Sean Trende

{{short description|American journalist and political analyst (born 1973)}}

{{use American English|date=November 2024}}

{{use mdy dates|date=November 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Sean Trende

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|1|6}}

|birth_place =

|death_date =

|death_place =

|education = Yale University (BA)
Duke University (MA, JD)

}}

Sean P. Trende (born January 6, 1973) is an American journalist and political analyst specializing in American elections analysis. He is a Senior Elections Analyst at RealClearPolitics. He has regularly appeared as a guest on Fox News, NPR’s All Things Considered, and CNN Radio. The Washington Times calls him "a premier political number cruncher". He is the author of Lost Majority, published by Palgrave Macmillan.[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/6/misusing-political-trend-lines/ Review of Lost Majority], Washington Times, March 6, 2012. On September 12, 2012, National Journal announced that Trende would be a co-author of the 2014 Almanac of American Politics.{{cite web|title=National Journal Announces Author Additions to 2014 Almanac of American Politics|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/press-room/national-journal-announces-author-additions-to-2014-almanac-of-american-politics-20120921|work=National Journal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923045027/http://www.nationaljournal.com/press-room/national-journal-announces-author-additions-to-2014-almanac-of-american-politics-20120921|archive-date=2012-09-23|date=21 September 2012}}

Trende holds a B.A. degree from Yale University, an M.A. in political science, a J.D. from Duke University, a masters in applied statistics and a PhD from The Ohio State University.{{Cite web |last=Trende |first=Sean |date=Jan 7, 2025 |title=LinkedIn |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-trende-0449a25/details/education/ |access-date=Jan 7, 2025 |website=LinkedIn}} He practiced law for eight years at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Hunton & Williams LLP before becoming a full-time political analyst.{{cite web|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/sean_trende/|title=Sean Trende|publisher=RealClear Politics}} After living in Midlothian, Virginia with his wife and children, as of 2017 he lives in the Columbus, Ohio area and is working part-time as a professor at Ohio State University.{{cite tweet |last=Trende |first=Sean |author-link=Sean Trende |user=SeanTrende |number=765536299206017026 |date=August 16, 2016 |title=@mmurraypolitics All I know is I live in Columbus, Ohio and haven't seen a single Donald Trump advertisement. |language=en |access-date=January 4, 2021}}{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://polisci.osu.edu/people/trende.3|title=Sean Trende}}[http://us.macmillan.com/authordetails.aspx?authorname=seantrende Sean Trende biography] by Macmillan.

In 2021, Trende was selected as one of two redistricting special masters by the Supreme Court of Virginia, after it was tasked with redrawing the state's congressional and legislative districts following the 2020 United States census. Republican legislative leaders Tommy Norment and Todd Gilbert had included Trende as part of a replacement list of nominees for the post, after the three nominees on their initial list were all disqualified by the Court for suspected partisanship.{{cite web|title=Virginia Supreme Court picks two experts to assist in redistricting; wants proposed maps in 30 days|url=https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/virginia-supreme-court-picks-two-experts-to-assist-in-redistricting-wants-proposed-maps-in-30/article_123fe490-1de5-5373-895b-90feb3a31ad0.html|last1=Green|first1=Frank|last2=Leonor|first2=Mel|date=November 19, 2021|access-date=December 18, 2021|newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch}}{{cite web|title=Four new redistricting special master nominees forwarded to Virginia Supreme Court for state redistricting|url=https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/four-new-redistricting-special-master-nominees-forwarded-to-virginia-supreme-court-for-state-redistricting/article_df7dca44-577b-597c-a16c-b22051e7fc87.html|last=Green|first=Frank|date=November 18, 2021|access-date=December 18, 2021|newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch}}{{cite web|title=Virginia Supreme Court rejects all three GOP nominees and one Democratic nominee to help redraw districts|url=https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/virginia-supreme-court-rejects-all-three-gop-nominees-and-one-democratic-nominee-to-help-redraw/article_32faa25f-5d57-51a4-a81c-cf1839711d65.html|last1=Green|first1=Frank|last2=Leonor|first2=Mel|date=November 12, 2021|access-date=December 18, 2021|newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch}}