Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride has been elected to the U.S. House and will become the first openly transgender person to serve in Congress.

Angela Alsobrooks won a U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday to become the first Black candidate to be elected senator in Maryland, as the Democrat prevailed in a blue state against popular Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan.

U.S. Rep. Gabe Amo, the first Black representative in Congress from Rhode Island, won reelection on Tuesday.

Americans awaited the final results of one of the most intense and divisive presidential elections in modern history Tuesday as early exit polling showed worrying signs for Vice President Kamala Harris and positive news for former President Donald Trump.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has won her bid for reelection.

Voters rejected a Florida proposal to add abortion rights to the state constitution in Tuesday's election, handing the pro-choice movement its first statewide ballot-measure defeat since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein defeated Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on Tuesday to become the next governor of North Carolina, keeping the governor's mansion in Democrats' possession.

“He should be scared in Pennsylvania because there is an energy, there is a surge,” said CNN commentator Van Jones on Election Day. Specifically, Jones said, “The Puerto Rican vote by itself has been lit on fire … . There is a big tidal wave of Puerto Rican vote coming in Pennsylvania.” This was the standard […]

Vice President Harris will win New Jersey, giving her the Garden State’s 14 electoral votes, Decision Desk HQ projects. New Jersey is a solidly blue-leaning state that Harris was expected to carry easily, as it has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1988. Democratic candidates have also consistently won it by double-digit margins...

Former President Trump has won the one Electoral College vote Maine’s 2nd Congressional District carries, according to a Decision Desk HQ projection, giving the Republican a potentially critical vote in an election that could come down to the wire. Maine distributes its four electoral votes based on both the statewide result and the winner of...