How Election Week 2022 Went Down

It looks like women will break their record for simultaneous governorships (which is currently nine). Republican women are projected winners in South Dakota, Alabama, Arkansas and Iowa. And Democratic women are projected winners in New York, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maine and New Mexico. That makes nine. And with all women races in Oregon and Arizona, that will put women over the top.

Paroma, a lot of those flips so far can be explained by redistricting. Florida’s 7th and 13th districts were redrawn to be reliably Republican; same with Tennessee’s 5th. In addition, New Jersey’s 7th District got a few points redder in order to shore up Democratic incumbents in neighboring districts. And Ohio’s 1st District went from slightly more Republican-leaning than the nation as a whole to slightly more Democratic-leaning.

ABC News projects that Republican Thomas H. Kean Jr. will win in NJ-7, defeating incumbent Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski.