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Thousands of elections are taking place in 2025 across the United States, including primary and general elections at the state and local levels. These include two of 50 state governorships and two of 99 state legislatures.
This page presents Ballotpedia's ongoing research and curation on 2025 elections in the United States, including:
- Coverage of state elections, including gubernatorial and state legislative races
- Coverage of local elections, including mayoral and other municipal elections
- Coverage of statewide ballot measures
The content on this page is organized by level of government (federal, state, local) and then by office type within those levels.
To review a previous year's version of this page, click one of these links: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
State politics
State legislative elections
- See also: State legislative elections, 2025
As of September 10th, 2025, Republicans controlled 55.5% of all state legislative seats nationally, while Democrats held 43.68%. Republicans held a majority in 57 chambers, and Democrats held the majority in 39 chambers. Two chambers (Alaska House and Alaska Senate) were organized under multipartisan, power-sharing coalitions. One chamber (Minnesota House of Representatives) was split evenly between both parties.
| Partisan balance of all 7,386 state legislative seats | ||||||||
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| State senates | 834 | 1,122 | 5 | 12 | ||||
| State houses | 2,392 | 2,977 | 20 | 24 | ||||
| Total: | 3,226
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- Annual Competitiveness Report
- State legislative special elections
- Primary election competitiveness in state government, 2025
- Impact of term limits
- Trifecta vulnerability in the 2025 elections
- Data on incumbents defeated in 2025
- Characteristics of incumbents defeated in 2025
- Veto-proof state legislatures and opposing party governors in the 2025 elections
- Contested primaries
- Open seats
- Incumbents in contested primaries
- Major party competition
- Unconstested incumbents
State executive elections
- See also: State executive official elections, 2025
State executive offices up for election in 2025 include two gubernatorial seats, two lieutenant gubernatorial seats, and one attorney general seat. Including down-ballot races, there are eight state executive seats up for election across four states in 2025.[1]
Tap the box below to show more analysis articles related to the 2025 state executive elections.
- State executive official elections overview
- Primary election competitiveness in state government, 2025
- Gubernatorial elections
- Secretary of State elections
- Attorney General elections
- Historical and potential changes in trifectas
- State government trifectas
- Endorsements of school board members by state executive officeholders and candidates, 2025
- Impact of term limits on state executive elections
- Veto-proof state legislatures and opposing party governors
State judicial elections
- See also: State judicial elections, 2025
Tap the box below to show more analysis articles related to the 2025 state judicial elections.
Local elections
- See also: United States municipal elections, 2025
This section will contain links to all local elections elections covered on Ballotpedia in 2025, including municipal elections, school board elections, local trial court judicial elections, and local ballot measure elections. More information will be added to this page as it becomes available.
Ballotpedia's coverage scope for municipal elections includes elections on the ballot in the 100 largest U.S. cities by population, as well as elections for mayors, city council members, and district attorneys in each state capital.
In 2025, Ballotpedia is covering elections for more than 30,000 school board seats. We expand our coverage each year with our eye on covering the country’s more than 80,000 school board seats. Ballotpedia also covers all school board recalls in the United States.
Throughout 2025, Ballotpedia is providing comprehensive local election coverage in 26. Use the links below to navigate to pages for each of these states, which contain additional links to specific counties.
Arizona • Arkansas • California • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Iowa • Illinois • Indiana • Kentucky • Maine • Michigan • Minnesota • Montana • New Mexico • Nevada • North Carolina • Ohio • Oklahoma • Rhode Island • South Carolina • Texas • Washington • Wisconsin • Wyoming
Featured analysis
- Partisanship in United States municipal elections (2025): Thirty-eight mayoral elections are taking place in the 100 largest U.S. cities by population and the 50 state capitals in 2025. Of the 38 cities with mayoral elections in 2025, 29 hold nonpartisan elections, and nine hold partisan elections.
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Ballot measures
- See also: 2025 ballot measures
As of September 9, 2025, 30 statewide ballot measures were certified for the ballot in nine states in 2025.
Featured analysis, 2025
- Analysis of the 2025 statewide ballot measures: This page provides an analysis on state ballot measures on the 2025 ballot.
- Ballot measure readability scores, 2025: Ballotpedia's readability report analyzes what level of education voters would need to understand the ballot titles and summaries of statewide ballot measures using Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL). A readability score is an estimation of the reading difficulty of a text. Measurements used in calculating readability scores include the number of syllables, words, and sentences in a text. Other factors, such as the complexity of an idea in a text, are not reflected in readability scores.
- Analysis of 2025 changes to laws governing ballot measures: This report analyzes legislation related to ballot initiatives, referendums, and recall processes in 2025 and for the period from 2018 to 2025.
- Difficulty analysis of changes to laws governing ballot measures: This page provides information on the bills that made or would make the initiative, referendum, and recall processes more or less difficult.
- Analysis of the 2025 local ballot measures in California: This page provides an analysis on the local ballot measures in California on the 2025 ballot.
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Election coverage by state
Click your state on the map below to navigate to relevant election information.
See also: Elections by state and year.
Election coverage by office
- Congressional special elections
- Governors
- Attorney general
- Other state executives
- State legislatures
- State ballot measures
- Local ballot measures
- State judges
- Local judges
- Municipal government
- School boards
- Recalls
Election resources
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia describes the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and secretary of state as top-ballot state executive offices. Down-ballot state executive offices that exist in all 50 states include superintendent of schools, insurance commissioner, agriculture commissioner, labor commissioner, and public service commissioner. Examples of other down-ballot state executive offices include treasurer, auditor, and comptroller.