Analysts such as Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight and Chris Cillizza of CNN interpreted the 2017 election results overall as demonstrating a move toward the Democratic Party.

Furthermore, Democrats made large gains in the Virginia House of Delegates, and picked up 42 seats in state legislatures.

Puerto Rican voters were asked whether they prefer statehood, independence/free association, or maintain the current U.S. territorial status.

[17] Because there were almost 500,000 blank ballots in that 2012 referendum, creating confusion as to the voters' true desire, Congress decided to ignore that vote and then subsequently allocated funds for holding this 2017 one.

Various elections were held for officeholders in numerous cities, counties, school boards, special districts and others around the country.