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Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has turned back a challenge by Paul LePage, the bombastic former two-term Republican governor, to win a second term in Maine. The first woman to serve as governor of the st...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Democrat Ned Lamont has won reelection as Connecticut governor, defeating Republican businessman Bob Stefanowski for the second time in four years following a campaign battle th...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas voters have rejected a constitutional amendment that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. The proposal failed six years after Arkansas voters mad...

DALLAS (AP) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won reelection Tuesday, adding to Republican's decades of dominance in the state's top offices despite a slew of legal problems and dysfunction in his a...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Democrat Craig Greenberg has won the Louisville mayor's race after surviving a shooting at his campaign office earlier this year. Greenberg, a businessman and political newcomer...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina Democratic state Sen. Wiley Nickel defeated Republican political newcomer Bo Hines for an open U.S. House seat in the state's lone swing district along Raleigh's so...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar won reelection to a 10th term on Tuesday, fending off an unusually aggressive GOP challenge in his South Texas district. Cuellar's victory over Repub...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Democrat Josh Shapiro won the race for governor of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, securing the office for four years in a state where the future of abortion rights is on the line, alo...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho Gov. Brad Little won a second term on Tuesday. The 68-year-old Republican governor who shepherded the state through the COVID-19 pandemic easily turned aside challenges from ...

Sen. Patty Murray won reelection Tuesday as the Democratic stalwart prevailed in a campaign in which she repeatedly said her Republican challenger was too extreme for Washington state. Murray bested d...