Shea Stevens

U.S.

futures are lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street following Tuesday's losses.

On Asia Pacific, market shares are also lower, down 3 percent in Tokyo.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.

Former Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanbecker

is the projected winner of the Virginia governor's race.

Spanberger says voters chose commonwealth over chaos.

Spanberger defeated Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears.

The Jamaica-born Errol Sears did not receive a personal endorsement from President Trump.

In the close New York City election for mayor, the AP projects socialist Democrat Zoram Mamdani as the winner.

Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who ran as an independent, and Republican Radio Hearst host Curtis Sliwa.

More than 1.75 million voters cast ballots as of 6 p.m.,

the biggest turnout in at least 30 years in New York City, according to the Board of Elections there.

And Maine voters rejected a ballot referendum that called for numbers changes to early and mail-in voting.

As NPR's Miles Parks reports, the measure also would have required voters to show photo ID at the polls.

California voters have approved Proposition 50 to allow a mid-decade redistricting.

The measure was introduced after Texas lawmakers created five Republican seats in the House.

A death toll from a U.S.

plane crash near the airport in Louisville, Kentucky, has now risen to at least seven.