2025 United States elections / Election Day
2025 United States elections were held in the United States, in large part, on November 4, 2025 (Election Day), in Donald Trump’s second presidency.
The off-year election included gubernatorial and state legislative elections in a few states, as well as numerous mayoral races and a variety of other local offices on the ballot. Special elections to the United States Congress for newly vacant seats also took place. In what was widely described as a “blue wave” election, Democrats both flipped the governorship of Virginia and held onto the governorship of New Jersey by landslide margins, flipped 13 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, scored a decisive redistricting referendum victory in California, and won several other down-ballot statewide races in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Georgia. In New York City, Democrat and self-identified democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won a three-way race in the mayoral election. Democratic success in this election was driven by widespread concern over the economy. Voters felt that Trump was failing to deliver on his 2024 campaign promises of economic renewal from the 2021–2023 inflation surge. Many voters also felt that Trump’s sweeping tariffs were worsening the state of the economy. Voters in Virginia were impacted heavily by Trump’s policies, as Northern Virginia is home to many federal government workers who suffered either from the mass layoffs ordered by Trump and Elon Musk with the Department of Government Efficiency throughout the year or the concurrent federal government shutdown. Hispanic voters swung hard to the Democratic Party after a string of rightward shifts towards the Republican Party from 2020 to 2024 and that shift created this Republican illusion that Hispanics are realigning from a Democratic constituency to a Republican constituency, but Democrats regained Hispanics because they were also frustrated with Trump over the economy but they became fearful of living in the country due to ICE‘s aggressive deportations. The off-year election includes gubernatorial and state legislative elections in a few states, as well as numerous mayoral races and a variety of other local offices on the ballot. Special elections to the United States Congress for newly vacant seats will also take place.
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Mamdani gedoodverfde winnaar New York: hoop én zorgen bij Democraten
Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York on winning night for Democrats
