How Election Week 2022 Went Down
I’m watching several toss-up races where women are in the running, and five of these races feature two women running against each other: Alaska’s 1st District, Virginia’s 2nd District, Oregon’s 5th District, Texas’s 15th District and Pennsylvania’s 2nd District. The Republican in Virginia’s 2nd, Jen Kiggans, is the projected winner there. In Pennsylvania, the Democrat leads narrowly, with 93 percent reporting. And in Alaska, there are no votes reported yet, as all polls there have not closed yet.
How are women faring in ‘Toss-Up’ races?
Results for female candidates in races where both parties had less than a 60 percent chance of winning, according to the Deluxe version of FiveThirtyEight’s final preelection forecast, as of 12:22 a.m. Eastern
| race | candidate | party | Percent reporting | vote margin | Winner? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK-1 | Mary S. Peltola i | D | 0% | — | |
| AK-1 | Sarah Palin | R | 0 | — | |
| IA-3 | Cindy Axne i | D | 91 | R+0.7 | |
| MI-3 | Hillary Scholten | D | 49 | D+13.2 | |
| NV Senate | Catherine Cortez Masto i | D | 0 | — | |
| NV-1 | Dina Titus i | D | 0 | — | |
| OR-5 | Jamie McLeod-Skinner | D | 59 | R+5.1 | |
| OR-5 | Lori Chavez-DeRemer | R | 59 | R+5.1 | |
| PA-7 | Susan Wild i | D | 93 | D+0.2 | |
| PA-7 | Lisa Scheller | R | 93 | D+0.2 | |
| TX-15 | Michelle Vallejo | D | 84 | R+9.7 | |
| TX-15 | Monica De La Cruz | R | 84 | R+9.7 | |
| TX-34 | Mayra Flores i | R | 85 | D+8.5 | |
| VA-2 | Elaine G. Luria i | D | 99 | R+4.3 | |
| VA-2 | Jen A. Kiggans | R | 99 | R+4.3 | ✓ |
I think friend of the blog Leah Askarinam summed up tonight’s results thus far pretty poetically:
The New York Times is projecting Republicans to win both seats that were up for election on the North Carolina state Supreme Court. That gives them a solid majority on the court — five of seven seats. They not only won the open seat but also managed to unseat Democratic incumbent justice Sam Ervin. Voter rights issues and abortion cases will most likely come before the North Carolina Supreme Court in the next few years, so the makeup of this court will have a big impact on laws in North Carolina.