“Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has thwarted an effort to recall her from office after a 10-day vote count,” the Seattle Times reports.

“Supporters of Sawant — Seattle’s only socialist council member and the first in the city’s history to have a recall ballot against her — narrowly outdid those in favor of a recall, claiming 50.4% of the vote.”

“Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant pulled ahead of a ballot measure to recall her in Thursday’s vote count, earning 50.3% of the total counted votes,” the Seattle Times reports.

“Sawant has gained ground two days in a row, overcoming a 53% lead held by the recall effort on Tuesday.”

“An effort to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant led in Tuesday night’s vote count with about 53% supporting her removal from office, as voters in her district took part in a historic election to decide whether the outspoken socialist politician should be ousted or retained,” the Seattle Times reports.

“Additional votes will be counted in the coming days.”

“A three-judge panel overseeing a recount in a close Virginia Beach state House race upheld the Republican candidate’s victory on Friday, a decision that also reaffirms the GOP’s takeover of the chamber and completes the party’s sweep of last month’s elections,” the AP reports.

“After a lackluster general Election Night in November, Democratic leaning candidates roared back Tuesday to flip at least seven local races across Georgia Tuesday, including mayors’ races in Sylvester, Forest Park, and Brunswick,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Jamie Belsito (D) won a Massachusetts House seat in a special election, the first Democrat to do so in the district 163 years, the Ipswich Local News reports.

“Andre Dickens, the Atlanta native who first beat an incumbent eight years ago for a spot on the City Council, defeated Felicia Moore in Tuesday’s runoff election to become Atlanta’s 61st mayor,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

“Dickens will succeed Keisha Lance Bottoms, who did not run for a second term and endorsed Dickens to replace her as mayor, a job Dickens said he has wanted since he was a teenager.”

“By the narrowest of margins — just five votes — businesswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick appears to have won a South Florida Democratic primary to replace the late US Rep. Alcee Hastings in Washington,” CNN reports.

“The outcome in the November 2 election had been up in the air until Friday evening, when the Broward County canvassing board reviewed more than a dozen overseas ballots that were postmarked on Election Day and arrived within the 10-day window to be legally counted.”

“New Jersey Democrats are calling on Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli to concede last week’s election, saying that his silence since the race was called for Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is ‘an assault on the integrity of our elections,'” the Washington Post reports.

“As of Monday morning, Murphy led the Republican by roughly 2.6 percentage points, larger than the margin Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) won by last week. Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe conceded that race on Nov. 3, the morning after the election, and Youngkin soon began the transition process by meeting with the state’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam.”

Jonathan Last: “Over the next 12 months it will be interesting to track what percentage of losing Republican candidates concede their losses and wish their opponents well.”

“More Minneapolis voters cast bal­lots in Tues­day’s e­lec­tion than any oth­er mu­nic­i­pal e­lec­tion in re­cent his­to­ry,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

“The e­lec­tion drew a 54% turn­out of el­i­gi­ble voters — the most for a city-only e­lec­tion in more than four de­cades, smash­ing the 1997 re­cord of 46.5%.”

“The six-member City Council of Hamtramck will consist of all Muslims starting in January, another historic first for the metro Detroit city known for its sizable immigrant population,” the Detroit Free Press reports.

Seattle elected its first Republican to city office since at least 1991 as Ann Davison (R) defeated Nicole Thomas-Kennedy (D), a progressive in favor of “abolishing” the police, in the race for city attorney, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.