Live coverage: Election night 2021

For those just checking in, here is what he have (admittedly, not much in concrete) in the early hours of Election Night 2021:

• Democrats have performed well in mayoral races, picking up a GOP-held mayoralty with relative ease in St. Petersburg, FL, and seeing incumbent Joyce Craig win re-election in Manchester, NH. In other cities tonight, we are largely seeing Dem-vs-Dem contests, so we’ll report on those as we know more.
• In Virginia, the night is early, but definitely not an optimal start for the Democrats. They trail at present in all three statewide races, and appear to be underperforming in counties and localities where most of the vote has been tallied. In addition, they trail in enough races right now to put control of the state House of Delegates in peril.
• New Jersey just closed a few minutes ago. Every poll has shown Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy getting re-elected, so the only question here might be margin.
• We are still waiting on a host of other races, from Congressional specials down to mayoral and court races. So there is still much to discover in Election Night 2021!

OH-15: We’re only in the early stages on this one, with what appears to be just the early vote counted. At present, Republican Mike Carey leads Democrat Allison Russo by a 54-46 margin. That would be surprisingly tight, but in this modern era, we need to caution that this may seem artificially close, given how D-leaning the early vote tends to be.

FL-20 (D): The closest race of the night may well be the primary battle to get the opportunity to replace the late Alcee Hastings in the U.S. House. At last check, we are up to 47,000 votes tallied, and the Democratic primary is being decided by a margin of…97 votes. Your current (and tenuous, obviously) leader is Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness.

VIRGINIA: The good news for Democrats is some key votes for them are still not reported (a ton of Fairfax County, plus Richmond City). The bad news for Democrats is that the margins are getting wide enough, in terms of the raw vote, where it very well might not matter. With about 60% of the expected vote counted, Terry McAuliffe trails by just over 200,000 votes.