From rural healthcare to agricultural water needs, Wyoming's governor-elect is preparing to turn campaign promises into action, with a plan that could reshape how communities across the

Days after earning an 11-point victory over his Republican opponent, Democratic Gov.-elect Rob Sand said he believes voters delivered him a mandate to enact his campaign-trail age

Democrats flipped five governor seats (and counting). They also grabbed huge control in state legislatures.

Wyandotte County began audits Friday for Kansas governor and two other close races. Kansas law requires all 105 counties to hand-count 10% of precincts. Johnson County assigned 190 bipartisan poll workers to hand-count ballots Monday.

CNN’s Zain Asher speaks with Democratic Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández, the Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, about the historic number of women who won congressional and gubernatorial races in the U.

We’ve had a few questions in recent days on how The Oregonian/OregonLive newsroom called the Oregon governor’s race for Tina Kotek last Tuesday night after weeks of coverage saying the race was neck-and-neck. Honestly, I wasn’t sure we’d have enough information on election night to make the call. In year’s past, we’ve had to wait a day or two to call such competitive races. To provide more ...

One of the more shocking developments of the recent midterm elections was the transformation of Texas from a red state to a blue state, with Democrats being elected as governor, lieutenant governor, and to the Senate. However, some of the statements made by James Talarico, soon to be Texas’s first Democratic senator in over a […]

One candidate had dropped out in September. One had no campaign staff. One was a 19-year-old and halfway through the fall college semester. Across the US, Democratic candidates with almost no public profile and long odds of winning their midterm races were stunned to find they had outperformed their opponents on Tuesday. They were swept into Congress and statehouses in the blue wave that knocked out Republicans from seats considered untouchable...

Explore extremely detailed maps of the results for the governor and U.S. Senate races, with views comparing the midterm to the 2024 presidential election. You can also explore the relative size of the electorate and look up how your community voted across several races. Examine how population and polarization have made statewide victories harder for Republicans, where Democrats gained ground ...

The country singer was an enthusiastic supporter of the Democrats who won every major statewide race in Texas. There are many factors behind Tuesday’s great-big, Texas-size victories for Senator-elect James Talarico and Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa—and for the rest of the…