D.C. Democratic nominee wins all eight wards in landslide, topping 75% in each

In Washington, D.C., Janeese Lewis George soared to victory in all eight wards Tuesday night. As of Wednesday morning, NBC4 Washington reported, there wasn’t a single ward where the Democratic nominee was projected to receive less than 75% of the vote, and in Wards 7 and 8, her support climbed above 90%.

And it matters beyond the victory lap, because Lewis George, a self-described democratic socialist, has promised to take a stronger stand for D.C. home rule than outgoing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration and to push back against any attempts by President Donald Trump to federalize the city.

D.C. Runs Deep Blue, With Schwalb Matching the Momentum

The attorney general’s race told a similar story. Incumbent Brian Schwalb won another term with a significant percentage of the vote across all eight wards. Schwalb has built his tenure on confrontation with the second Trump administration — filing lawsuits over the National Guard’s presence in the city and the construction of the Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery — and he’s also taken corporate giants like Amazon and StubHub to court.

Maryland: The Blue Counties Carry Moore, but the Edges Drift Red

Across the river in Maryland, the pattern was more textured. Incumbent Gov. Wes Moore won a second term in his rematch against Republican Dan Cox, with a decisive call almost as soon as polls closed — NBC4 Washington noted the deep blue counties of Prince George’s, Montgomery, Howard and Charles, along with Baltimore City, played a significant role in that win. Affordability topped voters’ minds, and the state has faced severe economic headwinds over the past two years. Moore has pointed to Trump as the cause of some of those issues, citing the loss of tens of thousands of federal jobs since the start of Trump’s second administration and the state’s effort — challenged by the Trump administration — to land a new FBI headquarters in Prince George’s County.

In the U.S. House races, counties around D.C. and Baltimore voted heavily Democratic. Rep.-elect Adrian Boafo captured a resounding 70% of the vote in District 5, taking the seat previously held by Rep. Steny Hoyer. None of Maryland’s eight House districts flipped parties, but the margins shifted. District 1, the state’s sole red district, still went to incumbent Republican Andy Harris — but only by a 10% lead over Democrat Dan Schwartz, and several counties in the district shifted blue compared to 2024. Meanwhile, House District 6 went blue in the race between Democrat April McClain Delaney and Republican Robin Ficker, with Alleghany and Garrett counties — which had voted heavily Republican in the governor’s race — shifting blue in the House contest compared to 2024, according to NBC News. On the other side of the ledger, the more conservative Carroll County and several counties in District 1 drifted more Republican than they did two years ago.

Virginia Shifts Blue County by County

Incumbent Sen. Mark Warner won another term — which he says will be his last in the Senate — and according to NBC News, every county in the state shifted blue in the 2026 Senate race compared to 2024. For some Hampton Roads-area counties like York and Surrey, the shift was enough to flip from Republican-leaning to Democrat. Spotsylvania, which became a bellwether for the purple state when it flipped blue in last year’s gubernatorial election, voted blue again this year. That same momentum carried District 7 — which includes Spotsylvania and parts of deeper-blue Prince William County — to incumbent Rep. Eugene Vindman, a Democrat.