Ballotpedia has issued this report on competition in U.S. elections for state and federal office. There are so many fascinating and important conclusions, it would be a disservice to readers to try to single out any particular findings. The report shows that U.S. state legislative elections in particular are massively uncompetitive, in both primaries and general elections.

Never before has any group or individual accumulated and published this much data about legislative election returns. The report required the authors to collect and analyze the election returns for all legislative districts, in both primaries and general elections, for the last 42 years. In every even-numbered year, there are always more than 6,000 legislative races.