Live coverage: Election night 2021

It’s election night 2021! Numerous important races are on the ballot across the country, and we’re liveblogging the top contests below.

Results: FL | GA | MA | ME | MI | MN | NH | NJ | NM | NY | OH | PA | VA | WA

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Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 · 11:04:35 PM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

Welcome to Election Night 2021! Lots going on tonight, and we’ll be with you every step of the way as the votes are tallied.

A reminder: due to the extensive use of early voting, the old “precincts reporting” designation simply is not what it used to be. So we wait till roughly 10% of anticipated turnout before we start to deliver results. In Virginia, a crazy-fast state as far as counting the votes goes, we should be able to do that pretty quickly.

With that caveat in mind, here we go!

Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 · 11:15:01 PM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

FL-20 (D): We have our first substantial votes of the evening, but it is NOT in Virginia. In Florida, Broward County is already reporting some votes in the special election to replace the late Alcee Hastings. Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness leads with 28% of the vote, with businesswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick sitting at 21%. Bear in mind, this doesn’t include Palm Beach County, which casts about 1/3 of the vote.

Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 · 11:31:24 PM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

St. Pete Mayor: One early and unambiguously happy result for Democrats. Just a half hour after the closing of the polls, Democrat Ken Welch has declared victory in his race against Republican Robert Blackmon. With 46,000 votes counted (about 75% of the turnout in the last mayoral election), Welch leads Blackmon by a 62-38 margin.

Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 · 11:33:55 PM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

Polls have now closed in Ohio, home to two special U.S. House elections and mayoral elections in Cleveland and Cincinnati.

Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 · 11:39:14 PM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

VIRGINIA: We have finally hit the threshold, it appears, with about 400K-500K votes tallied. And the one thing about elections in this new age? Results can be pretty unrepresentative. The Republicans have considerable leads that are unlikely to hold up at this margin. But one thing we can tell, at this early point. The three Democrats are clearly running about one percentage point clear of one another. Attorney General Mark Herring is doing the best, notching 45% of the vote at present. Lt. Governor candidate Hala Ayala is at 44% of the vote. And former Gov. Terry McAuliffe is performing the least well of the Democrats at 43% of the vote. What we can also tell: left-leaning independent candidate Princess Blanding is not drawing much impact: she sits at 0.8% of the vote.

Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 · 11:48:54 PM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

FL-20 (D): As Palm Beach County starts to report some results, businesswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (yes, I will misspell that at least twice tonight) has now taken a narrow lead.

Tuesday, Nov 2, 2021 · 11:56:45 PM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

OH-11: In the least surprising result of the night, the AP has declared this race (to replace Marcia Fudge, who took a job in the Biden Administration) for Democrat Shontel Brown, who has an 81-19 lead according to the current vote tallies.

Wednesday, Nov 3, 2021 · 12:03:25 AM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

Manchester (NH) Mayor: Another Democratic victory in a contested mayoral race, but this time it is an incumbent securing the win. Democratic Mayor Joyce Craig has declared victory after pulling into a lead in the high single digits with most of the votes tallied. She defeated Republican Victoria Sullivan in a rematch of their 2019 battle.

Wednesday, Nov 3, 2021 · 12:08:17 AM +00:00 · Steve Singiser

Polls have now closed in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Wednesday, Nov 3, 2021 · 12:19:53 AM +00:00 · David Nir

The liveblog continues here.