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2016 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania

The 2016 US presidential election in Pennsylvania: Trump (R) defeated Clinton (D) by 44,292 votes (2,970,733 to 2,926,441), taking 20 electoral votes, flipping Erie, Luzerne, and Northampton counties.

2016 United States presidential election in South Carolina

South Carolina's 2016 presidential election: Trump won the state's 9 electoral votes with 1,155,389 votes (54.94%) over Clinton's 855,373 (40.67%); turnout was 67.9%; Trump also won the February Republican primary, ending Jeb Bush's campaign.

2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee

2016 U.S. presidential election in Tennessee: Donald Trump (Republican) defeated Hillary Clinton 60.72% to 34.72%, carrying all 11 electoral votes; Gary Johnson took 2.81% and turnout was 61.0% of registered voters.

2016 United States presidential election in Texas

2016 United States presidential election in Texas: Trump beat Clinton 52.43% to 43.32%, a 9-point margin, winning 36 of 38 electors; turnout was 43.47% of registered voters, and the margin narrowed from 16 points in 2012.

2016 United States presidential election in Utah

In the 2016 United States presidential election in Utah, held November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won 45% of the vote and the state's 6 electoral votes.

2016 United States presidential election in Vermont

2016 United States presidential election in Vermont: Clinton (D) won with 178,573 votes (56.7%) to Trump's 95,369 (30.3%), taking all 3 electoral votes; over 18,000 write-ins for Bernie Sanders led a record third-party vote.

2016 United States presidential election in Virginia

2016 United States presidential election in Virginia: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine won Virginia's 13 electoral votes with 49.8% (1,981,473) to Donald Trump's 44.4% (1,769,443), a 5.8-point margin, up from Obama's 1.6-point 2012 margin.

2016 United States presidential election in Washington (state)

2016 U.S. presidential election in Washington state: Clinton/Kaine (Democratic) won with 52.54% to Trump's 36.83%, taking all 12 electoral votes; four faithless electors voted for Colin Powell and Faith Spotted Eagle.

2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin

The 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, held November 8, 2016, saw Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 22,748 votes (47.22% to 46.45%), taking 10 electoral votes, Wisconsin's first Republican presidential win since 1984, followed by a Jill Stein recount.

2016 United States Senate election in Alaska

2016 Alaska Class 3 U.S. Senate election, held November 8, 2016: incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski won a third term with 44.36% (138,149 votes) over Libertarian Joe Miller (29.16%), nonaffiliated Margaret Stock, and Democrat Ray Metcalfe, a rematch of their 2010 contest.

2016 United States Senate election in Iowa

The 2016 United States Senate election in Iowa was won by Republican incumbent Chuck Grassley, who defeated Democrat Patty Judge by 376,547 votes, a 24-point margin.

2016 United States Senate elections

The 2016 United States Senate elections, held November 8, 2016, elected 34 Class III seats; Republicans kept a 52–48 majority, two GOP incumbents fell, and every Senate race matched the state's presidential result.

2017 New Jersey gubernatorial election

2017 New Jersey gubernatorial election: Democrat Phil Murphy beat Republican Kim Guadagno on November 7, 2017, 55.60% to 42.29%, succeeding term-limited Governor Chris Christie in an open-seat race.

2017 New York City mayoral election

2017 New York City mayoral election: incumbent Democrat Bill de Blasio re-elected November 7, 2017, beating Republican Nicole Malliotakis 66.5% to 27.8% after a 74.6% Democratic primary win; low-turnout, low-challenge race.

2017 United States gubernatorial elections

2017 United States gubernatorial elections, held November 7, 2017 in New Jersey and Virginia; both open seats won by Democrats Phil Murphy (55.98%) and Ralph Northam (53.90%), read nationally as a first referendum on President Trump.

2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama

The 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama, also called the Jones-Moore Senate race: Doug Jones (D) defeated Roy Moore (R) 49.9-48.4 percent on December 12, 2017, filling Jeff Sessions's seat and flipping a deep-red Alabama Senate seat.

2017 Virginia gubernatorial election

2017 Virginia gubernatorial election, November 7, 2017: Democrat Ralph Northam beat Republican Ed Gillespie 53.90% to 44.97% with 1,409,175 votes, a 9-point, high-turnout, anti-Trump off-year result.

2018 California gubernatorial election

The 2018 California gubernatorial election, held November 6, 2018 under the top-two primary system, was won by Democrat Gavin Newsom, who defeated Republican John Cox with record turnout.

2018 Florida gubernatorial election

2018 Florida gubernatorial election, November 6, 2018: Ron DeSantis (R) defeated Andrew Gillum (D) 49.59%-49.19%, a 32,463-vote margin, succeeding term-limited Rick Scott after a machine recount.

2018 Georgia gubernatorial election

2018 Georgia gubernatorial election: Republican Brian Kemp defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams by about 55,000 votes (50.2% to 48.8%), the closest Georgia governor's race in over fifty years, amid voting rights disputes.

2018 Illinois gubernatorial election

2018 Illinois gubernatorial election: Democrat J.B. Pritzker defeated incumbent Republican Bruce Rauner 54.2% to 39.2% on November 6, 2018, in the most expensive governor's race in Illinois history, at roughly $250-286 million combined, largely self-funded.

2018 Iowa State Auditor election

The 2018 Iowa State Auditor election: Democrat Rob Sand, a former assistant attorney general, defeated Republican incumbent Mary Mosiman 49.48% to 45.07% on November 6, 2018, with Libertarian Fred Perryman third.

2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, November 6, 2018: Republican incumbent Charlie Baker and Karyn Polito reelected with 66.6% (1,781,341 votes) over Democrats Jay Gonzalez and Quentin Palfrey, after beating Scott Lively in the primary.

2018 Michigan gubernatorial election

2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, held November 6, 2018: Democrat Gretchen Whitmer beat Republican Bill Schuette 52.8% to 44.3% to become Michigan's 49th governor, after primaries and about $93.4 million in total spending.

2018 New York gubernatorial election

The 2018 New York gubernatorial election: incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul won a third term on November 6, 2018, defeating Republican Marc Molinaro, with Green, Libertarian, and SAM candidates also on the ballot.

2018 San Francisco mayoral special election

June 5, 2018 San Francisco special mayoral election filling Ed Lee's term after his December 2017 death; London Breed beat Mark Leno by about 2,500 votes in the seventh ranked-choice round.

2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election

2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election: open-seat race, primary August 2, general November 6, 2018. Republican businessman Bill Lee beat Democrat and former Nashville mayor Karl Dean 59.56% to 38.55%.

2018 Texas gubernatorial election

The 2018 Texas gubernatorial election re-elected Republican Greg Abbott as Texas governor on November 6, 2018, defeating Democrat Lupe Valdez with 55.81 percent to her 42.51 percent.

2018 United States elections

2018 United States elections: November 6, 2018 midterms under President Trump. Democrats won the House 235-199, Republicans held the Senate 53-45; turnout hit 49%, the highest midterm rate since 1914, with about 113 million voters.

2018 United States gubernatorial elections

2018 United States gubernatorial elections, held November 6, 2018 in 36 states; Democrats flipped seven Republican governorships for a 27-23 GOP edge, with notable races in Florida (DeSantis-Gillum), Georgia (Kemp-Abrams), and Wisconsin (Walker-Evers).