New Hampshire voters handed Republicans a 16-8 majority on Tuesday. Here, voters stand in line inside Hooksett's David R. Cawley Middle School on Tuesday morning. (Will Steinfeld | New Hampshire Bulletin) Democrats lost two seats in the state Senate ...

In the most evenly divided House district in the state Tuesday – Rochester Ward 4 – every ballot counted. But two voters nearly struck a deal. The pair, an older woman voting Democratic and a younger man voting Republican,

Political control of the Arizona Senate was on the ballot Tuesday. Three days of vote counting has revealed a trendline that favors Republicans retaining control of the 30-member chamber, although hundreds of thousands of ballots remain to be counted.

Republicans seemed poised to expand their control of the state Senate as results continued to trickle in Wednesday afternoon. As of 3:30 p.m., the Associated Press had called the races for 12 Republicans and 7 Democrats.