Five states (Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Oregon, and Vermont) held referendums on abolishing involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime the measures passed in all but Louisiana. Voters in Nevada also approved ranked voting over first-past-the-post, while those in Illinois and Tennessee approved a state constitutional right to collective bargain and a right-to-work law, respectively. states to legalize recreational cannabis. Six referendums to preserve or expand abortion access uniformly won, including in the states of Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, and Montana, as did those increasing the minimum wage (Nebraska, Nevada, and Washington, D.C.) and expanding Medicaid coverage (South Dakota), while Maryland and Missouri became the latest U.S. More generally, Florida was one of the only states where some evidence of the predicted 'red wave' materialized. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida-previously considered one of the nation's most contested swing states-won reelection in an unexpectedly large landslide described by many analysts as the Republican Party's only big win. It was also the first midterm since 1986 in which either party achieved a net gain of governorships while holding the presidency, and the first since 1934 in which the Democrats did so under a Democratic president. 2022 is the first midterm since 1934 in which the president's party did not lose any state legislative chambers or incumbent senators. As a result of these legislative and gubernatorial results, Democrats gained government trifectas in Michigan for the first time since 1985, and in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Minnesota for the first time since 2015. In the state legislative elections, Democrats flipped both chambers of the Michigan Legislature, the Minnesota Senate, and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and achieved a coalition government in the Alaska Senate. They won a net gain of two seats in the gubernatorial elections, flipping the governorships in Arizona, Maryland, and Massachusetts (the latter two saw popular centrist Republican governors retire) conversely, Republicans flipped Nevada's governorship. The Democratic Party's strength in state-level and senatorial elections was historic, as well as unexpected. Their underperformance was particularly unexpected given Biden's poor approval ratings amongst Americans. presidential election, who were much too far to the right for their respective states. This was somewhat offset by a significant underperformance in critical battleground states, where voters mostly rejected far-right Republican candidates who were backed by Donald Trump or who denied Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. The race for control of Congress was much closer than expected Republicans did well in strongholds like Florida, Tennessee, and Texas, and traditionally Democratic New York, which was enough for them to flip the House with a slight majority. While midterm elections typically see the incumbent president's party lose a substantial number of seats, Democrats dramatically outperformed the historical trend, and a widely anticipated red wave did not materialize. The Republican Party narrowly won control of the House, while Democrats slightly expanded their majority in the Senate. redistricting that followed the 2020 U.S. This was the first election affected by the 2022 U.S. gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous state and local elections, were also contested. Senate were contested to determine the 118th United States Congress. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. midterm election, which occurred during the first term of incumbent president Joe Biden of the Democratic Party, all 435 seats in the U.S. The 2022 United States elections were held on November 8, 2022, with the exception of absentee balloting.
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