ballot counts
Vote totals announced
Ballot counts are the tallied results of votes cast in an election.
The term appears most often in news coverage of close races where margins matter: The latest ballot counts show the incumbent trailing by just two hundred votes.
Ballot counts may shift as mail-in and provisional ballots are processed over days following election day.
- recountsNarrates or re-tallies
- hand recountPhysical vote verification
- vote countTotal of ballots recorded
- absentee ballotsVotes submitted remotely
- tallyRecorded count
polling stations · audit trails · legal challenges · election monitors · chain of custody · provisional ballots · election audits · canvassing · runoff elections · voter ID laws · chad · hanging chads · electoral commissions · winner · miscounts · ranked-choice voting · turnout · election night
- talliesscores, totals, sums, tick marks, hash marks
- election mapselectoral college, electoral votes, red states, blue states, swing states
ballot countsballot casting
Act of submitting votes
voting · going to the polls · voter registration · candidate nomination · voter turnout
ballot countsvote suppression
Discouraging or preventing casting ballots
vote rigging · election fraud · voter suppression · electoral manipulation · disenfranchisement