swing state
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U.S. state where neither major party or candidate has overwhelming support, making it key to control of the Presidency or Senate
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Encyclopedic overview
Summary of statewide results of the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections by state Won by the Republicans in all four elections
Won by the Republicans in three of the four elections
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “swing state” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.