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% β
99% counted | source
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Virginia Governor: π FLIP
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Spanberger (D) -- 57.5% β
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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% β
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~~Miyares (R)~~* -- 46.5%
96% counted | source
7:30 p.m.
Cincinnati Mayor:
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Pureval* -- 78.2% β
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~~Bowman~~ -- 21.8%
97% counted | source
8 p.m.
New Jersey Governor: π FLIP
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Sherrill (D) -- 56.0% β
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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% β©
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McGreevey -- 25.4% β©
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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 β
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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% β©
- 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% β
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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% β
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No -- 36.2%
71% reported | source
obviously comparing (big) apples and oranges, but any good theories as to why Zohran would take NYC but Fateh and Wilson in Minneapolis and Seattle look posed to lose? Is Zohran really a wunderknid candidate? Is Cuomo really politically toxic? Are those cities really less progressive?
maybe those things, but i also wonder if being in the media capital allowed additional attention to brought to the NYC mayoral race, which redounded to Zohran's benefit, insofar as it lent credibility to him as an outside candidate, and gave him more juice/momentum. like, it's more for fun/thrilling/motivating to be part of Zohran's movement, which is talked about on every tiktok and by every big streamer, and in the paper of record and on all the national news outlets, rather than to ride with the woman who is the transit union leader and is not dapping up Hasan and Stavy on the regular.
obvious this speaks to the need for more organizing. but maybe nick mullen could go out to the mall of america or something.
Should be noted that half of Seattleβs ballots are mail-in, which usually lean towards the progressives but get counted later really slowly, and that Fateh has kind of a mixed reputation due to having one of the worst legal teams of all time
I think Kshama was losing all her races on election night
Not American but my opinion is that all are true ,Zohran looks attractive ,clearly has charisma and did a good campaign ,Cuomo is poison ,NYC is very blue and those cities are way less progressive
well, i'm not sure that's culturally true. RE Seattle, I doubt they've ever had a Republican mayor in recent memory (while NYC had Guliani and Bloomberg), though Seattle may have been so thoroughly gentrified now by techie kids such that working class people have moved out of the city limits, such that more "radical" positions are less tenable to the voter base.
There was also some DFL endorsement fuckery that happened with Fateh.
Ranked Choice recalulation happens today for Minneapolis, so we'll see how things change from there. They had 15 candidates on the ballot, and all but the top two are getting axed today to recalculate based on their 2nd choice.
But Fateh had that hangup with the DFL and the state Democrats, which probably hurt him in the race due to losing his endorsement from the DFL.