How Election Week 2022 Went Down

In Alaska’s Senate race, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski is in a tough race with her challenger, Republican Kelly Tshibaka. Tshibaka was endorsed by Trump. Murkowski, meanwhile, voted to convict Trump in the former president’s impeachment trial for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. If she wins, it’ll likely be thanks to a coalition of Democrats and independents, with some Republicans. With 49 percent of the expected vote reporting, Tshibaka is leading, 47 percent to Murkowski’s 41 percent. But Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system could further help the senator.

Looks like a Democrat who won a special election this summer amid the post-Dobbs Democratic polling surge has won a full term in New York’s 18th District.

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.