WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Shomari Figures won election to a U.S. House seat representing Alabama on Thursday. Republican Rep. Barry Moore, who currently represents the district, is running in the neighboring 1st District after a federal court ordered Alabama to draw a new congressional district that ensured Black residents’ voting power. That decision also brought more voters who previously supported Democrat Joe Biden into the 2nd District, making it a top target for his party. Figures, a native of Mobile, previously worked for the Obama administration.
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US Senate, House and governor elections 2024: results from all 50 states as Republicans win Senate | US elections 2024
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How does the US election work?
The US legislature, Congress, has two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
How is the House of Representatives elected and how does it work?
The lower chamber, the House of Representatives, has 435 voting seats, each representing a district of roughly similar size. There are elections for each of these seats every two years.
The speaker of the House is the chamber’s presiding officer, elected by the representatives. The House has several exclusive powers, such as the power to initiate revenue bills, impeach federal officials and elect the president in the case of an electoral college tie.
How is the Senate elected and how does it work?
The upper chamber, the Senate, has 100 members, who sit for six-year terms. One-third of the seats come up for election in each two-year cycle. Each state has two senators, regardless of its population; this means that Wyoming, with a population of less than 600,000, carries the same weight as California, with almost 40 million.
In most states, the candidate with the most votes on election day wins the seat. However, Georgia and Louisiana require the winning candidate to garner 50% of votes cast; if no one does, they hold a run-off election between the top two candidates.
Most legislation needs to pass both chambers to become law, but the Senate has some important other functions, notably approving senior presidential appointments, for instance to the supreme court. The Senate also has the sole power to provide advice to the president, consent to ratify treaties and try impeachment cases for federal officials referred to it by the House.
How are governors elected and how do they work?
Governors are elected by direct vote in their states. The candidate with the highest number of votes is declared the winner.
In every state, the executive branch is led by a governor. They serve for four years in office, with the exception of Vermont and New Hampshire where tenures are two years long.
Governors are responsible for implementing state laws, and have a range of powers available to them such as executive orders, executive budgets and legislative proposals and vetoes.
How are the results reported?
The election results on this page are reported by the Associated Press. AP will “call” the winner in a state when it determines that the trailing candidate has no path to victory. This can happen before 100% of votes in a state have been counted.
Estimates for the total vote in each state are also provided by AP. The numbers update throughout election night and in the following days, as more data on voter turnout becomes available.
A handful of races are run with a ranked choice voting system, whereby voters can rank candidates in their order of preference. If no candidate gets over 50% of the vote, then the candidate with the fewest number of votes is eliminated and their supporters’ votes will be counted for their next choice. The Guardian has marked these elections where applicable above, and show the results of the final result with redistributed votes.
Illustrations by Sam Kerr. Cartograms by Pablo Gutiérrez.
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Sarah McBride becomes first out trans person elected to US House | US elections 2024
Sarah McBride, a Delaware state senator, has made history as the first out transgender person elected to the US House of Representatives.
“Thank you, Delaware! Because of your votes and your values, I am proud to be your next member of Congress,” McBride wrote on X.
“Delaware has sent the message loud and clear that we must be a country that protects reproductive freedom, that guarantees paid leave and affordable child care for all our families, that ensures that housing and healthcare are available to everyone and that this is a democracy that is big enough for all of us.”
McBride, 34, won Delaware’s at-large House seat in Tuesday’s general election against the Republican candidate John Whalen III, a former Delaware state police officer and businessman. The House seat, Delaware’s only one, has been Democratic since 2010, the New York Times reported.
McBride defeated three other Democratic candidates in September’s primary race to secure her nomination and eventual win. She maintained her lead over Whalen in the race, at one point polling by more than 20 percentage points.
Before Tuesday’s election, McBride spoke about what it would mean to be the first transgender person elected to Congress, telling CBS News: “It is a testament to Delawareans that the candidacy of someone like me is even possible.”
