#Election Result 2022

[mayindianews]

Himachal Pradesh Election Result 2022 winners' list: Complete constituency-wise

Himachal Pradesh Election Result 2022 winners’ list: Complete constituency-wise

On December 8, the vote-counting process for the Himachal Pradesh election of 2022 will start. The results of the 68 assembly seats will be released as soon as the Himachal Pradesh election of 2022 is over. The BJP and the Congress are the two primary candidates for the HP election in 2022. The state is hilly and has 68 seats, with 35 being the midpoint. In the Himachal Pradesh election of 2022,…

[the-final-sif]

the gop can cry salty tears all the way home. At best they might get a tiny house majority that could fall at literally any time and have their entire agenda get shoved down by one or two moderates. Also Joe Manchin can now go fuck himself. I'm so fucking proud of everyone who was able to get out, vote, and campaign.

[marvelsmostwanted]

Maura Healey wins! She will be the first woman governor of Massachusetts and America’s first openly lesbian governor; Tina Kotek will tie her for this accomplishment if she wins in Oregon.

~ Keep in mind many election results will take days or even weeks to come in as mail-in votes get counted. Hang in there! ~

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Holy shit, I think it's gonna come down to a Georgia runoff again.

Dems had 36 seats not up for election

They won all their safe seats, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Maryland [brings them up to 44]

Scahtz is almost certainly gonna win in Hawaii, another safe seat that just hasn't been called yet [45]

Bennett won in Colorado, which was right on the cusp between safe and competitive, so that's a good sign [46]

Mark Kelly is winning handily in Arizona, an unexpected 60-40 landslide so far, a major blow for Republicans in what was a deep red state for decades under McCain and Goldwater before him [47]

Fetterman is ahead of Oz in Pennsylvania, not by a huge margin but enough that a recount probably wouldn't change things [48]

Against the odds, Hassan held onto New Hampshire despite her opponent being endorsed by the very popular Republican governor Sununu who also won his own race; this is an even better sign than Colorado considering Republicans have made up a ton of ground in New Hampshire these last few cycles [49]

Nevada is anybody's game, no results at time of writing (little past midnight eastern), not even preliminarily. Zero votes reported on any news sites yet; possible repeat of 2020, could be days before we know the results. Cortez Masto was about as likely to win as Hassan in New Hampshire, so maybe just maybe she can eke by

Georgia is neck and neck. I fully expected Herschel Walker to win in a 55-45 landslide because Georgia is like Florida and can't be trusted to do anything right, but Raphael Warnock is holding his own and has even pulled ahead by a fraction of a percent. It'll be recounted, but I don't think either of them will limp to 50%, so it'll go to another runoff in January for all the marbles!

If either Warnock or Cortez Masto can hold their seats, the Senate will stay deadlocked 50-50, status quo antebellum, not ideal, but workable. If they both hold, that gives Democrats the tiniest ounce of wiggle room because then they'd only have to wrangle Manchin OR Sinema instead of both. This is nowhere near the bloodbath I feared it would be, but it's not the refutation of right-wing extremism I hoped for either.

God, please let things be clearer in the morning. Please don't let Mitch McConnell become majority leader again. We can afford to lose the House, but losing the Senate would be game over for decades, no more judges, none, zilch, nada. The worst a Republican led House can do is impeach Biden, but that's meaningless now after Trump's twofer, and any select committees they create would be toothless with the Dems in control of the DOJ. They would have bargaining power to shut down the government and fuck with the budget, but what else is new? We're not gonna default on our debts; they can only cry wolf so many times before we get wise and ignore them.

[muddypolitics]

(via Arizona Officials Charged With Conspiring to Delay Election Results - The New York Times)

Two Republican county supervisors in Arizona were indicted Wednesday on felony charges related to their attempts to delay the certification of 2022 election results.

Kris Mayes, the state attorney general, announced in a statement that Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby, two of the three supervisors in Cochise County, face charges of interference with an election officer and conspiracy, criticizing what she described as their “repeated attempts to undermine our democracy.”

Neither Ms. Judd nor Mr. Crosby could be reached for comment Wednesday.

Last year, Ms. Judd and Mr. Crosby sought to order a hand count of the ballots that had been cast in Cochise, a heavily Republican rural county, citing conspiracy theories that had been raised by local right-wing activists. When a judge ruled against them, they voted to delay certification of the election before eventually relenting under pressure of a court order.

republicans hate democracy

[sweet-pinkitty]

Finally! General Election 2022👑

[anghraine]

It looks like Kentucky's total abortion ban is doing worse than might be expected. It's currently losing, 47-53, even while Kentucky Republicans are predictably winning races, which suggests that some people there are voting for Republican candidates but also opposing Republican abortion policy in particular.

Maggie Hassan (D-NH) is projected to hold her seat, while Kris Kobach (ugh) is creeping up on Chris Mann in Kansas. Oh, and Grassley won his seat again, surprise.

(Context: he's been in the Senate longer than I've been alive, and I'm well into my 30s.)

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil Counted All Its Votes in Hours. It Still Faces Fraud Claims.

