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Montana is getting a Republican governor for the first time in 16 years, but voters decided against partisan changes in the 10 other states where the office was on the ballot Tuesday.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican Joni Ernst won reelection to her Iowa U.S. Senate seat Tuesday after an expensive and at times bruising race against Democrat Theresa Greenfield.

WASHINGTON — Election Day ushered in skirmishes near the White House and relatively minor demonstrations in California and elsewhere on the West Coast, but none of the widespread unrest that some had feared in the hours after the polls began closing

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The widow of a teacher killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre has won election Tuesday to that county's school board, joining the mother of a slain student.

NEW YORK — The murmurs spread quickly among the poll workers late Tuesday morning at a Brooklyn neighbourhood station: George Floyd’s brother was present.

WARREN, Mich. — For a brief and unexpected moment, there was harmony. Melody, too.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Rising GOP star Madison Cawthorn was elected on Tuesday to represent a North Carolina U.S. House district. Cawthorn, 25, will be one of the youngest people to ever serve in Congress after his win in the 11th District.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's two main political parties were in a tight gubernatorial race late Tuesday after voters stood in long lines and forced polling centres to remain open late as they chose new leaders they hope can help heal a U.S.

Republican Maria Elvira Salazar has defeated Democrat Donna Shalala for a U.S. House seat in Florida. Salazar, a Spanish-language television newscaster, won in her second try for the office after Shalala prevailed in 2018.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.