What Went Down During The 2021 Elections

An update from late last night: We had thought that the Virginia House of Delegates was going to be tied, but Republicans actually took the lead in a race that had been called for Democrats. It now looks as though Republicans will take a 51-49 majority in the House of Delegates to go along with their wins for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

It’s the morning after Election Day, and the New Jersey governor’s race is neck-and-neck. Just how close?

Per Edison, Murphy has taken a 1,667 vote lead over Ciattarelli with about 85 percent of the expected vote reporting. It seems likely that Murphy will expand his lead as additional votes are counted. There seem to be a substantial number of absentee votes yet to be reported in heavily Democratic Mercer County (69 percent for Biden in 2020) as well as additional batches of votes from other counties like Somerset, Essex and Union.

There is some uncertainty about exactly how many votes are left to be reported, but directionally it definitely seems like they should favor Democrats.

Programming note: As mentioned, we’ll be back here in a bit with more updates from New Jersey (where we expect to get more results soon). But in the meantime, courtesy of Geoff, you can find a more detailed look at what went down in Virginia here.