McBride’s election win isn’t the first time she’s made history in her political career. She became the first out trans person elected to a state senate seat in 2020, after becoming a Democratic member of the Delaware senate. McBride was also the first out trans person to intern at the White House in 2012, during Barack Obama’s administration. She later spoke at the 2016 Democratic national convention, becoming the first transgender person to give remarks at the major political event.
Several key lawmakers have championed McBride’s congressional campaign. Joe Biden, the US president and a Delaware native and longtime friend of McBride, publicly congratulated her after her September primary victory. Lisa Blunt Rochester, the current representative for Delaware, also endorsed McBride prior to the primary race.
McBride’s campaign also snagged endorsements from prominent organizations. Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit advocating for gun control, endorsed McBride in early August. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund also endorsed McBride in February.
Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, McBride expressed interest in politics from a young age, her parents told NBC News. As a young adult, McBride volunteered for several political campaigns, including Beau Biden’s initial campaign and re-election for Delaware attorney general.
In 2011, at the age of 21, McBride came out as a trans woman in her university’s student paper and in a viral Facebook post.
Since then, McBride has worked on LGBTQ+ issues within and beyond her state. She worked on anti-discrimination legislation in Delaware that provided protection to trans people. She later served as the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group. McBride also taught public policy at the University of Delaware and wrote a 2018 memoir entitled Tomorrow Will Be Different, as her state senate biography notes.
Throughout her campaign, McBride has acknowledged the historic nature of her candidacy, but has said her campaign was focused on other critical issues. “I think that folks know that I am personally invested in equality as an LGBTQ person,” McBride said to CBS. “But my priorities are going to be affordable childcare, paid family and medical leave, housing, healthcare, reproductive freedom.”
McBride added that she hoped her campaign could encourage “empathy” for the trans community, especially amid a rise in discrimination, prejudice and violence, the Human Rights Campaign reported.
“We know throughout history that the power of proximity has opened even the most closed of hearts and minds,” McBride said to CBS News. “And I still believe that the power of proximity taps what I believe to be the most fundamental human emotion, which is empathy.”
A record number of anti-trans bills have also been considered in 2024, as Republican politicians continue to escalate attacks on access to gender-affirming healthcare, trans people’s participation in sports and other rights. There were 661 bills targeting transgender people considered in 2024 compared with 604 bills the previous year, according to data from Trans Legislation Tracker, an independent research organization that tracks anti-trans bills.
The Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, also repeated false, anti-trans claims. His campaign and other Republican groups have spent more than $21m on anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ television ads, ABC News reported. Since August, Republicans overall have spent $65m on such ads in more than a dozen states, the New York Times reported.
Prior to her win, in response to questions about Trump, McBride told CBS: “I wouldn’t be the first person in Congress to be part of a community that Donald Trump has said outrageous things about.”
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AP Race Call: Republican Rep. Dale Strong wins election to U.S. House in Alabama's 5th District
Republican Rep. Dale Strong won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Alabama on Tuesday. Strong ran unopposed in the general election. -
AP Race Call: Republican Aaron Bean wins reelection to U.S. House in Florida's 4th Congressional District
Republican Rep. Aaron Bean won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Florida on Tuesday. Bean won a second term representing the 4th District in northeastern Florida, which includes Nassau and Clay counties as well as downtown Jacksonville. -
AP Race Call: Republican Mike Haridopolos wins election to U.S. House in Florida's 8th Congressional District
Republican Mike Haridopolos won election to a U.S. House seat representing Florida on Tuesday. The 8th District, which is east of Orlando and covers Florida’s Space Coast, is the state’s only open seat this cycle. -
27 House Races Rated Toss-up or Favored to Change Parties
In the final House Consensus Map, over 350 of 435 seats were rated as safe for the incumbent party. The remaining seats will determine which party controls the House in 2025. See the Battle for Control House Map >>.
This article will track results for 27 House races rated toss-up or that are favored to flip to the other party. There are other competitive races. Choose a state from the banner at the top of the page for more results.
