Americans cast ballots at polling locations throughout the nation on Tuesday, which implies we’ve a bunch of knowledge on voters voting — quite than simply pre-election polls of a hypothetical citizens.
So what did we study from that knowledge?
Here are some of the most striking statistics.
68%-31%: Democratic New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s benefit amongst Latino voters, in keeping with NCS’s exit poll, which mixes pre-election interviews with these performed at polling locations (Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger received this demographic by an analogous margin.) President Donald Trump had considerably closed the hole with Latino voters in the 2024 election, successful 46% of them nationally. But Tuesday’s outcomes have been far more according to how this demographic beforehand voted.
15 and 14 factors: Spanberger’s and Sherrill’s respective benefits amongst younger males underneath the age of 30. Trump had additionally made massive positive aspects with this demographic in 2024, splitting them nearly evenly with Kamala Harris.
1961: The final time Democrats received a Virginia governor’s race by greater than Spanberger’s present 15-point margin.
1965: The final time New Jersey elected the similar get together to the governor’s mansion in three straight elections. Sherrill will succeed two-term Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.
77%, 82%: Spanberger’s and Sherrill’s respective vote shares amongst voters who disliked each main political events. Some Democrats worry that their get together’s historic unpopularity will harm their capability to win anti-Trump voters. At least on Tuesday, although, the so-called “double-haters” swung exhausting for Democrats.
2006: The final time Democrats received a non-federal statewide race in Georgia, earlier than they won a pair of Public Service Commission races on Tuesday.
26: The margin by which Democrats received every of these races, defeating a pair of GOP incumbents.
41%: The proportion of Virginia voters who stated Democratic Attorney General-elect Jay Jones’ violent text messages have been “disqualifying.”
10%: The proportion of these voters who voted for Jones anyway.
50%: The proportion of Virginia voters who agreed that help for transgender rights in society has “gone too far.” Republican gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears made trans points an enormous point of interest of her assaults on Spanberger.
22%: The proportion of these voters who voted for Spanberger anyway.
320,000: The distinction between Spanberger’s present uncooked vote whole (about 1.92 million) and 2021 Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe’s uncooked vote whole (about 1.6 million). About 20% extra individuals turned out to vote for her than voted for McAuliffe 4 years in the past.
50.4%: New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s present vote share, with about 91% of the vote counted. Getting a majority would put to relaxation any discuss Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa having been a “spoiler” in the race with former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an impartial.
73%: The proportion of GOP voters in that New York race who voted for Cuomo — whom Republicans, together with Trump, wound up rallying round as a Mamdani various.
32%: The proportion of Jewish voters who voted for Mamdani, who will change into New York City’s first Muslim mayor. Trump on Tuesday referred to as any Jewish individuals who voted for Mamdani “stupid.”
13%: The proportion of California Republicans who voted for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s poll measure to permit the state authorities to attract extra Democratic congressional districts. Newsom launched the effort to retaliate in opposition to Texas Republicans’ transfer to attract extra GOP districts in that state. And his argument that this tit-for-tat transfer was warranted clearly proved compelling to voters, given it’s at the moment passing 64%-36%.
7%, 13% and 16%: The percentages of voters in California, New Jersey and Virginia, respectively, who stated their vote was meant to help Trump. In every case, many extra voters stated their vote was meant to oppose Trump: 52% in California, 41% in New Jersey and 38% in Virginia.