Photos: America votes 2014
Photos from election day 2014 – candidates and voters – around the U.S.
GOP's Gardner beats Udall for Colorado Senate seat
Republican Cory Gardner defeated Democratic incumbent Mark Udall (who grew up in Tucson and is son of the late Tucson congressman Mo Udall). A half-dozen new GOP senators will replace Democrats in the South, Midwest and the Rockies as rising discontent with President Obama produced a Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday that will join the GOP-led House in confronting the White House on energy, the environment, health care and other issues for the next two years.
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine celebrates with husband Thomas Daffron, right, and family, her re-election victory over Democrat Shenna Bellows, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)
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U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and his wife Dr. Susan Blumenthal celebrate his re-election over Republican Brian Herr on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 in Boston. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
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Jocelyn Lara, left, and Stephany Lopez set up cutouts of Republican presidents at the Harris County Republican Party election night watch party in Houston. Both women are part of the Junior State of America. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Marie D. De Jesus)
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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. addresses supporters during an election night victory gatheringin Newark, N.J. Booker, who won a special election last year for the seat that was vacated by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, beat Republican challenger Jeff Bell. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Incumbent Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., greets supporters with her husband Thomas and daughter Meg after winning the election to a second term in office, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Terri Lynn Land, Republican candidate for United States Senate, speaks at a election night party in Detroit Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Land is running against Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam speaks to supporters in Nashville, Tenn., after being re-elected Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., joined by his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, celebrates with his supporters at an election night party in Louisville, Ky.,Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. McConnell won a sixth term in Washington, with his eyes on the larger prize of GOP control of the Senate. The Kentucky Senate race, with McConnell, a 30-year incumbent, fighting off a spirited challenge from Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, has been among the most combative and closely watched contests that could determine the balance of power in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Republican Gov. Robert Bentley shakes the hand of a supporter after he and his wife, Dianne Bentley, voted on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Bentley defeated Democratic challenger Parker Griffith. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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While walking with girlfriend Christine Ong, right, California gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari arrives, along with the couple's dogs, to cast his ballot at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship church in Laguna Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe talks to the media as he arrives at the election party for Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Arlington, Va. Warner and the GOP's Ed Gillespie were in a tight race late Tuesday.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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South Dakota Democratic Senate candidate Rick Weiland, left, looks over his campaign card with Jean Paul Roy, a member of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe Council, during his last minute campaign for the Senate in Flandreau, SD. Weiland lost to Republican Mike Rounds.(AP Photo/Dave Eggen)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., casts his ballot in the midterm election at the voting precinct at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. McConnell won a sixth term in Washington, with his eyes on the larger prize of GOP control of the Senate. The Kentucky U.S. Senate race, with McConnell, a 30-year incumbent, facing a spirited challenge from Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, has been among the most combative and closely watched contests that could shift the balance of power in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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From left, Georgia State Senators Lester Jackson, D-Savannah, Andrew Feiler and Laura Adams, left to right, gather at Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn's election night party to watch returns Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Tulis)
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People cast their ballots in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Nevada voters may be going to the polls in record low numbers. The Secretary of State reported that as of 3:30 p.m., almost 430,000 ballots had been cast in Tuesday's election. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)
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Republican candidate for the Congressional 3rd District of New Jersey, Tom MacArthur, center, greets supporters Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Marlton, N.J. MacArthur defeated Democrat Aimee Belgard in Tuesday's election. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf chats with police officers at Suburban Station in Philadelphia on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Wolf defeated Republican Tom Corbett. (AP Photo/York Daily Record, Kate Penn)
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Voters wait in line to cast their ballots at the Flawn Academic Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)
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Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in a portable structure outside of David Chapel Baptist Church on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)
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Ashley Fowler gets her son Grant, 5, to help push the buttons while voting at Walnut Grove Elementary in Franklin, Tenn, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Shelley Mays) NO SALES
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Voters cast their ballot at the East Mississippi City precinct located at the former Harrison County Skate Park in Gulfport, Miss., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Sun Herald, Amanda McCoy)
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Voters cast their electronic ballots Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 at a precinct in Madison, Miss. Much attention this year has been focused on the U.S. Senate race and the embroiled battle between the incumbent Republican Thad Cochran and Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel of Ellisville in the primary and runoff. Cochran beat Democrat Travis Childers. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Curtis Miller holds signs for Chancery Judge candidate Bob Whitwell outside the College Hill Community Center near Oxford, Miss. on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman)
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, left, celebrates with her husband Michael Haley, right, at campaign headquarters on election day, Tuesday, Oct., 4, 2014, in Columbia, S.C. Haley beat Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen to win a second term. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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Voters from precinct 14 in Helena, Montana take time to vote on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in the Lewis and Clark Library. (AP Photo/Eliza Wiley)
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Republican Gov. Robert Bentley shakes the hand of a supporter after he and his wife, Dianne Bentley, voted on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Bentley beat Democratic challenger Parker Griffith. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Charlie Crist supporter Christine Jennings, far left, cheers with friends at the Crist election-watch party at the The Vinoy Renaissance resort in St. Petersburg, Fla. Crist failed to oust incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist thanks supporters at a hair salon in Tampa, Fla., the last event of his campaign, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
Democrat Raúl Grijalva has won a seventh term representing Southern Arizona in Congress.
Although DuVal was carrying Pima County by a narrow margin.
In his victory speech, the governor-elect promises to limit state spending.
GOP's Reagan has early elections post lead; education race tight.
Victoria Steele is leading the three-way race, with two spots.
By late Tuesday night, Cochise County had reported only early ballots.
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