In August of 1997, The Cook Political Report introduced the Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI) to provide a more accurate picture of the competitiveness of each of the 435 congressional districts. With the 2022 PVI release, we made a slight change to how we calculate PVI scores: instead of using a 50/50 mix of the two most recent presidential elections to assess partisanship as we've done in the past, we're switching to a 75/25 weighting in favor of the more recent presidential election. Using the updated formula, we are re-releasing the PVI scores for every Congress since the 105th (1997).

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1997 (105th Congress) 1999 (106th Congress) 2001 (107th Congress) 2003 (108th Congress) 2005 (109th Congress) 2007 (110th Congress) 2009 (111th Congress) 2011 (112th Congress) 2012 (Post-Redistricting) 2013 (113th Congress) 2015 (114th Congress) 2017 (115th Congress) 2019 (116th Congress) 2021 (117th Congress) 2023 (118th Congress)

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Map shapefile: United States Census TIGER/Line® Shapefiles

Presidential election data: Before 2020, the Cook Political Report contracted

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