Brief November 8th post-mortem
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Votes are still being tallied, and a bunch of races are still not called, but with four days between election day and now, it is safe to say that socialists up and down the ballot have won pretty impressive gains.
In DSA member races, the win rate stands at 88.7%—94 wins, 12 losses, with 17 still undetermined.
Non-member races stand at a win rate of 72.2%—13 wins, 5 losses, and still 15 undetermined.
The overall win rate, thus, is 86.2% right now—107 wins, 17 losses, 32 undetermined.
Endorsed, incumbent DSA members posted not a single loss, going 26 for 26.
Non-endorsed, incumbent DSA members look certain to go at least 24 for 25, with the only odd one out being DaSean Jones, of Texas’s 180th District Court. As of writing, he is probably the only DSA incumbent who will lose—and if he does, it will be by no more than 0.04% and a few hundred votes out of over a million cast.
As for non-incumbents: at least 42 DSA members have been newly elected this cycle and these break an even 21 endorsed, 21 non-endorsed. If DaSean Jones scrapes a few hundred votes out and wins his race, the net gain here would stand at a minimum +42 DSA—otherwise, it will be a minimum of +41 DSA. This will comfortably put DSA above 300 members in elected offices.
The incoming class of DSA members, as of writing, will be as follows:
Endorsed
Nathan Mizell for Berkeley Rent Board
Hugo Soto-Martinez for Los Angeles City Council D13
Javier Mabrey for CO HD-01
Elizabeth Epps for CO HD-06
DeShanna Neal for DE HD-13
Sophie Phillips for DE HD-18
Kyra Hoffner for DE SD-14
Zachary Parker for D.C. City Council D5
Rachel Ventura for IL SD-43
Destinee Ortiz for Will County Board D9
Anthony Quezada for Cook County Commissioner D8
Desirae Simmons for Ypsilanti City Council D3
Zaynab Mohamed for MN SD-63
Aaron Wagner for Robbinsdale City Council Ward 4
Sarahana Shrestha for NY AD-103
Kristen Gonzalez for NY SD-59
Enrique Sanchez for RI HD-09
Miguel Sanchez for Providence City Council Ward 6
Andrew Gonzales for Austin ISD Board of Trustees District 6
and Darrin Madison for WI AD-10
Non-endorsed
Nikki Perez for Burbank City Council
Sally Lieber for CA State Board of Equalization D2
Janani Ramachandran for Oakland City Council D4
Margaret Stevens for District of Columbia ANC 1C05
Hayden Gise for District of Columbia ANC 3C01
Quentin Colón Roosevelt for District of Columbia ANC 3D03
Rohin Ghosh for District of Columbia ANC 3E08
Ben Williams for DC State Board of Education W1
Maxwell Frost for FL-10
Valerie Magnuson for Jefferson County Conservation District
Austin Clark for Jefferson County Conservation District
Gilman Bagga for Jefferson County Conservation District
Kristin Mink for Montgomery County Council D5
Shri Thanedar for MI-13
Natalie Price for MI HD-05
Dylan Wegela for MI HD-26
Jimmie Wilson Jr. for MI HD-32
Yousef Rabhi for Washtenaw County Commission D8
Alicia Kozlowksi for MN HD-8B
Courtney Ketter for North Las Vegas Township Justice of the Peace D2
Greg Casar for TX-35
and Farrah Chaichi for OR HD-35
Positions of legislative significance
In addition to the incoming slate of DSAers, a number of state legislative incumbents—at least three, to my knowledge—have been given positions in leadership around the country. These may not amount to much practically, but it’s still a sign of the growing power of socialists around the country in the electoral arena.
Abraham Aiyash of Detroit DSA: Majority Floor Leader
Athena Hollins of Twin Cities DSA: Majority Whip
Andrew Boesenecker of Fort Collins DSA: Co-Whip
More updates will be forthcoming, and deep-dives as well, but this should give you a good idea of the current state of play. Thanks for reading as usual, folks.
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