How Election Week 2022 Went Down

In Iowa, ABC News has projected wins for Republicans in the 1st and 2nd Districts: Mariannette Miller-Meeks in the 1st, 53 percent to 47 percent, and Ashley Hinson in the 2nd, 57 percent to 43 percent. Both of these races had been rated as likely Republican wins.

With lots of votes still coming in, it looks like a close call on Oregon Measure 114, which would enact strict new gun-control laws in the state. It would ban large capacity magazines and require people to get permits to buy firearms.

For some more context on the measure, here’s a video we produced with ABC News where we spoke with gun control advocates in the state, as well as a former Marine there who had his AR-15 destroyed after the Uvalde shooting.

As a reminder, Alaska runs elections a little differently from the other 49 states. Four candidates appear on the ballot for each race, and voters are asked to rank them in order of preference — essentially, “Who’s your first choice? Who’s your second choice?” and so on. The votes you’ll see tonight are only first-place votes, but they alone won’t determine the winner. If no one gets a majority of first-place votes, ranked-choice voting will determine the winner. On Nov. 23, once all ballots are tabulated, the candidate with the fewest first-place votes in each race will be eliminated, and his or her supporters will be redistributed to their second choices. That process will repeat until someone has achieved a majority.