Virginia’s most socially conservative state
lawmaker was ousted from office by Danica Roem, who will be one of the nation’s
first openly transgender elected officials.
- Andrea Jenkins became the first black transgender woman elected to public office when she won a seat on the Minneapolis City Council with over 70% of the vote.
- Melvin Carter III was elected St. Paul's first mayor of color.
- Jenny Durkan will be the first lesbian mayor of Seattle, and Zachary DeWolf became Seattle's first openly gay school board member.
- Democrat Vi Lyles will become Charlotte, NC's first African American female mayor.
- Hoboken voters chose Ravinder Bhalla, who became the first Sikh mayor to be elected in the state of New Jersey.
- In Manchester, N.H., Joyce Craig became the first woman to win the mayor's office.
- Michelle Kaufusi became the first woman elected mayor in the 157-year history of Provo, the third-largest city in Utah.
- Kathy Tran became the first Asian-American woman to be elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.
- Democrat Justin Fairfax won the lieutenant governor's office, becoming only the second African-American to win a statewide post in Virginia since Reconstruction.
- Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel, who were targeted in racist "Make Edison Great Again" mailers that made national headlines both won three-year terms on the Edison, NJ Township Public Schools board.
- Atlantic County, NJ freeholder Mays Landing (man) was defeated by Ashley Bennett (woman), who was inspired to run after Landing mocked the Women's March.
- Chris Hurst — whose girlfriend was fatally shot during a live broadcast in 2015 — toppled pro-gun Republican incumbent Joseph Yost.
- The republican mayor of St. Petersberg, FL was defeated after aligning himself with Trump and denying climate change.
- Democrats, many of them unknown first-time candidates, are poised to pick up at least 14 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates.
- Maine voted to expand medicare.
- New Jersey and Virginia elected democratic governors.
