Several key congressional races have dragged on nicely previous the top of the presidential race. The House stays contested, though Republicans have claimed extra seats thus far, and vote counting continues in three Senate races in swing states.
Here are the updates on some races nonetheless not referred to as by Friday afternoon:
The Pennsylvania Senate race
Dave McCormick, the Republican candidate, has a slight lead within the rely thus far and has claimed victory, however the incumbent Democratic Senator, Bob Casey, has not conceded. The New York Times didn’t name the race.
The candidates stay separated by about 39,000 votes, a distinction of simply over half a proportion level. On Thursday, the state reported that about 100,000 provisional, army, international and Election Day ballots had not but been counted. That included about 33,000 provisional ballots within the state’s largest counties, Philadelphia and Allegheny, which incorporates Pittsburgh.
Counting of remaining ballots may lengthen into subsequent week, native officers mentioned. If the margin finally ends up inside half a proportion level, the race may go to a recount.
The Arizona Senate race
Most voters voted by mail in Arizona, and there have been nonetheless greater than 700,000 ballots to rely Friday, in response to the secretary of state’s workplace. In the Senate race, Democrat Ruben Gallego has led Republican Kari Lake by practically 41,000 votes thus far.
Most of the votes left to rely are in Maricopa and Pima counties, which include Phoenix and Tucson and are typically extra Democratic. The mail-in ballots that arrived later in Maricopa, nonetheless, have been extra Republican-leaning.
The Nevada Senate race
Tens of hundreds of absentee ballots have but to be counted, largely in Clark County, which incorporates Las Vegas, and Washoe County, which incorporates Reno.
These votes will almost definitely go in favor of the Democrats, suggesting that the 1-point lead that Jacky Rosen, the incumbent Democrat, at present holds over Sam Brown, his Republican challenger, is prone to enhance.
At this level, most rural counties have completed counting the absentee ballots they’ve obtained. Postmarked ballots can arrive as late as Saturday, though the remaining quantity is anticipated to be small, and voters have till Tuesday to resolve any identification points with their ballots.
Home competitions
The House stays up for grabs, though Republicans solely want seven extra seats to realize a majority. 25 seats haven’t been determined for both social gathering. Of these, 10 are in California and 4 in Arizona, the place counting will proceed into subsequent week.
– Nick Begich, a Republican, is forward within the vote rely in Alaska’s at-large race, which was flipped by Rep. Mary Peltola two years in the past. But the state continues to simply accept absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day. Carol Beecher, a state elections official, mentioned Alaska will launch the outcomes of many of the uncounted votes on this race on Tuesday.
– In Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat, is main Austin Theriault, his Republican challenger, by fewer than 2,000 votes. But as a result of the race is so shut, the state’s ranked-choice voting comes into play, which permits voters to pick a number of candidates so as of desire. If a voter’s first alternative was a write-in candidate or was left clean, that vote will now be reassigned to Golden or Theriault if both was the voter’s second alternative. The course of will take a while.
— Marcy Kaptur, the Democratic incumbent in Ohio’s ninth Congressional District, has a small lead over Republican Derek Merrin — about 1,000 votes, in response to Wednesday’s outcomes — however there are nonetheless hundreds of provisional ballots that must be reviewed and counted .
– Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is forward within the vote rely in Washington’s third Congressional District, a seat she is relinquishing to Democrats in 2022. But whereas her lead was 11,000 votes, there have been a major variety of votes remaining to be counted – an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 ballots as of final Thursday, not counting the ballots postmarked earlier than the elections which are but to return. The overwhelming majority of uncounted votes are in Clark County, the place Gluesenkamp Perez leads.
– California, the place 10 uncalled elections stay, will rely all ballots postmarked by Election Day so long as they arrive by Tuesday, so counting will not be full earlier than then. And some counties will not launch up to date outcomes till Tuesday, because of the Veterans Day vacation.
– Election officers in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest county, mentioned earlier than the election that they anticipated counting to take no less than every week. And Pima County officers mentioned this yr’s two-page poll slowed tabulation and made it more durable to estimate once they would possibly finish. That leaves a number of aggressive congressional races within the stability, in addition to the state Senate race and presidential contest.
This article initially appeared in The New York Times.
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