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U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn took an early lead Tuesday in vote-by-mail ballots in the race for the Fourth District seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. With just mail-in ballots counted, representing 9.3 percent of the total vote, Hahn was leading with 55.1 percent to Steve Napolitano's 44.9 percent.
Democrat Josh Gottheimer has defeated seven-term Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett in New Jersey's closest-watched race. The former Microsoft executive and Bill Clinton speechwriter toppled Garrett in the perennially Republican 5th District in northern New Jersey.
One of the nation's most closely watched House races, the bitter campaign between Democratic newcomer Josh Gottheimer and Republican Rep. Scott Garrett ended Tuesday with the polls closed and the counting underway. Mirroring the presidential race, the campaign featured bitter allegations including bigotry, bribery, forgery and assault, and it shattered records for expenditures, with Gottheimer and Garrett each spending at least $4 million while outside groups and super PACs added another $6 million on GottA heimer's side.
New Hampshire Democratic Senate candidate, Gov. Maggie Hassan speaks to reporters, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, outside a polling place in Portsmouth, N.H. . Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate Katie McGinty addresses a reporter's question after casting her ballot, Tuesday Nov. 8, 2016, in Wayne, Pa.
A sexual abuse victim's lawsuit against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert will proceed after an Illinois judge denied the imprisoned politician's request to dismiss the breach-of-contract claim. In a three-page written decision filed late Monday, Judge Robert Pilmer ruled the legal elements cited in the man's lawsuit were sufficient to overcome this early challenge.
Republican Dave Brat is projected to win re-election in the 7th District US House of Representatives race, according to the AP.? Brat is best known for unseating then House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in 2014. He moved to Central Virginia in 1996 to teach economics at Randolph-Macon College.
Shown here at a March presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, left, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, right, are among those pondering 2020 runs in the event of a loss by this year's GOP nominee Donald Trump, center. Long before the first polling places opened on Election Day 2016, the race for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination was already underway.
If all goes smoothly, the American people will cho... . FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2016, file photo, a volunteer hands out stickers during early voting in Las Vegas.
Elaine Davis votes during early voting for the 2016 general election, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, at the Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake City. Hillary Clinton may not be accumulating the type of early-vote advantage her campaign wanted, but she continues to maintain an apparent edge over Donald Trump, with roughly one-fourth of all expected ballots cast in the 2016 election.
Former Vice President Al Gore checks his watch to check the time until election day as he speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, in Lakewood, Colo. Gore made one other campaign stop in Colorado for Clinton to drum up support on the eve of the general election.
In this Oct. 31, 2016 photo, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, left, and his wife Linda Kwok Schatz, center, laugh with an election worker as they arrive at Honolulu Hale to cast early votes in Honolulu. Sen. Schatz is largely seen as a shoo-in for keeping his seat in Washington as voters go to the polls to decide between the incumbent and Republican candidate John Carroll in Hawaii.
Voter stickers sit in a pile near a ballot machine at an early voting site in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver says more than one-third of the county's registered voters have already cast ballots and she expects turnout to reach 2008 levels when 70 percent of voters in the state's most populous county went to the polls.
The name-calling, bluster and lack of clear policy pronouncements in one of the most divisive US presidential elections ever is at an end. For those planning to stay up and watch the results roll in tonight, here is what you need to know.
Across the country there are congressional races to be decided, amendments to state constitutions to be voted on and new laws to be considered, but all eyes are on the one election being contested in all 50 states - president. It's been a contentious affair with allegations of corruption on both sides, temperaments being declared disqualifying, charges of racism and a threat of imprisonment.
It's Election Day, but, according to the latest tally, more than one-third of registered voters have already submitted a ballot. As of Saturday, 38,440 residents - or 34 percent of of the county's 113,355 registered voters - had made their voice heard at the ballot box, said Pat Nakamoto, Hawaii County Elections Division chief.
Voters throughout the country will hit the polls today to select the next president and elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives and local government. Five choices are at the top of the ticket today.
A packed ballot in Washington state features a gubernatorial race, six ballot initiatives and dozens of statewide offices and legislative races. More than 4.2 million of the state's registered voters have already received their ballots in the mail.
President Barack Obama swept into New Hampshire on Monday to make Hillary Clinton's closing argument, calling her a "smart and steady" leader who will "work her heart out." Obama and Trump touched down in the final, frenzied hours of the presidential campaign with the hope of rallying voters to secure New Hampshire's four Electoral College votes.