US Midterm Elections 2022 Results

 As voters alll over the US get up on Wednesday morning after the US midterms election, the results of the 2022 midterms elections are unlikely to be completely clear - with officials across the whole country warning that elections may drag on for days or for the weeks.

The expected delays in the results of the elections might be reesult of a number of different kind of factors, including the razor-thin margins between the candidates, potentially contested elections and the possibility of recounts of the votes.

Other delay causes will be due to the decentralised way and methods in which elections are set up in the United States, in which states have differentiate rules for when and how mail-in ballots are counted,.

The problem of delays in results has been a politically contentious one since the 2020 presidential election, when then-President Donald Trump try to declare victory the following morning while votes were still being tallied, declaring continued voting counting an "embarrassment" And ''Fraud''.

"We want all voting to stop," Mr Trump said on 4th of November early in the morning, less than an hour after the last polls lock in Alaska. "We don't want them to find any ballots at 4 o'clock in the early morning and attach them to the list."

The controversy has prompted electoral officials all over the country to warn in recent days that hold up are a normal, expected part of United States elections.

On 2 November in a speech, US President Joe Biden also weighed-in, warning that "it's important for citizens of USA to be patient" while ballots are counted "in a legal and orderly manner".

Let's take a look at why certified results are likely to trickle in slowly.

Early voting

Although the closing numbers are not yet in, the number of people who cast their ballots ahead of the 8 November election has already increased the total from the 2018 midterms elections. This is likely to be the most significant factor when it comes to delays this electoral cycle.

As of Monday, more than fourty million early votes - including in-person and mail-in ballots - had been cast, compared to 39.1 million in the year of 2018.

Every states have changed their regulation for how mail-in ballots are processed. 

Pennsylvania State, for instance is 1 of 8 states that only authorized election officials to start processing ballots on election day. In Maryland State, on the other hand,  regulations stipulate that the processing of ballots cannot start until 10:00 local time on the morning after the election.

In the same way Washington DC and 16 states don't allow counting to start until the polls close on election day, while twenty three states permissions counting to start earlier on the same day of election. Only ten states permits ballots to be processed and counted ahead of time before 8 November.

19 states in USA also have a grace period that give permissions ballots to be counted afterwards, provided that they were emailed through the mail by election day. In the State of California, for instance, ballots can still be collected for another entire week. In the state of Arizona, on the other hand, ballots should be in by election day, However officials have twenty  days to come to a end count.

Recounts and run-offs

Delays in Election results could also be caused by recounts, which can take place in races with highest narrow margins of victory, or, in a lot of states, when requested by 1 of the participating candidates. While the procedure varies a little by state, fourty one states and Washington DC give permissions for recounts to be requested. 22 states have provision for automatic recounts of votes.

In the Georgia - where there is a tight race between the Republican Herschel Walker and Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock - winning candidates must receive at least 50  percent of the vote for getting the Government Holds.

If neither candidate of these two or a third political party reaches that number on election night, then a run-off election will be held on six December, a replay of the 2020 election in the state.


Where can we expect delays?

There are a lot of states in USA in which election watchers have declared that they expected delays, including many that are home to key senate races.


In the State of Pennsylvania, a rule passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature means that mail-in ballots can't be calculated until the day after the election. Moreover, the state's top court recently ruled that mail-in ballots marked with the wrong date will not be calculated, However officials have been ordered to "segregate and preserve" any ballots that were mailed in incorrectly dated envelopes in case of the further legal challenges.


Ruling is already the subject of a legal challenge from civil rights groups, which debates that a refusal to calculate ballots due to "trivial" paperwork issues has a "suppressive effect" on the voters and could disenfranchise thousands. The lawsuit seeks to bar local governments and state from certifying any election in which all ballots have not been taken into account.

The purpose of discussing all these Informative things with you could mean that it might take days to know the results of 2 of the most closely watched races in the midterms: the race for governor between Republican Doug Mastriano and Democrat Josh Shapiro, and the Senate race between Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz. The latter race could ultimately determine which party controls the Senate.

Pennsylvania's acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman warned in advance that results are unlikely to come immediately.

"It's very Crucial for us to get the accurate information about the midterms elections process in Pennsylvania," Ms Chapman said at a news conference in late October. "So public and the voters know that when there are delays in counting of the votes, it doesn't mean that there's anything happening wrong. It's just what is the law of results in Pennsylvania.

"Across the country in Arizona - where a large community of people opt to vote by mail - officials have warned that the counting process may take up to twelve days. Voters in the state also have 5 days to correct their signature if requested by the officials.

"As much as we all people want to watch the results and winner on election night in those close races, that's just not going to happen," Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said in October. "These things take time." So we should be patience. Hope for the best. 

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