Results pour in for Senate, House, and judicial races on Tuesday’s primary ballots

Update, Tuesday, 11:15 p.m.:

Polls closed in all five state primaries with results flowing in Tuesday night. In Kansas, voters rejected a GOP-backed constitutional amendment aimed at changing the method for appointing state Supreme Court justices. One state over, Missourans rejected a measure that would have made constitutional amendments more difficult to pursue. Conservative talk radio host Chris Stigall also won the nomination to replace retiring longtime U.S. Rep. Sam Graves in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District.

In the Great Lakes region, Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., and former Detroit public health official Abdul El-Sayed were still battling it out Tuesday night for Michigan’s Democratic Senate nomination—with the more progressive candidate, El-Sayed, taking a slim lead. On the East Coast, retired Army officer Bert Mizusawa clinched Virginia’s GOP Senate nomination in the race against incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner.

Washington state closed its polls and was beginning to tally the votes in one of the nation’s top House battlegrounds, currently represented by Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

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Original story:

Voters in five states will head to the polls for primary elections on Tuesday. Among the ballot items in Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, and Kansas, voters will decide on nominees in House and Senate races and one governor’s race, state Supreme Court justices, and a state constitutional amendment regarding the judiciary.

Michigan’s U.S. Senate primary race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters has drawn national attention over the last month. Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., and former Detroit public health official Abdul El-Sayed are battling for the Democratic nomination in a test of party establishment versus the more progressive wing. Mike Rogers, a former U.S. representative for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, is running unopposed for the Republican Senate nomination.

What about the other states? Missouri will test out its redistricted map in a few competitive House races on Tuesday, including one in 11-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s newly red district. Virginians will vote in Senate and House races using their state’s existing map after the state’s failed effort to redistrict earlier this year. Missourians will also vote on Amendment 4, which would make it more difficult for voters to amend the state constitution.

In Washington state, three out of nine state Supreme Court justices are on the ballot, and a fourth seat is open. While the state’s Supreme Court seats are technically nonpartisan, the court’s liberal majority is not expected to change. Kansans, on the other hand, will vote on a Republican-backed ballot measure to allow the direct election of state Supreme Court justices and eliminate the governor’s role in the process.

Dig deeper: Read my report on Virginia’s unsuccessful attempt to redistrict before its elections.