Adam Hamilton wants to be the first Democrat to win a Senate seat there in nearly 100 years.

A majority of Americans cast their ballots before Election Day, but early-voting data is limited in how much it can tell us about important races.

Mr. Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, showed up at a music festival, saying he had been at home with “a nasty case of the flu.”

Republicans are suddenly racing to defend a seat in Kansas, where Democrats are trying to win a Senate race for the first time in nearly a century.

The government in New Delhi is suppressing protests over the culling of 130 million names from India’s voter roll. Mujib Mashal, an India correspondent for The New York Times, reported from the heart of the demonstrations.

Sagal Abdi-Wali won a special election in central London that was seen as an early test for Prime Minister Andy Burnham.