The closure of the first polling stations was reported this Tuesday in two territories of the United States (USA), where they hold the midterm elections to renew the seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, as well as more of 30 governors.
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Local media reported that the first polling stations have been closed in the states of Kentucky and Indiana, at 23:00 GMT, while the last state to close the voting centers will be Alaska, at approximately 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.
Subsequently, they closed polling stations in the states of Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, among others.
Citizens were called to the electoral polls to vote for the 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 corresponding to the Senate.
In addition, they voted for governors of 36 states in the country, while state legislatures, local councils and school boards are also in contention.
More than 45 million citizens cast their early vote in more than 40 states, but it is estimated that in some territories it will take days to release the total results.
On this day, in the states of Louisiana, Arizona and Texas, failures were recorded in some of the electronic ballot boxes installed for voters to vote, but hours later most of them were fixed.
The electoral campaign for these elections was described as the most expensive in US history. Campaign spending exceeded 16.7 billion dollars between federal and state candidates, 2 billion dollars more than the midterm elections of 2018, according to data from OpenSecrets.
Exit results
The American media The Washington Post has already presented the first exit results on the midterm elections held in the North American country.
So far, the projections indicate that the Republican Party elected the governor of Florida, Republican Ron DeSantis; in South Carolina, Henry McMaster; in Alabama, Kay Ivey; in Tennessee, Bill Lee; in Arkansas, Sarah Sanders; in Ohio Mike DeWine; in New Hampshire, Chris Sununu; Iowa, Kim Reynolds; in Wyoming, Mark Gordon; in Okahoma, Kevib Stitt; in Texas, Greg Abbott; in Nebraska, Jim Pillen; in Idaho, Brad Little; in South Dakota, Kristi L. Noem and in Vermont, Phil Scott.
For their part, for the Democratic Party, Jay Robert Pritzker; in Maryland, Wes Moore; in Massachusetts, Maura Healy; in Rhode Island, Dan McKee; in Minnesota, Tim Walz; in Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro; in Colorado, Jared Polls; in New Mexico, Michelle Luján Grisham and in California, Gavin Newsom.
This is how the results of the elections are going in some US governorships. Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Regarding the House of Representatives, the party that will have the majority will be the one that reaches 218 seats, while in the Senate it must obtain more than 50.
Democrats currently held control of the US House of Representatives and Senate, but polls predicted Republicans would regain power.