ABC News reports. In a contest that attracted major outside spending, state Rep. Janelle Bynum is projected to unseat first-term GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in the state's 5th District. With 90% of the expected vote reporting, Bynum leads 48% to 45%.

Biden carried this blue-leaning district by nearly 9 points in 2020, while Chavez-DeRemer won by around 2 points in 2022, becoming the first Republican to hold the seat in around 25 years. Democratic groups also spent heavily in the district's primary, with establishment forces looking to boost Bynum over Jamie McLeod Skinner, who lost to Chavez-DeRemer two years ago and was seen as a weaker general election candidate. It looks like that investment paid off for them.

In addition to races for Congress and state legislature, there are still three notable ballot measure elections where we don’t know the winner yet.

-In Alaska, Ballot Measure 2 (which would repeal the state’s top-four primary and ranked-choice general election) is currently leading by a narrow margin, 50.4% to 49.6%.

-In California, Proposition 32 (which would raise the minimum wage to $18 per hour) is currently losing 51% to 49%. If it fails, it would the first statewide ballot measure increasing the minimum wage to fail since 1996.

-In Missouri, Amendment 2 (which would legalize sports gambling) is currently leading just 50.1% to 49.9%.

Alaska counted an additional approximately 8,500 more votes last night, and things continue to look bright for Republican Nick Begich III in his bid to oust Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. With 93% of the expected vote in, ABC News reports that Begich continues to lead 49% to 46%.

As a reminder, Alaska uses ranked-choice voting. So if a candidate does not win a majority of first-choice votes, then the subsequent rankings for Begich and Peltola will be taken into account. We reran our analysis of Alaska's Cast Vote Record with this latest release of votes, and our findings of the incomplete CVR data suggest that Begich would continue to lead after taking into account ranked-choice voting. Once all the subsequent rankings of voters who initially cast ballots for the third- and fourth-place contenders are carried out, Begich leads by about 52% to Peltola's 48%. Of course, Alaska is still tallying their ballots, so these numbers could change, though probably not by much.

Every county in Iowa has now certified the results of the election, opening the door for candidates whose races are within 1 percentage point to request recounts. There are a surprising number of close races in the state: a number of legislative seats are within the recount threshold, and so is the 1st Congressional District.

In that race, Democrat Christina Bohannan has already requested a recount of her 802-vote loss to incumbent Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks. This will be the second time that Miller-Meeks's election was subjected to a recount; in her first bid for Congress in 2020, she won over Democrat Rita Hart by just 6 votes. Under Iowa state law, each county in the district has 18 days from the original certification date to complete the recount, so we should have final results in the race by Dec. 1.

In addition to the 1st Congressional District, there are two state Senate seats whose winners were decided by less than 50 votes, both located just outside of Des Moines. In District 20, incumbent Democrat Nate Boulton trails Republican Mike Pike by 44 votes, and has already signaled that he intends to request a recount. In District 14, incumbent Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott is leading by just 24 votes, though the Republican challenger Mark Hanson has not made clear whether he will request a recount in that race. There are at least two other state Senate seats within the recount range, though the margins are higher in those seats, and a recount would be much less likely to impact the outcome.

There are also three state House races that are within the recount range in Iowa, though it's not known yet whether candidates in those races will request a recount. The outcome might not matter that much: Iowa Republicans already earned a supermajority in the state legislature, regardless of the outcomes in the potentially contested seats. And, of course, it's worth noting that recounts rarely change the results of an election.