Republican Julie Fedorchak won election to North Dakota’s lone U.S. House seat on Tuesday. The longtime public utilities regulator beat Democrat Trygve Hammer. The two ran to succeed Republican ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press declared winners Tuesday in some states where polls had just closed, and in some cases before any votes had been released. How is that possible? While ...

When the above data points confirm the expected result in a state where either major party has a history of dominating elections, the AP may call the race as soon as voting ends. ___ Learn more ...

AP PHOTOS: the World Watches as US Election Results Trickle In From coast to coast, Americans watched the results of a pivotal election Tuesday for the next president of the United States with a ...

While hotly contested races that take hours or days to count may attract the most attention, the AP for decades has called landslide or uncontested races at poll closing time. That's what happened ...