Cindy Holscher will be Kansas’ next governor. The state senator from Overland Park defeated Republican Ty Masterson on Thursday to keep the governor’s office in Democratic hands, winning the closest Kansas governor’s race since 1974. The Associated Press called the race on Nov. 12, over a week after Election Day. Local officials counted provisional ballots ...
Texas Senate Election Results: Talarico Beats Paxton. Is the Result Official? Did you vote in Texas on November 3? You may be asking whether the US Senate result is final. Democrat James Talarico won, but the count is not certified yet. Texas Senate election results show James Talarico (D) beating Ken Paxton (R). The Associated ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday he will not seek re-election as Republican leader, stepping aside after Democrats swept control of the House in midterm elections. The leadership vacuum creates a race between Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. Jim Jordan to lead Republicans in the minority. The contest will shape whether the GOP pursues ...
JB Pritzker Wins Third Term: County Map Reveals Mandate for Abortion Rights, Gun Control Illinois voters who backed JB Pritzker want to know what changes now that he never faces them again. The answer starts with the map — and ends with the veto pen. Pritzker captured 54.2% of the vote Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger ...
You voted. The ballots were counted. Now you need the exact Senate count and which seats decided it — not a national overview, but the three specific races that flipped the majority. Democrats will hold a 51-49 Senate majority after flipping three seats in the 2026 midterms: Kansas, Maine, and Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania open seat ...
A federal judge has barred the Justice Department (DOJ) from pressing California election officials to separate out certain ballots or stop counting them. The order was issued late on a Friday. It follows a DOJ lawsuit filed Oct. 15 in the Central District of California, which seeks to stop California from counting ballots tied to ...
Multiple international outlets reported on October 30 that Israel’s final election results confirmed a parliamentary deadlock: neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc nor former military chief Gadi Eisenkot’s centrist opposition secured the 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-seat Knesset. The result extends a cycle of political instability that has produced six ...
Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, one of seven that could decide which party controls the Senate after November 3, has turned into a federal ballot fight. The Justice Department has stepped in with 40 subpoenas, and the trouble centers on a simple problem: two candidates with the exact same name. The U.S. Justice Department has filed ...
By 4:00 PM local time Tuesday, 55.7% of eligible Israeli voters had already cast their ballots — the highest turnout recorded at that hour since the Central Elections Committee began tracking the figure. As polls across the country close at 10:00 PM local time (20:00 UTC / 4:00 PM EDT), that number points to something ...
Ohio voters heading into the November midterms heard a direct message from Barack Obama in Cleveland. He criticized Donald Trump’s time in office and urged support for Democratic candidates. Here is what he said. Former President Barack Obama campaigned in Cleveland, Ohio, for Democratic candidates ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. He joked that ...
