Turnout approached nearly half the number of votes cast in last year’s presidential election — an unprecedented campus showing for an off-cycle election year.

Democrats won governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey and three Democrats held onto their seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, while Trump-aligned candidates took a beating.

A small town just a few dozen miles west of Philadelphia made history Wednesday morning by electing Pennsylvania’s first openly transgender mayor. Unofficial results show that Democrat Erica Deuso defeated Republican Richard Bryant, becoming the mayor-elect of Downingtown in Chester County.

The Democrats dominated the first major election day since Donald Trump became president with a series of victories