Margin of Victory overview

Margin of Victory is a single-player, turn-based election campaign game. You are the campaign manager. Each week you read the map, spend a limited budget and a limited number of actions, answer the events that land on your desk, and try to change the result of a real election. It plays in a browser, and the US 2024 and 2020 elections and the daily challenge are free.

There are 49 elections across six countries, from 1951 to 2027: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France and Australia. Each country uses its own electoral system, so a US race is won state by state in the Electoral College, while a UK race is won seat by seat and a French race goes to a runoff.

Margin of Victory was called Electioneer before September 2026. The old web address still works, and existing purchases and saves carry over.

What you do#

• Plan the week. Queue ads, rallies, surrogate stops, fundraising, field offices, get-out-the-vote drives and debate preparation across seven days.
• Work the map. Every state or seat is split into voter blocs with their own issues, lean and turnout. Your actions move some blocs and not others.
• Handle events. Scandals, debates, breaking news and historical moments arrive each week. Some need an answer; others just happen to you.
• Beat the opponent. An AI campaign plays against you with the same tools, paces its money and goes negative when it falls behind.

Every game uses a seed, so the same seed and the same choices replay the same campaign. That is what makes the daily challenge fair: everyone plays the same election on the same seed.

A week at a glance#

A standard campaign is 9 weeks. Every week follows the same loop:

1. Read. Check the map, the electoral vote bar and the trends screen.
2. Plan. Queue up to 3 actions a day across 7 days, from a weekly pool set by your candidate and difficulty (11 for Biden on Normal in 2020).
3. End the turn. The opponent acts and events land. Your plan then plays out in day order.
4. Review. The week-in-review shows what moved and why. Then you plan the next week.

After the last week, the votes are counted and you get a score from 0 to 1000. Your first week has no events, so use it to read the map. A good opening is to raise money, build field offices in two or three battlegrounds, and run ads where the polls are within a few points.

Where to start#

• Getting started: how to play, what is free and what is not.
• Elections: all 49 campaigns by country.
• The campaign week: how a turn works.
• Campaign actions and Voter blocs: the tools and the targets in a US campaign.
• Polls and scoring: how the result is decided and how your score is worked out.

Last checked: 2026-10-29, version October 2026 release