How Election Week 2022 Went Down

ABC News has projected that Peter Welch will be the next U.S. senator from Vermont. Amazingly, he is only the second Democrat that Vermont has ever sent to the U.S. Senate. The state used to be loyally Republican, and since the realignment, it has only elected Democrat Pat Leahy (who is retiring this year) and independent Bernie Sanders.

As in Georgia, polls in Pennsylvania consistently showed a Senate race that was closer than its governor’s race. So one question is going to be whether and to what extent Pennsylvania’s Senate race and governor’s race run in tandem. So far, the polls have been borne out, with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro winning 87 percent of the vote, while Fetterman is slightly below 83 percent. But vote-rich South Central Pennsylvania, where GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is from, has yet to report votes.

ABC News projects that incumbents Carol Miller and Alexander Mooney will win the House seats in West Virginia’s 1st and 2nd Districts, respectively. These wins aren’t surprising, although it’s worth mentioning that Mooney did beat out a fellow incumbent, David McKinley, in the primaries this year: Reps. Mooney and McKinley found themselves head to head after West Virginia lost one of its three House seats this cycle, in light of redistricting.