Stephen Pettigrew
Stephen Pettigrew is a senior elections analyst on the NBC News Decision Desk.
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Stephen Pettigrew is a senior elections analyst on the NBC News Decision Desk.
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Latest from Stephen Pettigrew
Weak turnout in key cities hurt Harris in the 'blue wall' states
A new analysis of precinct-level data by the NBC News Decision Desk shows the extent to which President-elect Donald Trump’s wins in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and Vice President Kamala Harris’s losses — were driven by weak turnout in heavily Democratic cities.
A precinct-by-precinct breakdown mapping how Trump won Pennsylvania
President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory was powered by an overall voter shift in most places and most demographics compared to 2020 — with a new analysis of precinct data in pivotal Pennsylvania coloring in additional details about how Trump won.
What are red and blue 'mirages,' and how election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win
Once the last voter casts their ballot in a state and the polls close, the process of revealing the winner begins.
How votes get counted and reported on election night — and how NBC News gathers and checks the data
A network of reporters and voting experts gather results from thousands of jurisdictions, checking all of it for anomalies before viewers and readers see the data.
Uncertainty over a blue wave: NBC News finds Democratic and GOP voter registrations at same level as past election cycles
The data in some key Senate battleground states shows a mixed picture.
