By Anna Miele
Correspondent
Democrats had a victorious election season, with the party winning major elections nation-wide on Nov. 4.
Democrats especially swept in three key races for Virginia governor, New Jersey governor and mayor of New York City, with the party’s voters drawing in huge numbers and leading to sinking approval rates of the Republican party.
In New Jersey, Democratic candidate Mikie Sherril was elected for governor against Republican candidate Jack Citarelli. Sherill managed the win with a non-minimal lead of 13.1% points against Citarelli. New Jersey had the highest turnout rate in a governor election since 2009, according to the Associated Press.
In New York City, Democrat Zohran Mamdani won his race for mayor by 8.8% points, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo and fellow candidate Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani won about three quarters of voters under the age of 30, according to the AP voter poll.
Virginia also managed another Democrat sweep as Abigail Spanberger won by 14.6% of votes against Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears. Spanberger’s victory was especially notable as the average margin of victory was 8.6 percentage points in the past 12 gubernatorial elections in the state, according to the Associated Press.
Ghazala Hashmi also managed to win Virgnia’s lieutenant governor race winning by 11.1% of the vote against Rep. John Reid. Hashmi has become the nation's first Muslim woman elected to hold statewide office.
There was only one race on the ballot in California. However, the race was regarding major implications for control of the House in next year’s midterm elections. The state managed to overwhelmingly pass 64.6% in favor and 35.4% not for Proposition 50, which aims to temporarily substitute a democratic drawn congressional map.
Following this win, California will become the first state to have a new map which would add democratic seats in this current administration.
Democrats also managed to flip two seats on Georgia’s statewide Public Service Commission earning about 60% of the vote to have two new members to be a part of the five person public utility regulator. They are Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson. This is the first time Democrats have won a nonfederal statewide office in the area since 2006, according to NPR News.
Pennsylvania voters made the decision to keep three states Supreme Court judges as well as Democratic wins in special elections for a seat in Pennsylvania’s Superior Court, and a seat on its Commonwealth Court.
Mississippi Democrats had also managed to flip two seats in the State senate as well as in the State house, breaking the vast majority of seats which belong to the Republican party.
According to ABC News exit polls, voter’s top concerns are affordability, which likely ties into the overwhelmingly blue results this election season, with many democrats notably running campaigns focused heavily on advertising potential price reductions — such as Mamdani’s and Sherril’s.