Except where specified, the below have a consensus rating of toss-up. They are ordered by poll closing time and then state. Vote counts and race projections provided by Decision Desk HQ.
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These three North Carolina districts were all significantly changed in midcycle redistricting.
North Carolina 6
Open Seat: Democrat Kathy Manning is retiring; no Democrat is contesting the seat. Safe Republican.
North Carolina 13
Open Seat: Freshman Democrat Wiley Nickel is retiring. Likely Republican.
North Carolina 14
Open Seat: Freshman Democrat Jeff Jackson is the party nominee for Attorney General. Likely Republican.
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Alabama 2
Open Seat: Republican Barry Moore shifted to District 1 after redistricting made this district less favorable for his reelection prospects. Likely Democrat.
Maine 2
Democrat Jared Golden is seeking a 4th term.
Michigan 7
Open Seat: Democrat Elissa Slotkin is the party nominee for U.S. Senate.
Michigan 8
Open Seat: Democrat Dan Kildee is retiring.
Pennsylvania 10
Republican Scott Perry is seeking a 7th term.
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Arizona 1
Republican David Schweikert is seeking an 8th term
Arizona 6
Freshman Republican Juan Ciscomani is seeking reelection.
Colorado 8
Freshman Democrat Yadira Caraveo is running for reelection.
Iowa 1
Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks is seeking a 3rd term. Leans Democrat.
Iowa 3
Freshman Republican Zach Nunn is seeking a 2nd term.
Louisiana 6
Open Seat: Republican Garret Graves retiring after redistricting. If no candidate gets a majority, there will be a top-two runoff in December. Safe Democrat.
Nebraska 2
Republican Don Bacon is seeking a 5th term. Leans Democrat.
New York 4
Freshman Republican Anthony D’Esposito is seeking reelection. Leans Democrat.
New York 19
Freshman Republican Marc Molinaro is seeking reelection.
New York 22
Freshman Republican Brandon Williams is seeking reelection. Leans Democrat.
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California 13
Republican John Duarte is seeking a 2nd term. Leans Democrat.
California 22
Republican David Valadao is seeking a 3rd term.
California 27
Republican Mike Garcia is seeking a 4th term.
California 41
Republican Ken Calvert is seeking a 17th term. He is the longest-tenured incumbent involved in a toss-up race.
California 45
Republican Michelle Steel is seeking a 3rd term.
California 47
Open Seat: Democrat Katie Porter ran for U.S. Senate.
Oregon 5
Freshman Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer is seeking reelection.
Washington 3
Freshman Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is seeking reelection.
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Alaska At-Large
Democrat Mary Peltola is seeking a third term. If no candidate gets a majority, the winner will be determined via a ranked choice tabulation later this month.
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GOP tries to break Connecticut Democrats’ winning streak in US House races
It has been 18 years since Connecticut voted to send a Republican to Washington. Republican George Logan will try to end the party’s long losing streak Tuesday in a rematch with U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, the three-term Democrat who defeated him two years ago by a margin of less than 1% of the vote.
The race between Hayes and Logan is among the state’s most closely watched contests on an Election Day when voters will also choose state legislators, a U.S. senator and the next U.S. president.
In their first matchup in 2022, Hayes defeated Logan by just 2,004 votes. This time, Hayes is hoping to get an extra boost from sharing the ballot with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“There’s absolutely a lot more enthusiasm since Harris entered the race at the top of the ticket,” said Hayes, the first Black woman to represent Connecticut in Congress. “We have had at all of our headquarters throughout the district, people show up to volunteer, women show up to phone bank or door knock.”
Logan, a mechanical engineer and former state senator who now works as a community relations director for a public water supply company, has promoted himself as an independent-minded Republican who wouldn’t be beholden to the national party.
He has also focused heavily on his personal background. If elected, the Afro-Latino son of Guatemalan immigrants would become the first Hispanic member of Congress from Connecticut.
