How Election Week 2022 Went Down
Checking back in on Indiana, the House race in the 1st District is still too close for ABC News to project. With 83 percent of expected votes reporting, around 12,000 votes separate incumbent Democrat Rep. Frank Mrvan and Republican Jennifer-Ruth Green. Mrvan has 53 percent to Green’s 47 percent. Remember, this is a district that became slightly redder during redistricting but remained otherwise largely unchanged, keeping it competitive even as conservative PACs poured cash into Green’s campaign. As we’re seeing, it’s still a tight race!
Pennsylvania has a trio of tight House races on the docket tonight — and Democrats might actually sweep them. In the 7th District in the Lehigh Valley, Democratic Rep. Susan Wild holds a 0.8-point lead over Republican Lisa Scheller with 95 percent of the expected vote reporting. She might hold onto that edge, as Monroe County has most of the remaining votes and appears to have not yet added in their mail votes, which will be Democratic-leaning.
Next door in the Scranton-based and red-leaning 8th District, Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright has a somewhat larger lead over Republican Jim Bognet of 2.3 points, 51.1 percent to 48.8 percent. With 96 percent reporting, that seems likely to hold. And in the 17th District in the Pittsburgh suburbs — left open by Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb’s failed Senate run — Democrat Chris Deluzio is up by 4.6 points over Republican Jeremy Shaffer, with 98 percent reporting, so Deluzio appears in the best shape of the three Democrats.
With 86 percent of the expected vote in, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly leads her Republican challenger by about 24,000 votes, or 3 percentage points.
