The Minnesota Historical Election Archive, curated by Smart Politics, has been updated with all 2024 special, primary, and general election results as well as candidate biographies for all 2024 hopefuls. The Archive now houses results for nearly 20,700 elections since statehood, or nearly 90 percent of all elections conducted in Minnesota across 17 state and federal offices. More than 16,000 candidates are listed in the Archive with candidate biographies available for approximately 14,500 of them and counting.

Ruben Gallego won Arizona’s Democratic U.S. Senate nomination unopposed on Tuesday night, which has become par for the course for the party in recent decades. Democratic nominees for the office in Arizona have been crowned without opposition on the ballot in five of the last six cycles: Richard Carmona (2012), Ann Kirkpatrick (2016), Mark Kelly (2020 special, 2022), and Gallego, with only Kyrsten Sinema facing a challenger in 2018. Dating back to 1986, 10 of the last 15 Democratic U.S. Senate nominees from Arizona have not had a primary opponent. Republican nominees meanwhile were unopposed for eight consecutive cycles from 1986 through 2006, but have had contested U.S. Senate primaries in each of the last seven cycles including Kari Lake’s win in a three-candidate field last night.