despite record spending in legislative races, the post-election state landscape is hardly different than it was before the election. Republicans scored modest, albeit important, gains, and Democrats retained most of their power bases.

Voters in the 2024 election weigh in on a total of 150 statewide measures on abortion, drug policy, elections and more.

From an administrative point of view, the 2024 election could be considered smooth—almost boring, in fact—despite a handful of technical issues and fake bomb threats.

On Nov. 5, voters will decide thousands of legislative seats, nearly a dozen governorships and ballot questions galore. Is major political change coming to states? NCSL experts break down the data and discuss the key issues and trends.

The elections are just days away. In this final stretch, NCSL asked nine experts common questions about how prepared states are to continue their long tradition of running excellent elections.