Stephen Ohlemacher is AP’s election decision editor, managing a team of analysts that declares the winner in nearly every U.S. election. In the 2020 general election, the AP declared winners in 5,000 races.

During presidential primaries he oversees the AP delegate count, the gold standard for tracking presidential nominating contests. The AP Delegate Count is used by nearly every major news organization in the U.S. and around the world. In 2008, Ohlemacher won the AP’s highest award for journalism, The Gramling Award, for his work covering the delegate race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Ohlemacher spent nine years covering Congress for AP, writing about economic issues with a focus on tax policy and Social Security. He previously reported for the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer and the Hartford Courant. In 1998, he was part of a team of reporters at The Courant that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.

Ohlemacher is a graduate of The Ohio State University and Columbia University, where he was a Knight-Bagehot fellow.