Is there a central database for election results?

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I'd like to check up on how my district voted for all the people we had on the ballot. Having no difficulties finding big senate races, but district-specific info is hard to find. Is there a central database of election results I could query? It would be great if some website/app showed me the ballot, and checked off winners and showed breakdown by number of people and percentages.

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Your local county clerk or registrar of voters should have the full results. Ballots are usually managed on a county level, and that's where most news sources go to get their results.

For example, Alameda County (Oakland) results are here:

http://www.acgov.org/rov/current.htm

I'd love to see a service that aggregates results from multiple jurisdictions and makes them available via attractive, easy to use website and apps. All of the sites for my local elections were junk: Bad formatting for mobile, Silverlight required, etc. I ended up getting most of the results via Twitter.

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