The races in Maine have generated plenty of headlines leading up to Tuesday’s primary. Unseating Sen. Susan Collins (R), who is running for her sixth term, is crucial for Democrats if they want to ...

California’s primary election was June 2, and we’re three days into the state’s notoriously slow vote count. Follow along here on SFGATE’s live results page for the latest updates on the ...

The race for second and a ticket to the November runoff election remained too close to call Friday morning in the primary election for Los Angeles mayor. Updated results Friday morning showed Los ...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom cannot run again because of term limits. The leading Democrats trying to succeed him are Xavier Becerra, a former California attorney general; and Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund ...

California has open primaries, in which the top two finishers advance to the general election regardless of party. The already chaotic governor’s race was upended in April after former Democratic ...

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A three-way Republican primary pits two congressmen, Mike Collins and Buddy Carter, against a former football coach, Derek Dooley. The race, which is expected to go to a runoff, has largely boiled ...

Representative Andy Barr has defeated Daniel Cameron, the former state attorney general, in the Republican Senate primary. Barr is looking to replace Mitch McConnell, the former Senate Majority Leader ...

President Trump’s quest to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) will come to a head Tuesday, as primary voters weigh whether there is room in the Republican Party for a lawmaker willing to openly defy ...

A state senate race in Indiana is getting major national attention. The results were "surprising," Stewart says, given the degree to which state legislative races typically go unnoticed. "State ...