How Election Week 2022 Went Down

Polls have closed in most of Alaska (where we’re watching the race for governor, House and Senate) but it will take a while to count all the votes. We expect to receive some updates overnight, and then another round Nov. 15 and Nov. 18. The state won’t release official winners until Nov. 23 because of its ranked-choice voting system.

Democrats have gotten some big wins in House races in North Carolina (the 13th District) and Ohio (1st and 13th) tonight. But those will likely be short-lived. In both of those states, the congressional map will be redrawn in the next couple years, likely to be better for Republicans. After North Carolina’s old congressional map was thrown out for being a partisan gerrymander, a court imposed this one for one cycle only. And Ohio’s map was found unconstitutional a few months ago, but there wasn’t time to draw a new map before the election. What’s more, because Republicans took or kept control of both the North Carolina and Ohio Supreme Courts, the new maps are less likely to be struck down by the new courts.

As a reminder, Nevada will not start releasing results until every voter in line has voted. Polls closed at 7 p.m. Pacific Time, but the Las Vegas Sun reported that some voters had waited in line for as long as an hour and a half to vote this evening, which may be why we haven’t seen any results yet.