What to know about Election Day 2025

Democrats scored victories in the four major races of the night: the New York City mayoral race, the governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia and Prop 50, California's redistricting ballot measure. Exit polling showed voters went to the polls with worries about the economy on their minds, coupled with broader discontent with the state of the country right now.

The night saw two kinds of Democrats win, hailing from opposite sides of the party. Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, both moderates, won the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, while on the far left, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani prevailed in his race for New York mayor over the state's moderate ex-governor, Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after Mamdani beat him in t

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