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Key Elections in 2024: Winners, Losers, Upcoming Polls

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1 day ago

June 27, 2024

Pallavi Rao

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Sam Parker

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Key Elections in 2024: Winners, Losers, Upcoming Polls

This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources.

Over 60 countries were expected to go to polls at the start of this year, amounting to nearly half of the world’s population.

This graphic lists the key elections that have taken place in 2024, its winners, and the three big upcoming elections slated for the second half of this year.

Elections 2024: Who Won What So Far?

In the six big elections to start 2024, four incumbents held on to power. This list includes: Sheikh Hasina (Bangladesh), Shehbaz Sharif (Pakistan), Narendra Modi (India) and Vladimir Putin (Russia).

However, the Russian and Bangladeshi elections had little to no opposition candidates, casting a shadow on the electoral process.

Month	Elections	Winners	Designation
January	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	Sheikh Hasina	Prime Minister
February	🇮🇩 Indonesia	Prabowo Subianto	President
Feb-March	🇵🇰 Pakistan	Shehbaz Sharif*	Prime Minister
March	🇷🇺 Russia	Vladimir Putin	President
April-June	🇮🇳 India	Narendra Modi	Prime Minister
June	🇲🇽 Mexico	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	President

*Independents backed by the opposition won the most parliamentary seats but did not form the government.

Meanwhile in Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was re-elected to office.

However, the country’s election comission ruled that the opposition PTI party had not held valid internal elections, forcing its candidates to stand as independents. While they informally won the most number of seats in parliament (92), they still fell short of forming a majority.

Across the world, former governor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was elected president and will be Mexico’s first woman president.

India’s Narendra Modi was re-elected for a third term but was forced to rely on a coalition to form the government.

In Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, businessman and former defense minister was elected president. Subianto has been accused of human rights abuses during his military career and was once banned from entering the United States.

Major Upcoming Elections in 2024

On June 9th, French President Emmanuel Macron called a snap legislative election after dismal results for his Ensemble coalition in the European Parliament elections. The right-wing populist party, National Rally, led by 28-year old Prime Ministerial candidate Jordan Bardella, currently leads in the polls for the election slated for the first week of July.

Month	Elections	Incumbent	Opposition
July	🇫🇷 France	Gabriel Attal	Jordan Bardella
July	🇬🇧 UK	Rishi Sunak	Keir Starmer
November	🇺🇸 U.S.	Joe Biden	Donald Trump

Across the channel in the UK, the Labour Party’s Keir Starmer is also leading in polls against incumbent Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who inherited the position from Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, Liz Truss.

And finally, on November 5th, President Joe Biden will go up against former President Donald Trump for round two, in what is being called “an even closer election” than last time.

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Mapped: Median Income by State in 2024

This graphic shows median income by state in 2024, adjusted for cost of living. Can you guess where it’s the highest?

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3 days ago

June 25, 2024

Marcus Lu

Median Income by State in 2024, Adjusted for Cost of Living

This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources.

To gain insight into the U.S. economy, we’ve visualized the median income by state, as of May 2024. These figures come from WalletHub, which sourced income data from the U.S. Census Bureau and adjusted it for cost of living according to the Cost of Living Index (COLI).

ℹ️ Median income refers to the income level at the midpoint of the income distribution within each state. Using California as an example, half of the state’s households earn more than $124,000, while the other half earn less (after cost of living adjustments).

Data and Key Takeaways

All of the numbers we used to create this graphic are listed in the table below.

Rank	State	Median Annual Income (adjusted for cost of living)
1	DC	$162,265
2	Hawaii	$141,832
3	Massachusetts	$127,760
4	Maryland	$124,693
5	California	$123,988
6	New Jersey	$117,847
7	Connecticut	$114,156
8	Alaska	$113,934
9	New Hampshire	$110,205
10	Rhode Island	$104,252
11	Washington	$103,748
12	Colorado	$97,301
13	New York	$91,366
14	Oregon	$91,100
15	Utah	$89,786
16	Vermont	$89,695
17	Virginia	$89,393
18	Delaware	$87,173
19	Minnesota	$86,364
20	Nevada	$80,366
21	North Dakota	$79,874
22	Maine	$79,800
23	Illinois	$78,304
24	Wyoming	$76,307
25	Pennsylvania	$74,711
26	Arizona	$74,375
27	Wisconsin	$72,602
28	Nebraska	$72,384
29	Texas	$70,513
30	Idaho	$70,041
31	South Dakota	$69,266
32	Iowa	$68,974
33	Montana	$68,937
34	Florida	$68,818
35	Kansas	$68,489
36	Georgia	$66,612
37	Indiana	$64,170
38	North Carolina	$63,025
39	South Carolina	$62,909
40	Michigan	$62,446
41	Ohio	$61,904
42	Missouri	$59,715
43	Tennessee	$59,077
44	New Mexico	$58,911
45	Oklahoma	$57,215
46	Louisiana	$56,282
47	Kentucky	$55,629
48	Alabama	$55,480
49	West Virginia	$52,719
50	Arkansas	$51,032
51	Mississippi	$46,880

The Cost of Living Index, published by the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), was established in 1968, and allows for consistent place-to-place cost comparisons.

The index considers six categories of spending: groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous.

After adjusting for COLI, the top three states by median income are the District of Columbia (DC) (technically a district), Hawaii, and Massachusetts.

In DC, federal government agencies are the biggest employers. Many of them offer high-paying jobs that require higher education and specialized skills. DC, like Hawaii, also has a relatively higher cost of living, which may push up the average salary.

In the case of Massachusetts, the state is home to many of the world’s most prestigious universities and research institutions, as well as high-earning sectors like healthcare and tech.