What Went Down During The 2021 Elections

Votes are still being counted slowly in New Jersey, but we have what qualifies as a major update out of Hudson County, where 1,865 additional votes have been counted. We’re told these were mail votes, and they indeed broke heavily for Murphy, 1,429-496. Murphy now leads statewide 50.0 percent to 49.3 percent (a margin of 16,617 votes).

Our colleagues at ABC News are projecting that Republican Jason Miyares has won the Virginia attorney general’s race. Republicans have officially swept all three statewide offices in Old Dominion.

India Walton, the democratic socialist candidate for mayor of Buffalo, New York, conceded the race this afternoon to incumbent Mayor Byron Brown, who waged a write-in campaign to keep his job after losing to Walton in the Democratic primary. The race exposed schisms within the New York Democratic Party, but ultimately, Brown paired Democrats still loyal to him with Republicans to win reelection. Right now, write-ins account for 59 percent of the votes cast in the mayoral race, compared with 41 percent for Walton, and it’s likely that almost all of those write-ins are for Brown.