For those electoral sickos out there who enjoy watching the game of politics, here are some interesting races to watch tonight. If there are others you'd like me to list or pay attention to, or corrections that need to be made, i'd be happy to oblidge.
PREDICTIONS ENCOURAGED!
updates:
- I'll be calling these races as AP News calls them.
- Percentages will be added in after 75% of votes are counted in a race.
7 p.m.
(all poll closing times eastern)
Atlanta Mayor:
- Dickens* -- 85.0% โ
99% counted | source
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Virginia Governor: ๐ FLIP
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Spanberger (D) -- 57.5% โ
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~~Earle-Sears (R)~~ -- 42.3%
97% counted | source
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Virginia Attorney General: Too CLOSE To Call
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Jones (D) -- 53.1% โ
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~~Miyares (R)~~* -- 46.5%
96% counted | source
7:30 p.m.
Cincinnati Mayor:
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Pureval* -- 78.2% โ
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~~Bowman~~ -- 21.8%
97% counted | source
8 p.m.
New Jersey Governor: ๐ FLIP
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Sherrill (D) -- 56.0% โ
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~~Ciattarelli (R)~~* -- 43.4%
94% counted | source
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Jersey City Mayor:
Solomon and McGreevey advance to runoff election.
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Solomon -- 29.0% โฉ
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McGreevey -- 25.4% โฉ
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~~O'Dea~~ -- 21.5%
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~~Ali~~ -- 18.3%
92% counted | source
9 p.m.
New York City Mayor:
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Mamdani (D) -- 50.4% Projected Winner โ
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~~Cuomo (I)~~ -- 41.6%
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~~Sliwa (R)~~ -- 7.2%
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~~Adams (I)*~~ -- 0.3%
91% counted | source
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Minneapolis Mayor:
Election will advance to ranked choice if no candidate is the first in majority of ballots.
- Frey (D)* -- 41.8% โฉ
- Omar Fateh (D) -- 31.7%
- Davis (D) -- 13.7%
- Hampton (D) -- 10.4%
98% counted | source
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Colorado Proposition MM:
This ballot measure would raise taxes on people earning more than $300,000 to fund school meal programs and food assistance for people with lower incomes.
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Yes -- 58.1% โ
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No -- 41.9%
82% counted | source
11 p.m.
Seattle Mayor:
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Harrell* -- 53.3%
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Wilson -- 46.2%
Updated 11:50 p.m. | source
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California Proposition 50:
This amendment would authorize new congressional district boundaries drawn by the Democratic-led state Legislature, beginning with the 2026 elections.
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Yes -- 63.8% โ
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No -- 36.2%
71% reported | source
Anti-electoralism hexbears will tell you you shouldn't be happy that a 34yo Muslim DemSoc is the new Mayor elect of the largest city in the US but everyone I know is
Like a lot of people said in other threads, if nothing else, this is giving a platform to more radical folks to push their message on top of what Mamdani is already offering. I know a ton of people don't like Hasan Piker and he's not especially radical, but he was interviewed at the Mamdani party by like 15 news outlets including New York Crimes and Al Jazeera and got to talk about why the Democrats suck, Israel sucks, and everyone needs to be a Mamdani at the minimum if they want to win from now on.
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you should at least be able to find it in yourself to be happy that that Cuomo is going to eat shit
cautiously optimistic to see how he handles the upcoming war of attrition and capital strike from the richest new yorkers. Fox news is also gonna go bonkers filming every homeless person in nyc.
He already triangulated during the election and hired a bunch of ghouls. The election is a lower threshold than actually fighting capital using policy, e.g. the rentier class, including literal landlords, to decrease housing prices.
I would just like hexbears to stop getting too excited for any perceived win without knowing what has to happen later, particularly when there is no party to which they are answerable. You should be happy for what it is, but being happy for what it is not will just lead to disappointment and burnout later on. The latter is the core political cycle of controlled "progressive" bourgeois electoralism, not by coincidence.
endless agitprop from the left is going to be needed unfortunately
i think y'all already know this, but.. the fight has only begun
Actual organizing is what is required, and agitprop is just one tool used by an organization. Joining a party, building the party, doing the core work of agitation, teaching, building relationships, inventing actions, escalations, security, etc etc.
I think the anti-electoralism hexbears were right, even though I pushed back on it. But they were too early. They were trying to strategize around a theoretical moment, based on history, rather than waiting for a current, practical moment like this. Here is the time to take all those happy people with renewed hope and build a party. It doesn't have to be a national party immediately. It can start with a neighborhood or town in NY. Get all these people into a party that is not the Democrats. This party should always be to the left of Mamdani on every issue but willing to offer critical support. They should work to replace him with someone who will push things further. By the next election you have a party and a candidate. You have a way to exert pressure on Mamdani if he turns heel.
The wrong move would be to treat this like the destination rather than part of the journey. Taking all this earned good will and just handing it over to Democrats or Mamdani himself will end badly. We need the Democrats to be weak and giving them all these hopeful voters would make them stronger. They were fine as a means to get to this point, but now is the moment you break. Now we can start doing real Lenin political calculus and talk about building a worker's party (or adapting one that already exists). Zohran being in office is no longer theoretical.
Before we were arguing over how the things he said would affect the election while also trying to say he should run for this or that party. All that's over now. We can just focus on getting a worker's party going on the momentum. There is no pressing election to worry about appealing to suburban racists or unwoke union workers. If you lose moderates right now it's not as dire and you can replace them with true believers by the next election.
you can be happy as long as you do it wearing a dirty ushanka
I am an anti electoralism guy on Hexbear. I'm very happy about this! I just don't think this is American Lenin or Mao Zedong. But it's good that more people are thinking about the possibility of socialism, and getting organized to achieve it (even though that organization is within a party that will coopt and ruin them, the experience transfers).
What do your happy friends think about Cuba and Venezuela?
Some hexbears are like the mirror universe version of the people who follow whatever sports team is currently winning. They can never be happy even for a moment.
Insert the copypasta about everything being serious all the time