# Election Night Results API – Live State Returns: findings

3 posts built from the [Election Night Results API – Live State Returns](https://pushbuild.com/apis/election-night-results.html).

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Elections & politics · 2026-11-07

### [Decided by 99 votes: the closest races of 2026](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/closest-races-2026/)

The closest race in our results is North Carolina's 5th district: Chuck Hubbard leads Virginia Foxx by 99 votes out of 285,498 (0.03 points), with…

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Elections & politics · 2026-11-07

### [The pollster nobody cites beat them all in 2026](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/most-accurate-pollsters-2026/)

Survey 160 was the most accurate pollster of the 2026 Senate and governor races : four final polls (Minnesota and Ohio, Senate and governor), average…

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Elections & politics · 2026-11-07

### [How accurate were the 2026 midterm polls? They missed the Democratic surge by 4 points](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/2026-polls-vs-results/)

Final-stretch polls understated Democrats in 168 of 215 cases. Across 216 polls in 31 Senate and governor races, the average poll was 4.1 points too…

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As of 2026-11-07. Source: https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/api/election-night-results/