“I believe Washington is broken and needs to be fixed. I want to be part of the solution,” he told reporters after a debate with Hayes. “I want to work in a bipartisan basis.”
The race is playing out in a district in the northwestern part of the state where President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump by 11 points in 2020.
Logan said he would vote for Trump, but he has walked a careful line on the campaign trail.
He avoided talking about the Republican presidential nominee or aligning himself with Trump’s policies and the MAGA movement. Instead, he spoke repeatedly about being focused on the needs of the district and not the contentious presidential race, pledging to be an “independent voice” who would work with whoever won the White House.
The race has mostly been a reboot of 2022, with Logan even reusing some of his same advertising. He has criticized Hayes for voting “with the failed Biden-Harris administration 99% of the time” and has focused heavily on economic issues. Hayes has accused him of being a risk to abortion rights and siding with “extremist” Republicans in Washington. Logan has said he supports abortion rights.
Connecticut has been challenging territory for Republicans in recent decades. The last Republican to win a House seat representing the state was former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, who was voted out of office in 2008.
Incumbent Democrats in the state’s other four congressional districts are also running for reelection, including U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney in the eastern part of the state. He is seeking a 10th term in a rematch race against former Republican state Rep. Mike France, who he beat by 18 points two years ago.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is also seeking a third term, running in a rematch against Republican Matt Corey, a small business owner who has pitched himself as “the fighter Donald Trump needs by his side.” Murphy defeated Corey by a wide margin in 2018.
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The last Republican senator from Connecticut was Lowell Weicker, who lost in 1988 and later left the party.
All state legislators are also up for reelection this year. Democrats currently hold a two-thirds majority in the state Senate but are just short in the House of Representatives. If they secure a net gain of three House seats, without losing any Senate seats, Democrats will have a supermajority in the General Assembly needed to override a gubernatorial veto.
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Central Michigan voters are deciding 2 open congressional seats in the fight for the US House
DETROIT (AP) — Between redistricting and incumbents forgoing reelection, four congressional seats in Michigan are key targets as the parties vie for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Republicans are seeking to flip two open congressional seats in central Michigan as the GOP tries to broaden its majority.
The two seats being vacated were redrawn in 2021, yielding Democratic victories in the midterm elections. Now this year’s races are true tossups and some of the most competitive in the country, with millions of dollars poured into the campaigns.
8th Congressional District
After longtime Democrat Dan Kildee announced he would not seek reelection in Michigan’s 8th District, Republicans saw the first opportunity in decades to flip the seat red. Kildee had served since 2012 when he succeeded his uncle Dale Kildee, who represented the area including the cities of Flint and Saginaw in Congress for 36 years.
For Republicans, former news anchor and Trump administration immigration official Paul Junge is making his third bid for Congress after losing to the younger Kildee in 2022 by about 10 points.
Junge appealed to voters over economic and immigration concerns. He also attacked Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet over national security and sought to tie her to a Chinese-based battery manufacturing company looking to build in Michigan that has been a target for Republicans.
McDonald Rivet, a freshman state senator, painted Junge as a Californian outsider and cast herself as a middle class pragmatist. She focused her messaging on preserving reproductive rights and like her opponent, the economy.
7th Congressional District
In the 7th district in central Michigan, former state lawmakers Democrat Curtis Hertel Jr. and Republican Tom Barrett have sought the seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
Slotkin, the Democratic candidate for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat, narrowly defeated Barrett in the 2022 midterms for the district that includes the state capital of Lansing and the surrounding rural areas.
Hertel, a former state senator and more recently the governor’s legislative director, was portrayed as a “regular guy” in an ad campaign where he grills, takes out the trash and prepares to mow a yard. He’s labeled Barrett an anti-abortion extremist, but in an attempt to reach GOP voters, he’s also criticized Democrats over immigration.
Barrett in turn has appealed to voters’ concerns over inflation and attacked Hertel over national security. A former state representative, senator and Army veteran, he has run ads featuring his helicopter pilot background.
3rd Congressional District
The open seats are the most contested in the state, but two other congressional seats have drawn the attention of national parties.
Hillary Scholten became the first Democrat to represent the city of Grand Rapids in the U.S. House since the 1970s when she won Michigan’s newly redrawn 3rd Congressional District in 2022. But the surrounding Kent County has plenty of Republican voters. The county went for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. The Republican ticket has targeted the county with five visits in 2024 between Vance and Trump.
Scholten faces Republican Paul Hudson, who lost a bid for the Michigan Supreme Court in 2022.
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10th Congressional District
Voters in Michigan’s 10th congressional district — which includes the all-important suburbs of Macomb County north of Detroit — will decide a rematch between Republican incumbent Rep. John James and Democrat Carl Marlinga.
Marlinga lost by just 1,600 votes in 2022, and the district is now seen as competitive, drawing money and attention from Democratic national groups.
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Alaska voters deciding a hard-fought race for the state’s only U.S. House seat, election issues
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters were deciding Tuesday a hard-fought race for the state’s only U.S. House seat that could help decide control of that chamber. They were also choosing whether to repeal the state’s system of open primaries and ranked choice general elections just four years after opting to give that system a go.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola sought to fend off GOP efforts to wrest back the seat held for 49 years by Republican Rep. Don Young, who died in 2022. Peltola’s main challenger was Republican Nick Begich, who is from a family of prominent Democrats and was among the opponents she defeated in special and regular elections two years ago when Peltola, who is Yup’ik, became the first Alaska Native elected to Congress.
In addition to the repeal initiative, the ballot included a measure that would raise the state’s minimum wage and require paid sick leave for many employees, a measure opposed by groups including several chambers of commerce and a seafood processors association.
Fifty of the Legislature’s 60 seats were up for election, too, with control of the state House and Senate up for grabs. The closely divided House has struggled to organize following the last three election cycles. In Alaska, lawmakers don’t always organize according to party.
In Alaska’s marquee House race, Peltola tried to distance herself from presidential politics, declining to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris and dismissing any weight an endorsement from her might carry anyway in a state that last went for a Democratic presidential nominee in 1964. She cast herself as someone willing to work across party lines and played up her role in getting the Biden administration to approve the massive Willow oil project, which enjoys broad political support in Alaska.
Begich, whose grandfather, the late Democrat Nick Begich, held the seat before Young, was endorsed by former President Donald Trump following his showing in the primary.
Trump’s initial pick, Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, bowed to pressure from Republicans seeking to consolidate behind one candidate following her third-place finish in the primary and dropped out. Alaska’s open primaries allow the top four vote-getters to advance. The initial fourth place finisher, Republican Matthew Salisbury, also quit, leaving Alaskan Independence Party candidate John Wayne Howe and Eric Hafner, a Democrat with no apparent ties to the state who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for threatening authorities and others in New Jersey, on the ballot.
Begich, the founder of a software development company, sought to cast Peltola as ineffective in stopping actions taken by the Biden administration that limited resource development in a state dependent upon it, including the decision to cancel leases issued for oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska is one of just two states that has adopted ranked voting — and would be the first to repeal it if the ballot initiative succeeds. In 2020, Alaskans in a narrow vote opted to scrap party primaries in favor of open primaries and ranked vote general elections. Most registered voters in Alaska aren’t affiliated with a party, and the new system was cast as a way to provide voters with more choice and to bring moderation to the election process. Critics, however, called it confusing.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a moderate Republican and Trump critic who has been at odds with party leaders, appeared in an ad in support of keeping open primaries and ranked voting.
Opponents of the system succeeded in getting enough signatures to qualify the repeal measure for the ballot — and withstood a monthslong legal fight to keep it on the ballot. Begich was among those who supported the repeal, and the state Republican Party also has endorsed repeal efforts.