How Election Week 2022 Went Down

Whether or not women will lose ground in Congress is an open question (we need to wait and see), but we do know that women have done well in governors races tonight, as anticipated. Republican women are projected winners in South Dakota, Alabama, Arkansas and Iowa. And Democratic women are projected winners in New York, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan and New Mexico. That makes 10 women who will serve simultaneously, breaking the previous record of nine. And with all races with women on the ballot in Oregon and Arizona that are still yet to be projected, that give us at least 12 female governors.

Sixty-one percent of the expected vote is now in in the Nevada Senate race, and Cortez Masto is ahead 51 percent to 46 percent. In Clark County, where 74 percent of the expected vote is in, she leads 53 percent to 45 percent.

We’re still waiting on votes in Kentucky, but the anti-abortion-rights amendment trails 53 to 47 percent. If the result holds, Kentuckians will join another red state, Kansas, in rejecting the tightening of abortion restrictions in their state.