What You Need to Know About The Times’s 2026 Election Results and the Needle

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A New York Times explainer walks readers through how its 2026 election-night results work: the early tallies are unofficial and incomplete, most race calls come from The Associated Press, and the Times adds its own estimates of votes still to be counted. It advises sticking to trusted sources as votes are tallied.

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