For those electoral sickos out there who enjoy watching the game of politics, here are some interesting races to watch tonight. If there are others you’d like me to list or pay attention to, or corrections that need to be made, i’d be happy to oblidge.

PREDICTIONS ENCOURAGED!

updates:

  1. I’ll be calling these races as AP News calls them.
  2. Percentages will be added in after 75% of votes are counted in a race.

7 p.m.

(all poll closing times eastern)

Atlanta Mayor:

  • Dickens* – 85.0% ✅

99% counted | source

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Virginia Governor: 🔀 FLIP

  • Spanberger (D) – 57.5% ✅

  • Earle-Sears ® – 42.3%

97% counted | source

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Virginia Attorney General: Too CLOSE To Call

  • Jones (D) – 53.1% ✅

  • Miyares ®* – 46.5%

96% counted | source

7:30 p.m.

Cincinnati Mayor:

  • Pureval* – 78.2% ✅

  • Bowman – 21.8%

97% counted | source

8 p.m.

New Jersey Governor: 🔀 FLIP

  • Sherrill (D) – 56.0% ✅

  • Ciattarelli ®* – 43.4%

94% counted | source

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Jersey City Mayor:

Solomon and McGreevey advance to runoff election.

  • Solomon – 29.0% ⏩

  • McGreevey – 25.4% ⏩

  • O’Dea – 21.5%

  • Ali – 18.3%

92% counted | source

9 p.m.

New York City Mayor:

  • Mamdani (D) – 50.4% Projected Winner ✅

  • Cuomo (I) – 41.6%

  • Sliwa ® – 7.2%

  • Adams (I)* – 0.3%

91% counted | source

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Minneapolis Mayor:

Election will advance to ranked choice if no candidate is the first in majority of ballots.

  • Frey (D)* – 41.8% ⏩
  • Omar Fateh (D) – 31.7%
  • Davis (D) – 13.7%
  • Hampton (D) – 10.4%

98% counted | source

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Colorado Proposition MM:

This ballot measure would raise taxes on people earning more than $300,000 to fund school meal programs and food assistance for people with lower incomes.

  • Yes – 58.1% ✅

  • No – 41.9%

82% counted | source

11 p.m.

Seattle Mayor:

  • Harrell* – 53.3%

  • Wilson – 46.2%

Updated 11:50 p.m. | source

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California Proposition 50:

This amendment would authorize new congressional district boundaries drawn by the Democratic-led state Legislature, beginning with the 2026 elections.

  • Yes – 63.8% ✅

  • No – 36.2%

71% reported | source

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    513·
    22 days ago

    Anti-electoralism hexbears will tell you you shouldn’t be happy that a 34yo Muslim DemSoc is the new Mayor elect of the largest city in the US but everyone I know is lets-fucking-go

    • Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      43·
      22 days ago

      Like a lot of people said in other threads, if nothing else, this is giving a platform to more radical folks to push their message on top of what Mamdani is already offering. I know a ton of people don’t like Hasan Piker and he’s not especially radical, but he was interviewed at the Mamdani party by like 15 news outlets including New York Crimes and Al Jazeera and got to talk about why the Democrats suck, Israel sucks, and everyone needs to be a Mamdani at the minimum if they want to win from now on.

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      22 days ago

      cautiously optimistic to see how he handles the upcoming war of attrition and capital strike from the richest new yorkers. Fox news is also gonna go bonkers filming every homeless person in nyc.

      • Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        191·
        22 days ago

        He already triangulated during the election and hired a bunch of ghouls. The election is a lower threshold than actually fighting capital using policy, e.g. the rentier class, including literal landlords, to decrease housing prices.

        I would just like hexbears to stop getting too excited for any perceived win without knowing what has to happen later, particularly when there is no party to which they are answerable. You should be happy for what it is, but being happy for what it is not will just lead to disappointment and burnout later on. The latter is the core political cycle of controlled “progressive” bourgeois electoralism, not by coincidence.

        • Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          16·
          22 days ago

          Actual organizing is what is required, and agitprop is just one tool used by an organization. Joining a party, building the party, doing the core work of agitation, teaching, building relationships, inventing actions, escalations, security, etc etc.

    • LangleyDominos [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      22 days ago

      I think the anti-electoralism hexbears were right, even though I pushed back on it. But they were too early. They were trying to strategize around a theoretical moment, based on history, rather than waiting for a current, practical moment like this. Here is the time to take all those happy people with renewed hope and build a party. It doesn’t have to be a national party immediately. It can start with a neighborhood or town in NY. Get all these people into a party that is not the Democrats. This party should always be to the left of Mamdani on every issue but willing to offer critical support. They should work to replace him with someone who will push things further. By the next election you have a party and a candidate. You have a way to exert pressure on Mamdani if he turns heel.

