2026 Elections

Democrat James Talarico was projected Tuesday to win Texas's U.S. Senate race over Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, flipping a longtime GOP seat and breaking the party's three-decade hold on statewide office. NPR

Democrat Annie Andrews has been projected to unseat appointed Republican Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina, flipping a ruby-red U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday and delivering Democrats one of their most surprising gains of the 2026 midterms. Fox News

Democrat Xavier Becerra has won California's governor's race over Republican Steve Hilton, CBS News projected Tuesday night, securing the state's top office and extending Democrats' long hold on the nation's most populous state. CBS News

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds won Florida's governor's race on Tuesday, defeating Democrat David Jolly and making history as both the state's first Black governor and the nation's first elected Black Republican governor. PBS News

Democrat Rob Sand has won Iowa's governor's race, defeating Republican Zach Lahn on Tuesday and flipping control of the governor's office to Democrats in a state that has leaned solidly Republican in recent years. CBS News

Democrat Amy Acton has defeated Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio's governor race, becoming the state's first woman governor and the first Democrat elected to the office in about two decades, according to race calls Tuesday night. NPR The Associated Press projected her victory on Tuesday, cementing a major pickup for Democrats in a state that has leaned Republican in recent statewide contests. NPR

Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George was elected mayor of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, becoming the city's first new leader in 12 years in a race with no major-party opposition. PBS News

Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment establishing a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, cementing protections for abortion, contraception and fertility care in the only Southern state that had not moved to restrict abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned. PBS News

Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens' surprise endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race has sparked a backlash inside her own party and coincided with a record one-day fundraising surge for Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, reshaping the race just 48 hours before Election Day. PBS News

Democrat Roy Cooper has won North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat, defeating Republican Michael Whatley on Tuesday and flipping the longtime GOP-held seat to Democrats in one of the night's marquee contests. CBS News

Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has won reelection in Georgia, with the Associated Press and major television networks calling Tuesday's U.S. Senate race in his favor over Republican Rep. Mike Collins in the closely watched battleground state. NPR

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia won a fourth term to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Bert Mizusawa in a race quickly called by the Associated Press after polls closed statewide. PBS News

Elon Musk has quietly become the single biggest financial backer of Republicans' fight to hold the U.S. Senate, giving $158 million this fall to a GOP super PAC that immediately funneled the money into a Texas group boosting Attorney General Ken Paxton in a razor-thin Senate race. CBS News