Democrats notch sweeping wins in 2025 elections | JQJO

Democrats notched surprise wins Tuesday, flipping two Georgia Public Service Commission seats with roughly 60 percent and posting blowouts in New Jersey and Virginia governors races. Zohran Mamdani won a majority in New York City’s mayoral election, and California voters approved a temporary redrawing of congressional districts to add Democrat-leaning seats. Democrats retained key Pennsylvania judgeships and county posts, broke a GOP supermajority in Mississippi’s Senate, and secured supermajorities in Virginia’s House and New Jersey’s Assembly. Local flips spanned South Carolina, Florida and New York, as affordability and displeasure with Trump and Congressional Republicans’ agenda loomed large.