      The wrong move would be to treat this like the destination rather than part of the journey. Taking all this earned good will and just handing it over to Democrats or Mamdani himself will end badly. We need the Democrats to be weak and giving them all these hopeful voters would make them stronger. They were fine as a means to get to this point, but now is the moment you break. Now we can start doing real Lenin political calculus and talk about building a worker’s party (or adapting one that already exists). Zohran being in office is no longer theoretical.

      Before we were arguing over how the things he said would affect the election while also trying to say he should run for this or that party. All that’s over now. We can just focus on getting a worker’s party going on the momentum. There is no pressing election to worry about appealing to suburban racists or unwoke union workers. If you lose moderates right now it’s not as dire and you can replace them with true believers by the next election.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      22 days ago

      I am an anti electoralism guy on Hexbear. I’m very happy about this! I just don’t think this is American Lenin or Mao Zedong. But it’s good that more people are thinking about the possibility of socialism, and getting organized to achieve it (even though that organization is within a party that will coopt and ruin them, the experience transfers).

    • JonBonBlowMe@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      21 days ago

      Some hexbears are like the mirror universe version of the people who follow whatever sports team is currently winning. They can never be happy even for a moment.
      Insert the copypasta about everything being serious all the time

    • Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      22 days ago

      A couple months ago, my (racist, Facebook brainworm) mom sent me an unflattering picture of Omar Fateh and said “Don’t vote for this idiot” (I don’t live in Minneapolis, lol). Out of curiosity, I looked up his name on youtube, and could find literally no video in which he was speaking for himself about anything, or even anyone was speaking positively about him. All I saw was a news story about him getting an endorsement, the comments full of racist shit, and then a Matt Walsh video crying about him.

      Anyway I wish I was in Minneapolis because that alone made me want to vote for him.

      • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        22 days ago

        Fateh won the Democratic party endorsement before having it pulled away on some technicality that one of the party commissioners outright admitted was a hit job. Fateh has a chance at winning anyhow because Frey is kinda hated, but I still think Frey has the upper hand.

        Fateh is to Frey’s left and has been endorsed by Ilhan Omar.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    36·
    22 days ago

    The Virginia attorney general race could be funny. If the Democrat wins the discourse will be antelope-popcorn . All shitposters should unite to say that Fedtexting has a mandate now.

    In August 2022, Jones wrote about shooting then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert in text messages he sent to Republican state Del. Carrie Coyner. The texts, which were first reported by National Review and subsequently viewed by The Washington Post, have not independently been confirmed by POLITICO, but Jones has not questioned their veracity and has publicly apologized for them.

    “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot,” Jones wrote. “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

    "Jay,” Coyner responded. “Please stop.”

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    22 days ago

    Zohran is gonna win a supermajority citywide and win Staten Island by a small margin

    Come on Hexbears, let’s get some dangerous but courageous predictions in here

  • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    22 days ago

    Just heard back from my mom. Mayoral race in my hometown has been called. Chud Tony Soprano wannabe has lost to the lib suburban soccer mom candidate. Democracy is saved.

      • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
        17·
        22 days ago

        From Wikipedia:

        On November 20, 2024, Fateh declared his candidacy for mayor of Minneapolis in the 2025 election.[38] On July 19, 2025, the Minneapolis DFL endorsed Fateh over incumbent mayor Jacob Frey.[39] The Minnesota DFL revoked the endorsement on August 21,2025 after Frey appealed, citing a poorly secured registration spreadsheet and technical difficulties.[40] The Minneapolis DFL appealed the ruling, but the state party denied its appeal.[41]

        So national Democrats fucked him out of an endorsement and then:

        In October 2025, Fateh’s campaign was fined for distributing yard signs at an event on August 23, 2025 that cited the DFL endorsement after it was revoked, a campaign finance violation.[47][48]

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    25·
    22 days ago

    Biggest voter turnout in 30 years

    More than 1.7 million people have voted in the New York mayoral election, the biggest turnout in at least 30 years, according to the city’s Board of Elections.

    The figure was correct as of 6pm ET, three hours before polls closed.

    Almost 1.9 million New Yorkers voted in the 1993 race, when the Republican Rudy Giuliani defeated the Democratic mayor David Dinkins

  • 389aaa [it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    22 days ago

    Request: Seattle has Mayoral, County, and City Council elections today, polls close at 11pm Eastern.

    Mayoral race, Bruce Harnell vs Katie Wilson, is a neoliberal vs Socdem/‘Progressive’ matchup that sets the tone for the whole election - that’s how it is for the city council seats, too, including for the President of the Council’s seat.

    Could be interesting. Could see a socdem sweep tonight in Seattle, same night as Mamdani likely winning.