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Americans can't agree on which region matters most at the ballot box

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Americans don't line up behind any one region as the driving force in congressional and presidential elections. More see influence everywhere than anywhere in particular: 26% say all of the regions are influential, and 21% aren't sure, according to a December 2025 Verasight survey.

The Northeast comes closest among the individual regions at 16%, followed by the Midwest at 14%, the South at 11%, and the West at 9%. Just 3% say none of them stands out.

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Americans can't agree on which region matters most at the ballot box.

Which region of the United States do you feel is the most influential in both Congressional and Presidential elections?

  • All of the above 26.2%
  • Don't know/unsure 21.2%
  • The Northeast (New England and Mid-Atlantic) 15.7%
  • The Midwest 13.5%
  • The South 10.9%
  • The West (Mountain and Pacific) 9.1%
  • None of the above 3.3%

2025 · base n 1,000 · +/- 3.2%

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Methodology

Full methodology
Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
Field dates
2025-12-03 → 2025-12-08
Base (unweighted)
1,000
Margin of error
+/- 3.2%
Module
soc_pol

Source

Citation

Verasight Human/LLM Comparison Survey #2025-172, fielded December 3-8, 2025, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.2%.

https://reports.verasight.io/r/verasight-human-v-synthetic

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Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting.
Population
US adults age 18+.
Sample design
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Field window
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Weighting
Per-module weighting to CPS targets including age, race and ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, and metropolitan status.
Partisanship benchmark
Pew Research Center's NPORS benchmarking surveys, three-year running average.
Vote benchmark
2024 presidential vote population benchmarks.
Margin of error
Typically about plus or minus 3.4 to 3.6 percent per module at standard module sizes. Question-level MoE is recomputed when a base shrinks materially below the module baseline.
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