Election cycle after election cycle, the battle for control of Congress is being waged in a smaller and smaller sliver of the United States. FairVote found in its 2020 Monopoly Politics Report that more than 80% of House districts were “safe” districts that were locked down by one major party or the other, with such little hope of electoral competition that we projected winners two years before the actual election.

As the movement for ranked choice voting continues to grow, college campuses have become trailblazers for electoral reform.

The need to reform America’s democracy is a desire felt across the political spectrum.

2020 was a watershed year for the #RankedChoiceVoting movement. Legislation favorable to RCV passed in VA and UT, RCV was approved in 7 out of 8 ballot measures, and RCV was used successfully for the first time in 5 Democratic presidential primaries.

On Thursday, FairVote released its biennial Monopoly Politics report, which tracks the political landscape by predicting the results of congressional elections solely based on prior voting patterns.

Based on FairVote research, this is a state-by-state breakdown of all campaign events by the major-party presidential and vice presidential nominees from the end of both party conventions through Election Day. 

For centuries, the promise of American democracy has been denied to communities of color.

While many cities and states around the country have been debating and voting on reforming their elections with ranked choice voting, a different type of RCV movement has quietly been growing in popularity all across the United States.

FairVote’s Presidential Candidate Events Tracker has found that almost three-quarters of all 2020 campaign events took place in just six swing states, while 37 states have received no campaign attention at all.

With its recent electoral reforms, Colby University (ME) joins a growing list of more than 80 American colleges and universities that have turned to ranked choice voting to improve representation in campus elections.