AP Elections

Since the U.S. Supreme Court declared that campaign spending is free speech, corporations or nonprofits have had an easier time supporting or denouncing political candidates, leading to massive spending in tight races

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and Republican challenger Kevin Cramer match up in their first debate Thursday after months of bitter campaigning in a race seen as vital to Senate control

An appeals judge has freed Peru's opposition leader Keiko Fujimori a week after she was arrested, but she remains under investigation over undeclared financial contributions to her 2011 campaign

A congressional race with two diverse candidates shows how much Orange County, California, has changed from its heavily conservative roots

Outside groups and individual donors have poured more than $45 million into Montana's U.S. Senate race as President Donald Trump prepares a third trip to the Big Sky state in his crusade to unseat two-term Democratic Sen. Jon Tester

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said during a debate that he hadn't decided if he would vote for fellow Republican and U.S. Senate candidate Geoff Diehl even though he endorsed Diehl's candidacy, but later said he would vote for him.

The men vying to be South Carolina's next governor are drawing their final contrasts as voters prepare to decide between them in next month's election

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her opponent Kevin de Leon are offering different ideas for how Democrats in Washington should act

Some supporters of Alaska Gov. Bill Walker struggled Wednesday to understand the abrupt resignation of Walker's lieutenant governor and what that means for his re-election hopes

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has co-written a series of op-ed pieces with Republican senators in a show of his bipartisan efforts three weeks before the midterm elections