Three newcomers appear poised to win seats on the Suffolk City Council. Both City Council and School Board had four seats open for the nonpartisan election. In the City Council’s Chuckatuck Borough, incumbent Shelley Butler Barlow was challenged by Mary Ellen Hill. Barlow, a farmer at Cotton Plains Farm, has represented the borough since 2021. By 9 a.m. Wednesday with all precincts reported, ...

It's Election Day in Virginia, but mail-in and provisional ballots still need to be counted before local officials certify the results.

Former Representative Elaine Luria won back her seat in the state’s tidewater region from Representative Jen Kiggans, the Republican who beat her four years ago.

Dem Sen. Warner Wins Fourth Term in Virginia

Most polls in Florida, Virginia and South Carolina closed at 7pm ET, with all three states expected to provide strong indicators of where the midterms are headed. Why it matters: The results tonight will be the clearest national test of President Trump's second presidency, following war abroad, economic anxiety at home and sweeping changes in Washington. Trump has made himself the face of the Republican campaign for control. Data: AP; Chart:...

Republicans are defending their majority in the US Senate against resurgent Democrats, who believe voters’ dissatisfaction with Donald Trump will put them back in control of Congress’s upper chamber. The president’s opponents notched two early wins, with the Associated Press calling Georgia’s Senate race for Jon Ossoff, the incumbent who appears to have easily won a second term in a state that voted for Trump in 2024. In New Hampshire, Democrat...

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner cruised to re-election to a fourth term on Tuesday with a double-digit victory over Republican Bert Mizusama.

Virginians weren't the only ones invested in Tuesday's midterm elections. By the numbers: More than $2.7 million in reported trading volume was generated by Richmond's three congressional races — the 1st, 4th and 5th districts — on prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket as of 3pm Tuesday, per an Axios tally. That's up from roughly $1.5 million across the state's three most heavily traded races a week earlier. And trading remained open as of...

Richmond police officers have cleared three city polling locations after threats were made against them on Election Day, department spokesperson James Mercante told the Times-Dispatch.