In New Zealand, Labour's Jacinda Ardern will become the next Prime Minister of New Zealand after NZ First's Winston Peters' kingmaker announcement, ending nearly a decade of National Party rule.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl...d=11933639

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In the only two gubernatorial elections of 2017, the Democrats have won both New Jersey and Virginia, making it a gubernatorial net gain of one.

• In New Jersey, Republican Governor and Trump supporter Chris Christie was term limited and had a 17 percent approval rating; Democrat Phil Murphy has defeated Republican Kim Guadagno.
  
• In Virginia, Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe was also term limited; Democrat Ralph Northam has defeated Republican Ed Gillespie.
  

Update: Democrats are making gains into the Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates.

• Danica Roem (D) will become the nation's first openly transgender state legislator, defeating an anti-LGBT and 25-year incumbent Republican legislator.
  
• Chris Hurst (D), boyfriend of journalist shot dead on live TV in 2015, has been elected in an upset victory.
  
• Elizabeth Guzman and Hala Ayala (D) have defeated Republican incumbents to become first Latina members of the House of Delegates.
  
• Lee Carter, a Democratic Socialist, has been elected over an incumbent Republican legislator.
  

Other updates:

• Andrea Jenkins (D) becomes first openly transgender person elected to public office in the Minneapolis City Council.
  
• Ravi Bhalla (D) has been elected Mayor of Hoboken and is New Jersey's first Sikh mayor.
  
• Vi Lyles (D) has been elected Mayor of Charlotte and is the city's first African American mayor.
  
• Mitch Colvin (D) defeated 3-term incumbent Nat Robertson (R ) to become Mayor of Fayetteville.
  
• Democrats are en route to taking the majority in the Washington State Senate.
  

This is the first anti-Trump electoral wave and possibly not the last.

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In an upset victory, Democrat Doug Jones has defeated Republican Roy Moore in the US Senate special election in Alabama, reducing the Republican lead in the Senate to 51–49.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/a...index.html

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The Alabama result actually surprised me, I just assumed that the electing the P**sy Grabber meant one of that country's main parties had deceided that transactional power trumps moral representation...  really surprised, and a little bit of faith in humanity restored.

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One vote has turned the two-thirds majority that the Republican Party had in the Virginia House of Delegates into a 50–50 split.

Seidel, David; Noe-Payne, Mallory (19 December 2017). "A Single Vote Has Flipped Control Of Virginia's House Of Delegates". NPR. Retrieved 19 December 2017.

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