A report from the military found no voter fraud — but left room for Bolsonaro’s supporters to argue maybe he’d actually won.

Nearly two weeks after Brazil’s presidential election, government officials and independent security experts have reviewed the results and made a clear determination: There is no credible evidence of voter fraud.

Yet Brazil still finds itself grappling with a wave of rigged-election claims from many supporters of the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro.

On Wednesday, those baseless claims received new fuel from a highly anticipated report on the voting process from Brazil’s military, which the head of Mr. Bolsonaro’s party said would determine whether the party officially accepted the election’s results.

In the report, the military said it found no evidence of any irregularities. It also said that the nature of Brazil’s fully digital voting system meant it could not decisively rule out a specific fraud scenario.

Independent security experts generally applauded the report, saying it was technically sound. They had pointed out the same hypothetical fraud scenario in the past — government insiders inserting sophisticated malicious software onto Brazil’s voting machines — while also stressing that it was extremely unlikely.

However, to many of Mr. Bolsonaro’s supporters, including some prominent conservative pundits, the report was further evidence the president’s loss should be questioned.

Brazil finds itself in a tricky situation. Security experts say its electronic voting system is reliable, efficient and, like any digital system, not 100 percent secure. Now politically motivated actors are using that kernel of truth as reason to question the results of a vote in which there is no evidence of fraud.

Continue reading.

[guardian-of-the-imagination]

OK before I turn in I feel sick I feel like vomiting I’m already crying I know I will be for a little bit the thing is I knew this was most likely going to happen it’s just I’m 19 it was my first time voting and I really felt like I could make a difference after what happened in Uvalde (I had family in the school) I knew I had to vote it just sucks really truly deeply sucks that Abbott won.  I go to bed hoping that I get some good news on some of the other elections happening tonight, I still have hope for this country but tonight was not a great night for me.

[more-flotsam-and-jetsam]

[mediapen]

the unrestrained terror/thrill of watching this refresh every ten seconds is like. unparalleled

[positively--speculative]

For all my LGBTQ followers in red states, I'm really sorry.

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

Wednesday Morning Update

Senate Races:

Pennsylvania- John Fetterman (D) wins! 💙

Georgia- not called yet, 98% reporting

Raphael Warnock (D) leading by 0.9% 🔹

Ohio- JD Vance (R) wins 🟥

Kentucky- Rand Paul (R) wins 🟥

Florida - Marco Rubio (R) wins 🟥

Wisconsin - not called yet, 99% reporting

Ron Johnson (R) leading by 1% 🔺

Arizona - not called yet, 66% reporting

Mark Kelly (D) leading by 5% 🔹

Nevada- not called yet, 72% reporting

Adam Laxalt (R) leading by 2.7% 🔺

Governor Races

Michigan- Gretchen Whitmer (D) wins! 💙

Wisconsin - Tony Evers (D) wins! 💙

Georgia - Brian Kemp (R) wins 🟥

Texas- Greg Abbott (R) wins 🟥

Arizona- not called yet, 66% reporting

Katie Hobbs (D) leads by 0.6% 🔹

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Today is election day. Both my parents ar ein different levels of right wing bs and I'm sooo stressad out already.

[ausetkmt]

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is defending his Senate seat against Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election in Georgia Tuesday, after days of record-breaking early voting in the state. Polls close in Georgia at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday 12/06/2022. 

What is a runoff election, and how will it work in Georgia's Senate race?   

Since Democrats flipped the seat in Pennsylvania and successfully defended the other seats in play in the November midterm elections, Democrats will retain control of the Senate, regardless of the outcome on Tuesday. But they will have more power if they control the chamber 51-49 since they will not have to work out a power-sharing agreement with Republicans. This will be the last election of the 2022 midterm cycle. 

Polls close in Georgia at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday 12/06/2022. 

Although Warnock held a narrow lead over Walker on Election Day, he did not win more than 50% of the vote, which is required to avoid a runoff in Georgia. 

According to exit polls on Election Day, voters in Georgia were split in their views of the most important qualities in a candidate: 36% said it was most important that the candidate shared their values, while 32% said a candidate's honesty and integrity were most important to them.

Ahead of the general election, Walker's campaign was rocked in October by allegations that he paid for at least one woman to have an abortion. He has denied the allegations, and national Republicans stuck by him. 

A record-breaking number of early voters have turned out in the runoff, smashing all previous records. 

Former President Barack Obama campaigned with Warnock last week, although President Biden, who flipped the state in 2020, has not visited the Peach State to stump for Warnock. Former President Donald Trump has not campaigned in person with Walker in the runoff but was scheduled to hold a tele-rally for Walker Monday night.

Georgia played a key role in the 2020 elections, when the races for both Senate seats went into special runoff elections in January 2021, ultimately flipping both seats from Republican to Democratic. Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue led Jon Ossoff after Election Night with 49.7% of the vote, but he ended up falling short in the runoff on Jan. 5, 2021. In the race for the other seat, Warnock led incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler in a 21-person race on Election Day, and he prevailed in the special election to fill the vacancy left when Sen. Johnny Isakson stepped down.