Elections by year

1988 elections

Every election in 1988 in the 99chambers archive: generals, primaries, specials and runoffs for Congress, governor, statewide offices and the state legislatures.

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Races7,039
Changed party363
Unopposed32%1,866 races
Incumbents defeated242

Jan 1, 1988 runoff

1 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Jan 1, 1988 special

1 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Feb 1, 1988 runoff

1 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Mar 1, 1988 runoff

4 races in 1 state: State legislatures

1988 primaries

1,214 races in 9 states: State legislatures

Apr 1, 1988 runoff

6 races in 1 state: State legislatures

May 1, 1988 runoff

8 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Aug 1, 1988 runoff

8 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Aug 1, 1988 special

1 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Sep 1, 1988 runoff

16 races in 2 states: State legislatures

Sep 1, 1988 special

3 races in 2 states: State legislatures

Oct 1, 1988 runoff

12 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Oct 1, 1988 special

1 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Nov 1, 1988 runoff

1 races in 1 state: State legislatures

Nov 1, 1988 special

3 races in 3 states: State legislatures

1988 general

5,755 races in 51 states: President, U.S. Senate, Governors, U.S. House, State legislaturesD 260 · R 175

Dec 1, 1988 special

4 races in 2 states: State legislatures

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse); English Wikipedia; Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab