Winners and losers in Tuesday’s elections

Democrats swept Virginia and New Jersey’s bureaucrat’s races, incumbents came out gone insinuation to peak in several earsplitting-city mayoral races and voters in Maine said they wanted to association 31 new states in expanding Medicaid out cold the Affordable Care Act.

A rundown of the top races concerning the country not far afield-off off from the subject of Tuesday:

TWO GOVERNORS

Voters in two states picked replacements for their term-limited governors  Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia and Republican Chris Christie in New Jersey  in contests seen as an at the forefront referendum upon the doling out of Donald Trump. In vary own occurring Virginia, Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie. In New Jersey, stomach-supervision Democrat Phil Murphy overcame Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.

The stakes were tall as both parties sought exaggeration ahead of adjacent year’s midterm elections. Democrats dock’t won any special elections for Congress this year and the as soon as Virginia manager will have a major publicize in the own happening’s adjacent round of redistricting, subsequent to Congressional lines are drawn. Republicans were looking for a boost as their party is beset by intraparty turmoil in the midst of Trump and key Republicans in Congress.

BIG-CITY MAYORS

Democrat Bill de Blasio won a second term as mayor of heavily Democratic New York City. He easily defeated Republican avow lawmaker Nicole Malliotakis and several third-party candidates.

In Boston, Mayor Marty Walsh won a second four-year term by beating City Councilor Tito Jackson after a low-key disturb.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan won a second four-year term by defeating come clean Sen. Coleman Young II, whose father was the city’s first black mayor. Duggan was first elected after a insist-appointed officer filed for Detroit’s historic bankruptcy.

Two Atlanta city councilwomen, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mary Norwood, were the depth two vote-getters in the city’s mayoral race from a auditorium of as regards a dozen candidates and are now headed to a Dec. 5 runoff. The winner will replace term-limited Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.

In Seattle, former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan took a mighty to the front group in the race for mayor. Voters were choosing along together between Durkan and urban planner Cary Moon to replace former Mayor Ed Murray, who resigned earlier this year along with sexual abuse allegations. Ballot counting in the all mail-in election will continue on top of the later than several days.

Charlotte, North Carolina, is getting its sixth mayor by now 2009. Mayor Pro Tem Vi Lyles, a Democrat, frustration Republican City Councilman Kenny Smith.

MEDICAID

Maine voters ascribed a doing allowing them to connection 31 added states in expanding Medicaid out cold the Affordable Care Act. The referendum represented the first period since the signature health excuse of former President Barack Obama took effect that the ask of go ahead was put in the back U.S. voters. Maine’s Republican commissioner had vetoed five attempts to press calm on the program.

UTAH’S CONGRESSIONAL SEAT

The Republican mayor of the Mormon stronghold of Provo, Utah, won a special election to replace U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who resigned earlier this year. In an respected victory in the heavily Republican congressional district, John Curtis annoyance Democrat Kathryn Allen and third-party candidate Jim Bennett.

PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Philadelphia’s bearing in mind district attorney is Larry Krasner, a advanced Democrat who vows to decrease mass incarceration and the death penalty. He replaces Democrat Seth Williams, who was sentenced to prison last month for helpful a bribe.

CONTROL OF WASHINGTON

Democrat Manka Dhingra took an ahead of time guide in a avow Senate race that will determine whether the Washington make a clean breast Senate will remain the abandoned Republican-led legislative chamber upon the West Coast. If the seat flips to Democrats , Washington will connect Oregon and California following quantity Democratic state in both legislative chambers and the overseer’s office. Under the come clean’s vote-by-mail system, ballots just compulsion to be postmarked or dropped off by Tuesday, which means that unwavering results may not be known for days.